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Mémoires d'outre-tombe. Tome 4

Read by Christiane Jehanne


François-René de Chateaubriand



Les dernières années1830_1841Madame la Duchesse de Berry, Arrestation, Procès, Genève et Coppet, Prague, Henri V…

The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book

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Various



A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…

The Chronicles of America Volume 04 - Crusaders of New France

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William Bennett Munro



The previous volumes in the Chronicles of America series placed Spain and England at the fore in the discovery and development of the New Wo…

牛郎織女傳 (Cowherd and Weaver Girl)

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Mingshi Zhu 名世朱



牛郎织女传为明代朱名世编辑的白话神话小说,原作者已不可考,讲述了牛郎和织女被玉帝拘禁,分开至天河两侧,后因情深而得以于每年七月七夕自天河两侧踏鹊桥团聚的爱情故事,其中牛郎趁织女洗澡时偷走织女的衣服的情节是编者首次加入的。该书整合了历朝历代关于牛郎和织女的故事,是目前的第一部完整记…

The Chronicles of America Volume 07 - Dutch and English on the Hudson

Read by Jim Locke


Maud Wilder Goodwin



Geography is the maker of history. The course of Dutch settlement in America was predetermined by a river which runs its length of a hundred…

Voyage en Italie

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François-René de Chateaubriand



Chateaubriand écrit à son ami, monsieur Joubert, aussi à monsieur de Fontanes, il nous relate son voyage dans diff&eacu…

徬徨 (Wandering or Pang Huang)

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Xun Lu



Wandering or Pang Huang was Lu Xun's second collection of stories. It was published near the end of 1925 and included 11 stories written bet…

Black Folk Tales

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Erick Berry



This book contains 13 Hausa folktales from Nigeria as retold and also illustrated by Erick Berry, the pen name of Evangel Alenna Champlin wh…

Inheritors

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Susan Glaspell



Inheritors, (1921) by American dramatist Susan Glaspell concerns the legacy of an idealistic farmer who wills his highly coveted midwest far…

The Guermantes Way (Le Côté de Guermantes)

Read by Michael O'Kelly


Marcel Proust



Vols. 3 and 4 of Remembrance of Things Past.The hero, Marcel, meets the duchess of Guermantes in the role of his parent's landlady. The hero…

Why do we need a public library?

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Various



Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirr…

Christmas Under Three Flags

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Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox



This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, …

Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion

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Beatrice E. Clay



"Among the stories of world-wide renown, not the least stirring are those that have gathered about the names of national heroes. The &A…

African Jungle Tales

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Carl Bender



Carl Bender [1869-1935] was a German-born American missionary in Cameroon. During his years in Africa, he collected folktales which he later…

The Village in the Jungle

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Leonard Woolf



Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twen…

Fire - Flowers

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E. Pauline Johnson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18,…

The Outcry

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Henry James



The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…

The Age of the Motored Things

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project…

Dark Princess

Read by Verla Viera


W. E. B. Du Bois



This story begins as Matthew Towns, a brilliant young Black medical student, is dismissed from medical school because the white board has de…

Minnie's Sacrifice

Read by Jim Locke


Frances E. W. Harper



Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Lou…

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