Literature
The Bible in Its Making
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Mildred Duff
One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the …
The Reign of King Edward the Third
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William Shakespeare
The Reign of King Edward the Third is an Elizabethan play printed anonymously in 1596. It has frequently been claimed that it was at least p…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 3
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Laurence Sterne
This is volume 3 of 4.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne.…
The Treasure
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Pr…
The Custom of the Country
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Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton was a novelist of manners of late 19th Century New York "Society", who spent much of her life in France. In this nov…
Deephaven
Read by Betsie Bush
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remar…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4
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Laurence Sterne
This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne…
The Heir of Redclyffe
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Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Heir of Redclyffe (1853) was the first of Charlotte M. Yonge's bestselling romantic novels. Its religious tone derives from the High Chu…
Felix Holt, The Radical
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George Eliot
"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …
Samuel the Seeker
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Upton Sinclair
What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing …
Areopagitica (Version 2)
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
The noblest and most extensive defense of freedom of the press in English. Although Milton was sufficiently practical to serve as a censor o…
The Lusiads
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Luís Vaz de Camões
The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tal…
Olive
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's 1850 novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deform…
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)
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Henry Fielding
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fiel…
To Autumn
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John Keats
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of To Autumn by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010.To Au…
Bacon
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Richard William Church
This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…
In Kent with Charles Dickens
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Thomas Frost
By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of…
My First Book
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Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry
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Émile Gaboriau
Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story :Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the ol…
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel
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John Donne
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in Lond…