Literature

Echoes of Love’s House

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William Morris



LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Echoes of Love’s House by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 9th,…

Gone to Earth

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Mary Webb



"Gone to Earth" is the cry of fox hunters as the fox takes to its den and they lose the chase. Here, Mary Webb tells the story of …

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02

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Variousandmarshall Pinckney Wilder, H. G. Wells and Various And Marshall Pinckney Wilder



The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 author…

Appeal

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Anne Brontë



LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Appeal by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 5, 2012.Appeal ap…

What Diantha Did

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman



Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate …

The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great

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Henry Fielding



This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto IV

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George Gordon, Lord Byron



Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron. It was published between 1812 and 1818 and is de…

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

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John Donne



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 …

Kriloff's Fables

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Ivan Krylov



Herein is a collection of 86 fables translated into English from the 201 written by Kriloff. Some of Kriloff's fables are translations from …

The Dream

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John Donne



LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne…

The Siege of Corinth

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George Gordon, Lord Byron



In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: reveal…

Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint

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Maud Jean Franc



'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free …

The Ontario Readers: Third Book

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Various



The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…

Vairagya Shatakam

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Bhartṛhari



Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the…

Bible (WNT) NT 07: 1 Corinthians

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This is the Apostle Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth, Greece, a seaport filled with a diversity of not only people but religions…

Past Days

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Anne Brontë



LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Past Days by Emily Brontë . This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 28th, 2010An…

The Spirit of American Literature

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John Albert Macy



THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE is a collection of essays reviewing contemporary authors on the literary scene at the turn of the century …

The Sacred Fount

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Henry James



Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the…

The River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets

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William Wordsworth



Located in a part of Cumbria that was once part of Lancashire, the River Duddon rises in the high fells of the Lake District and flows for 2…

An International Episode

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Henry James



Two men visiting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, mis…

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