Literature

Be Kind When You Can

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Eliza Cook


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Be Kind When You Can by Eliza Cook. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2011.E…

O Pioneers!

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near Hanover, Nebraska, (a fictional town ne…

The Fifth Queen

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Ford Madox Ford


The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fif…

La Comédie Humaine: 05 - Scènes de la vie de province tome 1 (15-4-43)

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Honoré de Balzac


Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…

The Voyage Out

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Virginia Woolf


The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Wool…

Hamlet (version 2)

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William Shakespeare


The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge…

No Thoroughfare

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Charles Dickens


Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right th…

Protagoras

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Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

The Amazing Interlude

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


It is the early days of The Great War. As the curtain rises, Sara Lee is sitting by the fire in her aunt and uncle’s home, knitting a baby a…

La Comédie Humaine: La Femme de trente ans

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Honoré de Balzac


Malgré l'avis de son père, Juliette épouse l'homme dont elle est follement amoureuse, un colonel de Napoléon &ag…

La Comédie Humaine: Le Père Goriot

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Honoré de Balzac


Le Père Goriot est un roman d’Honoré de Balzac, écrit en 1834, dont la publication débute dans la Revue de Paris…

In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians

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Ambrose Bierce


These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six…

Sylvia's Lovers

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather …

The Warden

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Anthony Trollope


Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, …

The Faith of Men

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Jack London


A collection of short stories by author Jack London.

La Princesse de Monpensier

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Madame De La Fayette


La Princesse de Monpensier est un court roman publié anonymement en 1662 par Madame de Lafayette (1634-1693). L'action se déro…

The Professor

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Charlotte Brontë


The book tells the story of a young man named William Crimsworth. It describes his maturation, his loves and his eventual career as a profes…

Quicksand

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Nella Larsen


Quicksand is a 1928 novel by Nella Larsen, a writer of the Harlem Renaissance. It focuses on Helga Crane, a mixed-race woman who is a school…

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