Larry Wilson - Listen Audiobooks Online

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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James McIntyre - Tramp and Fish

James McIntyre, called The Cheese Poet, was a Canadian poet. McIntyre was born in Forres, Scotland and came to Canada in 1841 at the age of 14, finally moving to Ingersoll, Ontario, then a town of 5,000 on the...

David Lawrence and 5 more 8 minutes

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War & Military

450

Henry Stanley Banks - War Surgery - From Firing Line to Base

One of the first volumes dedicated to systematized medical treatment of soldiers in modern warfare, including a chapter on specific care for airmen, by British doctors who served on the front lines of WWI. Graphic...

Bellona Times and 13 more 24 hours 27 minutes

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Single author

517

E. Nesbit - Rainbow and the Rose

A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of «The Five Children and It» and «The Railway Children». These poems are primarily for adults, although a few are written for her daughters. The...

Eleanor Howard and 15 more 2 hours 15 minutes

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Short Stories

465

Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev - Little Angel and Other Stories

This is a volume of short works by Leonid Andreyev. — Summary by Carolin

Larry Wilson and 10 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

414

Matthew Arnold - Lake

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 15 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

440

Jonathan Swift - On A Shadow In A Glass

Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. Swift is remembered for...

Ann K and 9 more 29 minutes

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Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

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Thomas Moore - Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of «The Minstrel Boy» and «The Last Rose of Summer». Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 18 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Elisabeth G. Stryker - Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and also the first Bible Society that began distribution of millions of Bibles...

Larry Wilson 1 hour 8 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Albert Bushnell Hart - Mentor: Benjamin Franklin

This is Vol. 6, No. 7, Serial No. 155 of The Mentor , published May 15, 1918. Benjamin Franklin was one of the leading figures of the 18th century and a founding father of the United States. His interests and...

John Doherty and 3 more 1 hour 17 minutes The Mentor

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 3, March 1899

«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...

Zee Martin and 10 more 2 hours 22 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Selma Lagerlöf - Christ Legends

These are beautiful little stories about Christmas from the Swedish storyteller Selma Lagerlöf. As she explains in the first story, they were told her by her grandmother «I remember that grandmother told story after...

Phil Chenevert and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 3, October 1899

«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...

NoelBadrian and 7 more 2 hours 30 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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