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Biography & Autobiography

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Herbert Francis Peyser - Johann Sebastian Bach

Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day existence seems almost pedestrian… The present volume, which advances no...

David Wales 1 hour 19 minutes

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Music

401

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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Travel & Geography

436

Rupert Brooke - Letters From America

"[Rupert Brooke] started in May 1913 on a journey to the United States, Canada, and the South Seas, from which he returned next year at the beginning of June. The first thirteen chapters of this book were written...

David Wales 4 hours 27 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

434

Coningsby Dawson - Christmas Outside Of Eden

A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is «the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath the holly on the Eve of Christmas»—the sensation created by the birth of the first...

David Wales 1 hour 3 minutes

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Short Stories

637

Short Story Collection Vol. 065

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 065: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Winston Tharp and 10 more 8 hours 7 minutes Short Story Collections

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*Non-fiction

490

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides, Demosthenes, Euclid; William Lloyd Garrison and the National Anti-Slavery...

Landon D. C. Elkind and 7 more 5 hours 18 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Essays & Short Works

434

Christopher Morley - Modern Essays

Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph. Early twentieth or late nineteenth centuries. “I think I can offer you, in...

David Wales 9 hours 41 minutes

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Travel & Geography

440

Charles Francis Saunders - Under The Sky In California

This is a 1913 travelogue by a then-well-known botanist who wrote many books about the American Southwest and California in particular. This popular book went into three printings. “…the main concern of the author has...

David Wales 8 hours 17 minutes

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Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Culture & Heritage Fiction

415

Katharine Berry Judson - Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2)

Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains Indians. Standing in the midst of this vast green plain on a soft May morning,...

David Wales 3 hours 20 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

401

Logan Pearsall Smith - Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921)

Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This recording is of two of his collections of these bon mots. For example: “These...

David Wales 3 hours 31 minutes

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Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862

War & Military

426

Frederick Law Olmsted - Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862

In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It supplemented the medical care of the armed services medical corps. Its...

David Wales 3 hours 48 minutes

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*Non-fiction

484

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 044

Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include wives, widows, and women scorned--the «Baby Doe Tabor» scandal, the trials of literary marriages, and colonial...

OCTL7 and 10 more 6 hours 28 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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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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