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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Wreck of the Hesperus

LibriVox volunteers bring you ten recordings of «The Wreck of the Hesperus” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,the Fortnightly Poem for August 31, 2014. May we each be spared from the wreck of pride on the reef of Norman's...

Beth Thomas and 9 more 46 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Mountain Song

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine recordings of «Mountain Song” by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The Weekly Poem for August 31, 2014 takes us up to the mountain heights of Norway. (Summary by MaryAnn)

James Koss and 8 more 16 minutes

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James Berry - My Experiences as an Executioner

From 1884 until 1891, James Berry was an executioner. In this time he carried out 131 hangings. In this memoir he writes about the methods he used, and the final moments of some of those he executed. — Summary by...

ashleighjane 4 hours 5 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Thornton W. Burgess - Old Granny Fox

Old Granny Fox and grandson Reddy Fox must use all their cunning to hunt up enough food to survive the long winter. Food in the Green Meadow is scarce but Farmer Brown's hens are locked up tight and protected by...

Rosslyn Carlyle and 3 more 2 hours 45 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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F. Anstey - Bayard from Bengal

The estimable gentleman, Chunder Bindabun Bhosh, ESQ., B.A., travels from his native India to England, with his impeccable English and manners, which immediately mark him as a foreigner, and embarks on an enviable...

Don W. Jenkins 2 hours 17 minutes

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Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (version 2)

Life Sciences

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Charles Darwin - Origin Of Species by Means of Natural Selection (version 2)

This is the 6th and last edition of «On The Origin of Species» with all additions and corrections, often considered the Definitive Edition.

Michael Armenta 23 hours 44 minutes

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Family Life

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Olive Wadsley - Almond-Blossom

At the beginning of the story, Tony and Fay had lost a child. One day, Tony saves a little girl, Doro, from drowning. He and Fay end up adopting Doro. Soon after this, Fay discovers that she is with-child. She gives...

mlcui 8 hours 53 minutes

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Ancient

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Marcus Tullius Cicero - On the Ends of Good and Evil

On the Ends of Good and Evil (Latin: DE FINIBUS BONORUM ET MALORUM) discusses Skeptic, Epicurean, Stoic, Peripatetic and Academic views on the good life. Written by Marcus Tullius Cicero. Translated by Harris Rackham....

Geoffrey Edwards 8 hours 6 minutes

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Lyric

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Helen Waddell - Lyrics from the Chinese

Thirty-six short Chinese poems from the 12th to the 7th Century B.C. are translated into English by Irish Poet Helen Waddell. Summary by MaryAnn.

MaryAnn 42 minutes

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Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches

Technology & Engineering

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Unknown - Invention And Discovery: Curious Facts And Characteristic Sketches

«In this little volume are brought together a number of sketches and memoranda, illustrating the history of discovery, and the lives and labours of inventors and explorers, not of our own country alone, but of others,...

David Wales 4 hours 37 minutes

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Astronomy, Physics & Mechanics

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Walter Kellogg Towers - Masters of Space

This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the...

Mark and 9 more 5 hours 55 minutes

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Crafts & Hobbies

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Arthur Gray - Little Tea Book

After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their figures to prove that other fruits of the soil—agriculturally and...

Rosslyn Carlyle and 6 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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