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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres…

Smoke

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Ivan Turgenev


Smoke is an 1867 novel by the highly acclaimed Russian writer Ivan Turgenev (1818–1883) that tells the gripping story of a secret love affai…

Homage to John Dryden: Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century

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T. S. Eliot


Best known as a poet and playwright, Nobel Laureate T.S. Eliot also wrote many works of literary criticism. In this volume he gives us thr…

Jean-Christophe In Paris

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Romain Rolland


After fleeing to Paris, Jean-Christophe finds himself in great financial difficulty and takes up music teaching in wealthy families. As for …

Address to Certain Goldfishes

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Hartley Coleridge


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Address to Certain Goldfishes by Hartley Coleridge. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project f…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 049

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Various


Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--carniv…

Mars and Its Canals

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Percival Lowell


In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark n…

babylon-usa



Speculation about America's prophetic role has been long pondered. Many are increasingly coming to the conclusion that the USA is 'Mystery, …

The Monk: A Romance

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Matthew Lewis


Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of t…

The Legends of Genesis

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Hermann Gunkel


The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical ana…

Melmoth The Wanderer

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Charles Robert Maturin


One of the first horror novels, it tells the story of Melmoth, who sells his soul so he could have an extended life. Throughout the novel, h…

Word Portraits of Famous Writers

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Mabel E. Wotton


Mabel Elizabeth Wotton, an author herself, moved in the literary circles of the late nineteenth century establishing many close friendships,…

Dot and the Kangaroo (version 2)

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Ethel C. Pedley


A 5-year-old girl named Dot is lost in the outback after chasing a hare into the wood and losing sight of her home. She is approached by a r…

Song of the Sewing-Machine

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George Pope Morris


George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris's …

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


English Bards and Scotch Reviewers was first published anonymously in 1809 with Byron only identified as the author in the 2nd edition. Byro…

The Evergreen, A Northern Seasonal. Spring 1895

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William Sharp


The Evergreen was a short lived seasonal magazine, edited by William Sharp (Fiona Macleod) and published by Patrick Geddes, which proposed a…

The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy

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Frances Milton Trollope


The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight o…

Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie in 1860-'61

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Abner Doubleday


Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents con…

Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895)

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Oscar Wilde


This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his succ…

The Lie (version 2)

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Sir Walter Raleigh


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "The Lie" by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the fortnightly poem for the period begin…

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