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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation)
Read by Tony Addison
The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Byjessie Laidlay Weston
King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides th…
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains
Read by Kyle Van DeGlast
Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short st…
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest
Read by David Wales
Katharine Berry Judson
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…
Siddhartha (Version 2)
Read by Peter Kuhn
Hermann Hesse
A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself i…
Lucinda
Read by Craig Campbell
Friedrich Von Schlegel
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe H&…
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2
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Giorgio Vasari
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…
American Big-Game Hunting
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Theodore Roosevelt
The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Not…
The Chaucer Storybook
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Geoffrey Chaucer and Eva March Tappan
Geoffrey Chaucer's classic "Canterbury Tales" has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stor…
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions
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Wirt Sikes
The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…
Les Destinées de la poésie
Read by Christiane Jehanne
Alphonse De Lamartine
Une réflexion sur la Littérature, par un homme de Lettres, aussi poète, et homme politique actif, à médit…
An heiligen Wassern
Read by Eva K.
Jakob Christoph Heer
Im Dorf Sankt Peter im Schweizer Hochgebirge leben die Bewohner des regenarmen Glottertales mit der ständigen Gefahr von Gletscherabbr&…
Nina Balatka
Read by Anthony Ogus
Anthony Trollope
A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…
The Indian Story Book
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Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahābhārata, as well as other early sources, and has re…
Memorias de un perro escritas por su propia pata
Read by Victor Villarraza
Juan Rafael Allende
Novela picaresca y costumbrista del escritor chileno Juan Rafael Allende. Fue originalmente publicada como folletín en el perió…
Histoire curieuse et pittoresque des sorciers
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Mathias de Giraldo, Mathias De Giraldo and Mathias De Giraldotranslated Bym. Fornari
Mathias de Giraldo est un auteur inconnu et mystérieux jusqu'à ce jour. Probablement un surnom d'un ou de plusieurs auteurs, M…
Adam Bede (version 2)
Read by Tom Denholm
George Eliot
George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln
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Ward Hill Lamon
Ward Hill Lamon's work is a study of the life of the 16th President of the United States of America from his childhood to the day of his fir…
The House by the Churchyard
Read by John
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Murder, mystery, mayhem, romance and relationships. Our classic who-done-it takes place in olde Dublin, Ireland in the village of Chapelizod…