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From The Temple

Read by Kirsten Ferreri


George Herbert



George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert com…

Strange Pages from Family Papers

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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer



“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…

Von der Gemüthsruhe

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca



Die Frage ist also: wie man es dahin bringe, daß das Gemüth immer seinen gleichmäßigen und ungestörten Gang gehe,…

Vertheidigung des Socrates

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Xenophon



Xenophon möchte zeigen, dass Sokrates ganz bewusst in den Tod gegangen sei. Das Unglück seines Todes war kein Zufall. Denn der Phi…

The Bird Study Book

Read by J. M. Smallheer


Thomas Gilbert Pearson



Do you enjoy bird watching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservation efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface…

A Woman's Experiences in the Great War

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Louise Mack



An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…

Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction

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Alexander Von Humboldt



Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…

The Great Taxicab Robbery

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James H. Collins



In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the …

The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the …

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Cotton Mather



Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous "Salem Witch Trials". In addition to Mather's interpretation of t…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003

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Various



A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

The Vagabond

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Robert Louis Stevenson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 22, 20…

Historical Tales, Vol IV: English

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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews



Volume IV of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers …

Highways and Byways in Sussex

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E. V. Lucas



A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…

To Autumn

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John Keats



LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of To Autumn by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010.To Au…

The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones

Read by Kevin Green


John Mastin



This is a good basic introduction to gemstones and their analysis. Admittedly a lot of the scientific tests have been superseded, but the ba…

Angel Food Time: Little Talks to Little Folks

Read by Maria Therese


Rev. Gerald T. Brennan



This is the sixth and final volume of the "Angel Food" Series by Father Brennan. This volume consists of 28 charming selections wi…

Bacon

Read by Bill Boerst


Richard William Church



This investigation of Bacon the scholar and man of letters begins with a look at the early days and progresses to his relationships with Que…

My Experiences as an Executioner

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James Berry



From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods h…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 007

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Various



A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collectio…

Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air

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Joseph Priestley



Joseph Priestley, FRS was an 18th-century English theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, chemist, educator, and political th…

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