Tim Ferreira

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Poetry

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - To...As when with downcast eyes

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of To...As when with downcast eyes by Alfred Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 15th, 2010.

Christine Blachford and 9 more 12 minutes

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Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1

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Havelock Ellis - Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1

The first of six volumes, this volume covers in extensive detail the topics of «The Evolution of Modesty», «The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity», and «Auto-Eroticism». Written as an anthropological and psychological...

Tim Ferreira and 12 more 12 hours 57 minutes

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Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

General Fiction

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of «exemplary» stories, this translated version from 1881 brings these stories to the English reader. Included in the collection are twelve stories...

Tim Ferreira and 13 more 18 hours 10 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Children's Shakespeare

This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short stories or fairy tales suitable to keep the attention of child readers or...

Tim Ferreira and 7 more 2 hours 34 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass law, history, science, travel, philosophy,...

Bellona Times and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

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John Dewey - Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the different methods for achieving quality in education. After its initial...

Tim Ferreira and 13 more 16 hours 20 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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Nathaniel Hawthorne - Marble Faun

The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, Gothic novel, and...

grayeul and 5 more 16 hours 13 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Jezebel's Daughter

A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman — die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was researching, while Mrs. Wagner is left with her husband's mental health...

Tim Ferreira and 9 more 11 hours 26 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Flying Inn

The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of «Progressive» Islam has triumphed and largely dominates the political and social life of...

Charles Bice and 12 more 9 hours 46 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

512

Leo Tolstoy - Tolstoy on Shakespeare

This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy. It is followed by another essay named «Shakespeare's attitude to the working classes» by Ernest Crosby and extracts of a letter by George Bernard...

Elizabeth Klett and 6 more 3 hours 29 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Anonymous - Sketches Of The Fair Sex

Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress....

Colman Shew and 14 more 6 hours 6 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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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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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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