Tony Addison

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Family Life

492

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov (version 2)

Described as the Great Book of Wonders by Arthur Miller, this everyday tale of fraternal affection, sibling rivalry, obsession, lust, parricide, family intrigue, spiritual faith, death by economic deprivation and...

Tony Addison 46 hours 24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

602

William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18

A LibriVox Weekly Poetry tribute to William Shakespeare marking the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in April 2016. Two of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, Sonnet 18 and Sonnet 130, have completely contradict...

Algy Pug and 13 more 18 minutes

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Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 13

Plays

542

William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 13

This is the thirteenth collection of monologues from Shakespeare's plays. Our readers have chosen their favourite monologues from Shakespeare's famous comedies, tragedies, and histories, covering a wide range of...

Marwa Khalouf and 12 more 1 hour 4 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

505

Children's Short Works, Vol. 023

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 023: a collection of 16 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members. — Summary by Ruth Golding

Carolyn Agee and 12 more 3 hours 4 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

435

Laurence Housman - Stories from the Arabian Nights

Scheherazadè, the heroine of the Thousand and one Nights, ranks among the great story-tellers of the world but the great quantity of her stories were meant to stave off her death and so we can expect a few to be not...

Tony Addison and 4 more 2 hours 47 minutes

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Short Stories

624

Short Story Collection Vol. 064

This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Contributions include works from Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, and Gustave Flaubert, among...

Newgatenovelist and 10 more 7 hours 31 minutes Short Story Collections

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Comedy

482

William Shakespeare - All's Well That Ends Well (version 2)

A fairy tale with real life consequences, All's Well That Ends Well concerns a pooe physician's daughter who goes to Paris to heal the King and asks of him a husband; not himself, but the Count Rousillon, in whose...

Tony Addison 3 hours 38 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

485

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Tithonus

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. «Tithonus» doesn't mean a whole lot...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 56 minutes

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Poetry

502

Francis Thompson - Poems

This is the first volume of poems published by the English poet Francis Thompson. It also includes his most famous poem, The Hound of Heaven . — Summary by Carolin

Christine Lehman and 5 more 1 hour 31 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

501

Charles Lamb - Last Essays of Elia

Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life...

Tony Addison 10 hours 18 minutes

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Poetry

540

Edwin Arlington Robinson - Three Taverns: A Book of Poems

This is a volume of poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This volume contains, among other poems, the famous poems The Valley of the Shadow and Lazarus. — Summary by Carolin

J. Olpecre and 8 more 3 hours

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Published 1900 onward

470

1916: First Chapters Collection

These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. —...

John Burlinson and 9 more 14 hours 5 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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