Maria Kasper

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Madison Cawein - Time and Death and Love

Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing earned the nickname the «Keats of Kentucky». This Weekly poem was published in his book «Shapes and...

Algy Pug and 19 more 24 minutes

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History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco

Modern (20th C)

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Frank Aitken - History of the Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco

Early in the morning of Wednesday, April 18, 1906, the San Francisco area was shaken by a massive earthquake. Over the course of the next four days, fires spread through large swaths of the city, started by broken gas...

Maria Kasper and 1 more 5 hours 44 minutes

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Ballads

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Robert Burns - Will ye go to the Indies, my Mary?

A LibriVox' Weekly Poetry tribute to Robbie Burns on the upcoming Robbie Burns Day. (January 25) Robert Burns (also known as Robbie Burns, Rabbie Burns, Scotland's favourite son, the Ploughman Poet, Robden of Solway...

Adele de Pignerolles and 12 more 16 minutes

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School

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John Clare - Schoolboys in Winter

Librivox volunteers bring you 7 readings of Schoolboys in Winter, by John Clare. This was the weekly poem for the week of January 4, 2015. — Summary by Rachel

A.J. Tippin and 6 more 8 minutes

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Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe

Humorous Fiction

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Thomas Hood - Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe

LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Sally Simpkin's Lament; or, John Jones's Kit-Cat-Astrophe by Thomas Hood. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 4, 2015. Thomas Hood was a British...

Ahmad Abdullah and 8 more 21 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Frances Ridley Havergal - Another Year

LibriVox readers bring you 13 readings of Another Year, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for December 28, 2014, to January 3, 2015. — Summary by Esther ben Simonides

Adele de Pignerolles and 12 more 16 minutes

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Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)

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Mary Antin - They Who Knock at Our Gates

In 1914, over one million immigrants arrived in the United States, following in the footsteps of approximately ten million others who had arrived in the preceding decade. Faced with so many newcomers, many of them...

Maria Kasper 2 hours 24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Still, Still, with Thee

Librivox volunteers bring you ten readings of Still, Still, with Thee by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This hymn written by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was the weekly poem for December 14 — 21, 2014. — Summary by Rachel

Adele de Pignerolles and 9 more 13 minutes

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Modern (19th C)

A. H. U. Colquhoun - Chronicles of Canada Volume 28 - The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion

During and after the United States' War of Independence, Canada remained loyal to Great Britain. The upheavals of the 1830's and early 1840's led to a Popular Government and union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841,...

Maria Kasper and 3 more 4 hours 8 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Family & Relationships

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Will Rossiter - Art of Kissing

The Art of Kissing is both a history of and a manual for the probably most widely practised enjoyment on the planet. (Summary by Availle )

MaryAnn and 8 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 30 - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time

Modern (19th C)

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Oscar D. Skelton - Chronicles of Canada Volume 30 - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time

In conformity with its title, this volume, save for the earlier chapters, is history rather than biography, is of the day , more than of the man. The aim has been to review the more significant events and tendencies...

Scott Foster and 3 more 6 hours 47 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Modern (19th C)

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Albert Richardson - Secret Service

Albert Richardson was a reporter for Horace Greeley’s New York Tribune when he volunteered to hazard an undercover journey through the American south, reporting incognito on the growing secession crisis in that...

Maria Kasper and 1 more 16 hours 19 minutes

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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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