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James Joyce Dubliners The Dead

by James Joyce 5
The fifteenth story in James Joyce’s Dubliners, "The Dead" is one of Joyce's most acclaimed works and serves as the final story in…

The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition

by Roald Amundsen Read by Steven Seitel 4.8
Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by St…

A Sportsman's Sketches

by Ivan Turgenev Read by tovarisch 4.9
A Sportsman's Sketches (Russian: Записки охотника; also known as The Hunting Sketches and Sketches from a Hunter's Album) was an 1852 collec…

The Prayers of St Paul

by William H. Griffith Thomas Read by MaryAnn 4.7
William Griffith Thomas was a pastor, teacher and co-founder of the Dallas Theological Seminary. This book contains nine devotional comment…

Black Beauty

by Anna Sewell Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page o…

The War of the Worlds

by H. G. Wells Read by Cori Samuel 4.7
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gu…

Working for God

by Andrew Murray Read by Christopher Smith 4.8
Andrew Murray wrote “Working for God”, a book of daily meditations for a month, as a sequel to “Waiting on God”. The object of the book is,…

Emma

by Jane Austen Read by Moira Fogarty 4.8
A cautionary tale about the evils of interference, matchmaking and good intentions turned awry, Emma is the study of a young woman raised wi…

The Art of War

by Niccolò Machiavelli Read by Clive Catterall 4.8
The Art of War (1521) is the only book published by Niccolo Machiavelli during his lifetime, and he saw it as one of his finest achievements…

In Memoriam A.H.H.

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson Read by Elizabeth Klett 4.8
In Memoriam is Tennyson's elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poe…

Winnie-the-Pooh

by A. A. Milne Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Winnie-the-Pooh is a children’s book by English author A. A. Milne, illustrated by E. H. Shepard. Published in 1926, it is a collection of s…

The House In Gallows Lane

by John Dickson Carr 4.8
The House In Gallows Lane is a captivating dramatization of John Dickson Carr's work, adapted from the book "Till Death Do Us Part"…

The Taming of the Shrew

by William Shakespeare 4.9
The Taming of the Shrew is a controversial comedy by William Shakespeare that explores the battle of the sexes and an unconventional marriag…

Goblin Market and Other Poems

by Christina Rossetti Read by Elizabeth Klett 5
Goblin Market and Other Poems (1862) is British writer Christina Rossetti's first book of poetry. The title poem is her most famous work: a …

A Brilliant Woman

by Julie Bosville Chetwynd Read by Anne Fletcher 4.9
A woman of decided opinions and ambition, Maria is considered brilliant by her admirers; Cyril is a clever, well-educated but quiet and dull…

The Servile State

by Hilaire Belloc Read by Ray Clare 4.9
In The Servile State, Hilaire Belloc explores the stark divide between servile and non-servile labor, presenting a thought-provoking analysi…

The Confessions

by Saint Augustine of Hippo Read by MaryAnn 4.9
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography e…

The Annals

by Publius Cornelius Tacitus Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…

The Book of Tea

by Kakuzō Okakura Read by Clive Catterall 4.9
The Book of Tea is as much about philosophy, religion and art as it is about a drink made with dried leaves in boiling water. It traces the …

Theological Orations

by Gregory Of Nazianzus Read by Jonathan Lange 4.8
After the death of the Arian Emperor Valens, the synod of Antioch in 379 asked Gregory to help resurrect Constantinople to Nicene orthodoxy.…

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