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Charles George Harper - Summer Days in Shakespeare Land

«Some delights of the ancient town of Stratford-upon-Avon and the country round about, together with a sketch of the life of Mr. William Shakespeare, in which many things both new and entertaining are to be...

Lee Smalley 8 hours 7 minutes

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Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West

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Cyrus Townsend Brady - Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West

Brady was a journalist, historian, adventure writer, and Episcopal priest. As a priest he spent some time on the American frontier as a missionary. “…the experiences are personal and actually occurred as they are set...

David Wales 3 hours 43 minutes

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English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah

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Beth Ellis - English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah

An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a well-edited, turn-of-the-century journal documenting a young woman’s visit to Burma. The account documents her ocean voyage to Rangoon, and her stay...

Carol Fullerton-Samsel 4 hours 22 minutes

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Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms

A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenerating German...

Edmund Bloxam 3 hours

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August Strindberg - Growth of a Soul

Johan August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright who has had many of his works read into Librivox by volunteers. From his earliest work, Strindberg developed forms of dramatic action, language, and visual composition...

Jan Moorehouse and 2 more 6 hours 51 minutes

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Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead

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John L. Ransom - Andersonville Diary, Escape And List Of The Dead

John L. Ransom was the quartermaster of Company A, 9th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry during the American Civil War and a Union prisoner in the infamous Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia. This is his diary...

David Wales 8 hours 32 minutes

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Frances Alice Forbes - Life of Saint Monica

This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason that she never sought to be so. Because she understood the sphere in which a...

MariaS and 3 more 2 hours 7 minutes

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Burton Egbert Stevenson - American Men of Action

In this book, Burton Egbert Stevenson writes a brief biography of some of the most noteworthy men in American history. He begins at the very beginning of the history of America with Christopher Columbus and proceeds...

William Tomcho 8 hours 42 minutes

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Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2

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Giorgio Vasari - Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 2

The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri, as it was...

MorganScorpion and 7 more 8 hours 24 minutes Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari, Volumes 1-7

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Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

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Charles A. Siringo - Texas Cowboy; Or Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony

Charles A. Siringo was an American lawman, detective, and agent for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency during the late 19th century and early 20th century…. After taking part in several cattle drives, Siringo...

David Wales 6 hours 8 minutes

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John Dickinson - Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania is a series of essays written by the Pennsylvania lawyer and legislator John Dickinson (1732–1808) and published under the name «A Farmer» from 1767 to 1768. The twelve letters...

Bruce Moser 3 hours 25 minutes

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Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women

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Elbert Hubbard - Little Journeys to the Homes of Famous Women

Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part...

Mary J and 5 more 6 hours 32 minutes Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

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

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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