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Une Vie

Read by Christiane Jehanne


Guy de Maupassant


La vie de Jeanne, en Normandie. Un très beau portrait de femme. Un contexte socio-géographique toujours intéressant ave…

The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line

Read by James K. White


Charles Waddell Chesnutt


Published in 1899, The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line is a collection of narratives that addresses the impact of Jim …

King Alfred of England

Read by Ryan Cherrick


Jacob Abbott


The life and accomplishments of England's sole title holder of "The Great." King Alfred defended England from Viking invasions an…

Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln

Read by Tony Foster


Charles Watts Whistler


Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world…

Myths and Legends of the Great Plains

Read by Kyle Van DeGlast


Katharine Berry Judson


Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short st…

La maison du péché

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Marcelle Tinayre


Histoire d'amour.Voici un très beau roman, riche et profond, très apprécié et commenté, écrit d’un…

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation)

Read by Tony Addison


The Gawain Poet and The Gawain Poettranslated Byjessie Laidlay Weston


King Arthur lies at Camelot upon a Christmas-tide and will not eat until he hears tell of a marvel of knightly feats. In among them rides th…

Main Street (Version 2)

Read by Mark Nelson


Sinclair Lewis


Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets…

Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest

Read by David Wales


Katharine Berry Judson


"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the co…

Lucinda

Read by Craig Campbell


Friedrich Von Schlegel


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe H&…

Siddhartha (Version 2)

Read by Peter Kuhn


Hermann Hesse


A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself i…

Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving

Read by Greg Giordano


Washington Irving


Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with…

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2

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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…

American Big-Game Hunting

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Theodore Roosevelt


The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Not…

The Chaucer Storybook

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Geoffrey Chaucer and Eva March Tappan


Geoffrey Chaucer's classic "Canterbury Tales" has here been rendered into clear and contemporary English prose. These classic stor…

British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions

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Wirt Sikes


The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appo…

An heiligen Wassern

Read by Eva K.


Jakob Christoph Heer


Im Dorf Sankt Peter im Schweizer Hochgebirge leben die Bewohner des regenarmen Glottertales mit der ständigen Gefahr von Gletscherabbr&…

Les Destinées de la poésie

Read by Christiane Jehanne


Alphonse De Lamartine


Une réflexion sur la Littérature, par un homme de Lettres, aussi poète, et homme politique actif, à médit…

The Mill on the Floss (Version 2)

Read by Tom Denholm


George Eliot


The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the l…

Nina Balatka

Read by Anthony Ogus


Anthony Trollope


A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme whic…

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