Greg Giordano

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Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. - 1000 Things Worth Knowing

Part almanac, part encyclopedia, part dictionary, Nathaniel C. Fowler, Jr. gives us his idea of important, but sometimes obscure, facts that he thinks should be in our bank of general knowledge. He includes a large...

Larry Wilson and 14 more 8 hours 27 minutes

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Vachel Lindsay - Sunshine

It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 23 minutes

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Ballad of the Oysterman

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 39 minutes

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Maidens' Song

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature «as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 12 minutes

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Friend in Need

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 14 more 16 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Bachelor to a Married Flirt

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

Algy Pug and 8 more 35 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Quarrel

This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) — Summary by David Lawrence

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 17 minutes

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Historical Fiction

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Ring Lardner - Welcome to Spring

Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 14 minutes

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William Henry Giles Kingston - Light of Stars

William Henry Giles Kingston, often credited as W. H. G. Kingston, was an English writer of boys' adventure novels. He was a zealous volunteer and worked actively for the improvement of the condition of seamen. But...

aniroo and 14 more 31 minutes

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Romance

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Arthur Symons - Rain On The Down

Our Valentine Poem is by Arthur William Symons, a British poet, critic and magazine editor., taken from his collection Silhouettes (1896). — Summary by David Lawrence

Algy Pug and 15 more 12 minutes

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2

Psychology

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Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 2

«Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.» «In reading the history of nations, we find that, like...

Matt Markgraf and 9 more 14 hours 37 minutes

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Alan Seeger - I Have a Rendezvous with Death

This book… contains the record of a short life, into which was crowded far more of keen experience and high aspiration—of the thrill of sense and the rapture of soul—than it is given to most men, even of high...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 28 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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