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Biography & Autobiography

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Hamilton Wright Mabie - Mentor: Famous English Poets

This is Vol. 1, No. 44, Serial No. 44 of The Mentor, published in 1913. This edition of the Mentor Magazine focuses on six of England's most well-known poets — Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Shelley, William...

Larry Wilson and 3 more 54 minutes The Mentor

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Animals

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William T. Hornaday - Mentor: Game Animals of America

This is Vol. 4, No. 13, Serial No. 113 of The Mentor, published Aug 15, 1916. This edition of the Mentor Magazine is devoted to big game animals in North America. There is an emphasis on preservation of these...

Larry Wilson and 4 more 1 hour 6 minutes The Mentor

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Elegies & Odes

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John Donne - Anniversary Poems

Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of the created universe. In «An Anatomy of the World: The First Anniversary,» he...

Thomas A. Copeland 1 hour 10 minutes

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Fantasy Fiction

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E. E. Smith - Lord Tedric (version 2)

The best of science fantasy meets the best of science fiction as Tedric battles his way through two universes of adventure: In one universe...Tedric the Ironmaster wields the mightiest sword his world has ever seen...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 22 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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James Whitcomb Riley - In The Dark

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively....

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 21 minutes

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Bibles

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Young's Literal Translation - Bible (YLT) 22: Song of Solomon

The Song of Songs, also known as the Song of Solomon, the Canticle of Canticles, or simply Canticles, is one of the books of the Ketuvim (the «Writings», the last section of the Hebrew Bible), and the fifth of the...

22 minutes Bible (Youngs Literal Translation)

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Single author

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Rainer Maria Rilke: Poems

A selection of poems by this renowned German poet. — Summary by Peter Tucker

Peter Tucker 46 minutes

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Science Fiction

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Donald Wandrei - Raiders of the Universes

It was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeared. They were indeed Raiders of Universes because they had ravaged many...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 2 minutes

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Science Fiction

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E. E. Smith - Tedric

This is a wonderful combination of far future science fiction with Conan like sword and sorcery; lots of blood, gore, honor and evil. The immensely powerful hero, Tedric, is a man's man who refuses to accept the cruel...

Phil Chenevert 53 minutes

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Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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E. Louise Smythe - Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children

This is a book of simple, classic stories for beginning readers. It is included in Year 1 of the Ambleside reading list. There are short lists of reading words on each page, and these have been read by a child. —...

Sarah Jennings 1 hour 2 minutes

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On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

Political Science

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Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (Version 3)

«That government is best which governs least» is the famous opening line of this essay. The slavery crisis inflamed New England in the 1840s and 1850s. The environment became especially tense after the Fugitive Slave...

Phil Chenevert 1 hour 7 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Thomas Hood - Poacher, A Serious Ballad

There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent...

Chris Pyle and 7 more 22 minutes

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