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Of certain Passages upon the Moor

In Micah Clarke

Read by Michelle Tan

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and…

Section XV - Explanation of the Foregoing Phenomena

In Theory of Colours

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Newton's observations on the optical spectrum were widely accepted but Goethe noticed the difference between the scientific explanation and …

A Meeting With Ellen

In The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton

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E. Phillips Oppenheim

Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant in an old ho…

Lady Janet at Bay

In The New Magdalen

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Wilkie Collins

Mercy Merrick is living a difficult life on the streets, but when she meets the young and charismatic clergyman Julian Gray, she desires to …

Fifth Scene - Glasgow - Chapter the Thirtieth

In Man and Wife

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Wilkie Collins

This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were …

The Story of the Wind

In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 4, 1854 to 1859

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Hans Christian Andersen

A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristin…

The Tea-Party

In Tommy and Grizel

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J. M. Barrie

This book continues Sentimental Tommy, also in the Librivox catalogue. Tommy grows up and marries Grizel. But life is not only roses and rai…

Chapter 20

In Howards End (version 3)

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E. M. Forster

Considered Forster's masterpiece and one of the best books of the 20th century, Howards End tackles social conventions of the Edwardian era.…