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H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds (version 2)

War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number of historical events of the time. The most important of these was the...

Rebecca Dittman 6 hours 35 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Stephen Crane - War Is Kind

This weekly poem commemorated the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane. The title takes on a gentle yet harrowing irony as this poem powerfully evokes the...

Alan Davis Drake and 9 more 18 minutes

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Poetry

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Stephen Crane - War Is Kind (Collection)

Published in 1899, just a year before his death, War Is Kind by Stephen Crane evokes again the dark imagery of war which made his fortune in The Red Badge Of Courage. Unlike that book, this collection leaves the...

29 minutes

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Henry David Thoreau - Walden

Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s life for two years, two months, and two days around the shores of Walden Pond....

Gord Mackenzie 14 hours 18 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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H. Rider Haggard - King Solomon's Mines

King Solomon’s Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan...

John Nicholson 9 hours 51 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Joseph Baudis - Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales

Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roots) of well known fairy tales such as “The Brave Little Taylor” and “Beauty...

Maria Celano and 8 more 3 hours 40 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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L. Leslie Brooke - Johnny Crow’s Party

A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book. Listen to the narration while you view (on gutenberg.org) a variety of delightful animals doing strange things such as the kangaroo who tried to paint the roses...

3 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Frank Gelett Burgess - More Goops and How Not to Be Them

Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess...

24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Sara Teasdale - May Day

To celebrate May Day , LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of May Day , by Sara Teasdale. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 30th, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 5 more 5 minutes

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Unknown - Magna Carta

The original document is in Latin so this can only be a fairly rough approximation of the actual content. The text used is the first version in the Gutenberg collection. — Magna Carta is the most significant early...

28 minutes

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Poetry

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Long Poems Collection 004

Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

Sam Fold and 6 more 1 hour 32 minutes

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William James - Essays in Radical Empiricism

William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psychology, educational psychology, psychology of religious experience and...

Carl Manchester and 7 more 6 hours 45 minutes

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