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The Invisible Man

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H. G. Wells


The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), it tells the story…

Summer - Read by AJF

In Summer

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Marietta Holley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Summer by Marietta Holley..This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 13, 2020. --…

Brief Sketch of the life of Mary Wollstonecraft (incl. letter)

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

The Burglary

In The Count of Monte Cristo

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Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

Epilogue

In The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

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Howard Pyle


Robin Hood is the archetypal English folk hero; a courteous, pious and swashbuckling outlaw of the mediæval era who, in modern version…

06 - Chapter 7

In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

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Mary Shelley


Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

Prepositional Phrases "of": cadences of delirium - dust of defeat

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Christmas

In Old Christmas

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irving_w and Washington Irving


A tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolm…

40 - Chapter IX, part two

In L'Assommoir

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Émile Zola


Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, …

Letter to American Boys

In Short Story Collection Vol. 008

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George MacDonald


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

10 - Die Heimkehr 1823 - 1824, Teil 2

In Buch der Lieder

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Heinrich Heine


Nicht ohne Befangenheit übergebe ich der Lesewelt den erneueten Abdruck dieses Buches. Es hat mir die größte Überwindun…

14 - Dans lequel Phileas Fogg descend ...

In Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

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Jules Verne


Anglais flegmatique, enragé joueur de whist, Phileas Fogg, dont on ignore tout, mène une vie réglée comme une ho…

Chapter 19

In Dracula

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Bram Stoker


The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity…

Dulce et Decorum est

In Short Poetry Collection 001

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W. Owen and Wilfred Owen


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.

Chapter 4-6

In Childhood

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Leo Tolstoy


Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Publishe…