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Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Abraham60 and 9 more 28 minutes

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Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

Children's Fiction

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Aesop - Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question...

Kristin LeMoine and 12 more 28 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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L. Leslie Brooke - Johnny Crow's Garden

A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book featuring Johnny Crow who made a garden in which a variety of animals do bizarre things in rhyme.Listen to the audio while you view the pictures on gutenberg.org...

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Carl Sandburg - Jazz Fantasia

As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is central, but not so clearly defined, so we had to play around and improvise....

Alan Davis Drake and 16 more 27 minutes

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Poetry

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John McCrae - In Flanders Fields

Librivox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Field , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Gord Mackenzie and 6 more 8 minutes

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Poetry

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Rudyard Kipling - If

Librivox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion poll in 1995. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 16 more 38 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

This was the weekly poetry project for 14 May 2006. Spring’s flowers come and go all too quickly, but Wordsworth’s classic poem reminds us that their blessings last.

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 8 more 13 minutes

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Poetry

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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton - I Do Not Love Thee

Librivox volunteers bring you twenty different readings of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton’s I Do Not Love Thee , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

AliceG and 19 more 36 minutes

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Poetry

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Walt Whitman - Noiseless Patient Spider

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 11 minutes

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Satire

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Jonathan Swift - Modest Proposal

Jonathan Swift almost defines satire in this biting and brutal pamphlet in which he suggests that poor (Catholic) Irish families should fatten up their children and sell them to the rich (Protestant) land owners,...

24 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Stamp Act Congress - Declaration of Rights

On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeting was to be held in New York City in October. Representatives...

4 minutes

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Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

*Non-fiction

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Thomas Jefferson - Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

Declaration of Independence is the document in which the Thirteen Colonies declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain and explained their justifications for doing so. It was ratified by the...

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