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What Men Live By

In What Men Live By and Other Tales

Read by David Barnes

Leo Tolstoy

Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…

The Story Continued by Frederick Fairlie Esq, of Limmeridge House(Frederick Fai…

In The Woman in White

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Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 18…

14-Danish War, 15-Extent of Charlemagne's Conquests, 16-Foreign Relations, 17-P…

In The Life of Charlemagne (Einhard)

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Einhard

Einhard was employed by Charlemagne as a court historian. At the request of Charlemagne's son and successor Louis the Pious, he wrote a biog…

Ch 1 – Introductory

In On Liberty

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John Stuart Mill

Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief t…

Verses on a Young Lady - Read by DRB

In Verses on a Young Lady

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Tobias Smollett

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsicord and Singing by Tobias Smollett. This was the W…

Requirements of Speech

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

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Joseph Devlin

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

The Dance of Death

In Three Short Works

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Gustave Flaubert

Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheo…

01 - Maslova in Prison

In Resurrection, Book 1

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Leo Tolstoy, translated by Louise Maude and Leo Tolstoy

Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustic…

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