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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 023

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 10 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now,...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 16 more 20 minutes

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Poetry

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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Poetry

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James Weldon Johnson - O Southland!

In celebration of Juneteenth , LibriVox volunteers bring you five different versions of O Southland! , by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poetry project for 18 June 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 9 minutes

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Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!

In honor of President’s Day, LibriVox brings you thirteen versions of O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. This classic poem was written by Whitman following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. It appears in...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 24 minutes

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Robert Stanley Weir - O Canada!

In celebration of Canada Day , 2006, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of O Canada! . If you prefer English or French, spoken or sung, you will find a version that suits you here! This was the...

Andrew Miller and 6 more 10 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if...

Greg and 5 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “horrid” gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror —...

Kara Shallenberg and 17 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Robert Frost - North of Boston

One of the first collections of poetry by Robert Frost, published in 1914. (Summary written by Gesine) Contents (with beginning time): Part 1 Mending Wall (00:01:20) The Death of the Hired Man...

Brad Bush 1 hour 46 minutes

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James Weldon Johnson - Mother Night

Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night , by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week of 2/26/2006) was selected to celebrate Black History Month. (Summary by...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 14 more 17 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 novel by an American writer Jean Webster, written in the form of letters. It follows the protagonist, a young girl named Jerusha “Judy” Abbott, through her college years. She writes the...

Betsie Bush and 2 more 3 hours 37 minutes

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Satire

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Aldous Huxley - Crome Yellow

Crome Yellow , published in 1921 was Aldous Huxley’s first novel. In it he satirizes the fads and fashions of the time. It is the witty story of a house party at ‘Crome’ where there is a gathering of bright young...

Martin Clifton 6 hours 6 minutes

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