Larry Wilson

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Emma Lazarus - Off Rough Point

Emma Lazarus was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for «The New Colossus», a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903....

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Bret Harte - What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding Hood

Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four...

Claudia Salto and 12 more 20 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Mrs. Robert Hoskins - Clara A. Swain, M.D.

This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the «first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient.» She graduated from the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia and was sent out to India...

Larry Wilson 39 minutes

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General Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 011 - Science

This is the eleventh collection of our «coffee break» series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to...

Larry Wilson and 13 more 2 hours 44 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Madison Cawein - Time and Death and Love

Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing earned the nickname the «Keats of Kentucky». This Weekly poem was published in his book «Shapes and...

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Biography & Autobiography

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Xenophon - Cyropaedia: The Education of Cyrus

The Cyropaedia (or Cyropedia) is a partly fictional biography of Cyrus the Great, written in the early 4th century BC by the Athenian gentleman-soldier, and student of Socrates, Xenophon of Athens. The title...

Larry Wilson and 12 more 11 hours 26 minutes

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Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No 3, September 1898

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Birds and all Nature, Vol. IV, No 3, September 1898

«Birds and All Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

J. M. Smallheer and 9 more 1 hour 33 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen - Rock Me to Sleep

Elizabeth Chase Akers Allen was an American author, journalist and poet. — Summary by Wikipedia

Adele de Pignerolles and 16 more 56 minutes

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Family

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Mary Martha Sherwood - Fairchild Family

The adventures of Lucy, Emily and Henry are described in this short novel, written and set in Regency England. Their naughtiness, their activities and their interactions with the children next door; Miss Augusta and...

flutterby93 and 16 more 12 hours 38 minutes

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Frances Ridley Havergal - Most Blessed For Ever

LibriVox readers bring you 9 readings of Most Blessed For Ever, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for January 11 to 18, 2015. (Summary by EstherbenSimonides)

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Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1

Humorous Fiction

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Thomas Lansing Masson - Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 1

Volume 1 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Mark Twain, Oliver Wendell Holmes,...

Joe Selah and 21 more 4 hours 38 minutes

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Family & Relationships

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R. B. Armitage - Private Sex Advice to Women

In this book the writer thereof seeks to convey to women—particularly to young wives and women expecting to be married—certain important facts of knowledge, certain necessary information, which all such women should...

Availle and 9 more 7 hours 33 minutes

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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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