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Chapter X Of The Abuse Of Words Part Two

In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book III

Read by Abe Stone


John Locke


This is the third book of John Locke's Essay on Human Understanding. Book I was Neither Principles Nor Ideas Are Innate. Book II was Of Idea…

The Seasons

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James Thomson


The Seasons is a series of four long poems in blank verse by the Scottish poet James Thomson, each poem describing one of the four seasons. …

Grimms' Fairy Tales (Version 3)

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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales or folk lore by the Grimm…

The War of the Worlds (Version 5)

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H. G. Wells


An original masterpiece of alien invasion, The War of the Worlds (1898) conjures a terrifying race of Martians who devastate the Earth and f…

The Thirty-nine Steps (Version 3)

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John Buchan


The Thirty-Nine Steps is an adventure spy novel by John Buchan written in 1914. Told from the first-person point of view, it relates the adv…

The Time Machine (Version 7)

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H. G. Wells


The story follows a Victorian scientist, who claims that he has invented a device that enables him to travel through time, and has visited t…

The First Men in the Moon (Version 2)

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H. G. Wells


The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric…

Stories of the Wars of the Jews

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Charlotte Maria Tucker


Stories of the Wars of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus is a historical narrative spanning J…

Greenmantle (Version 3)

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John Buchan


Hannay is called in to investigate rumours of an uprising in the Muslim world and undertakes a perilous journey through enemy territory to m…

Lycidas

In Short Poetry Collection 121

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John Milton (1608-1674) and John Milton


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2013.

16 - Book 17, Chapters 36-39 :How grapes are protected; the diseases of trees; …

In The Natural History Volume 4

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Pliny the Elder


Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …