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Ingersoll Lockwood - 1900 or The Last President

The year is 1896. The United States is rocked by the election of an unlikely president. On election night, riots broke out in the streets of New York. The city was paralyzed with dread. Mobs organized under the lead...

CJ Plogue 1 hour 13 minutes

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Poetry

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Rudyard Kipling - Before Edgehill Fight

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Before Edgehill Fight by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7, 2019. — A real and down to earth poem about a the Battle of Edgehill. —...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 22 minutes

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Romance

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C. J. Dennis - Digger Smith

“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and with “ANZAC eyes”… what a later war would call “The Thousand Yard Stare”....

Son of the Exiles 1 hour 24 minutes

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Science

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Margaret Warner Morley - Seed-Babies

Seed Babies piques the child's interest about how seeds grow. It provides interesting information about seeds in a conversational style between two brothers and the various seeds they encounter. These seeds offer...

SweetHome 1 hour 20 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Golden Day

LibriVox volunteers bring you recordings of A Golden Day by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 31, 2019. — A delightful little poem describing what it feels like to greet a...

Bruce Kachuk and 18 more 30 minutes

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Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1

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James Frazer - Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1

The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discussion on the belief in sympathetic and contagious magic, magical influence on...

Leon Harvey 1 hour 8 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Love's Language

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Love's Language, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 17, 2019. — One of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's most beautiful and passionate...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 40 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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George Parsons Lathrop - Voice of the Void

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Voice of the Void by George Parsons Lathrop. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 17, 2019. — George Parsons Lathrop was an American poet, novelist,...

Bruce Kachuk and 21 more 23 minutes

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War & Military

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Smedley Butler - War Is a Racket

Army Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being...

John Greenman 1 hour

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Burns Wilson - It Is in Winter That We Dream of Spring

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of It Is in Winter That We Dream of Spring by Robert Burns Wilson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 10, 2019. — Robert Burns Wilson was an American...

Bruce Kachuk and 22 more 28 minutes

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Poetry

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Sara Teasdale - Flame and Shadow, Version 2

A collection of poetry by American poet Sara Teasdale. Her lyrical poems of love, nature's beauty, and death were much loved during the early nineteenth century. — Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker

AnnaLisa Bodtker 1 hour 10 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Castle-Builder

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Castle-Builder by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and...

Bruce Kachuk and 19 more 25 minutes

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