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The Castle of Otranto

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Horace Walpole


The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre whic…

Uncle Silas

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest…

Loveliest of Trees

In Short Poetry Collection 062

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A. E. Housman


LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 062: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Wind - Read by GP

In The Wind

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Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week…

Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers - read by GP

In Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers

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Jonathan Swift


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers by Jonathan Swift. This was the weekly poetr…

Comparison of Theseus & Romulus

In Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

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Plutarch/Perrin and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Chapter 4 Part (1) IN THE VAULT

In Moonfleet

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J. Meade Falkner and John Meade Falkner


The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, wh…

00 - Original inscription, dedication, and preface

In Evelina

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Frances Burney


In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her un…

2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda

In The 9/11 Commission Report

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9/11 Commission


9/11 Commission Report, formally titled Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, is the official…

Judges, Chapters 13-21

In Bible (WEB) Old Testament - complete

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World English Bible


The World English Bible is a modern English translation of the Bible, released directly into the public domain. (Summary by Leon Mire)

Chapter 13

In Planet of the Damned

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Harry Harrison


Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical …