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Sir Walter Scott - Harold the Dauntless

Harold the Dauntless is a rhymed, romantic, narrative-poem by Sir Walter Scott. Written in 1817, it weaves together elements of popular English legends and folklore using dramatic themes. The poem recounts the...

Nathan 2 hours 7 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

461

C. J. Dennis - Songs of a Sentimental Bloke

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year, and is probably one of the highest selling verse...

Algy Pug 2 hours 8 minutes

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Poetry

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Bhartṛhari - Vairagya Shatakam

Vairagya Shatakam is one of the best books that gives the true picture of Renunciation. The book talks on how a common man gets lured by the endless desires which when satisfied fetches him nothing but the desires...

Uday Sagar 1 hour 52 minutes

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General Fiction

448

Charles Knight - Mind Amongst the Spindles

Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest...

MaryAnn 8 hours 15 minutes

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Emily Dickinson - Poems: Series Two

«The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness...

Laura Atkinson 1 hour 40 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Olive Beaupre Miller - Up One Pair of Stairs of My Bookhouse

Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the second volume of the «My Bookhouse» series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited...

Emily Jones and 28 more 9 hours 45 minutes My Bookhouse Series

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Omar Khayyám - Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur

In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This edition contains 878 quatrains, and represents the most extensive translation of...

Algy Pug and 6 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

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Hervey Allen - Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy , which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess ....

Laurie Anne Walden 1 hour 52 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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George Gascoigne - Adventures of Master F.J.

This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married woman named Elinor, lady of the castle he is visiting in Scotland. Events in...

Grant Hurlock 3 hours 38 minutes

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Short Poetry Collection 110

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2012.

April Gonzales and 12 more 1 hour 31 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Sæmund Sigfusson - Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this work both the Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of...

Becky Cook and 7 more 9 hours 14 minutes

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Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde

Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime...

Kevin Johnson 7 hours 47 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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