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Confucius 孔子 - Confucian Analects

The Analects, or Lunyu (simplified Chinese: 论语; traditional Chinese: 論語; pinyin: Lún Yǔ; literally «Classified/Ordered Sayings»), also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts...

Jing Li 5 hours 34 minutes

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Poetry

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Katherine Jewell Everts - Speaking Voice

From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed : «This book offers a method of voice training which is the result of a deliberate effort to simplify and condense, for...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 21 minutes

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Dramatic Readings

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J. S. Fletcher - Orange-Yellow Diamond

A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery. Murder, theft, and love, all the ingredients for a wonderful...

8 hours 18 minutes

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Adventures of Jerry Muskrat (dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Thornton W. Burgess - Adventures of Jerry Muskrat (dramatic reading)

Join us as we follow Jerry Muskrat and his friends on an adventure to discover what is threatening their homeland, Laughing Brook and Smiling Pool. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast: Narration: Marty Kris...

1 hour 59 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 104

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

Rhonda Federman and 21 more 1 hour 44 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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General Fiction

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William Le Queux - Sign of Silence

Edward Royle is the head of a well-known chemical manufacturer in England, which he has inherited. He is engaged to the daughter of his father’s former partner, Phrida Shand, who lives with her mother. One night he...

Tom Weiss 7 hours 7 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Theodore Dreiser - Jennie Gerhardt

This is a story of an innocent, caring, beautiful young girl from and extremely poor family who throughout her life is drawn into affairs with two different men from a much higher social class. How members of her...

Richard Kilmer 14 hours 42 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Barbara Hofland - Barbadoes Girl

Matilda Sophia Hanson, whose father has recently died in their country of Barbadoes in the West Indies, must live for a time with family friends in England. The Harewood family is astonished at how spoiled, rude, and...

Chieko Steely 3 hours 39 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Doctor's Wife

This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the...

Kirsten Wever 18 hours

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Children's Fiction

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Sarah Stuart Robbins - Miss Ashton's New Pupil

Marion Park, the daughter of missionaries, is sent to Miss Ashton's boarding school. There she meets with many young girls and together they learn not just lessons in German, Logic, Arithmetic, Latin and Rhetoric, but...

Abigail Rasmussen 6 hours 10 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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H. P. Nichols - Cloud of Unknowing

The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on...

David Barnes 5 hours 4 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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E. W. Hornung - Mr. Justice Raffles

A. J. Raffles is a British gentleman thief of some renown who, in this, the hero's final adventure, ironically demonstrates a sense of morality by teaching a London East End loan shark a lesson. The book was later...

Cate Barratt 5 hours 28 minutes Arthur J. Raffles

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