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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life composed several volumes of poetry, writing many poems which are still...

Gilles G. Le Blanc and 5 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Théophile Gautier - Romance of a Mummy and Egypt

The account he gives, in his novel, of the ancient city of Thebes, of the great necropolis in the valley of Biban el Molûk, of the subterranean tombs, of the precautions taken by the designers to baffle curiosity, of...

Nadine Eckert-Boulet and 6 more 7 hours 21 minutes

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Clement Clarke Moore - Old Santeclaus

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant...

Claudia Salto and 9 more 20 minutes

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Friedrich von Schlegel - Lucinda

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe Hübsch. He attended Jena University and made friends with many of the writers...

Craig Campbell 2 hours 30 minutes

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Cicely Hamilton - William, An Englishman

William – an Englishman is a 1919 novel by Cicely Hamilton. The novel explores the effect of the First World War on a married couple during the rise of Socialism and the Suffragette movement. It was originally...

Expatriate 6 hours 10 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Age of the Motored Things

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 6, 2013. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and...

Claudia Salto and 12 more 22 minutes

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E. Pauline Johnson - Fire - Flowers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire — Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18, 2013. Fire-Flowers is taken from the book, Flint and Feather: Collected...

ashleighjane and 16 more 16 minutes

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Christmas Hirelings

It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pack of children belonging to me, I would keep Christmas with the best — keep...

Patti Cunningham and 2 more 3 hours 55 minutes

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Moving the Mountain

Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911. The book was one...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours

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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko - Peasant Tales of Russia

Collection of Russian peasant tales: «The Deserted Mine» — The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. «Mahmoud's Family» — Escaping prisoners of war should be...

Kevin W. Davidson 4 hours 2 minutes

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Edith Wharton - Descent of Man and Other Stories

This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York...

Nicholas Clifford 7 hours 8 minutes

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Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children

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William Dean Howells - Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children

Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of «the papa» to «the girl» and «the boy» William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed...

David Wales 2 hours 5 minutes

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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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