Ben Adams

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War & Military

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Randolph Silliman Bourne - Untimely Papers

This is a posthumous collection of essays by Randolph Bourne. Many originally appeared in the journal «The Seven Arts,» before the controversial end to its run. Also included is the unfinished manuscript of «The...

Ben Adams 5 hours 5 minutes

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No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes

Health & Fitness

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Rupert H. Wheldon - No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes

Though little is known about its author, this is considered the first vegan cookbook ever written. At the time of its composition, the Vegetarian Society and other advocates of vegetarian diets were engaged in a...

Ben Adams 3 hours 38 minutes

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Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

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Ralph Chaplin - Bars and Shadows: The Prison Poems of Ralph Chaplin

Ralph Chaplin and many other prominent members of the Industrial Workers of the World were imprisoned under the Espionage Act of 1917 as the United States entered World War I. As with Socialist presidential candidate...

Ben Adams 1 hour 12 minutes

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Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems

Published 1900 onward

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Sherwood Anderson - Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems

“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous “Winesburg, Ohio,” the author adopts a variety of perspectives and settings...

Ben Adams 7 hours 7 minutes

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Political Science

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Woodrow Wilson - New Freedom

The book is not a discussion of measures or of programs. It is an attempt to express the new spirit of our politics and to set forth, in large terms which may stick in the imagination, what it is that must be done if...

Ben Adams 5 hours 42 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 060

LibriVox readers bring you 20 short stories in various genres by authors including Edna Ferber, Charlotte Brontë, Stephan Crane, W. Somerset Maugham, Lord Dunsany, Saki and Honoré de Balzac.

Ben Adams and 10 more 8 hours 44 minutes Short Story Collections

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 137

This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2014.

Winston Tharp and 9 more 40 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Walt Whitman - O Captain! My Captain!

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of «O Captain! My Captain!» This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014. «O Captain! My Captain!» is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt...

Ben Adams and 17 more 36 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Hutchins Hapgood - Autobiography of a Thief

I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary. For several weeks I was not particularly interested in him. He was full of a desire to...

Ben Adams 6 hours 14 minutes

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Sports & Recreation

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John Cameron - Association Football and How to Play It

An overview of the positions, tactics, and history of association football written by one of the game's early stars. John Cameron was a most interesting figure who played for both Everton and Tottenham, was a P.O.W....

Ben Adams 1 hour 58 minutes

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War & Military

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Visit to Three Fronts: June 1916

In the course of May 1916, the Italian authorities expressed a desire that some independent observer from Great Britain should visit their lines and report his impressions. It was at the time when our brave and...

Mike Pelton and 2 more 1 hour 35 minutes

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Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Wilkie Collins - Rogue's Life

"[T]he story offers the faithful reflection of a very happy time in my past life. It was written at Paris, when I had Charles Dickens for a near neighbor and a daily companion, and when my leisure hours were...

acousticwave and 9 more 5 hours 12 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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