Gord Mackenzie

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E. Nesbit - Five Children and It

This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known...

Kara Shallenberg and 9 more 5 hours 38 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Notes from the Underground

Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if...

Greg and 5 more 5 hours 6 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Jack London - Call of the Wild

In this novel (often mistakenly classified a children’s book) the main protagonist Buck, a St. Bernard/Collie mix, is abducted and sold to a trainer of sled dogs in Alaska. He adapts to the brutal conditions and is...

Gord Mackenzie and 3 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Henry James - International Episode

Two men visting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, miscommunication and cultural faux pas abound in this short but delightful novel....

Alex Foster and 5 more 3 hours 1 minute

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 10 more 2 hours 44 minutes

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Poetry

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William Blake - Songs of Innocence and Experience

William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Henry David Thoreau - On the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy...

Gord Mackenzie 1 hour 21 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 074

This is a collection of poems for the month of December 2008.

Shona and 18 more 1 hour 5 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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Walt Whitman - Noiseless Patient Spider

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 11 minutes

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Poetry

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 023

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 10 minutes

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Poetry

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John McCrae - In Flanders Fields

Librivox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Field , a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Gord Mackenzie and 6 more 8 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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