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Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Francis Bacon - Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables

«Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding the poets’ fables which the poets themselves did in inventing them; and it is true...

Allie Mandell and 6 more 3 hours 17 minutes

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Poetry

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John Patterson MacLean - Selected Poetry on or about the MacLeans

«Gifted with poesy as are the Highlanders, and given to the praise of their country and their leaders, it would be expected that many poems would still be extant concerning the MacLeans and their ancestral dominions,»...

DrPGould 3 hours 6 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Alice Meynell - Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays

Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing...

Annyiee Hill and 8 more 2 hours 58 minutes

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Poetry

440

Short Poetry Collection 170

This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2017. It includes a longer poem, Parliament of the Birds by Farid ud-Din Attar. Introduction by the reader: This is one of the...

Winston Tharp and 13 more 2 hours 28 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Coffee Break Collection 15 - World of Work

Anthologies

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Coffee Break Collection 15 - World of Work

This is the fifteenth collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to...

Devorah Allen and 6 more 2 hours 24 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 3, March 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 10 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Essays & Short Works

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E. Walter Walters - Confessions of a Book-Lover

«I am of the company of book men who read simply for the love of it,» confesses E. Walter Walters, in this gently written tome. Walters documents his habit of «book fishing--» seeking and finding quality volumes in...

DrPGould 2 hours 4 minutes

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 16 - Crime

This is the sixteenth collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between about 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd...

DrPGould and 6 more 1 hour 56 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Short Stories

492

Coffee Break Collection 013 - Weather

This is the thirteenth collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like...

Patrick Wallace and 11 more 1 hour 55 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Single author

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Louis Untermeyer - Challenge

Louis Untermeyer introduced may students to poetry through his many collections that he edited. His own poetry ranges from inspirational to cynical. Challenge is his first collection of poems, mature, but reflecting...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 1 hour 51 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 173

This is a collection of 41 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2017.

Craig Campbell and 16 more 1 hour 43 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 180

This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2018.

Larry Wilson and 22 more 1 hour 37 minutes Short Poetry 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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