Laurie Anne Walden

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Louis Stevenson - Summer Sun

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Summer Sun, by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 22nd, 2008.

Anne Cheng and 15 more 19 minutes

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Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words

Biography & Autobiography

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Friedrich Kerst - Mozart: The Man and the Artist as Revealed in His Own Words

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His name is one of the most recognizable names in history and one of the most enduring of composers. At age 5, this “wunderkinder” took to the stage and began his life as a prolific and...

Aaron Elliott and 4 more 3 hours 57 minutes

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Science

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J. Arthur Thomson - Outline of Science, Vol 1

The Outline of Science, Volume 1 was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear,...

James Christopher and 8 more 9 hours 59 minutes The Outline of Science

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Poetry

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Alaric Alexander Watts - Siege of Belgrade

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of The Siege of Belgrade by Alaric Alexander Watts, an abecedarian poem that begins each line with the next letter of the alphabet. This was the weekly poetry...

Anne Cheng and 8 more 18 minutes

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Poetry

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Wilfred Owen - Dulce et Decorum Est

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 different recordings of Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 18th, 2008.

Anne Cheng and 21 more 49 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Nora Archibald Smith - Fairy Ring

The Fairy Ring , originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites as «History of Jack the Giant-Killer», «The Frog...

Laurie Anne Walden and 28 more 17 hours 36 minutes

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Animals & Nature

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Thornton W. Burgess - Old Mother West Wind

Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years....

Laurie Anne Walden 1 hour 39 minutes

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Writing & Linguistics

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Ambrose Bierce - Write it Right

Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives — entertaining, thought-provoking, occasionally outdated but so interesting to see how style and...

Laurie Anne Walden and 5 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John George Nicolay - Short Life of Abraham Lincoln

John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive biography of Lincoln, «Abraham Lincoln, a Biography.» Although this is a...

John Lieder and 8 more 18 hours 28 minutes

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Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2)

Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Frank R. Stockton - Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts (version 2)

Buccaneers and Pirates of our Coasts is a non-fiction, rolicking story of the origins of piracy and of the famous pirates of the coasts of the United States. The stories don't cast pirates in the glowing light of...

Sibella Denton and 8 more 7 hours 25 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Jules Verne - In Search of the Castaways

The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland...

Sibella Denton and 18 more 17 hours 2 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 062

LibriVox's New Short Poetry Collection 062: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Alana Jordan and 16 more 39 minutes Short Poetry 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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