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A Guide to Men

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Helen Rowland


A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bla…

A Christmas Carol (version 07)

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Charles Dickens


The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…

Tender Buttons

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Gertrude Stein


"The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the m…

The Story of a Candy Rabbit

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Laura Lee Hope


The Candy Rabbit wakes up one morning to find his Destiny has arrived: he is part of a wonderful Easter display at the toy shop in which he …

Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)

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Blanche Mcmanus


Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her dai…

To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

The Soul of London

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Ford Madox Ford


'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…

Orlando, A Biography

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Virginia Woolf


A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…

A Room of One's Own

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Virginia Woolf


This feminist essay argues for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy. First…

Preserves, Jellies, &c.;

In Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers

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Elizabeth E. Lea


The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic aff…

Chapter V, Part 15

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This chapter of Macaulay’s History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to su…

Version 1

In A Ballad of John Silver

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John Masefield


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings ofA Ballad of John Silver, by John Masefield, to celebrate International Talk Like a…

Prologue

In The Phantom of the Opera

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Gaston Leroux


An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doe…

Chapter 07

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Jerome K. Jerome


Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

Chapter 13

In Persuasion

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Jane Austen


Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is gr…

Chapter XV: Part 3

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

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