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INTRODUCTION

In The Island of Doctor Moreau

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H. G. Wells

The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells, addressing ideas of society and community, human nature…

The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin

In Short Story Collection Vol. 092

Read by Mari Patterson

Kate Chopin

This collection of short stories in the English Language brings another rich compendium of old favorites fro Lord Dunsany, Guy de Maupassant…

The Charge of the Light Brigade

In Short Poetry Collection 012

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 012: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Building a Great School

In A Boys' Life of Booker T. Washington

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Walter Clinton Jackson

Booker T. Washington was one of the first nationally recognized African American leaders after the Civil War. He was born to a slave woman …

Version 1

In Liian Paha Sappi

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Aaro Hellaakoski

The poem Liian Paha Sappi by Aaro Hellaakoski, which tells the tale of a child struggling to keep his temper: A TEMPER TOO BADHow it burns m…

Ch.26 “The Complicity of the Doctors”

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

Read by Mairi Patterson

George Macgregor

From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

The Gun Club

In From the Earth to the Moon

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Jules Verne

From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is …

THE CONFESSIONS OF A LUNATIC Part 1

In The Mysteries of London Vol. IV

Read by Mairi Patterson

George W. M. Reynolds

The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. I…

Bk1: Song I: Boethius' Complaint, and section I

In The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

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