Fox in the Stars

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Frank Gelett Burgess - Purple Cow

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different versions of this famous nonsense rhyme, the weekly poem of April 2nd, 2006. The April Fool's Day spirit was slow to leave us this spring, so as you listen, watch out for...

Amanda and 7 more 8 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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George MacDonald - Light Princess

Plenty of princesses have been cursed by wicked witches, but the curse placed on this princess by her evil aunt is an unusual one: it removes all the princess's gravity. What can break the curse before the princess...

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Historical Fiction

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Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the rest in verse). The tales, some of which are originals and others not, are...

Gesine and 18 more 19 hours 23 minutes

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Poetry

653

Edgar Lee Masters - Spoon River Anthology

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, gossiping about their neighbors' lives. It's interesting to hear how other people...

Lokon and 43 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Story Collection Vol. 005

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 005: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Ben Douglas and 15 more 7 hours 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 008

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Jim Mowatt and 10 more 58 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 007

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 007: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 37 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 006

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 006: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Robert Garrison and 9 more 42 minutes

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Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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D. H. Lawrence - Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 26 minutes

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Poetry

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Fay Inchfawn - Early Spring

The Vernal Equinox signals the time when the winter’s cold mantle begins to succumb to the warming influences of the oncoming spring. Fay Inchfawn (nee Elizabeth Rebecca Ward) took the springtime of 1920 as her...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 9 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Bram Stoker - Dracula

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the...

Kara Shallenberg and 16 more 16 hours 31 minutes

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Edwin Arlington Robinson - Richard Cory

This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here, the eponymous Richard Cory with all his wealth and charm is viewed...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 14 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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