Neeru Iyer

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Lew Wallace - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1

Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ «Book 1» gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1 gives the account of Christ's birth. (Summary by MHAIJH85)

David Lawrence and 8 more 3 hours 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Thornton W. Burgess - Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories

Thornton W. Burgess was a conservationist and prolific author of children's books. His gently humorous stories about the animals of the meadows and woods teach little lessons about getting along with others; they are...

Neeru Iyer and 8 more 2 hours 53 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres — fiction and non-fiction....

Sally Ann Cook and 15 more 2 hours 51 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Snow Queen and Other Stories

This project features four longer stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective...

Neeru Iyer and 1 more 2 hours 24 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Richard Barnum - Squinty the Comical Pig

«This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors to write children's tales, and gave them „house names“. The „name“ of the author...

jedopi and 2 more 2 hours 17 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of...

David Lawrence and 4 more 1 hour 52 minutes

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Poetry

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Rabindranath Tagore - Gitanjali

Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated into other languages. In England a...

Neeru Iyer and 6 more 1 hour 40 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Dorothy Quigley - What Dress Makes of Us

A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Ruth Golding and 7 more 1 hour 29 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Clement Clarke Moore - Visit From Saint Nicholas

LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of A Visit From Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore. More commonly known today as 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December...

Anne Cheng and 23 more 1 hour 27 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 076

This is an open collection of poems for the month of February 2009.

Rhonda Federman and 15 more 1 hour 23 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Humorous Fiction

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Lawrence J. Burpee - Humour of the North

Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and humour.... The present little collection obviously makes no such ambitious...

Barry Eads and 6 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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Poetry

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Will Carleton - How Betsey and I Made Up

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How Betsey and I Made Up by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009.

Andrea Fiore and 12 more 1 hour 8 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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