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Adrift in New York: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Adrift in New York by Horatio Alger, Jr.: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 19 original MP3 tracks, 4:52:39 running time and a link to listen.

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The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century by T. H. Huxley: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 4 original MP3 tracks, 2:12:56 running time and a link to listen.

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The Adventure of the Copper Beeches: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventure of the Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 3 original MP3 tracks, 1:03:03 running time and a link to listen.

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The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventure of the Speckled Band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 2 original MP3 tracks, 1:06:04 running time and a link to listen.

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The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The 'Adventurers of England' on Hudson Bay by Agnes C. Laut: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 9 original MP3 tracks, 3:08:56 running time and a link to listen.

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Adventures of Bindle: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Adventures of Bindle by Herbert Jenkins: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 16 original MP3 tracks, 6:25:49 running time and a link to listen.

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The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (Dramatic Version): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (Dramatic Version) by Thornton W. Burgess: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 23 original MP3 tracks, 1:32:28 running time and a link to listen.

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The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel by Thornton W. Burgess: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 8 original MP3 tracks, 1:42:58 running time and a link to listen.

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The Adventures of Gerard: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of Gerard by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 25 original MP3 tracks, 6:43:53 running time and a link to listen.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 12 original MP3 tracks, 10:17:59 running time and a link to listen.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 03): Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 03) by Mark Twain: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 43 original MP3 tracks, 11:19:58 running time and a link to listen.

One of the roman-à-clef "keys" that appeared without official authorisation. This one referred to Delarivier Manley's New Atalantis (109)

Roman à clef: History and Key Facts

A roman à clef ( roh-MON ə KLAY; French: [ʁɔmɑ̃n‿a kle]; lit.

Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) for Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur (Book I - Chapter III) published by J. M. Dent in 1893. The engraving reflects the Japanese woodcut called ukiyo-e.

Romance (prose fiction): History and Key Facts

Romance is "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse; the interest of which turns upon marvellous and uncommon incidents", a narrative method that was contrasted to the new, main tradition of the

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Romantic fantasy: History and Key Facts

Romantic fantasy, or "romantasy", is a subgenre of the broader genres of fantasy fiction and romance fiction that combines fantasy and romance, bringing to fantasy many of the elements and conven

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Romanetto: History and Key Facts

Romanetto (romanetto in Czech) is a literary genre popularized by the Czech writer Jakub Arbes.

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Romanzo d'appendice: History and Key Facts

Romanzo d'appendìce (Italian for feuilleton) was a genre in literature.

The cover illustration of Punch Magazine from 27 April 1872.

Satire: History and Key Facts

Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ri

"I Handed Flavia Down the Broad Marble Steps", frontispiece to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope.

Ruritanian romance: History and Key Facts

Ruritanian romance is a genre of literature, film and theatre comprising novels, stories, plays and films set in a fictional country, usually in Central or Eastern Europe, such as the "Ruritania"

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School story: History and Key Facts

The school story is a fiction genre centring on older pre-adolescent and adolescent school life, at its most popular in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Sensation novel: History and Key Facts

The sensation novel, also sensation fiction, was a literary genre of fiction that achieved its peak popularity in Great Britain from the mid-1850s to the 1890s, centring on taboo material that wa

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Sentimental novel: History and Key Facts

The sentimental novel or the novel of sensibility is an 18th- and 19th-century literary genre that presents and celebrates the concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility.

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Sentimentalism (literature): History and Key Facts

As a literary mode, sentimentalism, the practice of being sentimental, and thus tending towards making emotions and feelings the basis of a person's actions and reactions, as opposed to reason, h

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Short-story cycle: History and Key Facts

A short-story cycle (sometimes referred to as a story sequence or composite novel) is a collection of short stories in which the narratives are specifically composed and arranged with the goal of

KHWAJA HAFIZ RECITES HIS POETRY, Mughal, c.1600, Christie's

Shahr Ashob: History and Key Facts

The Shahr Ashob (Persian: شهر آشوب; Shahr-i Ashob (lit.

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Siyar: History and Key Facts

Siyar is the plural of the noun sira, and literally means a “path”, or “way of walking”.

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Sīra shaʿbiyya: History and Key Facts

Sīra shaʿbiyya is a genre in Islamic literature consisting of long heroic narrative.

The title page of the 1845 edition of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

Slave narrative: History and Key Facts

The slave narrative is a type of literary genre involving the (written) autobiographical accounts of enslaved persons, particularly black Africans enslaved in the Americas, though many other exam

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Social novel: History and Key Facts

The social novel, also known as the social problem (or social protest) novel, is a "work of fiction in which a prevailing social problem, such as gender, race, or class prejudice, is dramatized t

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Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition

Three Elephant Power, and Other Stories: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog): Classic Book Guide and Free Edition

Three men in a boat (to say nothing of the dog): author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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Rhymes of a Rolling Stone: Poetry Guide and Free Edition

Rhymes of a Rolling Stone: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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Before Adam: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition

Before Adam: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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Bunner Sisters: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition

Bunner Sisters: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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Young Adventure: A Book of Poems: Poetry Guide and Free Edition

Young Adventure: A Book of Poems: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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Children of the Night: Poetry Guide and Free Edition

Children of the Night: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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Rhymes of a Red Cross Man: Poetry Guide and Free Edition

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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The Golden Road: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition

The Golden Road: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems: Poetry Guide and Free Edition

The Culprit Fay, and Other Poems: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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Moran of the Lady Letty: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition

Moran of the Lady Letty: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.

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St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England: Classic Book Guide and Free Edition

St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England: author and translator credits, catalogue synopsis, subjects and links to the Gutenberg reading formats.