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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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Short Stories

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Anna Katharine Green - Thief

At a dinner party, a valuable coin is lost while being passed around among the guests to look at. One of the gentlemen insists to empty his pockets to the host to free himself of all suspicion, and the other gentlemen...

Crln Yldz Ksr 52 minutes

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Letters from Victorian Pioneers

A series of letters on the early occupation of the colony, the Aborigines, etc addressed by Victorian pioneers to his Excellency Charles Joseph La Trobe Esq., Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony of Victoria in response...

Beth Thomas and 15 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat

Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth was flat. How? And why? That is what this beguiling tale of Kipling's sets...

Tony Addison 1 hour 55 minutes

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Poetry

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Theodosia Garrison - Dreamers and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by New Jersey poet Theodosia Garrison. Ms. Garrison was a friend of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's, and attained a high level of popularity during her life time. — Summary by Carolin

aishah143 and 8 more 1 hour 17 minutes

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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Dark Month

This is a sequence of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The poems were written in 1881, during the one month in which his seven year old neighbor, Herbert (Bertie) Mason was away.Swinburne describes in 31 poems his...

Larry Wilson and 4 more 50 minutes

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Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing - Verses for Children

This is a volume of verses by JHG Ewing. Ms. Ewing was best known as an author of short stories and fairy tales, but this is a volume of rhymes for children. — Summary by Carolin

BettyB and 15 more 2 hours 59 minutes

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Poetry

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Bliss Carman - Songs from Vagabondia

This is the famous collection «Songs from Vagabondia», a collaboration between Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, which at once catapulted both poets to extensive fame. The poems in this volume are widely read until...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 1 hour 15 minutes

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Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, perhaps, the most completely lovable of the great masters. It is hard,...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Richard Strauss

There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters… If “Salome” and “Elektra”, “Ein...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowded life. He was only slightly less prolific a composer than such masters as...

David Wales 1 hour 29 minutes

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Stories of Don Quixote : written anew for young people

Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Stories of Don Quixote : written anew for young people

The romance entitled «The Achievements of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha,» was originally written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in the 17th century. It has been read and enjoyed by men...

Aaron M. Lebowitz and 3 more 4 hours 40 minutes

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