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The Iliad (Pope Translation)

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Homer


Homer’s Iliad is the first great work of Western literature. Composed in twenty-four books of Greek hexameter poetry, it portrays the events…

A Little Princess (Version 3)

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Frances Hodgson Burnett


A Little Princess is a classic of children's literature by the author of The Secret Garden. Seven-year-old Sara Crewe comes to London to att…

Lovecraft's Influences and Favorites

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Various


In 1927, H. P. Lovecraft wrote a long essay on "Supernatural Horror in Literature" in which he discussed the history of what came …

Adventures of Bindle

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Herbert George Jenkins


Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. I…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 4

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Samuel Richardson


Volume 4 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5

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Samuel Richardson


Volume 5 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…

The Power of the Dog

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Rudyard Kipling


Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 19…

Life and Death, and Other Stories and Legends

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Henryk Sienkiewicz


Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, but as he wrote in Polish many English-speakers are unfamiliar with his work.…

The Son of the Wolf

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Jack London


The Son of the Wolf is Jack London's first published collection of stories and features tales chronicling the harsh realities of living in t…

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell

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Algernon Charles Swinburne


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poe…

The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 01. January 1896

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National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the January Number. It includes the Introductory by the editor, John Hyde, and the…

שכול וכשלון Breakdown and Bereavement

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יוסף חיים ברנר Yosef Haim Brenner


Breakdown and Bereavement, first published in 1920, is the story of a young Jewish immigrant in Palestine in the early 20th century. Like ma…

Arrows of Freethought

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George William Foote


In these 21 short essays, George William Foote shoots "Arrows of Freethought" in which he lays down his views on atheism, seculari…

Tales from Silver Lands

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Charles Finger


The 1925 Newbery Medal Winner for best children's literature published in the United States, this collection of Central and South American i…

A Moment of Time

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Richard Hughes


British author Richard Hughes is perhaps most well-known for his sea-faring adventure novel A High Wind in Jamaica, but a dive into his shor…

The Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays

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Brander Matthews


This is a volume of essays by American author Brander Matthews. Matthews is today mostly remembered for his short pieces of speculative fict…

The Emotions

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James McCosh and James Mccosh


I am not satisfied with the account which has been given of the feelings and emotions in our books of mental science, and thence transferred…

The Tower

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William Butler Yeats


The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…

Selection from Poems

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Alexander Pushkin


Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is often called "the father of Russian literature". He was the first great poet to write in Russian …

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Rabindranath Tagore


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Eighteen by Rabindranath Tagore.This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 13, 2022.----…

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