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Children's Fiction

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Francis P. Church - Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

«Is There A Santa Claus?» was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun . The editorial, which included the response of «Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa...

Alex Rudinski and 7 more 32 minutes

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Poetry

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William Butler Yeats - Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven , by William Butler Yeats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 10th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 8 more 7 minutes

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Bibles

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World English Bible - Bible (WEB) NT 09: Galatians

The Epistle to Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. It is principally...

22 minutes

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Satire

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Mark Twain - Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences

Fenimore Cooper — author of The Deerslayer , The Last of the Mohicans , etc — has often been praised, but just as often been criticised for his writing. Mark Twain wrote a funny, vicious little essay on the...

32 minutes

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Poetry

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Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection

This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Christmas website, a public-domain collection of Christmas music containing...

Douglas D. Anderson 1 hour 27 minutes

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Poetry

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William Blake - Tiger

LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of The Tiger , by William Blake. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 3rd, 2006.

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 16 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Anonymous - Eirik the Red's Saga

In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson's discovery of Vinland the Good (a place where wheat and grapes grew naturally), after his longboat...

Julian Jamison 1 hour 7 minutes

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Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie

Children's Fiction

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie

This is a selection of the fairy tales (in English) written by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm in the early 19th Century. These stories are fantastical and although aimed squarely at the flexible mind...

Carmie 33 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Extracts from Adam's Diary

Get the true story of Adam and Eve, straight from the source. This humorous text is a day-to-day account of Adam’s life from happiness in the “GARDEN-OF-EDEN” to their fall from grace and the events thereafter. Learn...

Mr. Baby Man 24 minutes

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Short Stories

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Katherine Mansfield - At the Bay

Katherine Mansfield was prominent Modernist writer of short fiction. This a ninety minute story from her collection of The Garden Party.

Lucy Burgoyne 1 hour 29 minutes

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Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams

Single author

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William Carlos Williams - Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams

Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was born in Puerto Rico. He attended public school in Rutherford until 1897,...

Alan Davis Drake 54 minutes

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Poetry

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George Gordon, Lord Byron - When We Two Parted

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of When We Two Parted , by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 26th, 2006.

Clayton J. Smith and 8 more 12 minutes

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