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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (version 2)

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Frederick Douglass


Published in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself was written in response to critics who…

Nature (version 2)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emerson’s literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking…

Every Man Chiefly Happy or Miserable at Home. The Opinions of Servants not to b…

In Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson


This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …

Chapter 26 The efforts of men, directed to the impossible amelioration of their…

In On Life

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Leo Tolstoy


What is the "good life" for us mortal beings? Two months spent recovering from a severe injury allowed Tolstoy to develop and orga…

Poem by the Bridge at Ten-Shin

In LibriVox 10th Anniversary Collection

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Ezra Pound


This year is the 10th anniversary of our beloved LibriVox and to celebrate, readers have found and recorded 100 items with a connection to t…

John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon and William Wilberforce

In The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits

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William Hazlitt


William Hazlitt was a keen observer of his time and the people populating the literary landscape. He presents short monographs on such illus…

Biographical Sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole

In Early Poems

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James Russell Lowell


This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…

21. V. The Tryal of Martha Carrier

In The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the …

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Cotton Mather


Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous "Salem Witch Trials". In addition to Mather's interpretation of t…