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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 073
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Salve! ye dumb hearts. Let us be still and wait by the roadside." With these…
Bushido: The Soul of Japan (Version 2)
Read by Gloria Loughry
Inazō Nitobe
Bushido: The Soul of Japan is a study of the way of the samurai. A best-seller in its day, it was read by many influential foreigners, among…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works, individually chosen by the readers. "The ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled wa…
Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena
Read by Celine Major
Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious 14 year old at the time of events, we are provided with a rare account of the…
Life (Raleigh Version)
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Sir Walter Raleigh
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Life by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 25th, 2010.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 05
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Charles F. Horne
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…
North-Pole Voyages
Read by Kristine Bekere
Zachariah Atwell Mudge
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immed…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 065
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. A review of William Carlos Williams' "Kora in Hell" by Robert McAlmon is one …
Turns About Town
Read by Tom Penn
Robert Cortes Holliday
Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genu…
An Ode to Bahá'u'lláh
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Nabíl-I-A'Zam
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of An Ode to Bahá'u'lláh by Nabíl-i-A'zam (Mullá Muhammad Zarand&iac…
The Scrap Book (volume 1) Sampler
Read by Bellona Times
Various
18 works -- two non-fic articles & one short fiction or poetry each -- from issues March, April, May, June, July, & August 1906 of T…
Thoughts on South Africa
Read by Rachel May Ferriman
Olive Schreiner
'Thoughts on South Africa' is a collection of Schreiner's observations of colonial South Africa in the early 19th century, mostly regarding …
Neighbourhood – A Year’s Life in and About an English Village (version 2)
Read by Peter Yearsley
Tickner Edwardes
Tickner Edwardes (properly Edward Tickner Edwardes) served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during WWI and later became the vicar of the West…
The Romance of Rubber
Read by Judy Bieber
United States Rubber Company
This pamphlet was published in the early 20th century by the United States Rubber Company so that "coming generations of our country ..…
On the Ruin of Britain
Read by Carol Pelster
Gildas
Gildas was a well-informed and definitely opinionated 6th century commentator on the topic of the era of the Roman occupation of Britain beg…
Two Musicians
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Sarah Orne Jewett
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Two Musicians by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 16, 2…
The Passing of the Year
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Robert W. Service
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Passing of the Year by by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for D…
The Pool
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Pool by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 20, 2012.Paul La…
Against Celsus Book 4
Read by David Ronald
Origen Of Alexandria
Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD…
Builders of United Italy
Read by Ciufi Galeazzi
Rupert S. Holland
Holland 's provides us with an engaging history of the Unification ("Risorgimento") of Italy by exploring the lives of some of i…