Maria Kasper

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War & Military

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Franklin D. Roosevelt - Fireside Chats

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt thirty radio addresses made throughout his terms as President of the United States between 1933 and 1944. The speeches are snapshots of American life during the turbulent decade...

Maria Kasper and 10 more 9 hours 2 minutes

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403

Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress (version 2)

Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, satirist and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1659 and 1678. During the Commonwealth period he was a colleague and friend of John...

Amelia Chesley and 12 more 38 minutes

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Christina Rossetti - Uphill

Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads; drawing narratives from the...

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Memoirs

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Charles Adams - Memoir of Washington Irving

Arguably one of America's greatest writers, Washington Irving is the author of such classics as «Legend of Sleepy Hollow,» «Bracebridge Hall,» and «Knickerbocker's History of New York.» This book is a concise and...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 6 hours 24 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Why do we need a public library?

Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirror site in Canada to ensure IA's availability to all users. The IA is a vast...

Michele Fry and 14 more 16 hours 25 minutes

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432

Archibald Lampman - In November

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. «He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets.» The Canadian Encyclopedia says that...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 29 minutes

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William Lisle Bowles - On Hearing the Messiah

Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father William Thomas Bowles had all been parish priests. In 1789 he published, in a...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 15 minutes

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Thomas O'Hagan - In The Trenches

Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that «every book lives or perishes by virtue or default of its artistic sincerity,»...

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Margaret Steele Anderson - To The Fighting Weak

Margaret Steele Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1867 and was educated in the public school of Louisville, with special courses at Wellesley College. From 1901 Miss Anderson was Literary Editor of the...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 20 minutes

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Susanna Moodie - Twilight Hour

Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time. Her letters and journals contain valuable information about life in...

Bruce Kachuk and 7 more 9 minutes

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William Cullen Bryant - October - A Sonnet

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant edited the very successful Picturesque America which was published between 1872 and 1874. This...

Algy Pug and 17 more 22 minutes

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Bliss Carman - At Sunrise

Canada has full right to be proud of her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr. Carman stand high and clear above them all—his place (and time cannot but confirm and justify the assertion) is among...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 14 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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