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Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Topics: par, aur, men, going, people, jis, three, kam, time, cos, jis men, medical hall, taur par, jis par,...
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LibriVox recording of Oliver Twist or the Parish Boy's Progress by Charles Dickens. Read by Tadhg Hynes. Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by Charles Dickens. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed with an undertaker. He escapes and travels to London where he meets the Artful Dodger, leader of a gang of juvenile pickpockets. Oliver is led to the lair of their elderly criminal trainer Fagin,...
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LibriVox recording of The Children Of The Abbey by Regina Maria Roche . Read in English by jenno; John; czandra; Mooninya; CassiopeiaSparks; Davida George; Bethany Megill; Tatiana Chichilla; catherine247; SmilingJade; Alix Grace; Adrienne Prevost; hmansoor; Jim Locke; WendyKatzHiller; raghavdhandi8; Lan Kao; Paul Harvey; kaylawhy; bwhite2; Bexcspen; mlcui; MaybeCordelia; Michele Eaton; WanderingWalker; Jay Randolph; Zach Hoyt Published in 1796, this novel tells the trials and tribulations of...
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LibriVox recording of Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. Read by Mil Nicholson Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold and crystal on the tables of ‘Society’. A tale of murder, treachery, jealousy and love, takes us first to a rowing boat on the Thames, where the Hexhams have found a body in the water and are bringing it to shore. We attend the Boffins, a poor naïve couple, who unexpectedly...
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LibriVox recording of English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by William J. Long. Read in English by Tony Oliva This book, which presents the whole splendid history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon times to the close of the Victorian Era, has three specific aims. The first is to create or to encourage in every student the desire to read the best books, and to know literature itself rather than what has been written about literature....
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, literature, textbook, English literature, reference
Librivox recording of NIght and Day by Virginia Woolf. Read by J. M. Smallheer. Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. (Wikipedia) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B Part 1 (182MB) Download M4B Part 2 (255MB)
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Topics: virginia woolf, night and day, hilbery, datchet, edwardian, english literature, feminism, bloomsbury
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LibriVox recording of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I by James Boswell. Read in English by Barbara Baker This is the first of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been annotated by numerous editors . Boswell took many notes of Johnson's conversations during the time when he knew one of England's most influential men of letters and he also gives us frequent glimpses of other famous personalities who were part of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, samuel, authors, johnson, english -- 18th century -- biography, critics --...
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11/12
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Topics: novel, english literature, india, spirituality, buddhism, english, classics
LibriVox recording of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II (version 2) by James Boswell. Read in English by Barbara Baker This is the second of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been annotated by numerous editors . This edition with footnotes is by George Birbeck Hill. Boswell took many notes of Johnson's conversations during the time when he knew one of England's most influential men of letters and he also gives us...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Samuel Johnson, critics -- great britain -- biography, language and...
LibriVox recording of The Holy War by John Bunyan, read by Joy Chan. The Holy War is perhaps John Bunyan's second most popular work, after The Pilgrim's Progress. It tells the story of a fierce battle to take control of a city from its rightful ruler. (Summary by Joy Chan.) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to...
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Topics: LibriVox, audio books, allegory, religion, Bunyan, John Bunyan, English literature
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Librivox recording of Cecilia by Fanny Burney. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. The plot of Cecilia revolves around the heroine, Cecilia Beverley, whose inheritance from her uncle comes with the stipulation that she find a husband who will accept her name. This proves impossible, and she gives up her fortune to marry for love. Jane Austen referred to Cecilia and other novels in her novel, Northanger Abbey: “'And what are you reading, Miss — ?' 'Oh! It is only a novel!' replies the young lady,...
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LibriVox recording of Far From the Madding Crowd, by Thomas Hardy. Read by Tadhg Hynes. Far From The Madding Crowd is Hardys fourth novel.It centres on the lives of five characters,Gabriel Oak,Bathsheba Everdene,Mr Boldwood,Sgt.Troy and Fanny Robin.The plot involves love,loyalty,death and betrayal and all this is delivered to us in Hardys most eloquent prose.The images of character and nature are painted for our minds eye with sublime style.Finally,but not least, Hardys use of the Greek chorus...
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Topics: Librivox, audiobook, English literature, Thomas Hardy.
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Complete English Grammar Rules Examples, Exceptions & Everything You Need To Master Proper Grammar, 2016
Topics: English language, English Spelling, English Spellings, Spelling, English Course, English Course...
Librivox recording of Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as a monthly magazine serial, where it gained a wide readership and critical acclaim. According to Virginia Woolf, "The subject was right; the method...
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LibriVox recording of An Outcast of the Islands by Joseph Conrad. Read in English by Peter Dann This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional tensions that are such a distinctive feature of the social life of the little settlement of Sambir, on the Pantai river in Borneo, that figure so prominently in its predecessor. The central plot has an almost mythic quality ('A foolish king has two sons who are...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, language and literatures: english literature, psychological fiction, lingard,...
Librivox recording of Shirley by Charlotte Brontë. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–1812, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against a backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire...
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LibriVox recording of Silas Marner by George Eliot. Read by Tadhg 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 congregation in Lantern Yard. Falsely accused of a crime he didn’t commit, he leaves his home and lives a solitary life near the village of Raveloe. Dedicating his life to weaving and hoarding gold for the next fifteen years, circumstances beyond his control shape his destiny and help to...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, English literature, George Eliot, fiction, religion, Weaver, Ravaloe, Miser,...
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LibriVox recording of Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance by Ford Madox Ford. Read in English by David Wales Joseph Conrad (1857 – 1924) was a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. Though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. Conrad wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, biography, memoir, English literature, twentieth century
LibriVox recording of L'Art Pour l'Art by Various. Read in English by kilpatrick83; RebeccaG A disparate assemblage of lingual mastery spanning genres and prowess with an eye toward style in favor of capitulation. (summary by kilpatrick83) Tocsin was translated by W. H. Lowe (1848-1917) Maldoror was translated by John Rodker (1894-1955) Gridale was translated by F. S. Flint (1885-1960). For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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Topics: librivox, audiobooks, decadence, Russian Literature, French literature, English literature, art for...
LibriVox recording of A Brief History of English and American Literature , by Henry A. Beers. Read by Kalynda. Henry Augustin Beers (1847-?), native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bishop and first Chancellor of American University, has written a sweeping thousand 900 year history of English literature, up to the end of the 19th century. Although at times biased and sometimes misguided (as when he dismisses Mark Twain...
Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, History, history of literature, Beers: English literature, American literature
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LibriVox recording of The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, read by Debra Lynn. The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rustic England.(Summary from Wikipedia) A poor, disgruntled, drunken young man sells his wife and child to...
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Topics: LibriVox, audio books, novel, English literature, Thomas Hardy, Wessex
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Jul 15, 2019
07/19
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Aliyu M. Ahmad
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ENGLISH 200
Topic: ENGLISH & LITERATURE
Librivox recording of The Golden Bowl by Henry James. Read by Lee Ann Howlett. The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a father and daughter and their respective spouses. The novel focuses deeply and almost exclusively on the consciousness of the central characters,...
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A room of one's own / Virginia Woolf. - new ed. - London : Hogarth Press, 1935. - 172 p. ; 19 cm.
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Topic: English literature
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Jul 20, 2020
07/20
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Umair Mirza
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The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History is a 1978 book by Michael H. Hart , an astrophysicist, alien life researcher and white separatist . It was the first book of Hart, which was reprinted in 1992 with revisions. It is a ranking of the 100 people who, according to Hart, most influenced human history . Hart wrote another book in 1999, entitled A View from the Year 3000 , voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most...
Topics: Michael H Hart, Michael H. Hart, The 100, 100, Most Influential Persons, Most Influential Men,...
Librivox recording of The Wings of the Dove by Henry James. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. "The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn fiction mainly rests was not vividly present to me. The idea, reduced to its essence, is that of a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed,...
Topics: audiobooks, librivox, fiction, English literature, literary realism
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The Story of Layla And Majnun
Topics: Persian Literature, English Literature
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Feb 18, 2021
02/21
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Whanday
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The Agatha Christie Complete Collection
Topics: Agatha Christie, children's literature, children's books, english language, mystery books, stories,...
LibriVox recording of Jacob's Room by Virginia Woolf. Read by LibriVox Volunteers The novel centers, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impressions other characters have of Jacob [except for those times when we do indeed get Jacob's perspective]. Thus, although it could be said that the book is primarily a character study and has little in the way of plot or background, the narrative is constructed as a void in...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Woolf, English literature, fiction
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LibriVox recording of Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 13 by Various. Read in English by ToddHW; Heather Eney; Chad Jackson; Sonia; Jennifer Wilson; Rita Boutros; docdlmartin; MaryAnn; zandra; yourbookvoice; Owlivia; Sonia; Sonrisa Jones; calbrummie; Michele Eaton; Alan Mapstone; Colleen McMahon; Rita Boutros; Larry Wilson The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, English literature, norse literature, egyptian literature
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Topics: English language, English literature, Twelfth grade (Education), Examinations
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English= An ABC Of English Literature ( My Mahbub)
Topic: English= An ABC Of English Literature ( My Mahbub)
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Nov 13, 2012
11/12
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E. M. Forster
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Topics: colonialism, novel, social criticism, classic, english literature, india, fiction, english
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Oct 19, 2015
10/15
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Fleming, Victor, 1889-1949; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; MGM/UA Entertainment Co
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Treasure Island Search Educational Film Journals at Media History Project for references to this film SummaryStevenso./ia metadataale of a small boy's adventures amid a band of treasure - seeking pirates, in which Magoo plays the rascally long John Silver. Presents a film record and analysis of the triumphs of the Axis powers during the first phase of World War II. Shows how Nazi Germany and Japan conceived and carried out their plans for world conquest and explains how Allied indecision and...
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Topics: English Literature., Children's Stories.
LibriVox recording of The Spirit of the Age; Or, Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt. Read in English by Craig Campbell; Daniel Davison; Kazbek; Shreya Sethi; Garfield Dsouza; Steven Watson; Rolv Robole; jenno; Kat Andrews; weezer; Jesse Zuba; Arden William Hazlitt was a keen observer of his time and the people populating the literary landscape. He presents short monographs on such illustrious persons as Jeremy Bentham, known for his philosophy of utility, William Godwin, who raised the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, literature, literary criticism, English literature
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Nov 13, 2012
11/12
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Topics: mystery, detective, novel, crime, english literature, fiction, english, classics
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Dec 18, 2011
12/11
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Ahnaf Media Services
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English books from from www.ahnafmedia.com
Topics: islamic books, english literature, ahnaf media books, islam
The Adventures of Tintin
Topics: The Adventures of Tintin, English Literature, English Stories for Children, Children Books,...
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06/22
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The Horror of Babylon
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The gaming madness continues w/ Amnesia: The Dark Descent. Join Hef on the darkest of descents. Are you brave enough? Probably not. Special Guest Host: Hef. Just Hef. Find the podcast on Twitter @HorrorPod69. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Slasher & GoodReads. Become part of the community by joining the Facebook group or asking for our Discord link. Email us thehorrorofbabylonpodcast@gmail.com Support the show at patreon.com/thehorrorofbabylon You can listen to the show...
Topics: podcast, horror, stephen king, the stand, it, Pyrokinesis, scary, pandemic, plague, epidemic, the...
LibriVox recording of Literary Taste: How to Form It, by Arnold Bennett. Read by Timothy Ferguson. Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 describe his method for learning to enjoy literature. Chapters 11, 12, and 13 contain detailed lists of the 337 volumes required to complete a comprehensive library of English works. This reading is from the 1913 version at Project Gutenberg, and so does not contain...
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Topics: librivox, audiobook, book collecting, books, reading, English literature
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Jan 21, 2010
01/10
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Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900
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Added t.p., engraved
Topic: English literature
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Dec 14, 2020
12/20
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Umair Mirza
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Just Enough English Grammar Illustrated (2008)
Topics: English language, English Spelling, English Spellings, Spelling, English Course, English Course...
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Jul 17, 2007
07/07
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Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth), b. 1876
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xvi, 687 p. 24 cm
Topic: English literature -- History and criticism
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06/22
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The Horror of Babylon
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Welcome to “The Horror of Babylon”, your favorite horror book club podcast. Join us as we delve the depths of literature’s most warped minds: King, Stoker, Shelley, Ito, Matheson, Koontz, Jackson and many more. With us, you will face demons that lay in wait and experience nightmares that shall leave you sleepless. Do you have the courage to enter our circle? If not, will you bow to our threats? We think you will… On this episode, we discuss part five of Stephen King's It. Hosts: Follow...
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Mar 17, 2021
03/21
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Umair Mirza
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Masnavi Maulana Rumi
Topics: Rumi, Maulana, Masnavi, Masnavi Rumi, Maulana Rumi, Persian Literature, Arabic Literature,...
LibriVox recording of Summer Days in Shakespeare Land by Charles George Harper. Read in English by Lee Smalley "Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. William Shakespeare, in which many things both new and entertaining are to be found...and wherein certain fanatics are handsomely confuted." "Certain fanatics" refers to insistent doubters of Shakespeare's authorship of the great literary...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, Shakespeare, English literature, authorship
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Topics: English language, English literature, Twelfth grade (Education), Examinations
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Dec 15, 2020
12/20
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The Oxford Companion To English Literature, 6th Edition
Topics: Oxford English Grammar, Oxford, English language, English Spelling, English Spellings, Spelling,...
LibriVox recording of Six lectures on literature by Charles Harold Herford. Read in English by Phil Benson C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pamphlet form. The six lectures in this collection span Herford's career at the University during the turbulent first two decades of the twentieth century. Taking a historical view, Herford covers a wide range of eras and writers in an exploration of the...
Topics: librivox, audiobooks, poetry, English literature, Manchester, norse myth
