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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Read by Arnie Horton

Bartolomé De Las Casas

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an ac…

19 - Part 3, Chapter 4 - Of the Duties of Hospitality

In The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Elisabeth Celnart and Élisabeth Celnart

A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Periplus of Hanno

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 028

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Hanno the Navigator

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

Chapter 2 - Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor

In The History of Prostitution

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William Sanger

Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the …

07 - Book 1, Chapter 6

In Lord Tony's Wife

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Emmuska Orczy and Baroness Emma Orczy

Another adventure of the Scarlet pimpernel! As the title suggests, it follows the story of Lord Tony and his wife, Yvonne. It is full of sus…

22 - The Individual and the World

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…

Horace Ode 3: Virgil: Off to Greece

In Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 008

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus and Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). Al…

10 The Cellar

In Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story

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Charles Ross Jackson

There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murde…

Annabel Lee (original by Edgar Allan Poe)

In Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 007

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Edgar Allan Poe and Alberto Lasplaces

This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). Al…

Chapter 1 Volume 1

In The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

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Jane C. Loudon

The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is about a wise Egyptian mummy who is reanimated far in the future. With a different take…