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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…

Midas--Baucis and Philemon

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Of the Motives of Pure Practical Reason

In The Critique of Practical Reason

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Immanuel Kant


The Critique of Practical Reason (Kritik der praktischen Vernunft) is the second of Immanuel Kant's three critiques, first published in 1788…

Among the Maids

In Jo's Boys

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Louisa May Alcott


Jo's Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo's "children", now grown…

Version 6

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…

Love's Philosophy

In Short Poetry Collection 091

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Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) and Percy Bysshe Shelley


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of September and October 2010.

To Autumn - Read by JVW

In To Autumn

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John Keats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of To Autumn by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010.To Au…

06 - At the Church

In The Belgian Twins

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Lucy Fitch Perkins


This story is based upon the experiences of two Belgian refugees in World War I. When their parents are marched of by Germans, Jan and Marie…

Invictus

In Short Poetry Collection 092

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William Ernest Henley (1849-1903) and William Ernest Henley


This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of November 2010.

A Cup of Tea

In Short Story Collection Vol. 027

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Katherine Mansfield


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 027: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Avond

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 007

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Willem Kloos


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. …

Theatrical Drudgery. Compositions.

In Shakspere: Personal Recollections

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John A. Joyce


A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling…

The Triple Fool

In Short Poetry Collection 063

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John Donne


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 063: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Chapter 12

In War and Peace, Book 08: 1811-1812

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Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Plan of a Novel, According to Hints from Various Quarters

In Short Story Collection Vol. 028

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Jane Austen


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 028: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.