Laurie Anne Walden

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Poetry

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Walt Whitman - Longings for Home

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Longings for Home by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 26, 2012. Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a...

Britannia and 12 more 49 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

452

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - One-Hoss Shay

This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. «The Deacon's Masterpiece» describes the «logical» outcome of building an object (in this case, a...

Laurie Anne Walden 24 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

418

John Jeffery Farnol - Broad Highway

Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters...

John Lieder and 6 more 15 hours 51 minutes

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*Non-fiction

466

J. Morris Slemons - Prospective Mother

A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions which occur to them in the course of pregnancy. Directions for safeguarding...

Jennette Selig and 5 more 9 hours 31 minutes

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Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

Poetry

445

Hervey Allen - Carolina Chansons: Legends of the Low Country

This is a collection of poems about Charleston and the South Carolina Lowcountry. DuBose Heyward was a Charleston native best known for his novel Porgy , which was the basis for the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess ....

Laurie Anne Walden 1 hour 52 minutes

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Poetry

450

Wilbur D. Nesbit - Alphabet of History

An alphabet of historical characters presented in poetical form! In their original form, the contents of this book appeared in the Chicago Sunday Tribune, which newspaper is hereby thanked for the privilege of...

April Gonzales and 11 more 58 minutes

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Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

Poetry

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Charles Dickens - Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1

The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox — fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches — and each volume will be a pot pourri of...

Carl Manchester and 12 more 7 hours 40 minutes Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection - 5 Volumes

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Children's Fiction

487

H. P. Nichols - Broken Vase and Other Stories

The Broken Vase and Other Stories; for Children and Youth, Compiled by a Teacher FITCHBURG: PUBLISHED BY S. & C. SHEPLEY. 1847. WM. J. MERRIAM, PRINTER, FITCHBURG. (Summary from the Frontspiece)

K.G.Cross and 4 more 57 minutes

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General Fiction

419

Fanny Burney - Wanderer

This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. «Who is „Miss Ellis?“ Why did she board a ship from France to England at the beginning of the French revolution? Anyway,...

Roxanna Nazari and 6 more 36 hours 22 minutes

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*Non-fiction

426

Alexander Aaronsohn - With the Turks in Palestine

While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a little country the soul of which is torn to pieces—a little country that is so...

Aesthete's Readings and 2 more 1 hour 54 minutes

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Poetry

468

Walt Whitman - Prairie Sunset

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Prairie Sunset by Walt Whitman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 28, 2011. Walt Whitman has been claimed as America's first «poet of democracy», a...

Bob Gonzalez and 15 more 14 minutes

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Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

Children's Fiction

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John Lang - Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children

This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels , from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The children's adventure story covers Gulliver's visits to the lands of Lilliput...

Laurie Anne Walden and 5 more 2 hours

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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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