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G. K. Chesterton - Ballade of Suicide

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Ballade of Suicide by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 20, 2012. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer. He published...

Algy Pug and 17 more 38 minutes

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Poetry

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William Butler Yeats - Wild Swans at Coole

The Wild Swans at Coole is a collection of poems by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1917. It is also the name of a poem in that collection. The Wild Swans at Coole is in the «middle stage» of Yeats' writing...

Nicole Lee 1 hour 1 minute

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Science Fiction

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Harry Harrison - Arm of the Law

A quiet backwater outpost on Mars gets a surprise in the form of a new police recruit — in a box! Yep, it's a prototype robot cop sent to the backwater station for testing. And Harrison tells the strange, funny and...

Phil Chenevert 41 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Owen Wister - New Swiss Family Robinson

A parody of its famous predecessor, this short piece was written by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon (Summary by David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 28 minutes

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Poetry

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James Whitcomb Riley - There Was a Cherry-Tree

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 13, 2012. Riley began his career writing verses as a sign maker and...

Amy Gramour and 17 more 21 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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August Strindberg - Ghost Sonata

The Ghost Sonata (Spöksonaten) is a play in three acts by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. Written in 1907, it was first produced at Strindberg's Intimate Theatre in Stockholm on 21 January 1908… The Ghost Sonata...

1 hour 24 minutes

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Comedy

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Charles Dickens - Strange Gentleman

Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts”. Characters arrive at a village inn called “The St. James Arms” and much...

1 hour 18 minutes

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Poetry

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Travels by the Fireside

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Travels by the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and...

doonaboon and 21 more 42 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Emily Dickinson - Safe in their Alabaster Chambers

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Safe in their Alabaster Chambers by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 6, 2012. Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a...

Algy Pug and 17 more 18 minutes

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Anthologies

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30 American Poems

This is a sequel of sorts to 37 American Poems, one of my first solos. Concentration here is on late 19th to early 20th Century works by US poets. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

Bellona Times 1 hour 15 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 108

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2012.

Rafael Phoenix Blayze and 12 more 51 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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Amy Levy - London Plane-Tree and Other Verse

Amy Levy was a British poet and novelist who is celebrated for her feminist positions and her engagement with homosexual romance during the Victorian era. Levy wrote stories, essays, and poems for periodicals, some...

James K. White and 1 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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