Jennifer Stearns

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Poetry

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Hymn Collection 001

Librivox volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns. All Glory Laud and Honor — Words translated from the Latin of Theodolph of Orleans; Tune: St. Theodulph by Melchior Teschner; harmony by William H....

Jennifer Stearns and 12 more 1 hour 11 minutes

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Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 1 (Gray's Anatomy)

Medical

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Henry Gray - Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 1 (Gray's Anatomy)

Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918...

Laurie Anne Walden and 12 more 11 hours 56 minutes Gray's Anatomy (Parts 1-5)

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Action & Adventure

604

Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking-Glass (version 3)

Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871) is a work of children's literature by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), generally categorized as literary nonsense. It is the sequel to Alice's...

Mark F. Smith and 8 more 3 hours 5 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Lewis Carroll - You are Old, Father William

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 different recordings of You are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 20th, 2008.

Christine Blachford and 16 more 35 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Louisa May Alcott - Work: A Story of Experience

It is one of «several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work» The story depicts the struggles...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 12 hours 48 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Little Women (version 4)

Little Women is the classic story of the March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls–Practical, yet fashion conscious, Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious,...

Jennifer Stearns and 20 more 18 hours 27 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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James Baldwin - Fifty Famous Stories Retold (version 2)

Some have a slight historical value; some are useful as giving point to certain great moral truths; others are products solely of the fancy, and are intended only to amuse. Some are derived from very ancient sources,...

Clarica and 17 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Poetry

525

Emily Dickinson - Word Is Dead

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 different recordings of A Word Is Dead, by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry for the week of July 06, 2008. Version 4 read by Sean McGaughey and Rose 264.

the quiet fox and 18 more 8 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories

Since this series of books is intended for all young people from one to one hundred, it opens with about eighty of the old MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES. Nothing better was ever invented to tell to little folks who are...

Cori Samuel and 39 more 19 hours 58 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Louisa May Alcott - Flower Fables

Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)

Clarica and 5 more 3 hours 28 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Unknown - String of Pearls

The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String of Pearls” in...

musil and 13 more 11 hours 41 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Maria Montessori - Montessori Method

In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori began her work by developing methods to educate mentally retarded children,...

Leni and 15 more 11 hours 51 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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