Graham Williams

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General Fiction

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Favourite Chapters Collection 002

A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderful clarity with which great ideas are expressed, and still others because...

Tim Makarios and 8 more 3 hours 24 minutes

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Satire

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William Makepeace Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like many novels of the time, Vanity Fair was published as a serial before being...

Michelle Crandall and 19 more 33 hours 4 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

603

Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell, one of the greatest seduction speeches of all time. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 23th,...

Alan Davis Drake and 10 more 31 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

601

William Butler Yeats - Song of Wandering Aengus

LibriVox volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus , by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 17 more 26 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Rhodora

To celebrate Earth Day , LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of The Rhodora , by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 16th, 2006. (Summary by Annie...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 5 more 8 minutes

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General Fiction

616

Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of chance and choice,...

Marlo Dianne and 6 more 17 hours 35 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

586

Robert Frost - Fire and Ice

LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice , by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 27th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 22 more 15 minutes

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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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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Edmund Spenser - Faerie Queene Book 1

«The First Book of the Faerie Queene Contayning The Legende of the Knight of the Red Crosse or Holinesse». The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works...

Graham Williams and 3 more 5 hours 22 minutes

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Poetry

578

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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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias of Egypt

LibriVox volunteers bring you sixteen different recordings of Ozymandias of Egypt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 20th, 2006.

Alan Davis Drake and 15 more 21 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 073

To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 23rd, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Alys AtteWater and 9 more 12 minutes

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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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