Leon Mire

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Short non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011

A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, articles, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass a...

Bellona Times and 11 more 5 hours 48 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Antiquity

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Annals Vol 3

The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with...

Claude Banta and 6 more 7 hours 52 minutes

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Poetry

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Emily Dickinson - Word Is Dead

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 different recordings of A Word Is Dead, by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry for the week of July 06, 2008. Version 4 read by Sean McGaughey and Rose 264.

the quiet fox and 18 more 8 minutes

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Law

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Fabian Franklin - What Prohibition Has Done to America

In What Prohibition Has Done to America , Fabian Franklin presents a concise but forceful argument against the Eighteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Beginning in 1920, this Amendment prohibited the sale and...

Joshua B. Christensen and 5 more 2 hours 21 minutes

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Self-Help

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Henry Stanton - Sex

Henry Stanton’s 1922 book Sex – Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English is intended as a frank (although consevative and moralistic) guide to human sexual behaviour and relationships. It is partly a self-help...

Maire Rhode and 9 more 1 hour 44 minutes

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*Non-fiction

450

William Sangster - Umbrellas and Their History

A whimsically serious look at the umbrella and society. (summary by Clarica)

Clarica and 5 more 1 hour 46 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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Anthologies

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Short Poetry Collection 064

LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 064: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers.

Terence Nunn and 12 more 50 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Children's Fiction

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Jacob Abbott - Cleopatra

A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults.

Alana Jordan and 8 more 6 hours 28 minutes

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Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

Philosophy

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Adam Smith - Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

«How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from...

Nikki Sullivan and 14 more 12 hours 44 minutes

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Other religions

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Buddhist Writings

An anthology of Buddhist scriptures, appropriate as an introduction to its vast literature, or as a sampler for those who want to better understand Buddhism. The selections in this anthology are primarily from the...

Leon Mire and 16 more 7 hours 38 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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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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