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Category Archives: Letteratura Inglese

Edith Wharton – The Descent of Man and other Stories – Audiobook

03-mar-13
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This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York society at the turn of the twentieth century (two stories, however, are set in Italy). Fidelity is only one problem; others [...]

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Charles Dickens – Little Dorrit – MP3 – Audiobook

06-dic-12
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Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is considered one of his most profound. Dickens’ father spent three months in Marshalsea Prison for debt, which made a lasting impact on his life. This story centers around life in Marshalsea [...]

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Sabine Baring-Gould – Couriosities of Old Times – MP3 – Audiobook

06-dic-12
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This book is a collection of 17 gems of random knowledge, such as what women are made of and the philosopher’s stone, written in Baring-Gould’s own style. (Summary by Carolin) Total running time: 8:35:38 In addition to the readers, this audio book was produced by: Book Coordinator: Carolin Kaiser Dedicated Proof-Listener: jborden5 Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: Carolin & [...]

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John Clare – November

06-dic-12
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012 John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent [...]

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Anonymous – The Christmas Tree – Audiobook – MP3 – Librivox

01-dic-12
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Christmas Tree by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 19, 2010 This poem taken from Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg (ed), containing fancy drills, acrostics, motion songs, tableaux, short plays, recitations in costume for children of five to fifteen years. (from book introduction) [...]

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Edgar Allan Poe – Review of “The Betrothed Lovers”

12-nov-12
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I Promessi Sposi, or the Betrothed Lovers; a Milanese Story of the Seventeenth Century: as translated for the Metropolitan, from the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni, by G.W. Featherstonhaugh. Washington: stereotyped and published by Duff Green. 1834. 8vo. pp. 249. The appearance of this work strongly reminds us of the introductory remarks with which the Edimburg [...]

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Charles Dickens – David Copperfield – General Concordances by Valerio Di Stefano – 2nd Edition

04-nov-12
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Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve [...]

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Oscar Wilde – Il delitto di Lord Arturo Savile – Traduzione di Federico Verdinois

03-ott-12
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I Era l’ultimo ricevimento di lady Windermere, alla vigilia della primavera. Bentink House, più dell’usato, brulicava di visitatori. Sei membri del ministero eran venuti direttamente dopo l’udienza dello speaker, con tutti gli ordini e le decorazioni. Le belle donne indossavano i più eleganti costumi e, in fondo alla sala dei quadri, la principessa Sofia di [...]

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Leopoldo Armaroli – La Rivoluzione di Milano dell’aprile 1814

16-set-12
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Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice – PDF

01-set-12
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