J. M. Smallheer

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Summer Sun

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Summer Sun, by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 22nd, 2008.

Anne Cheng and 15 more 19 minutes

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Science

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J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 1

The Outline of Science, Volume 1 was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear,...

James Christopher and 8 more 9 hours 59 minutes The Outline of Science

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Crime & Mystery Fiction

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Christopher Morley - Haunted Bookshop

Roger Mifflin is the somewhat eccentric proprietor of The Haunted Bookshop , a second-hand bookstore in Brooklyn that is «haunted by the ghosts of all great literature.» Beginning with the arrival of a young...

J. M. Smallheer 5 hours 34 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009

A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collections are independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass...

Philippa and 12 more 6 hours 11 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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*Non-fiction

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Doris Stevens - Jailed For Freedom

A first-hand account of the 1913-1919 campaign of American suffragettes, detailing their treatment at the hands of the courts, and the true conditions of their incarceration. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)

Blazin48 and 9 more 10 hours 6 minutes

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School

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Katharine Elizabeth Dopp - Tree-Dwellers

Katharine E. Dopp was well-known as a teacher and writer of children's textbooks at the turn of the 20th Century. She was among the first educators to encourage the incorporation of physical and practical activity...

J. M. Smallheer 2 hours 22 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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E. Phillips Oppenheim - Cinema Murder

Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London. He finds out that his wealthy cousin Douglas has been seeing his girl friend Beatrice behind his back. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his...

Julie Levi and 13 more 8 hours 6 minutes

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Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

Philosophy

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Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

«How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from...

Nikki Sullivan and 14 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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Arthur B. Reeve - Film Mystery

The Film Mystery is one of eighteen detective novels by Arthur B. Reeve starring his best known character Professor Craig Kennedy and his trusty sidekick Walter Jameson, a newspaper reporter. The pair bears an...

Sibella Denton and 12 more 8 hours 28 minutes

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Modern

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John Stuart Mill - Subjection of Women

The Subjection of Women is the title of an essay written by John Stuart Mill in 1869, possibly jointly with his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, stating an argument in favor of equality between the sexes. It offers both...

Andy and 8 more 4 hours 49 minutes

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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

*Non-fiction

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Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1

The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: «National Delusions», «Peculiar Follies», and «Philosophical Delusions». The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics...

J. M. Smallheer and 12 more 14 hours 19 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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John Meade Falkner - Lost Stradivarius

The Lost Stradivarius (1895), by J. Meade Falkner, is a short novel of ghosts and the evil that can be invested in an object, in this case an extremely fine Stradivarius violin. After finding the violin of the title...

Clarica and 6 more 5 hours 19 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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