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Retroid Moderator 2 May 2009 13:23:59 45,464 posts
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Here

Beowulf
Borrowing a Match by Stephen Leacock
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Edgar Allen Poe - Short Stories
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
In A Thousand Years by Hans Christian Andersen
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Poetry Collection Volume 1
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The Diary of a Nobody
by George & Weedon Grosssmith
The Divine Comedy by Dante
The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome
Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

I haven't listened to any yet but I'm going to start out with Edgar Allen Poe & Three Men in a Boat, some of my all-time favourites

beastmaster 2 May 2009 13:31:01 22,082 posts
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Wow. That's for that. Sherlock is on it's way down now ;-)

Onny 2 May 2009 13:39:40 5,695 posts
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Brilliant find!

Deleted user 2 May 2009 13:47:15

Leolian'sBro wrote:
Nice! Is the Beowulf the Seamus Heaney translation?

I doubt it. That's copyrighted.

Retroid Moderator 2 May 2009 14:06:25 45,464 posts
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\o/

Wasn't sure if I'd be the only one interested

DavetheDave 6 May 2009 10:23:08 1,391 posts
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Very cool.

Cheers for posting this Retriod.

Alastair 6 May 2009 10:25:52 24,755 posts
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Nice one.
Fancy Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, Wind in the Willows, Huck Finn and Tom Saywer.

DFawkes 6 May 2009 10:26:29 32,752 posts
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Teh piracy! Copyright doesn't expire ever. Not to me. If there's a zombie apocalypse, there'll be some mighty angry zombies coming for us all.

The Art of War sounds good, I think I'll try it out. It was written by one of the descendants of the Sun family in Dynasty Warriors too, as an added tenuous games related bonus.

MetalDog 6 May 2009 10:27:27 24,076 posts
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Nice find - thanks for sharing =)

TechnoHippy 6 May 2009 11:04:15 18,993 posts
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Good find.

iokthemonkey 6 May 2009 11:11:08 4,662 posts
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On a related note, I just picked up a 2 box, 16 disc set of David "Silver from 'Sapphire & Steel'" Collings reading the complete works of M.R. James.

It's spicy.

Deleted user 7 March 2019 11:51:01

You can also go to https://librivox.org/ which has ~12,000 public domain audio books.

They are voiced by volunteers so can be of varying quality, but I found them to be really good... until I got into Audible.

Edited by GuybrushFreepwood at 11:53:33 07-03-2019

Deleted user 7 March 2019 11:59:08

I downloaded the complete collection of Edgar Allen Poe recently. It's a hard listen at times. I'm thinking I'll stick with his most well-known stories and skip the more obscure ones.

neilka 30 Jun 2020 18:44:00 23,905 posts
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I'd love to read your essay Betty x

Crocoboco 1 Jul 2020 09:02:37 20 posts
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Great find. I've read some Edgar Allen Poe stories few years back and some of them are just great! I recommend you "A Descent into the Maelstr�m" it's one of my favourites.