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English Literature for Boys and Girls
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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …
Andrew the Glad (Dramatic Reading)
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Maria Thompson Daviess
"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them, remarked the major t…
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6
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Samuel Richardson
It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Joanna Traill, Spinster
Read by Ashley Sue Murphy
Annie E. Holdsworth
Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …
The Subjection Of Isabel Carnaby
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Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler and Edith Henrietta Fowler
This is a sequel to "Concerning Isabel Carnaby". Isabel and Paul Seaton are now happily married. This book tells about their trial…
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 005
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Various
LibriVox readers bring you 10 full-cast productions: from stories and fables for children, to a comical, self-satirizing play; from short my…
Evelyn; or A Heart Unmasked
Read by Kelly S. Taylor
Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
Evelyn is a two-volume novel told in an epistolary style – alternating between letters from the point of view of a trusted, unmarried female…
Peggy Delaney by James W. Nichol
SANWAL CBC
PEGGY DELANEY by James W. Nichol A hard-drinking, hard-writing forty-ish Toronto newspaper columnist who can more than hold her own wi…
Biographia Literaria
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
A Weaver of Dreams
Read by Celine Major
Myrtle Reed
Delightful and charmingly predictable, this sweet romance will make you reflect one minute and laugh out loud the next. It's the kind of coz…
Gossip in a Library
Read by musil
Edmund Gosse
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and thei…
Drink To Her
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Drink To Her by Thomas Moore. This was the weekly poetry project for July 5th, 2009.
The Aristocrats
Read by TR Love
Gertrude Atherton
Being the impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in The Great North Woods as spontaneously recorded in her letters to her fri…
Amelia (Vol. 2)
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Henry Fielding
The second volume of Amelia. - Summary by Libby Gohn
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
Read by Paul Henry Tremblay
John Greenleaf Whittier
A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator's childhood. (Summary by Paul Tremblay)