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Epistolary Fiction

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Jean Webster - Dear Enemy

Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs . The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's college mate in Daddy-Long-Legs . Among the recipients of...

Kymm Zuckert and 8 more 6 hours 32 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Leo Tolstoy - Childhood

Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediate notice among...

Hugh McGuire and 7 more 4 hours 6 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Bliss Carman - Vagabond Song

LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen different recordings of A Vagabond Song, by Bliss Carman, to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 24th, 2006.

Andrea L and 14 more 14 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Mark Twain - Chapters from my Autobiography

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but...

John Greenman 10 hours 35 minutes

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Poetry

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Ernest Fenollosa - Cathay

The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any...

Alan Davis Drake 41 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Call of the Wild

In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a trainer of sled dogs in Alaska. He adapts to the brutal conditions and is...

Gord Mackenzie and 3 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Poetry

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Caedmon - Caedmon's Hymn

Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art of song, Cædmon learned to compose one night in the course of a dream. Cædmon’s only known...

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King James Version

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King James Version (KJV) - Bible (KJV) 17: Esther

Esther appears in the Bible as a woman of deep piety, faith, courage, patriotism, and caution, combined with resolution; a dutiful daughter to her adopted father, docile and obedient to his counsels, and anxious to...

Esther 32 minutes

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Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Animals & Nature

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Anna Sewell - Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an...

Kara Shallenberg and 18 more 6 hours 15 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacked...

Hugh McGuire and 8 more 8 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Unknown - Beowulf

Beowulf. [Translated by Francis Barton Gummere].This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who...

Kara Shallenberg and 6 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

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John Greenleaf Whittier - Barbara Frietchie

This was the weekly poem for Flag Day 2006. It tells the largely-apocryphal but nonetheless inspiring story of one old woman’s act of patriotism during a Confederate advance in the civil war. (summary by LauraFox)

Kristin Hughes and 3 more 13 minutes

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