Literature

Pierre and Luce

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Romain Rolland



Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted…

Monsieur Beaucaire

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Booth Tarkington



A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…

Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08

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William Shakespeare



LibriVox readers present the eighth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1…

Contending Forces

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Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins



Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, edit…

Modeste Mignon

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Honoré de Balzac



Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de C…

The Old Manor House

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Charlotte Turner Smith



The proud, cruel and arrogant Mrs. Rayland never married. Therefore, "Rayland Hall", the old Manor House of the title, had to pass…

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

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T. S. Arthur



Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by …

Die Leute auf Hemsö

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August Strindberg



Erstes Kapitel: Carlsson tritt seinen Dienst an und wird als Gauner charakterisiert.Zweites Kapitel: Sonntagsruhe und Sonntagsarbeit; der gu…

The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 08

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Various



The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the eighth volume, 40 short stories and poems have been gathered from 35 author…

Gobseck

Read by James E. Carson


Honoré de Balzac



Part of the La Comedie Humane and something of a sequence to Balzac's Father Goriot, the short book's title is the name of the pawn broker/m…

野分 (Nowaki)

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Sōseki Natsume



「野分」は、明治末、路面電車と人力車が走っていた東京が舞台です。3人の作家を巡る物語です。白井道也は、地方の中学を3つやめてから、文筆で、世を覚醒することを志します。高柳周作と中野輝一は、大学を卒業したばかりの同級生です。高柳君は、貧しく、中野君は裕福です。白井道也が、中野君を取…

A Drama of Exile

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning



In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradis…

Geschichte des Abfalls der vereinigten Niederlande von der spanischen Regierung

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Friedrich Schiller



Schiller, einer der Weimarer Klassiker, bekannt als Dichter und Dramatiker, beschreibt in meisterhaftem Deutsch den Beginn der Unabhäng…

Geography and Plays

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Gertrude Stein



Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

1891 Collection

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Various



A look at the year 1891 through literature and non-fiction essays first published that year, including works by Mary E Wilkins, Sir Arthur C…

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