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Will Carleton - Goin' Home To-Day

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. «What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer,...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 24 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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John Clare - Insects

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 19 minutes

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War & Military

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Richard Wayne Lykes - Campaign For Petersburg

In the American Civil War the Union victory in the ten-month campaign for the city of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864-March 1865), led directly to the surrender of the Confederacy within two weeks. This 1970 National...

David Wales 1 hour 24 minutes

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Religion

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Henry van Dyke - What Peace Means

This is a collection of three sermons by Henry van Dyke, dealing with the subject of peace in the immediate aftermath of World War I. As peace has not been forthcoming, the sermons are still timely until today. —...

Tom Penn and 1 more 51 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Richard Harding Davis - Spy

Mr. Crosby is a high-ranking official known to be often entrusted with secret government missions. But when he finds himself in Valencia, that's entirely an accident and has nothing to do with any such mission at all....

Crln Yldz Ksr 54 minutes

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Poetry

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Emile Verhaeren - Sunlit Hours

The Sunlit Hours [ Les Heures Claires ] is a volume of very personal poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren. The poetry in this volume is dedicated to his wife, celebrating their relationship with beautiful poetry of...

Sonia and 3 more 39 minutes

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Eleven years a drunkard, or, The life of Thomas Doner: having lost both arms through intemperance, he wrote this book with his teeth as a warning to others

Biography & Autobiography

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Thomas Doner - Eleven years a drunkard, or, The life of Thomas Doner: having lost both arms through intemperance, he wrote this book with his teeth as a warning to others

He tells of the shame, misery and pain which alcohol brought on him, and will bring to anyone whosoever be tempted by the pleasant feeling it produces at the time of drinking. It doesn't bring one home to shelter but...

Curt Walton 1 hour 29 minutes

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Single author

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Gerald Bullett - Mice & Other Poems

Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature. «Mice & Other Poems»...

John Burlinson 33 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 160

This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2016.

Shakira Searle and 10 more 53 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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George Pope Morris - Song of the Sewing-Machine

George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris's songs, «which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are...

Bruce Kachuk and 5 more 12 minutes

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Robert F. Murray - Summer Morning

He was young in years, and younger in heart, a lover of youth; and youth, if it could learn and could be warned, might win a lesson from his life. Many of us have trod in his path, and, by some kindness of fate, have...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 13 minutes

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 07, Dec. 16, 1879

Short Stories

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 07, Dec. 16, 1879

Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft...

A LibriVox Volunteer and 6 more 1 hour 18 minutes Harper's Young People

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