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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Elsie Spicer Eells - Fairy Tales from Brazil

This book, subtitled «How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore», is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni)

Leni and 7 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Poetry

650

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Ars Poetica and Carmen Saeculare

The Ars Poetica, by Horace, also known as Epistula ad Pisones, is a treatise on poetry written in the form of a letter, and published around 18 B.C. In it, Horace defines and exemplifies the nature, scope and correct...

Leni 1 hour 58 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

482

Phaedrus - Fables of Phaedrus

The fable is a small narrative, in prose or verse, which has as its main characteristic the aim of conveying a moral lesson (the «moral»), implicitly or, more normally, explicitly expressed. Even though the modern...

Leni 1 hour 55 minutes

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Early Modern

457

John Toland - Pantheisticon

Pantheisticon: or, the Form Of Celebrating the Socratic-Society. Divided into Three Parts. Which Contain, I. The Morals and Axioms of the Pantheists; or the Brotherhood. II. Their Deity and Philosophy....

Alessandro Gagliardi and 3 more 1 hour 53 minutes

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*Non-fiction

481

Dante Alighieri - Monarchia

The De Monarchia is one of the main works by Dante Alighieri. It is a treatise on secular and religious power, and more specifically on the relationship between secular authority (represented by the Holy Roman...

Leni and 5 more 1 hour 45 minutes

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Anthologies

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Pan-American Poems: an anthology

In this anthology, Agnes Blake Poor introduces to the American public a collection of Latin American poets in translation. The poems are organized by country of origin, and present a variety of subjects and meters,...

Eric Metzler and 9 more 1 hour 40 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

859

Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Agricola

The Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus...

Leni and 1 more 1 hour 29 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

438

Dorothy Quigley - What Dress Makes of Us

A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Ruth Golding and 7 more 1 hour 29 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

592

José Maria de Eça de Queirós - Our Lady of the Pillar

A ghost story and love story all at once, set in medieval portugal. Don Ruy is in love with Dona Leonor, but her husband has guessed his feelings and hatches a plan. Don Ruy rides right into a trap, but on the way, a...

Leni 1 hour 23 minutes

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Poetry

458

Short Poetry Collection 149

This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015.

Winston Tharp and 15 more 1 hour 11 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

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Isabella Crawford - Perfect Strain

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 different recordings of A Perfect Strain by Isabella Valancy Crawford, published in «The Collected Poems of Isabella Valancy Crawford» in 1905. This was the weekly poetry project...

Carolyn Frances and 8 more 14 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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