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Louis Fitzgerald Benson - Best Church Hymns

This 1898 book is the result of a survey of 107 hymn-books. The thirty-two hymns are ranked in order of popularity. The texts in this recording are said only, not sung, along with a few explanatory notes for each hymn...

David Wales 1 hour 37 minutes

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Music

424

Pitts Sanborn - Ludwig Van Beethoven

The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies… I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symphonies virtually intact and have only expanded the work a little by incorporating...

David Wales 1 hour 37 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 154

This is a collection of 35 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2016.

Shakira Searle and 17 more 1 hour 36 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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James Freeman Clarke - Three Essays by James Freeman Clarke

Three diverse essays on souls in animals, a comparison of Buddhism and Christianity, and individualism in religion. Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, James Freeman Clarke attended the Boston Latin School, graduated from...

David Wales 1 hour 36 minutes

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Through Glacier Park; Seeing America First With Howard Eaton (version 2)

Travel & Geography

458

Mary Roberts Rinehart - Through Glacier Park; Seeing America First With Howard Eaton (version 2)

This is the first of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park. (The other is entitled Tenting To-night, which also deals with the Cascade Mountains.)....

David Wales 1 hour 34 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

433

Benjamin F. Hasson - Escape From The Confederacy

Benjamin F Hasson was a Union officer in the Civil War of the United States. After being captured by the Confederacy, he escaped from a prison train taking prisoners to the infamous Andersonville prison. The short...

David Wales 1 hour 34 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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W. S. Gilbert - Mikado, Or The Town Of Titipu

In this recording, one person reads the entire play, all parts, including the stage directions. Even without the support of Arthur Sullivan’s music and the interpretation of actors, the consummate silliness of...

David Wales 1 hour 33 minutes

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Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems

Philosophy

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Kahlil Gibran - Madman: His Parables And Poems and The Forerunner: His Parables And Poems

Two short books by the Lebanese-American writer, poet, and mystic. Reflections on existence and life, purpose and meaning. His most famous work is The Prophet (1923). The Madman, Part 1: Introduction; God; My...

David Wales 1 hour 32 minutes

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War & Military

433

J. N. Gregory - Fort Concho; Its Why And Wherefore

Fort Concho was a U.S. Army post in central Texas from 1867 to 1889. It figured considerably in the Indian Wars, notably against the Comanches. It mainly served to protect frontier settlers, stagecoaches, wagon...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Robert Schumann, Tone Poet Prophet And Critic

[This is] the sketchiest outline of Robert Schumann’s short life but amazingly rich achievement. Together with Haydn and Schubert he was, perhaps, the most completely lovable of the great masters. It is hard,...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Richard Strauss

There was not much truly spectacular about the course of [Strauss's] life, which was most happily free from the material troubles which bedeviled the existence of so many great masters… If “Salome” and “Elektra”, “Ein...

David Wales 1 hour 31 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Schubert And His Works

This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating fecundity and inspiration. Like Bach, like Haydn, like Mozart, Schubert’s...

David Wales 1 hour 30 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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