Michele Fry

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World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

Political Science

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William Jennings Bryan - World’s Famous Orations, Vol. IV: Great Britain - II

In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period,...

DrPGould and 7 more 7 hours 10 minutes World's Famous Orations

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Frances E. W. Harper - Crocuses

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which...

Bruce Kachuk and 15 more 26 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

518

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Ballad of the Oysterman

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 39 minutes

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Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

Travel & Geography

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W. H. Davenport Adams - Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century

The nineteenth century saw the expansion in popularity of travel among the wealthy. Add to this the independence more women were enjoying as they were released from work in the home, and we have the recipe for some...

Ellies and 10 more 12 hours 30 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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Action & Adventure

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J. W. Duffield - Bert Wilson at the Wheel

First volume of an adventure series for young adults — Summary by kathrinee

tommack and 4 more 5 hours 2 minutes

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Frank Benton - Cowboy Life on the Sidetrack

Frank Benton, himself a wealthy rancher, provides a series of first-hand sketches of cowboy life of the late 19th and early 20th century from stories gathered from the «sidetrack.» These were working cowpunchers with...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 3 hours 39 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 071

Romance and mystery abound in this, the seventy-first collection of short stories selected and read by Librivox volunteers.

Michele Fry and 6 more 9 hours 34 minutes Short Story Collections

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Biography & Autobiography

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Harriet Beecher Stowe - Lady Byron Vindicated

In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's sordid private life which had led to a separation from his wife and drove him out of...

Michele Fry 11 hours 6 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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George William Askinson - Perfumes and their Preparation

Most of us take for granted the sense of smell. It gives pleasure, warning, anticipation and a sense of nostalgia. People have used perfumes since the days of Ancient Persia and Egypt in order to improve their...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 10 hours 5 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 053

Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th century chronicle of the Bury St. Edmund monastery, Lorenzo de Medici's...

Melvin Lee and 9 more 6 hours 4 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Nature

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Birds and Nature, Vol. IX, No 5, May 1901

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color...

Larry Wilson and 7 more 2 hours 8 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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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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