Literature
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
Read by Bill Boerst
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…
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…
In Kent with Charles Dickens
Read by Ruth Golding
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
Read by David Wales
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…
La Comédie Humaine: 03 - Scènes de la vie privée tome 3 (19-11-42)
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Honoré de Balzac
Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…
Lenz
Read by Rolf Kaiser
Georg Büchner
Büchner schildert in dieser Erzählung, wie der deutsche Schriftsteller Jakob Lenz dem Wahnsinn verfällt.Vor dem abwechselnd d…
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre ist ein klassischer Bildungsroman von Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Der wegweisende Entwicklungsroman erschien 1795…
Birches
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Robert Frost
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Birches by Robert Frost. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 21st, 2010.
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
Read by Don W. Jenkins
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…