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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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Culture & Heritage Fiction

611

William Elliot Griffis - Korean Fairy Tales

Everywhere on earth the fairy world of each country is older and perhaps more enduring than the one we see and feel and tread upon. So I tell in this book the folk lore of the Korean people, and of the behavior of the...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 47 minutes

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Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia

Culture & Heritage Fiction

551

A. G. Seklemian - Golden Maiden and Other Folk Tales and Fairy Stories Told in Armenia

Armenians trace their history back to before the time of the Babylonians and earliest recorded history — in fact, to Togarmah, a grandson of Japhet, Noah's son, who settled in Armenia after the Ark came to rest on...

NoelBadrian 7 hours 4 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

495

Mrs. E.J. Bourhill - Fairy Tales from South Africa

The stories in this collection come from the oral traditions of the people from Swaziland, Matabeleland (Ndebele people) and Zululand in South Africa. The authors, Mrs. E. J. Bourhill and Mrs. J. B. Drake, or more...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 51 minutes

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Literary Fiction

436

Olive Schreiner - Dreams

Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earliest campaigners for women's rights. She was also very critical of British...

NoelBadrian 2 hours 25 minutes

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Animals & Nature

495

Edna Adelaide Brown - Chinese Kitten

Lucy and Dora are so excited to learn they will be sleeping in a tent at the beach! Then Mother and Uncle Dan tell them that their kitten, Timmy is not invited, and Father says he might even run away. Arrangements...

Jennifer Dallman and 8 more 3 hours 24 minutes The Silver Bear

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Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

631

Sanni Metelerkamp - Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales

Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, George Rex, the British born entrepreneur who founded the town of Knysna and was...

NoelBadrian 3 hours 8 minutes

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Literary Fiction

487

Mary Webb - Precious Bane

Published in 1924, Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb (1881 — 1927) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power of love. Prue Sarn is a farm girl in rural Shropshire during the period of...

NoelBadrian 11 hours 27 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

455

Mary Webb - Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels «Gone to Earth» and «Precious Bane» have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire...

NoelBadrian 3 hours

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

475

Oscar Wilde - House of Pomegranates (version 2)

A House of Pomegranates (1891) is the title of the second collection of Fairy Tales by Oscar Wilde. This book contains four tales: 1. «The Young King»; which is about taking responsibility. 2. «The Birthday of the...

NoelBadrian 3 hours 43 minutes

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Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5)

Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

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Oscar Wilde - Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5)

Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was «an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy and imaginative treatment; it is a reaction against the purely imitative...

NoelBadrian 1 hour 51 minutes

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Poetry

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Thomas Moore - Poetry of Thomas Moore

The Dubliner, Thomas Moore, born in 1779 was a poet, composer, musician, and writer. He is most famous for the 10 volume work «Irish Melodies» published between 1807 and 1834 with Sir John Stevenson, which consists...

NoelBadrian 5 hours 42 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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