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Drama

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Alfred Noyes - Rada; A Belgian Christmas Eve

This is not heart warming holiday fare. It is a short (one-act) unsubtle antiwar play by the English poet Alfred Noyes (1880-1958), published in 1915 while World War I is in progress. Part of the work is in verse....

David Wales 56 minutes

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Poetry

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Edward Dyson - Bush Debate

In 1892, two of Australia's best poets came up with a scheme to make some money. They arranged to have an argument in the Weekly Bulletin, and since they were being paid by the word, this let them fire back and...

Timothy Ferguson and 3 more 1 hour 11 minutes

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Memoirs

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Venture Smith - Life and Adventures of Venture

Venture Smith (1729–1805) was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. His history was documented...

Bill Boerst 56 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Paul Laurence Dunbar - He Had His Dream

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of He Had His Dream by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 14, 2013. Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first African-American to gain...

Algy Pug and 17 more 21 minutes

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Selections from The Army and Navy Hymnal, Volume 2

Music

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Selections from The Army and Navy Hymnal, Volume 2

This collection was a joint effort by the chaplains of the US Army and the Navy to meet the needs of divine services conducted in the Army and Navy, and for, in the compilers' words, «the upbuilding of patriotic...

Maria Kasper and 9 more 1 hour 3 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - Afternoon in July

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 7, 2013. Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was...

Maishwarya and 13 more 30 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Jean de La Fontaine - Old Man and the Ass

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the text.) This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2013. Jean de La...

Maishwarya and 7 more 9 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Thomas Hardy - In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of «In Time Of The Breaking Of Nations» by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 30, 2013. Written during the First World War, this is a poem about...

7 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Percy M. Turner - Van Dyck

A biography and critique of Van Dyck in The Masterpieces in Colour series. The Plates of the paintings are fully described and the artistic periods in his life's work are given as well as his place in history....

Susan Morin 1 hour 19 minutes

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Romance

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Francis Hopkinson Smith - Little Gray Lady

As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great mistake she has made so long ago. This year, however, things are to play out...

Crln Yldz Ksr 41 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Cullen Bryant - Midsummer

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Midsummer by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 23, 2013. This poem taken from the Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant, Household...

Dean McCollaum and 14 more 18 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Kenneth McGaffey - Mollie of the Movies

This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He writes in an epistolary style and gives us a comic, slice-of-life look at a...

Amanda Friday 1 hour

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