Claudia Salto

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Harry Chase Brearley - Time Telling Through the Ages

A history of timekeeping from the stone age through to American mass production, covering timepieces from the sundial and water clock through the key inventions driving advances in the accuracy of clocks and watches...

Claudia Salto and 6 more 6 hours 23 minutes

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Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Rudolf Baumbach - Meadow Sprite, and Other Tales of Modern Germany

Gertrude Schottenfels has collected and arranged eleven original tales from Germany in this volume. Ms Schottenfels alternates between stories written by Richard von Volkmann and Rudolf Baumbach, two authors active in...

Greg Giordano and 9 more 2 hours 32 minutes

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Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

Cooking

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Marion Harland - Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how to select and manage servants and organise a dinner party (best engage a good...

Dusty Brailsford and 13 more 15 hours 33 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Joseph Ashby-Sterry - Christmas Duet

Joseph Ashby-Sterry was an English poet and novelist. He works include Boudoir Ballads, a collection of poetry, now out of print. This poem is taken from the 1888 edition of The Lazy Minstrel. — Summary by Wikipedia

Bruce Kachuk and 7 more 24 minutes

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John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death

Fictional Biographies & Memoirs

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Franz von Dingelstedt - John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses and his Death

This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join him in Mayence, where he lives in poverty. We get to know his enemies and his...

Claudia Salto 2 hours 37 minutes

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Short works

477

Laura E. Howe Richards - Three Minute Stories

This is a delightful collection of little stories for little people, just right to be listened to at bed time by a sleepy boy or girl. Some have a moral, some are just fun and some are poems; but all of them are...

mbm0rxi and 19 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Loretta Ellen Brady - Green Forest Fairy Book

This is a volume of original fairy tales by Loretta Ellen Brady. — Summary by Carolin

Peter Yearsley and 9 more 5 hours 49 minutes

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Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

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Cotton Mather - Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches

Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous «Salem Witch Trials». In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls «God's last letter to the people of earth»),...

Michele Fry and 9 more 9 hours 1 minute

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Sam Walter Foss - Poster-Painter's Masterpiece

Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American («Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 38 minutes

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Robert F. Murray - Wasted Day

Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published...

BenBaril and 17 more 22 minutes

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - May Song

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His body of work includes epic and lyric poetry written in a variety of metres and styles; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 23 minutes

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Short works

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Mary Louisa Molesworth - Five Minutes' Stories

This is a collection of short stories for children. Listeners may wish to have a look at the text at Project Gutenberg to see the many illustrations accompanying each story. — Summary by Carolin

Simon Sherriff Allen and 7 more 2 hours 4 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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