Elizabeth Klett

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Christina Rossetti - Bird Raptures

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Bird Raptures by Christina Georgina Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 11, 2011. Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a...

Amy Gramour and 14 more 17 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 100

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2011.

Algy Pug and 16 more 1 hour 14 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

General

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Pádraic Colum - Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy

Also known as «The Children's Homer,» this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 19 minutes

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Fantastic Fiction

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William Morris - News From Nowhere

News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls...

Elizabeth Klett 7 hours 24 minutes

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General Fiction

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Emily Eden - Semi-Detached House

If you're a Jane Austen fan, you'll enjoy Emily Eden's comic novels of manners, The Semi-Detached House (1859) and The Semi-Attached Couple (1860). At the opening of The Semi-Detached House, the beautiful (but rather...

Elizabeth Klett 5 hours 26 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 013

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 013: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Juliann and 7 more 2 hours 15 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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General Fiction

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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Cousin Phillis

Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her...

Elizabeth Klett 3 hours 46 minutes

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General Fiction

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Edith Wharton - Madame de Treymes

Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old flame, Fanny Frisbee, now the Marquis de Malrive. Fanny is separated from her...

Elizabeth Klett 1 hour 57 minutes

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Poetry

458

John Donne - Dream

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011. John Donne was an English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest who is considered a...

Amy Koenig and 16 more 35 minutes

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Romance

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Louisa May Alcott - Behind a Mask, or a Woman's Power

Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember that her heroine Jo wrote racy novels before turning her hand to more «serious» literature. Alcott, writing under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard, often did the same,...

Elizabeth Klett 4 hours 8 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 097

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2011.

Winston Tharp and 18 more 1 hour 5 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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William Morris - House of the Wolfings

William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time such as Dante Rossetti. His fascination with ancient Germanic and Norse people...

Elizabeth Klett and 10 more 8 hours 17 minutes Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library

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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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