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Bible (Wycliffe) 21: Ecclesiastes

Read by Martin Geeson


Wycliffe Bible and Wycliffe Bibletranslated Byjohn Wycliffe


“... an alemaunde tre schal floure, a locuste schal be maad fat, and capparis schal be distried; for a man schal go in to the hous of his eu…

The Soul of Man

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Oscar Wilde


“(T)he past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.” Published originall…

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

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Laurence Sterne


After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it …

Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions

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Frank Harris


Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" t…

Hero and Leander

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Christopher Marlowe


“Who ever lov’d, that lov’d not at first sight?” The wonder-decade of the English drama was suddenly interrupted in 1592, when serious plagu…

The Greek View of Life

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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson


“With the Greek civilisation beauty perished from the world. Never again has it been possible for man to believe that harmony is in fact the…

Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality

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Stuart Mason


“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?”“We are dom…

Against The Grain, or Against Nature

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Joris-Karl Huysmans


“THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epigraph of one early translation of Huysmans’ cult no…

The Dancing Mania

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Justus Hecker


Numerous theories have been proposed for the causes of dancing mania, and it remains unclear whether it was a real illness or a social pheno…

Epistle to Mrs. Tyler - Read by MG

In Epistle to Mrs. Tyler

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Christopher Smart


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Epistle to Mrs. Tyler by Christopher Smart. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 25, …

1 - Introductory and Chapters I - V

In First Love

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Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett and Ivan Turgenev


The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, …

from JER. MELFORD To Sir WATKIN PHILLIPS

In The Expedition of Humphry Clinker

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Tobias George Smollett and Tobias Smollett


The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and fun…

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