Peter Yearsley

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Epistolary Fiction

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Honoré de Balzac - Letters of Two Brides

Letters of Two Brides is an epistolary novel. The two brides are Louise de Chaulieu (Madame Gaston) and Renée de Maucombe (Madame l'Estorade). The women became friends during their education at a convent and upon...

Kara Shallenberg and 5 more 9 hours 9 minutes

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Single author

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Edna St. Vincent Millay - Poems

This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It was perhaps the lead poem in this volume, Renascence, published in 1918 in a...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 1 hour 55 minutes

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Single author

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Psalm Of Life

LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. — This poem was first published in the October 1838...

Amy Gramour and 21 more 46 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Lovecraft's Influences and Favorites

In 1927, H. P. Lovecraft wrote a long essay on «Supernatural Horror in Literature» in which he discussed the history of what came to be known as Weird Fiction. This collection includes many of the texts that Lovecraft...

Josh Kibbey and 12 more 13 hours 44 minutes

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Single author

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Robert W. Service - Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. His poems «The Shooting of Dan McGrew» and «The Cremation of Sam McGee» helped...

Larry Wilson and 11 more 3 hours 2 minutes

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Single Author Collections

Joyce Emmerson Muddock - Stories Weird and Wonderful

A collection of tales written by J.E. Muddock. All these stories are dark in atmosphere and subject matter.

Colleen McMahon and 12 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Cooking

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A. W. Bitting - Ketchup

The Bittings have written a number of books on canning and home preparation of food. This short volume includes a brief description of the preparation and production of ketchup, primarily from commercial production...

Peter Yearsley 1 hour 54 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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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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Poetry

Short Poetry Collection 178

This is a collection of 44 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2018

VfkaBT and 18 more 2 hours 33 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Reference

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Asa Gray - Elements of Botany

The book is intended to ground beginners in Structural Botany and the principles of vegetable life, mainly as concerns Flowering or Phanerogamous plants, with which botanical instruction should always begin; also to...

J. M. Smallheer and 7 more 7 hours 45 minutes

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Short Stories

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Richard Middleton - Day before Yesterday

This is a volume of short stories and essays by Richard Middleton. The British poet and author wrote a large number of short pieces during his life, which are today still as entertaining as they were then. Published...

DrPGould and 14 more 4 hours 37 minutes

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Poetry

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Bliss Carman - By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies

This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of persons known and unknown to the poet. — Summary by Carolin

Peter Yearsley and 7 more 1 hour 15 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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