Authors

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Time Periods

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Poetry

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Short Stories

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Performance Works

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Historical Texts

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Welcome to The Proud Reader™ Library. New texts and authors are added frequently.

You can listen to free audiobooks online and download public domain poetry, fables, short stories, articles, monologues, soliloquies, speeches, and historical texts as PDFs and raw text files.

Enjoy!

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