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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, Vol. 084

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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, Vol. 087

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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…

Toxophilus

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Roger Ascham



Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argum…

Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 04

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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 1885-1905

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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, March 1921

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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 006

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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

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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…

The Silver Swan

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Orlando Gibbons



LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2011.Or…

The dogaressas of Venice: The wives of the doges

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Edgcumbe Staley



A series of biographies of the wives of the doges (leaders) of the Venetian Republic. - Summary by Timothy

Down In Water Street

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Samuel Hopkins Hadley



Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the e…

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