Floyd Wilde

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Thomas Peckett Prest - Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

This is volume 3 of 3. — Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to vampire stories such as Dracula , which it heavily...

TriciaG and 20 more 23 hours 8 minutes

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General Fiction

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Mark Twain - Gilded Age, A Tale of Today

The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age , commonly given to the era,...

TriciaG and 19 more 17 hours 8 minutes

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Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

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John Dewey - Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the different methods for achieving quality in education. After its initial...

Tim Ferreira and 13 more 16 hours 20 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

513

William Clark Russell - Frozen Pirate

Sailing adventure with storms, icebergs, shipwrecks, treasure, and the reawakening of a pirate frozen in suspended animation for nearly fifty years (Summary by P. Cunningham)

Patti Cunningham and 5 more 11 hours 39 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

511

Andrew Lang - Arabian Nights Entertainments

The Arabian Nights is a collection of Perso-Arabic folk tales and other stories. The collection, or at least certain stories drawn from it (or purporting to be drawn from it), became widely known in the West from the...

Neeru Iyer and 15 more 10 hours 34 minutes

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Political Science

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Jane Addams - Twenty Years at Hull House

Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first...

Elizabeth Klett and 7 more 10 hours 30 minutes

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General Fiction

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Ford Madox Ford - Good Soldier

The Good Soldier (1915) "… is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples. The novel is told using a series of flashbacks in non-chronological order, a...

Richard Grove and 6 more 7 hours 39 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 080

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of June 2009.

David Duckett and 20 more 1 hour 14 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 079

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of May 2009

Ruth Golding and 16 more 1 hour 1 minute Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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George William Russell - Forgiveness (Russell)

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Forgiveness by George William Russell. This was the weekly poetry project for June 7th, 2009.

Bob Sherman and 18 more 24 minutes

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Poetry

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Give All To Love

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Give All To Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 17th, 2009.

Andrea Fiore and 8 more 17 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Henry Kendall - Song of the Shingle-Splitters

LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of Song of the Shingle-Splitters by Henry C. Kendall. This was the weekly poetry project for June 7th, 2009.

David Lawrence and 6 more 17 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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