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Adam Bede (version 2)

Read by Tom Denholm


George Eliot


George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans – an ironic ‘deception’ given that Adam Bede, her first novel, is written unashamedly from a…

Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

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Clement Clarke Moore


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project. (Summ…

De Profundis (version 2)

Read by AdamH


Oscar Wilde


This is a letter written from prison in 1897 by Oscar Wilde to Lord Alfred Douglas, in which he recounts how he came to be in prison and cha…

Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lec…

Read by William Allan Jones


Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…

El ruiseñor y la rosa

Read by Alba


Oscar Wilde


Pierre and Luce

Read by Roger Melin


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…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's "The Failure of Speculative Philosophy," is one of several essays de…

Notre Dame

Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel


Victor Hugo


Auch bekannt als 'Der Glöckner von Notre-Dame'. Der Roman beinhaltet mehrere Handlungsstränge, die nach und nach ineinanderflie&sz…

Pensées

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Blaise Pascal


Pascal's Pensées is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section …

Write it Right

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Ambrose Bierce


Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1

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Samuel Porter Putnam


This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…

Rome

Read by Peter Tucker


Émile Zola


The Abbe Pierre Froment, after his experiences in Lourdes, has written a book expressing a vision of a new enlightened papacy. He visits Rom…

Somehow Good

Read by Helen Taylor


William Frend De Morgan


A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…

Eternity

Read by Casey S Townsend


Casey S Townsend


The world you know has changed. Science has been replaced by dark, supernatural forces and those that know how have harnessed them to contro…

Penrod

Read by Jonathan Burchard


Booth Tarkington


Join Penrod Schofield and his wistful dog Duke, in a hilarious romp through turn of the century Indianapolis, chronicling his life, loves, a…

The Art of Fiction

Read by Julie VW


Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Love's Shadow

Read by Helen Taylor


Ada Leverson


The first in a trilogy of books known together as 'The Little Ottleys', this is a sparkling social comedy set in Edwardian London. Ada Lever…

Tom Swift and the Visitor From Planet X

Read by Mark Nelson


Victor Appleton


Tom Swift Jr. and his associates at Swift Enterprises wait breathlessly for what may well be the most important scientific event in history—…

The Sincere Huron (L'Ingénu)

Read by Roy Schreiber


Voltaire


L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to…

The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 3

Read by Jim Locke


Friedrich Nietzsche


Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of o…

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