MaryAnn

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Henry Edward Krehbiel - How to Listen to Music

This book is «not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art». It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues — and when to believe the critics. (Summary by Sarah...

Ruth Golding and 6 more 6 hours 47 minutes

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Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland

Travel & Geography

494

John William Norie - Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland

Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant vessels. The description of landmarks and ports, as well as the rules and...

Pentti Hirvonen and 3 more 2 hours 10 minutes

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General Fiction

546

Rabindranath Tagore - Mashi and Other Stories

A 1918 collection of short stories, by the popular Bengali writer.(Summary by BellonaTimes)

om123 and 7 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Christianity - Commentary

530

Charles H. Spurgeon - Treasury of David, Vol. 1 (Abridged)

Charles Spurgeon was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the «Prince of Preachers». In his lifetime,...

MaryAnn and 6 more 12 hours 11 minutes The Treasury of David

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Detective Fiction

476

Meredith Nicholson - Port of Missing Men

Shirley Claiborne is fascinated by the tall handsome man named John Armitage who seemed to follow her and her brother, Captain Claiborne, as they traveled around Europe. Count von Stroebel had urged Armitage to do...

MaryAnn 7 hours 50 minutes

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Detective Fiction

408

Richard Henry Savage - Midnight Passenger

Randall Clayton was surrounded by enemies. His father’s business partner had looked after him in the years since his father’s death. But Hugh Worthington’s motives were not altruistic – he had a secret to hide and a...

MaryAnn 8 hours 22 minutes

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Music

479

Public Domain Hymns 01

«Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages (commonly referred to as „canticles“) in the Scriptures, Christian hymns are generally directed as praise and worship to the monotheistic God. Many refer to...

Sam Stinson and 8 more 2 hours 41 minutes

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General Fiction

468

Emma Wolf - Other Things Being Equal

Ruth Levice, the daughter of a rich San Francisco Jewish merchant, meats Dr. Herbert Kemp, and they slowly fall in love. However, she is Jewish and he is not. Can love overcome such an obstacle? And what is more...

Amy Gramour and 6 more 7 hours 1 minute

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

501

Eugene Field - With Two Spoons For Two Spoons

Librivox volunteers bring you nine readings of With Two Spoons For Two Spoons, by Eugene Field. This was the weekly poem for the week of December 7, 2014. Summary by Ann Boulais

AnnaMarie Tokas and 8 more 11 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

566

Children's Short Works, Vol. 008

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 008: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

MaryAnn and 11 more 2 hours 20 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Suspense, Espionage, Political & Thrillers

674

Ella Middleton Tybout - Wife of the Secretary of State

In this political thriller set at the turn of the 20th century, several lives, both of Washington insiders and those on the periphery, intersect over the issue of some stolen diplomatic papers. And what hidden secrets...

DrBeccaAnne and 11 more 9 hours 54 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

512

Edmund Gosse - Raleigh

Sir Walter Raleigh's plan in 1584 for colonization in the «Colony and Dominion of Virginia» (which included the present-day states of North Carolina and Virginia) in North America ended in failure at Roanoke Island,...

musil and 7 more 7 hours 43 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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