Thomas A. Copeland

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Science Fiction

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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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 2)

John Carter's son, Carthoris, falls in love with his father's true friend, Thuvia of Ptarth, but she has been promised to another and is kidnapped by a third! Carthoris, suspected of the crime, spends the entire novel...

Thomas A. Copeland 5 hours 16 minutes

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Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (Edition 1831)

Literary Fiction

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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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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 139

This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2014.

Shakira Searle and 13 more 1 hour 5 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Epics

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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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Essays & Short Works

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John Milton - Areopagitica (Version 2)

The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor of books himself when his opposition to this practice was ignored by the...

Thomas A. Copeland 2 hours 47 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Edgar Rice Burroughs - Warlord of Mars (version 2)

In this third installment of the adventures of John Carter on Mars, our hero labors under sentence of death (for having returned from the land of the dead) in a heroic struggle to recover the beautiful Dejah Thoris,...

Thomas A. Copeland 6 hours 5 minutes

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Poetry

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John Milton - Paradise Regain'd (version 2)

Having been publicly acknowledged as God's «beloved Son,» Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Messiah, about whose coming many conflicting opinions have been circulating among the...

Thomas A. Copeland 2 hours

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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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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Erotica

Christopher Marlowe - Hero and Leander (version 2)

Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyranny of their guardians and of geography itself, for they live on opposite...

Thomas A. Copeland 42 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Lord Dunsany - Fifty-One Tales

Very brief, well-crafted stories, many having surprise endings, all steeped in the dye of myth and calling to every reader's neglected imagination. (Summary by Thomas Copeland)

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 50 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Thomas Lodge - Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacie

This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high birth, who have recently lost their fathers (one to death, one to...

Thomas A. Copeland 5 hours 21 minutes

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New

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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