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Poetry

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Teika no Fujiwara - One Hundred Verses from Old Japan

In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prized poetry. At one point in his life he compiled the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu...

Kevin Steinbach 49 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - Our Island Story, Part 2

Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history;...

Kara Shallenberg and 1 more 7 hours 49 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall - Our Island Story, Part 1

Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history;...

Kara Shallenberg 8 hours 6 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Stephen Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The...

Esther and 7 more 5 hours 59 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwwelpeter (version 2)

Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a...

17 minutes

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Poetry

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Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwwelpeter

Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a...

21 minutes

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Poetry

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C. S. Lewis - Spirits in Bondage

Spirits in Bondage is C.S. Lewis’s first book and the first of his works to be available in the public domain. It was released in 1919 under the pseudonym of Clive Hamilton and was written in a period of darker...

Robert Garrison 1 hour 17 minutes

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Poetry

575

William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 10 more 2 hours 44 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 073

To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 23rd, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Alys AtteWater and 9 more 12 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 023

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 10 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now,...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 16 more 20 minutes

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Poetry

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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