Peter Yearsley

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History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 12)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay - History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 12)

Much of this chapter is taken up with the affairs of Ireland during the reign of James II. The Protestants and Catholics are having their usual disagreements and James is putting his pieces in place in an attempt to...

Kara Shallenberg and 7 more 4 hours 4 minutes Macaulay - History of England, from the accession of James II

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Poetry

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 24th, 2007.

Alan Clare and 18 more 55 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Lewis Carroll - Alice Pleasance Liddell

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 different recordings of Alice Pleasance Liddell by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 17th, 2007.

Clarica and 22 more 29 minutes

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Poetry

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Alfred Noyes - Nippon

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven recordings of Nippon by Alfred Noyes. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 9th, 2007.

Kristin Hughes and 10 more 13 minutes

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Poetry

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Walt Whitman - Dirge for Two Veterans

In celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of Dirge for Two Veterans by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May...

Catharine Eastman and 11 more 27 minutes

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Poetry

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Bai Li 李白 - Drinking Alone by Moonlight

LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 different recordings of Drinking Alone by Moonlight by Li Bai in Mandarin, Cantonese and English. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 20th, 2007.

Jimino Sum and 22 more 35 minutes

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Poetry

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Walter De la Mare - Ophelia

Ophelia , poem of the week for February 25, 2007; read here by twelve of our readers. This was published in 1920 in «Collected Poems 1901-1918» by Walter De la Mare. Ophelia loved Hamlet, was repulsed by him,...

Alan Davis Drake and 11 more 22 minutes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

Single author

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.

Peter Yearsley and 8 more 1 hour 3 minutes

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Anthologies

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Short Poetry Collection 024

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 024: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Laurie Anne Walden and 11 more 31 minutes

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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)

Children's Fiction

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Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)

«Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ...»… and from that moment onward we drift with Alice into another world. When she sees a White Rabbit as it...

Peter Yearsley 2 hours 42 minutes

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Chemistry

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Justus von Liebig - Familiar Letters on Chemistry

Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) was a German chemist who made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry and is known for his discovery of nitrogen as an essential plant nutrient. These letters “were...

J. M. Smallheer and 5 more 4 hours 12 minutes

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Anthologies

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Insomnia Collection Vol. 001

Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented...

Cori Samuel and 9 more 6 hours 2 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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