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Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection

This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Christmas website, a public-domain collection of Christmas music containing...

Douglas D. Anderson 1 hour 27 minutes

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626

William Blake - Tiger

LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of The Tiger , by William Blake. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 3rd, 2006.

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 16 minutes

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George Herbert - From The Temple

George Herbert was a country minister, and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In The Temple, Herbert combines these two aspects of his training in one of the greatest cycles of religious poetry ever...

Kirsten Ferreri 1 hour 23 minutes

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Unknown - Magna Carta

The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content. The text used is the first version in the Gutenberg collection. — Magna Carta is the most significant early...

28 minutes

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Epictetus - Enchiridion of Epictetus

Epictetus (Greek: Επίκτητος; c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known — the word epiktetos in Greek simply means «acquired.» Epictetus spent his...

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Awful German Language

If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix D from Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad , this comedic gem outlines the...

Rainer 1 hour 3 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Robert Williams Wood - How to Tell the Birds from the Flowers

How do you tell apart a parrot from a carrot? A plover from a clover? A bay from a jay? Although there are several ways of differentiating, R. W. Wood’s use of pun and rhyme is one of the most entertaining!...

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Thomas Henry Huxley - Has a Frog a Soul?

Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biologist after Darwin himself. This speech to the Metaphysical Society in 1870 is...

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Constitution of the United States of America, 1787

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United States Government - Constitution of the United States of America, 1787

This 1787 document defines the rights and responsibilities of federal government of the United States of America.

Kristen McQuillin 28 minutes

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John McTaggart - Unreality of Time

John McTaggart was a British metaphysician and philosophical idealist. In this famous article for the periodical Mind, he introduced the notion of the A, B and C series, which was to become a leading theory in...

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American Standard Version - Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon

The Song of Songs is the twenty-second book of The Bible and was authored by Solomon. In some translations, this book is entitled The Song of Solomon . It is also known as The Best Song . Replete with...

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United States Rubber Company - Romance of Rubber

This pamphlet was published in the early 20th century by the United States Rubber Company so that «coming generations of our country… have some understanding of the importance of rubber in our every day life… We...

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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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