Melissa

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Maria Montessori - Montessori Method

In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori began her work by developing methods to educate mentally retarded children,...

Leni and 15 more 11 hours 51 minutes

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Plays

William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06

LibriVox readers present the sixth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest...

Shurtagal and 10 more 46 minutes Shakespeare Monologues Collections

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Poetry

Charles Webbe - Against Indifference

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Against Indifference by Charles Webbe. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 20th, 2008.

Alan Davis Drake and 16 more 15 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Anne Brontë - Agnes Grey

The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in...

Melissa and 6 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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General Fiction

Gene Stratton-Porter - Freckles

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one...

Mary Anderson and 6 more 8 hours 43 minutes

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Poetry

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George William Russell - Hour of Twilight

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of The Hour of Twilight by George William Russell, published in «Collected Poems» in 1913. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 18th,...

Alan Davis Drake and 13 more 19 minutes

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General Fiction

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Louisa May Alcott - Jo's Boys

Jo's Boys is the third book in the Little Women trilogy by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1886. In it, Jo's «children», now grown, are caught up in real world troubles. All three books — although fiction — are highly...

Megan Kunkel and 7 more 9 hours 36 minutes

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Poetry

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John Keats - Ode to Autumn

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Ode to Autumn by John Keats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 11th, 2007.

Alan Davis Drake and 14 more 35 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Lucretia P. Hale - Peterkin Papers (version 2)

The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are a lovable but comically inept family with ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness,...

Laura Caldwell and 8 more 4 hours 28 minutes

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Detective Fiction

Edgar Wallace - Daffodil Mystery

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (April 1, 1875–February 10, 1932) was a prolific British crime writer, journalist and playwright, who wrote 175 novels, 24 plays, and countless articles in newspapers and journals. Over...

J. M. Smallheer and 11 more 6 hours 59 minutes

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Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Anonymous - Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

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...

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 13 hours 39 minutes Thousand Nights and a Night

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Literary Fiction

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Victor Hugo - Misérables Vol. 1

This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the way, the ex-convict joins a revolution, adopts a daughter, and beats people...

Ryan T. and 29 more 13 hours 46 minutes

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New

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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