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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Read by Arnie Horton

Bartolomé De Las Casas

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an ac…

Chapter 6 Volume 1

In The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century

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Jane C. Loudon

The Mummy!: Or a Tale of the Twenty-Second Century is about a wise Egyptian mummy who is reanimated far in the future. With a different take…

19 - Part 3, Chapter 4 - Of the Duties of Hospitality

In The Gentleman and Lady's Book of Politeness and Propriety of Deportment

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Elisabeth Celnart and Élisabeth Celnart

A mid-nineteenth century book of etiquette. (Summary by Libby Gohn)

Of Envy and Hatred

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 2

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Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

The Moralia (loosely translatable as "Matters relating to customs") of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an e…

10 The Cellar

In Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story

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Charles Ross Jackson

There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murde…

Tale of Sinuhe

In Short Story Collection Vol. 055

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Alan Gardiner

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, i…

Horace Ode 3: Virgil: Off to Greece

In Librivox Multilingual Short Works Collection 008

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus and Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)

This is a collection of short pieces, poetry or prose, fiction and non-fiction, in several different languages (except standard English). Al…

02 - Lionizing

In The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 4

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Edgar Allan Poe

This, the fourth of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 22 of his short stories. Warning: Section 7, "A Predicament," conta…

Chapter 2 - Egypt, Syria, and Asia Minor

In The History of Prostitution

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William Sanger

Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the …