Pierre Abélard

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01


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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise


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Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. …

The Story of My Misfortunes (or: Historia Calamitatum)


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Autobiographies from remote historical periods can be especially fascinating. Modes of self-presentation vary greatly across the centuries, …

Short Poetry Collection 100


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This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2011.