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Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!

In honor of President’s Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. This classic poem was written by Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It appears in...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Stanley Weir - O Canada!

In celebration of Canada Day , 2006, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of O Canada! . If you prefer English or French, spoken or sung, you will find a version that suits you here! This was the...

Andrew Miller and 6 more 10 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if...

Greg and 5 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror —...

Kara Shallenberg and 17 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Poetry

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Robert Frost - North of Boston

One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914. (Summary written by Gesine) Contents (with beginning time): Part 1 Mending Wall (00:01:20) The Death of the Hired Man...

Brad Bush 1 hour 46 minutes

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Poetry

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James Weldon Johnson - Mother Night

Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night , by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of 2/26/2006) was selected to celebrate Black History Month. (Summary by...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 14 more 17 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, through her college years. She writes the...

Betsie Bush and 2 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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Satire

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Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow , published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at ‘Crome’ where there is a gathering of bright young...

Martin Clifton 6 hours 6 minutes

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General Fiction

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Sarah Orne Jewett - Country of the Pointed Firs

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achievement.” Despite James’s diminutives, the novel remains a classic. Because...

Betsie Bush and 8 more 4 hours 25 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Joaquin Miller - Columbus

This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 8th, 2006.

Andrea L and 5 more 14 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

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Herbert Allen Giles - China and the Chinese

Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor of Chinese. His published works cover Chinese language and literature,...

David Barnes 4 hours 29 minutes

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On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

Medical

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Joseph Lister - On the Antiseptic Principle of the Practice of Surgery

Joseph Lister was born near London in 1827. He studied medicine at the University of London and pursued a career as a surgeon in Scotland. He became professor of Surgery in Glasgow and later (1877) at Kings College...

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