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There Was a Cherry-Tree
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James Whitcomb Riley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…
Rousseau and Education According to Nature
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Thomas Davidson
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…
Down the Bayou
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Mary Ashley Townsend
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Down the Bayou by Mary Ashley Townsend. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 27th…
The Angler
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Thomas Buchanan Read
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Angler by Thomas Buchanan Read. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 29th, …
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
Ghosts everywhere, and of any colour," was the promise of Spectropia, a book of "surprising spectral illusions" published in …
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
"Certitude is not the test of certainty." This pithy phrase is from Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr's essay on Natural Law, one of…
Sermons Preached on Various Occasions
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John Henry Newman
What language do the human heart and soul speak? Many would say they speak poetry and song. But what if reason and spirituality join heart…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
Vlaemsche Dichtoefeningen
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Guido Gezelle
De bundel Vlaemsche Dichtoefeningen bevat 52 gedichten. Het is vooral eigen werk van Guido Gezelle, en hiernaast ook enkele vertalingen. Het…
Nocturne
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Nocturne by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2011.Aldrich…
Twenty Years of the Republic
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Harry Thurston Peck
Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole gene…
Autumn
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John Clare
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Autumn by John Clare . This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 17th, 2010.
The Flag and the Faithful
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William J. Lampton
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Flag and the Faithful by William J. Lampton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Janua…
The Bookman
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John Farrar
This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is J…
First Chapter Collection
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Various
The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we off…
Some American Storytellers
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Frederic Taber Cooper
Frederic Taber Cooper, who was an editor and author, provides a superb insight into the works of some of the most popular authors of the tur…
Father Thames
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Walter Higgins
Originally published in 1922, this work details the history and importance of one of Great Britain's grandest rivers, the River Thames. It i…
Tea and the Effects of Tea Drinking
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William Scott Tebb
William Scott Tebb gives a history of tea through 1903. He describes the origin, tea plant, harvesting, distribution, popularity and the mak…
De Kerkklokken
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Dit is het tweede 'kerstverhaal' van Charles Dickens. Het boek is geschreven in 1844 een jaar na het beroemdere Chrismas Carol. Eigenlijk is…