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The Hero

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W. Somerset Maugham


James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Vi…

The Explorer

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W. Somerset Maugham


An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKe…

The Trembling of a Leaf

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W. Somerset Maugham


A collection of short stories on the South Sea Islands, among which are the famous "Red," "Rain," and "The Fall of …

Orientations

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W. Somerset Maugham


This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…

The Spa Again part 1

In Mont Oriol: or A Romance of Auvergne

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Guy de Maupassant


Young bride Christiane arrives in Auvergne to "take the waters" with her husband, described as "a sickly flower, or a sucking…

Andrea del Sarto, part 1

In Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 5

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Giorgio Vasari


The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti…

Mignonne, allons voir si la rose

In Compilation de poèmes - 006

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Charles Baudelaire and Pierre de Ronsard


Cette compilation comprend une série de poèmes lus, en langue française, pour LibriVox. (Ezwa)

Reflexiones, amonestaciones y votos: Dices que no me entiendes

In Poesías

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Miguel De Unamuno


Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (1864 - 1936) fue un escritor y filósofo español de la generación del 98. Cultivó una g…

4.33 Murder of a Wife and Six Children and Executions of F. Hinson and J. Rutte…

In Curiosities of Street Literature

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Various


This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The c…

The Book of Sir Tristram Part 2 Second

In The Story of the Champions of the Round Table

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Howard Pyle


The second of four volumes of Pyles' retelling of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which tells the stories of Percival, Trist…

III.III. Constituent or integral parts of Patience

In The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying

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Jeremy Taylor


Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was muc…

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In The Merry-Go-Round

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W. Somerset Maugham


Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the honourable thing to do after getting her pregnant, but he realizes that he is…