Jordan Watts

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Music

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John South Shedlock - Pianoforte Sonata

John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at the time to be the earliest keyboard sonata, up the present day. Along the...

Jordan Watts 6 hours 26 minutes

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 14, Feb. 3, 1880

Children's Fiction

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Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 14, Feb. 3, 1880

Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, poetry, craft projects and more. This 14th issue of the serial, published...

Larry Wilson and 5 more 1 hour 47 minutes Harper's Young People

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Short works

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 032

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 032: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Steven Fellows and 8 more 2 hours 32 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Anthologies

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It Can Be Done

This book contains many poems of inspiration, joy and hope. Just the thing to encourage our spirits and strengthen our backbone when troubles seem too much. The purpose of this volume is to bring men courage and...

Phil Chenevert and 29 more 7 hours 15 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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Riccardo Nobili - Gentle Art of Faking

IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary counterfeiter; he must be studied amid his proper surroundings, and with the...

Jordan Watts 10 hours 49 minutes

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An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae

Medical

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Edward Jenner - An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae

This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creation of the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. — Summary by Jordan

Jordan Watts 3 hours 35 minutes

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Poetry

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Ann Taylor - Rhymes for the Nursery

This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, known then as just The Star. Also included...

Jordan Watts 1 hour 24 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

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Arthur Bingham Walkley - Pastiche and Prejudice

Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of...

Ulrike Denis and 21 more 8 hours 9 minutes

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Antiquity

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William Jennings Bryan - World's Famous Orations, Vol. I: Greece

This is the first volume in the ten volume collection of the world's most famous orations, as compiled by William Jennings Bryant and Francis Whiting Halsey. The first volume concerns ancient Greece, and contains such...

Jason in Panama and 12 more 7 hours 8 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 160

This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2016.

Shakira Searle and 10 more 53 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 065

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 065: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Winston Tharp and 10 more 8 hours 7 minutes Short Story Collections

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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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