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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Endymion

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Endymion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. — In classical mythology, Endymion was a young man who, while...

Bruce Kachuk and 19 more 40 minutes

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Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3

Political Science

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Niccolò Machiavelli - Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3

In «Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius», posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for the present. As the title mentions, the...

Josh Kibbey and 8 more 5 hours 47 minutes

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The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Rosa Mulholland - The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories

This is a collection of 10 original ghost stories by Rosa Mulholland, published in 1880. Some only one section long; others spread out over 3 or 4 sections. Enjoy! Summary by Carolin

Betsy Walker and 11 more 8 hours 32 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Caroline Ticknor - Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories

This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society in the American Gilded Age in the late ninteenth century, and these stories...

Sally Sharpe and 7 more 5 hours 10 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Arthur Macy - Easy Knowledge

Arthur Macy did not consider his work of sufficiently high poetic standard to be published. Every one praised his choice of words, his wonderful facility in rhyme, the perfection of his metre, and the daintiness and...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 19 minutes

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Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II

Education

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John Locke - Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book II

John Locke wrote four essays on human (or humane) understanding. Here are a few quotes from the book: «I see no reason to believe, that the soul thinks before the senses have furnished it with ideas to think on....

Pamela Nagami and 14 more 14 hours 39 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths

Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales from the Hudson River, and animal stories. — Summary by DrPGould

DrPGould and 15 more 14 hours 28 minutes The Junior Classics

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Music

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Lawrence Gilman - Stories of Symphonic Music

'A guide to the meaning of important symphonies, overtures and tone-poems from Beethoven to the present day'. Gilman became notorious for scathing reviews of compositions later to become classics. Here he analyzes the...

Lynne T and 13 more 10 hours 16 minutes

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Humor

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Kate Sanborn - Wit of Women

It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting. While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now threadbare, the wit of women has been almost utterly ignored and...

Joseph Tabler and 9 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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John M. Burke - Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace

William Frederick «Buffalo Bill» Cody is one of the legends of the American western frontier. As a teen he rode for the pony expressed and then drove for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. He later rejoined the...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 7 hours 13 minutes

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Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No...

Paul Mazumdar and 11 more 15 hours 30 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Poetry

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Will Carleton - Farm Ballads

Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to...

Mayah and 10 more 1 hour 44 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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