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Travel & Geography

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Richard Henry Dana, Jr. - Two Years Before the Mast

While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast . It is the story of a sailor's life from the forecastle, not a captain, nor a passenger, but a...

BethAnne and 1 more 17 hours 41 minutes

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Essays

514

John Donne - Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 8 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Blake - Jerusalem

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Jerusalem by William Blake. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 30th, 2008.

Anna Roberts and 8 more 9 minutes

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History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 1

Middle Ages/Middle History

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Henry Charles Lea - History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 1

The first volume of Lea’s monumental work on the Inquisition of Spain, covering its origin and establishment and its relations with the state. Also included are appendices listing Tribunals, Inquisitors-General,...

Kristine Bekere and 19 more 24 hours 55 minutes

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Antiquity

539

Flavius Josephus - Wars of the Jews

The Wars of the Jews (or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, or as it usually appears in modern English translations, The Jewish War — original title: Phlauiou Iôsêpou historia Ioudaïkou polemou pros...

Graham Redman and 18 more 23 hours 25 minutes

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History

563

Leonard Huxley - Journals of Robert Falcon Scott Vol 1

Capt. Robert F. Scott's bid to be the leader of the first expedition to reach the South Pole is one of the most famous journeys of all time. What started as a scientific expedition turned out to be an unwilling race...

fourgrays and 15 more 19 hours 12 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Martha Finley - Elsie Dinsmore

Elsie, young and motherless, has never met her father and is being raised by her father's family. As a strong Christian, she has many trials within the unbelieving family. Her greatest comforts are her faith and her...

Robin and 6 more 7 hours 21 minutes Elsie Dinsmore Series

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

461

Edward Rowland Sill - Momentous Words

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Momentous Words by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 23rd, 2008.

CalmDragon and 9 more 8 minutes

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Romance

520

Pansy - Julia Ried

Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name «Pansy.» Sequel to «Ester Ried.» Julia Ried must take a job as a bookkeeper in a factory to earn a living. The mistress of her boardinghouse influences her in a...

TriciaG 7 hours 26 minutes The Ester Ried Series by Pansy

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Family Life

556

Grace Livingston Hill - Phoebe Deane

Second book in the Marcia Schuyler trilogy. Phoebe Deane lives almost as a servant in her brother's home, tormented by her hateful sister-in-law. Schemes to marry her off swirl around her. Her fate seems to be...

TriciaG 10 hours 27 minutes

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General Fiction

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Stephen Crane - Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called «the first dark flower of American Naturalism» for its distinctive elements of naturalistic fiction. The chief character, Maggie, descends...

Lucy Burgoyne and 11 more 2 hours 46 minutes

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Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

Christianity - Biographies

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William Byron Forbush - Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 9 more 10 hours 29 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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