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Romance Of The Commonplace

Essays & Short Works

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Frank Gelett Burgess - Romance Of The Commonplace

Thirty four whimsical, tongue-in-cheek, and entertaining essays about not much in particular, published in 1902, by one of the most popular writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The American...

David Wales 4 hours 48 minutes

War the Creator

War & Military

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Frank Gelett Burgess - War the Creator

Gelett Burgess, an American writer, penned this gripping account of the profound change that war caused in a young Frenchman he knew. “Because he was my friend, because he was so lovable, because he suffered much, I...

Lee Smalley 1 hour 32 minutes

Maxims of Methuselah

Humor

677

Frank Gelett Burgess - Maxims of Methuselah

Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age, in Regard to Women. The following is, so far as I know, the only authentic...

KevinS and 5 more 1 hour 37 minutes

Find the Woman

Action & Adventure Fiction

887

Frank Gelett Burgess - Find the Woman

Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, into strange houses and through side streets at midnight, a shuttle in the...

Grant Hurlock 7 hours 28 minutes

Goop Directory (version 2)

Children's Fiction

813

Frank Gelett Burgess - Goop Directory (version 2)

A funny collection of poems about bad children.

15 minutes

More Goops and How Not to Be Them

Children's Fiction

833

Frank Gelett Burgess - More Goops and How Not to Be Them

Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess...

24 minutes

Purple Cow

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

930

Frank Gelett Burgess - Purple Cow

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different versions of this famous nonsense rhyme, the weekly poem of April 2nd, 2006. The April Fool's Day spirit was slow to leave us this spring, so as you listen, watch out for...

Amanda and 7 more 8 minutes

Goop Directory

Poetry

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Frank Gelett Burgess - Goop Directory

In this DIRECTORY you'll see just what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of whose faults I tell are known by other names, as well, so see that you...

13 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2)

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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