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From Versailles to Paris

In The French Revolution

Read by Richard Auty

Robert Matteson Johnston

A companion volume to his previous "lightning biography" of Napoleon, this book is an outline of the overall shape and impact of t…

Chapter 2, Part 2

In Heart of Darkness (version 3)

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Joseph Conrad

Heart of Darkness tells the story of an English seaman, Charles Marlow, who embarks on a voyage up the Congo River and into the African wild…

Part II Lawence Chapter 1

In The Secret City

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Hugh Walpole

Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, duri…

In Business

In Tales of Mean Streets

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Arthur Morrison

This is the first book of a trilogy (A Child of the Jago, To London Town) set in the harsh world of London's East End. Violence and poverty …

My Last Duchess

In Short Poetry Collection 199

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Algernon Charles Swinburne and Robert Browning

This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2019.

Other Reforms

In The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

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Charles Hanson Towne

Subtitle: "The Human Side of What the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act Have Done to the United States" From Chapter 1: &…

Love - Read by RA

In Love

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 30, 2019…

The Fowler and the Partridge

In Fables of Aesop and Others

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Aesop

The origins of these fables are perhaps lost in obscurity, but they are so closely identified with the Greek writer Aesop, that we may regar…

The Amber Treasure

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Richard Denning

Cerdic is the nephew of a great warrior who died a hero of the Anglo-Saxon country of Deira. Growing up in a quiet village, he dreams of the…