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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Stephen Crane - War Is Kind

This weekly poem commemorated the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane. The title takes on a gentle yet harrowing irony as this poem powerfully evokes the...

Alan Davis Drake and 9 more 18 minutes

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Poetry

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Stephen Crane - War Is Kind (Collection)

Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in The Red Badge Of Courage. Unlike that book, this collection leaves the...

29 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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L. Leslie Brooke - Johnny Crow’s Party

A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book. Listen to the narration while you view (on gutenberg.org) a variety of delightful animals doing strange things such as the kangaroo who tried to paint the roses...

3 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frank Gelett Burgess - More Goops and How Not to Be Them

Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess...

24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Sara Teasdale - May Day

To celebrate May Day , LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of May Day , by Sara Teasdale. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 30th, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 5 more 5 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Unknown - Magna Carta

The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content. The text used is the first version in the Gutenberg collection. — Magna Carta is the most significant early...

28 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Spring and Fall

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of Spring and Fall , by Gerard Manley Hopkins. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 12th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 10 more 12 minutes

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Bibles

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World English Bible - Bible (WEB) 32: Jonah

This short narrative book of the Old Testament contains one of the most famous Bible Stories, of “Jonah and the Whale.” The “great fish” however is only mentioned in three verses, and the true punch comes in the...

9 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Epictetus - Enchiridion of Epictetus

Epictetus (Greek: Επίκτητος; c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known — the word epiktetos in Greek simply means «acquired.» Epictetus spent his...

51 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 018

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 018: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Alan Davis Drake and 6 more 26 minutes

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Poetry

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Oscar Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2)

In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor for acts of ‘gross indecency’. During his time at Reading Gaol, he witnessed a rare hanging, and in the three years between his release and his untimely...

42 minutes

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Oscar Wilde - Ballad of Reading Gaol

Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son...

32 minutes

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