Phil Schempf

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and...

Availle and 10 more 4 hours 37 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Modern (19th C)

469

Owen Chase - Shipwreck of the Whale-ship Essex

Owen Chase (October 7, 1797 – March 7, 1869) was First Mate of the whale ship Essex, that was struck and sunk by a sperm whale on October 28, 1820. Chase wrote about the incident in Narrative of the Most Extraordinary...

Phil Schempf 2 hours 30 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 063

This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Authors include Saki, Lord Dunsany, Rudyard Kipling, Rex Beach, Banjo Paterson, Chekhov and Montesquieu.

Peter Yearsley and 10 more 6 hours 24 minutes Short Story Collections

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 185

This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2018.

Phil Schempf and 13 more 1 hour 34 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Antiquity

600

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Speeches Against Catilina

This volume contains the four speeches delivered by Cicero in 63 BC, when he was a consul, against the conspiracy headed by L. Sergius Catilina. Catilina was scheming to bring about a general uprising in the country...

Phil Schempf and 4 more 3 hours 23 minutes

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Poetry

435

Short Poetry Collection 154

This is a collection of 35 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2016.

Shakira Searle and 17 more 1 hour 36 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Essays & Short Works

469

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 040

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a murder during the Yukon gold rush, a perpetual motion fraud, the dissection of a Tasmanian tiger's brain,...

Son of the Exiles and 9 more 5 hours 18 minutes Short Nonfiction Collections

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Single author

459

Robert Frost - Mountain Interval

Originally published in 1916 and revised in 1920, Mountain Interval is Robert Frost's third collection of solo poetry. In it, Frost reflects on human tragedies and fears, expresses his reaction to the complexities...

Keith Louis and 7 more 1 hour 26 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

410

Helen Hunt Jackson - November

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of...

ABabington and 11 more 15 minutes

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Poetry

430

Short Poetry Collection 150

This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2015.

Leonard Wilson and 10 more 58 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Single author

495

Isaac Watts - Psalms of David

Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as «classical hymns» such as «Joy to the World» and «When I survey the wondrous cross». His translations of the Psalms are therefore...

Jael Baldwin and 20 more 8 hours 22 minutes

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Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)

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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) - Odes and Carmen Saeculare

Flawlessly hammered out, as if from eternal bronze—«aere perennius»—The Odes of Horace are the consummate expression of the pride, the reserve, the tragic playfulness, the epicurean calm, the absolute distinction of...

KHand and 13 more 4 hours 28 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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