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Summary: This book follows the fortunes of the son of a noble Saxon family in Norman England as he woos his lady, disobeys his father, and is loved by another. Set in late 12C England and in Palestine with Richard Cœur-de-Lion at the Crusades, it’s another ripping historical yarn by Scott (summary by annise for Librivox)
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Total running time: 19 hours and 25 minutes
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To Sleep
Sonnet on the Sea
The Human Seasons
To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent
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e-text for Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Autumn
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
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Total running time: 15 hours
A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some scholars contend that the work was actually composed much later by an unknown hand. (Summary by Douglas B. Killings for Librivox)
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Running time: 2 hours, 18 minutes
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Total running time: 14 hours, 44 minutes
# 01 – How the Black Sheep Came Forth from the Fold
# 02 – How Alleyne Edricson Came Out into the World
# 03 – How Hordle John Cozened the Fuller of Lymington
# 04 – How the Bailiff of Southampton Slew the Two Masterless Men
# 05 – How a Strange Company Gathered at the ‘Pied Merlin’
# 06 – How Samkin Aylward Wagered His Feather-bed
# 07 – How the Three Comrades Journeyed through the Woodlands
# 09 – How Strange Things Befell in Minstead Wood
# 10 – How Hordle John Found a Man Whom He Might Follow
# 11 – How a Young Shepherd Had a Perilous Flock
# 12 – How Alleyne Learned More than He Could Teach
# 13 – How the White Company Set Forth to the Wars
# 14 – How Sir Nigel Sought for a Wayside Venture
# 15 – How the Yellow Cog Sailed Forth from Lepe
# 16 – How the Yellow Cog Fought the Two Rover Galleys
# 17 – How the Yellow Cog Crossed the Bar of Gironde
# 18 – How Sir Nigel Loring Put a Patch Upon His Eye
# 19 – How There Was Stir at the Abbey of St. Andrew’s
# 20 – How Alleyne Won His Place in an Honorable Guild
# 21 – How Agostino Pisano Risked His Head
# 22 – How the Bowmen Held Wassail at the ‘Rose de Guienne’
# 23 – How England Held the Lists at Bordeaux
# 24 – How a Champion Came Forth from the East
# 25 – How Sir Nigel Wrote to Twynham Castle
# 26 – How the Three Comrades Gained a Mighty Treasure
# 27 – How Roger Club-foot was Passed into Paradise
# 28 – How the Comrades Came Over the Marches of France
# 29 – How the Blessed Hour of Sight Came to the Lady Tiphaine
# 30 – How the Brushwood Men Came to the Chateau of Villefranche
# 31 – How Five Men Held the Keep of Villefranche
# 32 – How the Company Took Counsel Round the Fallen Tree
# 33 – How the Army Made the Passage of Roncesvalles
# 34 – How the Company Made Sport in the Vale of Pampeluna
# 35 – How Sir Nigel Hawked at an Eagle
# 36 – How Sir Nigel Took the Patch from His Eye
Summary: An adventure novel about William Wallace, one of the most popular books ever written by Jane Porter. The French version was even banned by Napoleon, and the book has remained very popular with Scottish children, but is equally enjoyable for adults. (Summary by Wikipedia, revised by Kikisaulite for Librivox)
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Total running time: 29 hours, 52 minutes
Chapter 18 Cartlane Craigs, and Glenfinlass
Chapter 20 The Cliffs of Loch Lubnaig
Chapter 31 Berwick and the Tweed
Chapter 36 The Carse of Stirling
Chapter 38 The Bower, or Ladies’ Apartments
Chapter 39 Stirling Castle and Council Hall
Chapter 40 The Governor’s Apartments
Chapter 43 The Carse of Stirling
Chapter 51 Stirling and Snawdoun
Chapter 58 The Bishops’ Palace
Chapter 64 Forest of Vincennes
Chapter 82 The Tower of London
Chapter 85 The Warden’s Apartments
Summary from Wikimedia: The Birth Mark is a romantic short story which examines obsession with human perfection.
Summary: The title is from the Greek thanatos (“death”) and the suffix -opsis (literally, “sight”); it has often been translated as “Meditation upon Death”.
Due to the unusual quality of the verse and Bryant’s age when the poem was first published in 1817 by the North American Review, Richard Henry Dana, Sr., then associate editor at the Review, initially doubted its authenticity, saying to another editor, “No one, on this side of the Atlantic, is capable of writing such verses.”
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Total running time: 14 hours, 30 minutes
# 01 – The Quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon
# 03 – Paris Challenges Menelaus
# 08 – The Victory of the Trojans
# 09 – The Embassy to Achilles
# 10 – Ulysses and Diomed go out as Spies
# 11 – Agamemnon’s Day of Glory
# 12 – The Trojans Break the Wall
# 13 – Neptune helps the Achaeans
# 14 – Agamemnon Proposes that the Achaeans Should Sail Home
# 16 – Patroclus fights in the armor of Achilles
# 17 – The Light around the Body of Patroclus
# 19 – Achilles Goes Out to Fight
# 21 – Achilles Drives the Trojans Back
Summary: A classic of early literary modernism, Lord Jim tells the story of a young “simple and sensitive character” who loses his honor in a display of cowardice at sea — and of his expiation of that sin against his own “shadowy ideal of conduct” on the remote island of Patusan. The novel, written by Conrad for magazine serialization during an intense and chaotic ten months in 1899 and 1900, has, in the words of Thomas C. Moser, “the rare distinction of being a masterpiece in two separate genres. It is at once an exotic adventure story of the Eastern seas in the popular tradition of Kipling and Stevenson and a complexly wrought ‘art novel’ in the tradition of Flaubert and James. (Summary by Stewart Wills for Librivox)
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Total running time: 14 hours, 25 minutes
Summary: Silas Marner (originally published in 1861): Betrayed by a beloved friend and accused of a crime he didn’t commit, awkward Silas Marner is expelled from his beloved religious community — the only community he has ever known. He exiles himself in the remote village of Raveloe. Friendless and without family, set apart from the villagers by their superstition and fear of him, he plies his weaving trade day after day, storing up gold which becomes his idol. When his gold is stolen, he is rescued from despair by the arrival on his lonely hearth of a beautiful little girl, whom he adopts, and through whom he and the other people of the village learn that loving relationships are more fulfilling than material wealth. (Summary by rachelellen for Librivox)
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Total running time: 6 hours, 47 minutes
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Total running time: 11 hours, 40 minutes
Summary: A poor, disgruntled, drunken young man sells his wife and child to the highest bidder. When he awakens, sober, the next day he regrets his rash act and vows to give up drink and find his family and bring them home. Eventually he is forced to give up the search and move on with his life. He does this quite successfully until, nearly 20 years later, his past comes back to haunt him. (Summary by DebraLynn for Librivox)
Summary: The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Nicholas is forced to unwelcome employment to help secure support for his widowed mother and his sister from their mercenary relative Ralph, on whose mercy they have been thrown. After many adventures Nicholas finally triumphs over his Uncle, although his success is also tinged with sadness. The book contains many memorable characters: the Yorkshire schoolmaster Wackford Squeers, the traveling thespian Vincent Crummles, the poor drudge Smike, the clerk Newman Noggs, and the wonderful and generous Brothers Cheeryble. (Summary by Chris Garbett for Librivox)
Total running time: 34 hours
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Summary from Librivox: Hamlet is commonly regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father’s death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then appears and charges Claudius with ‘murder most foul.’ Hamlet is called to revenge his father’s death: but will he be able to act before it is too late?
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Running time: 6 hours, 44 minutes
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