John W. Michaels

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Vachel Lindsay - Moon is a Painter

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Moon is a Painter by Vachel Lindsay. This was the weekly poetry project for February 1st, 2009.

Andrea Fiore and 9 more 11 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

498

Robert Burns - Auld Lang Syne

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, a cultural event originating from Vancouver, Canada, celebrating the...

Alana Jordan and 10 more 16 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

446

Robert W. Service - Land God Forgot

LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Land God Forgot by Robert Service. This was the weekly poetry project for January 25th, 2009.

Andrea Fiore and 7 more 8 minutes

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Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Edgar Allan Poe - Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2

Monday, January 19, 2009 marked Edgar Allan Poe's 200th birthday. Though these tales need no introduction, the rationale for starting with volume two is threefold: many of the best-loved (and best) tales are...

TriciaG and 10 more 10 hours 51 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Sinclair Lewis - Babbitt

Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat”...

John W. Michaels 13 hours 26 minutes

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Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Published 1900 onward

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Sinclair Lewis - Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer...

John W. Michaels 13 hours 34 minutes

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Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2)

Humorous Fiction

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F. Scott Fitzgerald - Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2)

The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, now a major motion picture, features Benjamin Button, who, born as an old man much to the dismay and chagrin of his father and family...

John W. Michaels 1 hour

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Travel & Geography

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Zane Grey - Last of the Plainsmen

Travel along as Mike Vendetti aka miketheauctioneer narrates an outstanding true account of a trip made in 1909 by Zane Grey and a plainsman, Buffalo Jones, through the Grand Canyon to lasso a cougar. That’s right...

John W. Michaels 7 hours 11 minutes

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Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War

War & Military Fiction

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Stephen Crane - Red Badge of Courage; An Episode of the American Civil War

There comes a time in the course of battle when a participant casts his fate to the gods of war, and carries on without question, the task at hand. Living, dying, right or wrong, can be contemplated later. The spirit...

John W. Michaels 4 hours 46 minutes

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Travel Fiction

476

James Norman Hall - Faery Lands of the South Seas

Returning from the horrors of World War I James Hall and Charles Nordhoff follow a dream to tour the South Pacific. They later co authored “Mutiny on the Bounty”. This is a love story. A travelogue and an adventure...

John W. Michaels 10 hours 26 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Booker T. Washington - Up from Slavery: An Autobiography

Up From Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington detailing his slow and steady rise from a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education at the...

Andy Yu and 12 more 7 hours 58 minutes

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Political Science

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George Washington Plunkitt - Plunkitt of Tammany Hall

«I seen my opportunities and I took 'em.», George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There's good graft and bad graft according to Plunkitt. Listen to this candid discourse from a 19th century politician, and...

John W. Michaels 3 hours

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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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