Maria Kasper

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John Bunyan - To Be a Pilgrim

From John Bunyan's classic, The Pilgrim's Progress, we find the poem To Be a Pilgrim, an inspiring reminder of who we are in Christ. This was the weekly poem for March 8-15, 2015. — Summary by Esther ben Simonides

Adele de Pignerolles and 12 more 16 minutes

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Nautical & Marine Fiction

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Susan Coolidge - On the Shore

Librivox volunteers bring you 15 readings of On the Shore by Susan Coolidge, author of What Katy Did . This was the weekly poem for the week of March 1, 2015. — Summary by Rachel

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 22 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Charge of the Light Brigade

This poem was published just six weeks after the event, its lines emphasize the valour of the cavalry in bravely carrying out their orders, regardless of the obvious outcome. The Charge of the Light Brigade was a...

Allen Biehl and 16 more 42 minutes

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Education

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Horace Mann - Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education

Horace Mann is called The Father of the Common School and was one of the first progressive thinkers on education in the United States. His Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education , written between 1837...

Maria Kasper 37 hours 58 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Joseph Jacobs - More English Fairy Tales

«This volume will come, I fancy, as a surprise both to my brother folk-lorists and to the public in general. It might naturally have been thought that my former volume (English Fairy Tales) had almost exhausted the...

Jeff Dumas and 15 more 5 hours 28 minutes

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Romance

463

Rupert Brooke - Day and NIght

Rupert Brooke was both fair to see and winning in his ways. There was at the first contact both bloom and charm; and most of all there was life. To use the word his friends describe him by, he was «vivid». This...

Algy Pug and 12 more 17 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - Hunter and His Dying Steed

Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was «one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in...

DomBombadil and 7 more 25 minutes

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House & Home

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William Sandys - Christmastide

Christmastide: Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music is a collection of essays detailing the early traditions of Christmas in England. This recording includes the prose portions of the book only (The...

Greg Giordano and 1 more 7 hours 9 minutes

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Modern (20th C)

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San Francisco Earthquake and Fire

During the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906, newspaper reporters in the stricken city made a heroic effort to keep the public informed. Despite the destruction of their offices and presses, they managed to...

Maria Kasper 5 hours 28 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Nathaniel Parker Willis - Declaration

Nathaniel Parker Willis is also known as N. P. Willis. He was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became...

Bruce Kachuk and 8 more 15 minutes

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Emma Lazarus - Off Rough Point

Emma Lazarus was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for «The New Colossus», a sonnet written in 1883; its lines appear on a bronze plaque in the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty placed in 1903....

elliot and 18 more 27 minutes

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What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding Hood

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Bret Harte - What the Wolf Really Said to Little Red Riding Hood

Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the California Gold Rush. In a career spanning more than four...

Claudia Salto and 12 more 20 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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