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Political Science

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D. W. Griffith - Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America was D.W. Griffith's first response to the attacks made on The Birth of a Nation . In it he played on the 'intolerance' of those who would not permit him freedom of speech...

Chuck Williamson 1 hour 8 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Emily Dickinson - There's a certain slant of light

In tribute to the first real snowfall this year. — Summary by David Lawrence

David Lawrence and 16 more 17 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Thomas Hood - I Remember, I Remember

«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...

Claudia Salto and 9 more 17 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Nikolai Leskov - Steel Flea

An 1881 comic story by Nikolai Leskov, presented in the form of a traditional skaz or folk-tale, but entirely of Leskov's invention. It tells the story of a left-handed Russian artisan required to impress Tsar Nikolas...

Expatriate 1 hour 16 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold

Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life composed several volumes of poetry, writing many poems which are still...

Gilles G. Le Blanc and 5 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 132

This is a collection of 19 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2014.

Malcolm Fisher and 12 more 35 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Modern

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James Allen - As a Man Thinketh (version 3)

The burgeoning conflict between science and organized religion in the Nineteenth Century had many cultural offshoots, one of the most significant of which was the New Thought movement. New Thought exponents sought to...

Algy Pug 53 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Walter Savage Landor - Poet Who Sleeps

LibriVox readers bring you 13 versions of The Poet Who Sleeps by Walter Savage Landor. This was the weekly poetry project for December 1, 2013.

Algy Pug and 12 more 15 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Clement Clarke Moore - Old Santeclaus

Clement Clarke Moore (July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863) was an American Professor of Oriental and Greek Literature, as well as Divinity and Biblical Learning, at the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant...

Claudia Salto and 9 more 20 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edmund Gosse - Train of Life

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine readings of The Train of Life by Edmund Gosse. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 28th, 2014.

Bryony Ford and 8 more 10 minutes

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Single author

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William Wordsworth - Recluse

In the prefatory advertisement to the First Edition of the Prelude, 1850, it is stated that that poem was designed to be introductory to the Recluse, and that the Recluse, if completed, would have consisted of three...

Andrea Fiore 47 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Guy Wetmore Carryl - Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2)

Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine's original writings. The Aesop-style fables are written in verse,...

Phil Chenevert 47 minutes

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