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The Art of Fiction

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Henry James

A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Prefatory Remarks

In The Book of Snobs

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W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

01 I. Poland: Youthful Ideals

In Chopin: the Man and His Music

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James Huneker

A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music …

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In Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: "We Meet Not As We Parted," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poe…

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In Remembrance

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Emily Brontë

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Remembrance by Emily Brontë. This was the fortnightly poetry project for June 14th, 2009…

The Pomegranate Seed (Part 1)

In Tanglewood Tales

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

All mythology and/or Hawthorne lovers unite!Here is a delightful collection of charming stories from Greek Mythology. This collection featur…

Ch 06: Provincial Administration under Augustus: The Western Provinces (27 B.C.…

In The Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Found…

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John Bagnell Bury

The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the …