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Poetry

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Vachel Lindsay - Congo

The Congo is one of the best-known poems by American poet Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931). It was revolutionary in its use of sounds and rhythms — as sounds and rhythms — and includes elaborate annotations to guide its...

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Friedrich Engels - Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist...

Jon Ingram 1 hour 36 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Gene Stratton-Porter - Michael O'Halloran

The story of a plucky, optimistic newsboy, Michael O’Halloran, who has been orphaned from a young age and asks nothing of the world but to “Be Square!” This is a warm and joyous story of how Michael makes life...

Mary Anderson 14 hours 28 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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James Joyce - Ulysses

NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places...

Hugh McGuire and 12 more 32 hours 39 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Kenneth Grahame - Dream Days

Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 collection The Golden Age (some of its selections feature the same family of five...

Catharine Eastman 4 hours 51 minutes

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Poetry

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William Blake - Voice of the Ancient Bard

Librivox volunteers bring you six different readings of The Voice of the Ancient Bard , by William Blake. This is a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Hugh McGuire and 5 more 6 minutes

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Law

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United States Historical Documents

The Articles of Confederation: On November 15th, 1777 The Articles of Confederation became the first constitution of the United States, though not yet ratified by the thirteen original colonies. Ratification of the...

Michael Scherer 1 hour 22 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Herman Melville - Typee

Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America...

Michael Scherer 11 hours 42 minutes

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Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

Poetry

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Clement Clarke Moore - Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

Librivox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore's 'Twas the Night Before Christmas , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 32 minutes

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Romance

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Joseph Bédier - Tristan and Iseult

This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in tragedy. This story predates that of Lancelot and Guinevere, and is one of the...

Joy Chan 2 hours 40 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of «buccaneers and buried gold.» Traditionally considered a coming of age story, it is an adventure tale of superb atmosphere, character and action, and also a...

Mark Bradford and 12 more 7 hours 29 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Mark Twain - Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (published 1876) is a very well-known and popular story concerning American youth. Mark Twain's lively tale of the scrapes and adventures of boyhood is set in St. Petersburg, Missouri,...

John Greenman 6 hours 46 minutes

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