Garth Burton

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Emily Dickinson - I Stepped from Plank to Plank

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of I Stepped from Plank to Plank by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was an American poet. Born in...

Amy Gramour and 12 more 9 minutes

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Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Gardening

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Gertrude Jekyll - Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur

Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with reknowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and placement, how she integrates nature into her design, and how she maintains...

Ruth Golding and 11 more 7 hours 59 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

445

Orlando Gibbons - Silver Swan

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Silver Swan by Orlando Gibbons. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 14, 2011. Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the...

Agnes Maddock and 17 more 16 minutes

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Travel Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel

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

TriciaG and 13 more 2 hours 31 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

413

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Something Childish, but very Natural

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Something Childish, but very Natural by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 7, 2011. Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet,...

David Lawrence and 9 more 11 minutes

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Walter Savage Landor - Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 1, 2011. Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and...

Bryan Davis and 18 more 12 minutes

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Poetry

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Emily Brontë - Love and Friendship

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 17, 2011. Emily Jane Brontë was an English novelist and poet, now best remembered...

Amy Koenig and 16 more 15 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 023

A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, cooking, humor, medicine,...

Betsie Bush and 9 more 4 hours 27 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Poetry

447

Thomas Bailey Aldrich - Nocturne

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Nocturne by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2011. Aldrich attended school in Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of...

Bob Gonzalez and 8 more 9 minutes

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Poetry

439

Omar Khayyám - Quatrain from the Rubaiyat

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Quatrain from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Translated by Henry George Keene. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 26, 2011. The popularity of the celebrated...

Amy Gramour and 11 more 10 minutes

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Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener

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Ida Dandridge Bennett - Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener

This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, maintaining soil fertility, hotbeds, garden tools, sowing seeds,...

Michael Packard and 8 more 5 hours 40 minutes

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Poetry

497

Matthew Arnold - Growing Old

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011. Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an...

Anna Roberts and 16 more 36 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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