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441

Edgar A. Guest - Workman's Dream

Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 in Birmingham, England – 5 August 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 14 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

459

Michael Field - July

Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 16 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

455

Richard Harding Davis - Outside the Prison

On Christmas Eve, journalist Bronson is sent to wait outside of Moyamensing Prison to report on the release of a certain infamous prisoner. His case had gotten a lot of attention, so the paper wants a man on the spot....

Crln Yldz Ksr 49 minutes

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Poetry

469

Herbert Allen Giles - Chinese Poetry in English Verse (古今詩選)

Dear Land of Flowers, forgive me! — that I took These snatches from thy glittering wealth of song, And twisted to the uses of a book Strains that to alien harps can na'er belong. Thy gems shine purer in...

MaryAnn 18 minutes

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Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers

Plays

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Charles Macklin - Will and No Will or a Bone for the Lawyers

This «Afterpiece» — a short play to follow a main production — was first produced in 1746. It was based on Regnard's five-act comedy le Legetaire Universel (1707), which is itself a composite of Italian comedy with...

1 hour 28 minutes

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Historical Fiction

481

Amice MacDonell - Saxon and Norman

Edward the Confessor is very weak and will die soon. But with no son to succeed him, who will gain the throne? The common folk and loyal Saxon barons in England want Harold, while the Norman barons and the people in...

1 hour 7 minutes

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Poetry

399

Short Poetry Collection 146

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2015.

Newgatenovelist and 12 more 1 hour 10 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

583

Charlotte Brontë - Emma: A Fragment of a Story

Miss Mabel Wilcox, the owner of a newly opened girl's boarding school, meets the wealthy Mr. Conway Fitzgibbon, who drops off his frail daughter to be educated there. When background checks are made, it is discovered...

Oxenhandler and 1 more 43 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edgar Allan Poe - Lake

Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the...

Bruce Kachuk and 15 more 23 minutes

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Children's Fiction

449

Eulalie Osgood Grover - Kittens and Cats: A Book of Tales

This book consists of fifty-two very short fictitious stories about cats and kittens, which have been written for children. Many of the stories have been written by cats and address the queen, many of them are...

Rosslyn Carlyle 34 minutes

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Tragedy

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Sophocles - Electra (Storr Translation)

Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was...

Expatriate 1 hour 28 minutes

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Poetry

427

Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound (Browning Translation)

Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, «Prometheus Bound» is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces...

Expatriate 1 hour 9 minutes

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