Literature
Pearl (Jewett translation)
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The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Bysophie Jewett
Written in the 14th century by the Gawain poet, 'Pearl' is an elegiac poem reflecting on the death of a young daughter, pictured as a pearl …
The Turmoil (Growth Trilogy Vol 1)
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Booth Tarkington
The Turmoil is the first novel in the 'Growth' trilogy, which also includes The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and The Midlander (1923, retitl…
Louis Lambert
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Honoré de Balzac
Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosop…
Song (Poe version)
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Edgar Allan Poe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Song by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 10, 2011.Edgar Allan Poe…
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
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Variousandcharles William Eliot
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…
The Revelation of Baha-ullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons
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Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham
Isabella Matilda Davis Brittingham was a significant early American Bahá'í and was posthumously designated by Shoghi Effendi a…
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
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Anthony Trollope
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business…
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2)
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Johnny Gruelle
This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a rag doll, on which he had drawn an eternally smiling face.…
Sleep-Book
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Leolyn Louise Everett
This is a compilation and publication of sleep-related poetry, exalting the delight of sleep, as well as bemoaning the lack of it. (written …
His Family
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Ernest Poole
The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile,…
A Phantom Lover
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Vernon Lee
A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, t…
Anything Once
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Isabel Ostrander
An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II
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James Boswell
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…
In a German Pension
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Katherine Mansfield
The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft …
Pierre and Luce
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Romain Rolland
Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted…
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08
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William Shakespeare
LibriVox readers present the eighth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1…
Monsieur Beaucaire
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Booth Tarkington
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…
Contending Forces
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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…
Modeste Mignon
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Honoré de Balzac
Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de C…
The Old Manor House
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Charlotte Turner Smith
The proud, cruel and arrogant Mrs. Rayland never married. Therefore, "Rayland Hall", the old Manor House of the title, had to pass…