David Barnes

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Mildred Duff - Bible in Its Making

One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.' It is with the desire to show that the same law rules...

David Barnes and 9 more 2 hours 57 minutes

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Poetry

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William Butler Yeats - When You Are Old

LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3rd, 2010.

Bob Sherman and 28 more 30 minutes

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General Fiction

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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Poetry

Rupert Brooke - Soldier

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself,...

Alan Davis Drake and 19 more 26 minutes

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Romance

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Dinah Maria Mulock Craik - John Halifax, Gentleman

This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fletcher, an invalid son of a Quaker tanner who is presented to us in the...

Cori Samuel and 13 more 19 hours 37 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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John Clare - Summer Evening

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Summer Evening by John Clare. This was the weekly poetry project for July 26th, 2009.

Anna Roberts and 13 more 15 minutes

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Poetry

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Christina Rossetti - Echo

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Echo by Christina Rossetti. This was the weekly poetry project for April 12th, 2009.

Alan Davis Drake and 17 more 25 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Joseph Mary Plunkett - I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red

LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of I saw the Sun at Midnight, rising red by Joseph Mary Plunkett. This was the weekly poetry project for February 8th, 2009.

Andrea Fiore and 23 more 29 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 076

This is an open collection of poems for the month of February 2009.

Rhonda Federman and 15 more 1 hour 23 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Armadale

The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a...

David Barnes and 19 more 31 hours 38 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Thomas Bulfinch - Age of Chivalry

Thomas Bulfinch explains the his work is «an attempt to tell the stories of mythology in such a manner as to make them a source of amusement. We have endeavored to tell them correctly, according to the ancient...

Marlim and 14 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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Essays

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John Donne - Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or...

Fr. Richard Zeile of Detroit and 8 more 5 hours 59 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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