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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

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Mary Seacole


I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…

A Christmas Carol (version 07)

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Charles Dickens


The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…

Tender Buttons

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Gertrude Stein


"The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the m…

The Story of a Candy Rabbit

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Laura Lee Hope


The Candy Rabbit wakes up one morning to find his Destiny has arrived: he is part of a wonderful Easter display at the toy shop in which he …

Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)

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Blanche Mcmanus


Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her dai…

The Soul of London

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Ford Madox Ford


'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…

To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

Orlando

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Virginia Woolf


A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…

Part 13

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

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James Boswell


Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…

Song (Behn version) read by Cori Samuel

In Song (Behn version)

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Aphra Behn


LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 different recordings of Song by Aphra Behn. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 6th, 2007…

Book Two, Part 2

In Paradise Lost

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John Milton


Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…

AT THE SCHOONER'S RAIL

In The Island of Doctor Moreau

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H. G. Wells


The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature…

Chapter VI, Part 14

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter starts from about 1685. James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus…

The System of Government

In History of Holland

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George Edmundson


The title, "History of Holland," given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province…

Version 4

In The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge

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Edna St. Vincent Millay


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different recordings of The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, to celebrate…

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