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The Armourer's Prentices

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Charlotte Mary Yonge


Set in the sixteenth century, two young boys are left orphans and are turned out of their home by their older brother, or, more particularly…

Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 014

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Various


The 14th Librivox Mystery and Suspense Collection brings together Arthur Conan Doyle and Baroness Emma Orczy, Anna Katharine Green and Ambro…

The Value of Humanities

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Helen Small


University of Oxford Podcasts

The History Of Sir Richard Calmady

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Lucas Malet


Lucas Malet is the pen name of Mary Kingsley, daughter of Charles Kingsley. She became a hugely successful Victorian novelist, rivalling Rud…

The Inheritance

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Susan Edmonstoune Ferrier


"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, t…

A Romance of the Moors

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Mona Caird


Dick Coverdale is secretly betrothed to his neighbor, the beautiful Bessie Saunders. When a visitor to the area named Margaret Ellwood appea…

William Penn

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George Hodges


Biography of William Penn - Summary by Richard Vogel

Bealby; A Holiday

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H. G. Wells


Bealby is the comical story of the escapade of a thirteen-year-old boy when he rebels against his placement as a steward's-room boy in the g…

The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon

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James Anthony Froude


"The story as told by the Imperial Ambassadors resident at the Court of Henry VIII" (subtitle). Froude weaves his tale from a wide…

The Sonnet

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Richard Watson Gilder


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 readings of The Sonnet by Richard Watson Gilder. This was the weekly poetry project for October 5, 2014.

Cherry and Violet

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Anne Manning


A Tale of the Great Plague. 1666 was a difficult year in London. With its sordid materialism and its coarse handling of things most sacred, …

Windsor Castle, Book 3

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William Harrison Ainsworth


Book 3 - The History of the Castle. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Ann…

Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Wit…

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John Kendrick Bangs


Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I …

The Story Of A Modern Woman

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Ella Hepworth Dixon


"This touching short novel tells the story of Mary Earl, a woman who has to fend for herself in London at the end of the 19th century. …

Get Next!

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Hugh Mchugh


John Henry has a comedic commentary and opinion on everything that goes on in his life. This time, he tackles the subjects of race tipsters,…

Reading: An Essay

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Hugh Walpole


A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales

Stewart Parker - Pratt's Fall


SAW


If you were a strong-minded female academic, and an Irish ex-monk offered you a map proving that the Irish discovered America in the ninth c…

The Lady of Lyons

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Although the author of this play is now famous for writing the most cliché opening line in literature – “It was a dark and stormy nig…

Heroines of Fiction

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William Dean Howells


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

The Canterbury Tales (Middle English)

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Geoffrey Chaucer


Chaucer's famous and important work is predicated upon the premise that a group of Christian folks from various occupations, familiar in the…

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