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Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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E. Louise Smythe - Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lists of reading words on each page, and these have been read by a child. —...

Sarah Jennings 1 hour 2 minutes

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

Political Science

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Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

«That government is best which governs least» is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s and 1850s. The environment became especially tense after the Fugitive Slave...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 7 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Thomas Hood - Poacher, A Serious Ballad

There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent...

Chris Pyle and 7 more 22 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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James McIntyre - Tramp and Fish

James McIntyre, called The Cheese Poet, was a Canadian poet. McIntyre was born in Forres, Scotland and came to Canada in 1841 at the age of 14, finally moving to Ingersoll, Ontario, then a town of 5,000 on the...

David Lawrence and 5 more 8 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Friedrich Schiller - Criminal from Lost Honour

«In the whole history of man there is no chapter more instructive for the heart and mind than the annals of his errors. On the occasion of every great crime a proportionally great force was in motion. If by the pale...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 6 minutes

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Romance

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Richard Harding Davis - Men of Zanzibar

This is the story of Hemingway, who, after a hunting trip in Uganda, settles in Zanzibar for a while to live among the English-speaking expatriate community on that island. While keeping his true identity well to...

Crln Yldz Ksr 1 hour 17 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Matthew Arnold - Lake

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 15 minutes

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Christianity - Other

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Isabella Lilias Trotter - Parables of the Cross

Death is the Gate of Life. There was deep insight in those old words. For man's natural thought of death is that of a dreary ending in decay and dissolution. And from his standpoint he is right: death as the...

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Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs

War & Military

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William Tecumseh Sherman - Sherman’s Military Lessons Of The American Civil War, From His Memoirs

This librivox recording comprises chapter 25 (Conclusion – Military Lessons Of The War) of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs, published in 1875. Sherman was one of the premier generals fighting for...

David Wales 1 hour 11 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Jonathan Swift - On A Shadow In A Glass

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for...

Ann K and 9 more 29 minutes

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Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Thomas Moore - Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of «The Minstrel Boy» and «The Last Rose of Summer». Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 18 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Gregory of Nyssa - Life of Saint Macrina

The poignant biography of Saint Macrina, by her brother, Saint Gregory of Nyssa. (The Reader) “The use of the word «philosophy» to designate Christianity is common in the writings of the fourth century,… It is...

A LibriVox Volunteer 1 hour 14 minutes

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