David Barnes

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Poetry

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Paul Laurence Dunbar - Sympathy

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy , by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day . Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 15 more 26 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William H. Barker - West African Folk Tales

A collection of folk tales mostly centred around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as either a spider, a human or a combination of both. Thus many of the stories...

Lizzie Driver and 11 more 2 hours 36 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

551

LibriVox volunteers - Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month . The twist is that there are up to 30 people writing together, instead of one toiling alone....

Juho Fröjd and 18 more 7 hours 37 minutes

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Historical Fiction

546

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story...

Rainer and 13 more 5 hours 31 minutes

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Relativity: The Special and General Theory

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564

Albert Einstein - Relativity: The Special and General Theory

This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of...

featherheadfop and 7 more 23 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 008

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Lucy Burgoyne and 15 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Epistolary Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Woman in White

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be to the first mystery novel, and is widely regarded...

Tim Bulkeley and 7 more

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Reference

669

Grenville Kleiser - Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of...

Betsie Bush and 45 more 16 hours

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Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin - Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 14 more 24 hours 22 minutes

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Satire

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Ambrose Bierce - Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce (1842 — 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's...

Peter Yearsley and 13 more 8 hours 35 minutes

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Reference

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Tom Bullock - Ideal Bartender

The book was written by Tom Bullock, a well-known bartender at the St. Louis Country Club. His skills as a bartender were so remarkable that a libel suit hinged on the excellence of his drinks. In The Ideal Bartender,...

David Barnes and 4 more 1 hour 16 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Oliver Twist is an 1838 novel by Charles Dickens. It was originally published as a serial. Like most of Dickens' work, the book is used to call the public's attention to various contemporary social evils,...

Stephan Möbius and 23 more 17 hours 2 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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