Literature
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi)
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Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi) presents a kaleidoscope of individual stories, which are all tied together by the story of Lucia and Renzo,…
The Story of an African Farm
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Olive Schreiner
The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Ka…
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…
Main Street
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Sinclair Lewis
Carol Milford is a liberal, free-spirited young woman, reared in the metropolis of Minneapolis. She marries Will Kennicott, a doctor, who is…
Nostromo
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Joseph Conrad
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political …
The Wide, Wide World
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Susan Warner
"How should a seven year old child react when forced to be separated from a mother who meant everything to her? How should she react wh…
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is…
Oblomov
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Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the nove…
Bunner Sisters
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Edith Wharton
“Bunner Sisters,” like “The Age of Innocence” is set in 1870s New York, however the lives of Ann Eliza and Evelina Bunner reflect impoverish…
Love and Friendship
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Emily Brontë
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 17, 201…
The King of Schnorrers
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Israel Zangwill
Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of lat…
Ball of Fat (Boule de suif) Version 2
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Guy de Maupassant
Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, …
Ayala's Angel
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Anthony Trollope
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
L'Assommoir
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Émile Zola
Émile François Zola (French pronunciation: [emil zɔˈla]) (2 April 1840 – 29 September 1902) was an influential French writer, …
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2
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Samuel Richardson
Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…
The Jew of Malta
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Christopher Marlowe
Christopher “Kit” Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet, and translator of the Elizabethan era. T…
Caleb Williams or Things As They Are
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William Godwin
The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, …
Noli Me Tangere (The Social Cancer)
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José Rizal
Noli Me Tangere (Latin for Touch Me Not) is a novel by the National Hero of the Philippines, Dr. José Rizal. It was originally writte…
Tales of Unrest
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Joseph Conrad
Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime.Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Poli…
The Duel
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Anton Chekhov
The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda…