Thomas A. Copeland

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Epics

481

Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene (version 2)

Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illustrate the development of virtues within the individual soul, and the second...

Thomas A. Copeland 32 hours 10 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

432

Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso

Charlemagne's nephew Orlando (AKA Roland) is driven insane by the infidelity of his beloved Angelica. Angelica's relationship with him and others loosely unifies multiple story lines to produce a rich tapestry of...

Thomas A. Copeland 28 hours 25 minutes

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Christian Fiction

487

George MacDonald - Thomas Wingfold, Curate

Republished in modern times as «The Curate's Awakening». A young man (Thomas Wingfold) «enters the church» through no real faith and only for want of something to do. After an encounter with a brash young atheist, he...

John Schuurman and 17 more 18 hours 48 minutes

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Poetry

427

Torquato Tasso - Jerusalem Delivered

The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The...

Thomas A. Copeland 14 hours 39 minutes

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Antiquity

585

John Milton - History of Britain

A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE and of THE MORTE D'ARTHUR, for Milton employs a style that might be called...

Thomas A. Copeland 11 hours 58 minutes

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Poetry

508

John Milton - Paradise Lost (version 2)

As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of...

Thomas A. Copeland 10 hours 59 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

560

Lucius Apuleius - Metamorphosis or The Golden Ass

The Metamorphosis, also known as The Golden Ass, is one of the very few novels of the Ancient World that survived to our days; one of the two novels of Roman Literature that we can still read; and the only one...

Leni and 10 more 9 hours 55 minutes

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Science Fiction

504

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Chessmen of Mars (version 2)

Tara of Helium, John Carter's second child, is nearly as beautiful as her mother, Deja Thoris, and as independent-minded as her father. These qualities cause her much grief during a long series of imprisonments by...

Thomas A. Copeland 9 hours 5 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

483

Robert Louis Stevenson - Master of Ballantrae

Heir to a noble Scottish house in the mid 18th century, the Master is a charming, clever, and resourceful villain whose daring but ill-advised schemes first alienate his patrimony and at last cost him his life. His...

Thomas A. Copeland 8 hours 46 minutes

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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)

Literary Fiction

488

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)

A mentally unstable genius, Victor Frankenstein, inspired by the dreams of ancient alchemists and empowered by modern science, creates a humanoid but fails to nurture and educate it after it comes to life. It wanders...

Thomas A. Copeland 8 hours 45 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

485

Edgar Rice Burroughs - Gods of Mars - (version 2)

In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant saved the planet's inhabitants, but he finds himself in the land of the dead....

Thomas A. Copeland 8 hours 41 minutes

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Romance

450

George MacDonald - Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women (version 2)

An author who means to end a story with some variation of “And they all lived happily ever after” had better deal before that point not just with evil, strife, and terror but also with loss, failure, sacrifice, and...

Thomas A. Copeland 7 hours 37 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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