Peter Yearsley

171 books

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Anthologies

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Romantic Poetry Collection 001

A collection of romatic poems for St Valentine's day.

Peter Bobbe and 13 more 43 minutes

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Poetry

468

Short Poetry Collection 021

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 021: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Justin Brett and 10 more 32 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

508

Ghost Story Collection 003

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles...

Betsie Bush and 7 more 4 hours 44 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

478

Horror Story Collection 001

An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking...

Mark Nelson and 6 more 3 hours 51 minutes

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Short Stories

492

Short Story Collection Vol. 008

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Lucy Burgoyne and 15 more 7 hours 47 minutes

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Humorous Fiction

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Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) , published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was intended initially to be a...

Geetu Melwani and 13 more 6 hours 38 minutes

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Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin - Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary biology. The book’s full title is On the Origin of Species by Means of...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 14 more 24 hours 22 minutes

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Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

Detective Fiction

549

Maurice Leblanc - Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin who, in France, has enjoyed a popularity as long-lasting and considerable as Sherlock...

Karen Savage and 5 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Nature

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Gilbert White - Natural History of Selborne

The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of his life in the village. The book is in the form of a collection of letters...

Peter Yearsley 9 hours 14 minutes

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Satire

576

Ambrose Bierce - Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce (1842 — 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's...

Peter Yearsley and 13 more 8 hours 35 minutes

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Poetry

483

William Butler Yeats - Where My Books Go

Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of the short poem Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

AliceG and 12 more 9 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

534

Stephen Crane - War Is Kind

This weekly poem commemorated the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane. The title takes on a gentle yet harrowing irony as this poem powerfully evokes the...

Alan Davis Drake and 9 more 18 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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