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A London Life

Read by Deborah Percy


Henry James


A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…

The Young Diana

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Marie Corelli


Poor Diana May. Her fiancé has jilted her, her parents think she is an encumbrance and no one recognises her intelligence. She seems …

The Technique of the Mystery Story

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Carolyn Wells


For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwe…

Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family


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University of Oxford Podcasts

Encounters: Stories

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Elizabeth Bowen


Included in this first collection of stories by noted Irish-British author Elizabeth Bowen are tales of psychological unease, of pent-up emo…

The Lonely Lady of Grosvenor Square

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Mrs. Henry De La Pasture


Elizabeth de la Pasture, the author of this work, is the mother of the more well known E. M. Delafield- author of Diary Of A Provincial Lady…

How Author Beth Moran Broke Her Life of Silence


Sheridan Voysey


Imagine dropping grades in exams because your pen ran out of ink and you couldn’t ask for a replacement. Imagine hiding from friends you saw…

Orlando, A Biography (version 2)

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

Poems of Marianne Moore

Read by Oscar Goff


Marianne Moore


In 1921, American poet H.D. collected and published a selection of previously published poems by Marianne Moore. Although this angered Moore…

My Travels, A Family Story

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Maria Hackett


This is not a family history. Family histories are invariably dull and of interest to only a few who have a belief in, and are proud of, th…

Helen of Troy and Other Poems

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Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first g…

Modern Monologues

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Marjorie Benton Cooke


The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…

Love Stories

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Mary Roberts Rinehart


Ailing and Impatient Patients, Nurturing Nurses, and familial bond. A collection of Love affairs, young and old, deftly told by "Americ…

Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

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Samuel Richardson


It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…

Stories That Words Tell Us

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Elizabeth O'Neill


A history of English words, written for younger readers.Parental advisory: the text was published in 1918 and includes some ethnicity terms …

Heroines of Fiction

Read by Jim Locke


William Dean Howells


This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…

A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Read by Sarah Jennings


E. Louise Smythe


This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lis…

On Anything

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days…

The Poet's Forge

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Helen Hunt Jackson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Poet's Forge by Helen Hunt Jackson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November …

True Stories from History and Biography

Read by Susan Morin


Nathaniel Hawthorne


In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…

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