Kara Shallenberg

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Poetry

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Christmas Bells

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Christmas Bells , by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 24th, 2006.

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 8 more 16 minutes

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Children's Fiction

531

Rudyard Kipling - Rewards and Fairies

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his children’s books, including The Jungle Book , Just So Stories , and Puck of...

Kara Shallenberg and 10 more 7 hours 50 minutes

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Poetry

511

Folk Ballad Collection 001

Librivox’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection).

Rebecca Dekker and 9 more 39 minutes

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*Non-fiction

465

John Muir - Mountains of California

John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read...

Robert Garrison and 10 more 10 hours 19 minutes

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Children's Fiction

548

Francis P. Church - Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

«Is There A Santa Claus?» was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun . The editorial, which included the response of «Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa...

Alex Rudinski and 7 more 32 minutes

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Romance

742

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Anne Elliott, Jane Austen's only aging heroine, has devoted her life to caring for her financially irresponsible family. Just when she is growing content with her uneventful lifestyle, a long-lost flame re-enters the...

Tina Tilney and 8 more 8 hours 31 minutes

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Romance

651

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gives her whole heart to every endeavor. When the Dashwoods — mother Mrs....

Michelle Crandall and 14 more 12 hours 11 minutes

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446

Olive Green - Spinster Book

A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling men and women, love letters, marriage and spinsterhood. (Summary by Kristin...

Kristin Hughes and 8 more 4 hours 6 minutes

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Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin - Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 14 more 24 hours 22 minutes

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Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

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Rufus Estes - Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville restaurant at the age of 16, and in 1883 took up employment as a Pullman...

Dr. Pamela Russ and 11 more 6 hours 12 minutes

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Romance

574

Kate Chopin - Awakening

Owing to its highly personal content focused on feminine sexuality, this LibriVox edition was recorded by eight female readers. The Modern Library edition of The Awakening has an introduction by Kay Gibbons,...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 5 hours 14 minutes

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Satire

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Ambrose Bierce - Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce (1842 — 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's...

Peter Yearsley and 13 more 8 hours 35 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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