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Animals

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American Book of the Dog

Here is a period piece, covering 47 breeds, about the early days of dog breeding, the birth of the American Kennel Club (1884) which firmly established breed standards, and the development of bench shows and field...

Michele Fry and 16 more 24 hours 10 minutes

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World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

Historical Fiction

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Eva March Tappan - World’s Story Volume I: China, Japan and the Islands of the Pacific

This is the first volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art , edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature,...

Sonia and 26 more 18 hours 32 minutes World's Story

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Nature

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Robert Hooke - Micrographia

Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to the Latin of other publications of the time like Newton's 'Principia...

DrPGould and 22 more 17 hours 11 minutes

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Animals

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Frank Evers Beddard - Book of Whales

A Book of Whales is a natural history of whales for the layman. — Summary by A. Gramour

Pinchcliff and 8 more 10 hours 24 minutes

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Culture & Heritage Fiction

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Lafcadio Hearn - Gleanings in Buddha Fields

Lafcadio Hearn was one of the first Westerners to live in Japan during the early Meiji era, and a prolific writer. Although chiefly known for his collections of Japanese ghost stories (in particular Kwaidan ), he...

Availle and 6 more 6 hours 25 minutes

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Poetry

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Henry Kendall - Early Poems

This is a collection of early poetry by Australian poet Henry Kendall. The poems contained in this volume already reflect the particular style for which Kendall became famous later on: his poetry focussing on...

Larry Wilson and 10 more 2 hours 42 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 177

This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2018

Sonia and 11 more 1 hour 36 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Henry Kendall - On a Cattle Track

Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country. In the beginnings of Australian poetry the names of two other men stand with his—Adam Lindsay...

Algy Pug and 8 more 29 minutes

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Alan Seeger - I Have a Rendezvous with Death

This book… contains the record of a short life, into which was crowded far more of keen experience and high aspiration—of the thrill of sense and the rapture of soul—than it is given to most men, even of high...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 28 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Christmas Carol

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Christmas Carol by Sara Teasdale. This was the Christmas Weekly Poetry project for December 23, 2018. — This Christmas Poem is taken from Helen of Troy, and Other...

Aleacia Messiah and 17 more 28 minutes

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Alice Meynell - Moon To The Sun

Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection, illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth...

Algy Pug and 15 more 18 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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