Chuck Williamson

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

418

Vachel Lindsay - Golden Book of Springfield

The Golden Book of Springfield is American poet Vachel Lindsay's strange and mystical odyssey through the Springfield, Illinois of 2018, where the residents of that city strive to turn their home into a democratic...

Chuck Williamson 9 hours 22 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

521

Ernest Vincent Wright - Gadsby

Fifty-year-old John Gadsby is alarmed by the decline of his hometown, Branton Hills, and rallies the city's young people to form an «Organization of Youth» to build civic spirit and improve living standards. Gadsby...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 6 hours 10 minutes

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Memoirs

480

Alexander Berkman - Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist

In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Clay Frick. This was a retaliatory act meant to incite revolution against those who had...

Kwame Genov and 16 more 14 hours 57 minutes

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Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

Culture & Heritage Fiction

460

Songling Pu - Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio, Volume 2

«Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio» or «Strange Tales of Liaozhai» is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical...

Nick J. Gold and 18 more 9 hours 50 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

397

Joseph Conrad - Inheritors

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It looks at society's mental evolution and what is gained and lost in the process....

John Burlinson and 4 more 7 hours 10 minutes

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Poetry

448

Short Poetry Collection 165

This is a collection of 28 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2017.

Ian King and 11 more 1 hour 12 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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David Wark Griffith: A Brief Sketch of His Career

Biography & Autobiography

407

Robert Edgar Long - David Wark Griffith: A Brief Sketch of His Career

An authorized biography of D.W. Griffith, the self-proclaimed «Father of Filmmaking.» Written in collaboration with the director, Robert Edgar Long's biographical sketch traces Griffith's early life, his career as an...

Chuck Williamson and 1 more 4 hours 37 minutes

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Political Science

630

D. W. Griffith - Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America was D.W. Griffith's first response to the attacks made on The Birth of a Nation . In it he played on the 'intolerance' of those who would not permit him freedom of speech...

Chuck Williamson 1 hour 8 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

480

Harry Alan Potamkin - Eyes of the Movie

«The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Impresario, Imperialist.» So begins Harry Alan Potamkin's The Eyes of the...

Chuck Williamson 1 hour 51 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

498

Humorous Ghost Stories

Includes: An introduction by Dorothy Scarborough — The Canterville ghost / by Oscar Wilde — The ghost-extinguisher / by Gelett Burgess — «Dey ain't no ghosts» / by Ellis Parker Butler — The transferred ghost / by...

Madam Fickle and 15 more 10 hours 50 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

439

Short Ghost and Horror Collection 021

A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.

Brendan MacKenzie and 9 more 8 hours 7 minutes Short Ghost and Horror Story Collections

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Education

507

Henry M. Robert - Robert's Rules of Order

Originally written in 1876 by Major Henry M. Robert of the US Army Corps of Engineers, Robert's Rules of Order is the most widely used authority in the United States today for «parliamentary law, based...upon the...

ashleighjane and 6 more 4 hours 19 minutes

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New

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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