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The Castle of Otranto

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Horace Walpole


The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre whic…

Uncle Silas

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Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu


Uncle Silas is a Victorian Gothic mystery/thriller novel by the Anglo-Irish writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu. It is notable as one of the earliest…

The Wind - Read by GP

In The Wind

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Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of The Wind by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week…

Chapter 12

In War and Peace, Book 05: 1806-1807

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Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

Comparison of Theseus & Romulus

In Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 1

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Plutarch/Perrin and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Chapter 13

In Planet of the Damned

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Harry Harrison


Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical …

Ch 11-The Natural Resources of the Nation, pt 1

In Theodore Roosevelt: an Autobiography

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Theodore Roosevelt


In his vital, illustrative and dynamic autobiography, Theodore Roosevelt let us into the life that formed one of the greatest and outspoken …

THE SECRET OF MR. BLAKE'S STUDIO

In A Strange Disappearance

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Anna Katharine Green


Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective f…

An Interegnum Paragraph --- Colors-A Contrast

In Specimen Days

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Walt Whitman


Specimen Days is essentially the great American poet Walt Whitman's scrap book. It documents most of his life's adventures, especially his e…

iRiver iHP-140

In Recordings on MP3 players and other portable devices 'Written in March' (Microp…

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William Wordsworth


This is a project which will allow us to compare recording quality of different mp3 players and portable recording devices. Each reader has …

03 - Destroying Our Federal System

In What Prohibition Has Done to America

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Fabian Franklin


In What Prohibition Has Done to America, Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.…