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37 - Chapter XXXVII: THE EMPTINESS OF PICTURE GALLERIES

In The Marble Faun

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical …

The Ideal of a Universal Religion

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018

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Swami Vivekananda


A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…

00 - Introduction

In The Children's Shakespeare

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E. Nesbit


This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short st…

Introductory Remarks

In The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Walter K. Kelly, Translator) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings …

At Five O'Clock in the Morning

In LibriVox 5th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


What do you do for a fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find …

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In Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1

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Havelock Ellis


The first of six volumes, this volume covers in extensive detail the topics of "The Evolution of Modesty", "The Phenomena of …

00 - Introduction

In Jezebel's Daughter

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Wilkie Collins


A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman — die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was…

01 - Education as a Necessity of Life

In Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

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John Dewey


An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the d…

14 - The Creature that Man Forgets

In The Flying Inn

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G. K. Chesterton


The Flying Inn is a novel first published in 1914 by G.K. Chesterton. It is set in a future England where a bizarre form of "Progressiv…

To...As when with downcast eyes - Read by TNF

In To...As when with downcast eyes

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Alfred Lord Tennyson and Alfred, Lord Tennyson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of To...As when with downcast eyes by Alfred Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project f…

10- The Young Christian

In Clotel, or, The President's Daughter

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William Wells Brown


Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published…