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    • An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States
    • By: H. L. Mencken
    • Narrated by: Rebecca H. Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • American author, scholar, and satirist H.L. Mencken wrote The American Language in 1919, intending to defend American speech from prescriptivist critics....

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    • By: George Gordon Byron
    • Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Byron's Don Juan is a comic masterpiece written in a satirical, mock heroic style. Based on the legend of Don Juan....

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    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Socrates is in prison, sentenced to die when the sun sets. In this final conversation, he asks what will become of him once he drinks the poison prescribed for his execution....

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    • By: Jack London
    • Narrated by: B.J. Harrison
    • Length: 2 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 695 ratings
    • Twelve billionaires rule the United States, while those called freemen are forced to serve the rich. But that was 60 years ago, before the Scarlet Plague....

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    • By: Aristotle
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 1 hr and 24 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 114 ratings
    • Aristotle's Poetics is best known for its definition and analysis of tragedy and comedy, but it also applies to truth and beauty as they are manifested in the other arts....

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    • By: Grace Livingston Hill
    • Narrated by: Anne Hancock
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Soon-to-be heiress Betty Stanhope is a runaway bride, but not for the usual reasons - she didn't flee because of a change of heart....

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    • By: George Macdonald
    • Narrated by: Nicki White
    • Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • A magical fairy tale, which features a feisty princess who has the unfortunate curse of life without gravity....

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    • By: E. M. Forster
    • Narrated by: Edward Petherbridge
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-15
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 340 ratings
    • When attractive, impulsive English widow Lilia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a dashing and highly unsuitable Italian 12 years her junior....

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    • The Best Latin Lines Ever
    • By: Harry Mount, John Davie
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • There are so many Latin phrases in everyday use that often we use them without understanding the background and context within which they were actually used. 'Carpe diem'; 'Stet'; 'Memento mori'; 'Et tu Brute' – examples would fill a book....

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    • By: Anthony Trollope
    • Narrated by: Flo Gibson
    • Length: 25 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 01-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Lady Mason's trial for forgery and perjury shocks the neighborhood....

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    • By: Rudyard Kipling
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Including the stories "Lispeth", "Beyond the Pale", and "In the Pride of His Youth", this collection tells of soldiers, wise children, exiles, forbidden romances, and divided identities....

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    • The Story of How We Came to Talk
    • By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users....

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    • Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 7
    • By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • Narrated by: Ben Dooley
    • Series: Tarzan, Book 7
    • Length: 12 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The action is set during World War I. While John Clayton, Lord Greystoke (Tarzan), is away from his plantation home in British East Africa, it is destroyed by invading German troops from Tanganyika....

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    • Being a Story of Wat Tyler and the Peasant Revolt
    • By: George Alfred Henty
    • Narrated by: Jim Hodges
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • In 1381, Wat, the Tyler, and the peasants he represented urged of the King of England that serfdom should be abolished....

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    • A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words
    • By: Anne Curzan
    • Narrated by: Anne Curzan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Linguist and veteran English professor Anne Curzan equips listeners with a kinder, funner usage guide to the ever-changing English language and a useful tool for both the grammar stickler and the more colloquial user of English....

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    • Tarzan: Authorized Editions, Book 8
    • By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
    • Narrated by: Ben Dooley
    • Series: Tarzan, Book 8
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Tarzan the Terrible, written by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is the eighth book in the Tarzan series. Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for his science fiction and fantasy novels....

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    • By: Francis Thompson
    • Narrated by: Denis Daly
    • Length: 9 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Unlike many of his contemporaries, the English poet Francis Thompson (1859-1907) was a true mystic....

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    • An Old English Bestiary
    • By: Hana Videen
    • Narrated by: Isabel Adomakoh Young
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Hana Videen presents a glittering Old English bestiary of animals real and imaginary, big and small, ordinary and extraordinary—the good, the bad, and the downright baffling....

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    • A History of Linguistic Aggravation
    • By: Ammon Shea
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-19-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Bad English is sure to enlighten, enrage, and perhaps even inspire. Filled with historic and contemporary examples, the audiobook chronicles the long and entertaining history of language mistakes....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Robin Field
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain....

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