Literature
Bible (KJV) 18: Job (Dramatic Reading)
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King James Version
The Book of Job is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. It relates the story of Job, his trials at the hands of Satan, his theological disc…
Silas Marner
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George Eliot
Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is e…
Middlemarch
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George Eliot
The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…
Emma (Version 6)
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Jane Austen
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the c…
Bartleby the Scrivener, A Story of Wall Street.
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Herman Melville
"Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street" is a short story by Herman Melville. The story first appeared, anonymously, in Pu…
The Story of Avis
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Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a ta…
The Woodlanders (version 2)
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Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns…
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Neilson Translation)
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of…
Eugenics and Other Evils
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G. K. Chesterton
Most Eugenists are Euphemists. I mean merely that short words startle them, while long words soothe them. And they are utterly incapable of …
The Treasury of David, Vol. 2 (Abridged)
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among…
Run to Earth
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A captivating Victorian “sensation” novel by the author of “Lady Audley's Secret”, Run to Earth has it all: scoundrels and mercenaries, love…
Therese Raquin
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Émile Zola
An unsatisfied wife kills her weak husband in order to carry on a sordid affair with another man. However, her selfish plans are spoiled whe…
Lady Susan (version 2)
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the …
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the second and final novel by Anne Brontë, is concerned with the story of a woman who leaves her abusive, …
The Decameron
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Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and…
Camilla
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Frances Burney
Camilla is Frances Burney's third novel. It became very popular upon its publication in 1796. Jane Austen referred to it, among other novels…
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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Thomas Hardy
The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen …
Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzählungen
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Franz Kafka
Die Erzählung Ein Landarzt von Franz Kafka entstand im Jahr 1917 und wurde 1918 veröffentlicht. Im Jahre 1919 erschien das Buch Ei…
Bartleby, the Scrivener (version 2)
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Herman Melville
Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street is a novella by the American novelist Herman Melville (1819–1891). It first appeared anonymo…