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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Frederick Locker-Lampson - To My Grandmother

LibriVox volunteers bring you four different recordings of To My Grandmother , by Frederick Locker-Lampson, in honor of Grandparents' Day. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 10th, 2006.

Christina Zhu and 3 more 10 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell, one of the greatest seduction speeches of all time. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 23th,...

Alan Davis Drake and 10 more 31 minutes

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Action & Adventure

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Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass

Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House. The land is...

Brad Bush and 9 more 3 hours 19 minutes

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Short Stories

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Gustave Flaubert - Three Short Works

Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in 19th century...

David Barnes 3 hours 5 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Wisdom of Father Brown

This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large...

Martin Clifton 7 hours 17 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows (version 2)

This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure… and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters — Mole, Rat, and Toad — generally lead upbeat and happy...

Mark F. Smith 6 hours 47 minutes

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Poetry

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T. S. Eliot - Waste Land

The Waste Land is a highly influential 433-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. It is perhaps the most famous and most written-about long poem of the 20th century, dealing with the decline of civilization and the...

Basil Munroe Godevenos 22 minutes

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General Fiction

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Anthony Trollope - Warden

Amongst the great popular novelists of the nineteenth century who are still read today, Anthony Trollope stands alongside his contemporary, Charles Dickens. His two series of novels, the political (The Pallisers) and...

Andy Minter and 6 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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Science Fiction

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H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells wrote The War of the Worlds in 1898, when there was much speculation about life on the planet Mars. The book is considered to be one of the first science fiction novels. In the story, an English...

Stephan Möbius and 10 more 6 hours 43 minutes

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Poetry

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Village Blacksmith

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of The Village Blacksmith , by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 1st, 2006.

Andrea L and 10 more 26 minutes

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Published before 1800

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Oliver Goldsmith - Vicar of Wakefield

Published in 1766 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £60 on Oliver Goldsmith's behalf by Dr Johnson to enable Goldsmith to pay off...

Martin Clifton 6 hours 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Margery Williams - Velveteen Rabbit (version 2)

This classic story by Margery Williams, published in 1922, imparts the timeless message that toys need not be expensive or modern to be appreciated. Through giving and receiving love, even a commonplace stuffed animal...

22 minutes

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