icyjumbo (1964-2010)

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Fanny Burney - Camilla

Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels, in her novel Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh!...

Adrian Wheal and 15 more 40 hours 5 minutes

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Erotica

566

Giacomo Casanova - Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1

This is the first of five volumes. — Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Venetian adventurer, writer, and womanizer. He used charm, guile, threats,...

icyjumbo and 15 more 24 hours 55 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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T. Forester - Lives of the Twelve Caesars

The Twelve Caesars is a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first 11 emperors of the Roman Empire. The work was written in 121 during the reign of the emperor Hadrian, while Suetonius was Hadrian's...

Graham Redman and 10 more 16 hours 2 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Published in book form in April 1857, the novel focuses on a doctor's wife, Emma Bovary, who has adulterous affairs and lives beyond her means in order to escape the banalities and emptiness of provincial life....

hefyd and 11 more 12 hours 59 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Richard Marsh - Beetle

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational...

icyjumbo and 3 more 11 hours 56 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - She

At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket which he is to open on his 25th Birthday. On opening the Casket Leo and...

Geoff Cowgill and 11 more 11 hours 35 minutes

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School

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Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown's School Days

Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s. Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842. The novel was...

icyjumbo 10 hours 10 minutes

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Alfred Marshall - Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income

Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the Principles of Economics in 1881 and he spent much of the next decade at work...

Sibella Denton and 7 more 8 hours 57 minutes Principles of Economics

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General Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Light That Failed

This novel, first published in 1890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important events throughout the story occur in Sudan or India. It was made into a 1916...

icyjumbo and 10 more 7 hours 46 minutes

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Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production

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Alfred Marshall - Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production

Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it. His...

Carl Manchester and 5 more 7 hours 39 minutes Principles of Economics

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 038

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 038: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Tom Crawford and 10 more 7 hours 33 minutes Short Story Collections

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General Fiction

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Alexandre Dumas, fils - Camille

The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Theatre...

Bellona Times and 10 more 7 hours 12 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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