Literature
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
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Charles Kingsley
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonaut…
North and South
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Set in Victorian England, North and South is the story of Margaret Hale, a young woman whose life is turned upside down when her family relo…
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 2)
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Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby is a young Devonshire man of nineteen, handsome and hot headed, devoted to his sister Kate and his parents. Following the …
Candide (version 2)
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Voltaire
Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his youn…
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare
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E. Nesbit
Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works…
Dubliners (Version 2)
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James Joyce
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle cl…
The Aeneid
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Virgil
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…
Women in Love
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D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and fol…
Oedipus Rex (Storr Translation)
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Sophocles
Oedipus the King (often known by the Latin title Oedipus Rex) is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed c. 429 BC. It was…
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn
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Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque a…
The Old Curiosity Shop
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Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop tells the story of Little Nell, a beautiful and virtuous young girl who lives with her grandfather in his shop of cur…
The Gods of Mars (version 2)
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Edgar Rice Burroughs
In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant sav…
Bible (KJV) NT 04: John
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King James Version
The Gospel According to John, commonly referred to as the Gospel of John or simply John, is an account of the public ministry of Jesus. It b…
The Treasury of David, Vol. 1 (Abridged)
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among…
The Book of Lieh-Tzu
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Liezi
Although Lieh Tzu's work has evidently passed through the hands of many editors and gathered numerous accretions, there remains a considerab…
Silas Marner (version 2)
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George Eliot
Reputed as Eliot’s favourite novel Silas Marner is set in the early years of the 19th century. Marner, a weaver, is a member of a small cong…
What Maisie Knew
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Henry James
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…
A Room with a View
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E. M. Forster
When Lucy Honeychurch travels to Italy with her cousin, she meets George Emerson, a bohemian and an atheist who falls in love with her. Upon…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 02
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H. G. Wells
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Phaedrus
Read by Martin Geeson
Plato
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…