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Old Ireland

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Ireland by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 1st, 2010.

Coffee Break Collection 006 - Food and Drink

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Various



This is the sixth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…

The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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Mary Harris Jones



Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…

Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

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Allen H. Godbey



"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment…

The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse

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Arthur Scott Bailey



This volume in the series, Sleepy-Time Tales, follows the adventures of Master Meadow Mouse as he moves his home to various (safer) places, …

Old Chants

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Walt Whitman



LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Old Chants by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Walter &…

Treatise on Light

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Christiaan Huygens



Treatise on Light was published in 1690 and is probably the largest scientific volume on light published before Newton's Opticks. The book e…

Careers of Danger and Daring

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Cleveland Moffett



In this volume of adventure the author depicts the lives of certain humble modern heroes whose unconscious courage ordinarily goes unnoticed…

Anything Once

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Isabel Ostrander



An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…

Best Way to Read a Book

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Edgar A. Guest



LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…

Histology of the Blood

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Paul Ehrlich



This is a textbook on the science of blood and bloodwork by (1908) Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Should appeal to hematologists, phl…

The Higher Pantheism

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Higher Pantheism by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Septemb…

Darwin or Design

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Jason Rennie



Darwin or Design is a collection of interviews with 25 people on both sides of the intelligent design question. There are interviews on what…

The Convivio

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Dante Alighieri



Convivio (The Banquet) is a work written by Dante Alighieri roughly between 1304 and 1307. This unfinished work of Dante consists of four tr…

United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 1

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Various



This collection comprises recordings of 17 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1628 and 1956. Readings are of speeche…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II

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James Boswell



Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, edito…

The Secret Doctrine, Volume I. Cosmogenesis. Part II. The Evolution Of Symbolism

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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky



In this work of comparative religion, ontology and epistemology, Mme. Blavatsky presents science as a belief system of as much value as othe…

The Story of Mary MacLane

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Mary Maclane



At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane. It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was pop…

Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2

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Various



This collection of 20 public domain newspaper articles comprises volume 2 of Historic Newspaper Articles in the LibriVox collection. Both U.…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 006

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Various



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

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