Peter Yearsley

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Poetry

461

Maurice Baring - Poems, 1914-1919

This is a collection of Maurice Baring's poetry. This collection contains a number of Baring's earlier poetry, written before the war mostly about his travels in Russia. The other part of the collection is made up of...

Emma Charlotte and 5 more 48 minutes

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Cooking

434

Catherine Owen - Culture and Cooking; Or, Art in the Kitchen

This is not a cookery book. It makes no attempt to replace a good one; it is rather an effort to fill up the gap between you and your household oracle, whether she be one of those exasperating old friends who maddened...

BettyB and 4 more 3 hours 40 minutes

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Science

432

Richard A. Proctor - Light Science for Leisure Hours

In preparing these Essays, my chief object has been to present scientific truths in a light and readable form—clearly and simply, but with an exact adherence to the facts as I see them. I have followed—here and...

Lynda Marie Neilson and 9 more 9 hours 40 minutes

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Myths, Legends & Fairy Tales

527

Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Household Tales

The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Other tales are less well known such as The Three...

Beth Thomas and 39 more 30 hours 18 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

475

Arts and Crafts Essays

A series of essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society with a preface by William Morris who writes «It is this conscious cultivation of art and the attempt to interest the public in it which the Arts...

realisticspeakers and 11 more 6 hours 41 minutes

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Anthologies

497

John Lomax - Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

John Avery Lomax is a towering figure in the field of early American musicology and folklore. Through intensive field work, Lomax built up the core body of work for the Library of Congress Archive. «Cowboy Songs and...

Larry Wilson and 21 more 6 hours 36 minutes

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Poetry

403

Short Poetry Collection 172

This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2017.

Winston Tharp and 14 more 1 hour 23 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Poetry

432

Thomas Fleming Day - Songs of Sea and Sail

Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats, and himself the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. Not so...

Eva Davis and 8 more 1 hour 41 minutes

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Poetry

479

D. H. Lawrence - Love Poems and Others

This is a collection of poems by DH Lawrence. Most of the poems concern love and neighboring emotions, but some poems also concern other themes. — Summary by Carolin

Melissa Perry and 7 more 1 hour 20 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

439

Francis William Lauderdale Adams - One Among So Many

Adams' energy and drive can be seen through his large output of written work in his short lifetime. He often wrote quickly and did little revision, living as he did on the proceeds of his own work rather than with the...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 29 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

442

Walt Whitman - When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Whitman claimed that after years of competing for «the usual rewards», he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the...

Algy Pug and 18 more 19 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

539

Christina Rossetti - Uphill

Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads; drawing narratives from the...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 20 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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