Michele Fry

172 books

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Hermann Hesse - Demian, The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth

Somewhat autobiographical, this «coming of age» novel unfolds an introspective boy's formative years in pre-World War 1 Germany, from grade school through college. Hesse likens this confusing process to a giant bird...

Michele Fry 5 hours 41 minutes

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Anthologies

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Coffee Break Collection 20 -- Old Age

The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes long, or less — perfect for coffee breaks, commutes and work outs. Essays,...

ChadH94 and 9 more 1 hour 47 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp

This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting...

Michele Fry and 7 more 25 hours 36 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Penitent

LibriVox volunteers bring you12 recordings of The Penitent by Edna St. Vincent Millay. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 5, 2019. — A saucy little poem about a girl with a guilt free conscience! A very...

Brian Dirkx and 11 more 16 minutes

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Sonnets

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare Sonnet 29

LibriVox volunteers bring you 32 recordings of Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 23, 2019. — A perennial Shakespeare favorite. The sober, almost depressed...

Brian Dirkx and 31 more 41 minutes

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Madison Cawein - Wet Day

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of A Wet Day by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 21, 2019. — This Weekly Poem is in honor of April showers (bring on the May flowers!)...

Brian Dirkx and 19 more 32 minutes

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Poetry

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Golden Day

LibriVox volunteers bring you recordings of A Golden Day by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 31, 2019. — A delightful little poem describing what it feels like to greet a...

Bruce Kachuk and 18 more 30 minutes

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Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

Essays & Short Works

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William Cowper Brann - Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1

William Cowper Brann earned the nickname “The Iconoclast” by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to be pompous and self-serving. He settled in the wild and wooly West Texas town...

William Allan Jones and 13 more 12 hours 37 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Robert Burns Wilson - It Is in Winter That We Dream of Spring

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of It Is in Winter That We Dream of Spring by Robert Burns Wilson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 10, 2019. — Robert Burns Wilson was an American...

Bruce Kachuk and 22 more 28 minutes

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Single author

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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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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064

Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's «The Failure of Speculative Philosophy,» is one of several essays devoted to timeless questions. Others are by James Howell on man, nature and the...

Peter Thomlinson and 12 more 5 hours 21 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time.

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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George Pope Morris - Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time.

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Lines. After the Manner of the Olden Time by George Pope Morris. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 17, 2019. — George Pope Morris was an...

Bruce Kachuk and 16 more 43 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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