Ruth Golding

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William Cowper - Retired Cat

William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English...

Algy Pug and 12 more 1 hour 16 minutes

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Joseph Ashby-Sterry - Christmas Duet

Joseph Ashby-Sterry was an English poet and novelist. He works include Boudoir Ballads, a collection of poetry, now out of print. This poem is taken from the 1888 edition of The Lazy Minstrel. — Summary by Wikipedia

Bruce Kachuk and 7 more 24 minutes

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John William Streets - Challenge

The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes: Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: «They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands...

Algy Pug and 14 more 18 minutes

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Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse

Poetry

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Selection of 19th Century Scientific Verse

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, it was common for discoveries in branches of science such as botany, astronomy and medicine to be described in book-length treatises in verse. By the end of the 19th century...

Ruth Golding 47 minutes

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Science

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Sir William Henry Bragg - World of Sound

The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 33 minutes Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Cuisine

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet, who was considered a popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her...

David Lawrence and 5 more 14 minutes

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Short Stories

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Ruby Wedding Collection

This collection comprises short stories, poems, a little bit of history and a little bit of ornithology, all with ruby connections. The reader greatly enjoyed searching out suitable gems for inclusion in this...

Ruth Golding 7 hours 15 minutes

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Self-Help

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Abner Bayley - Iron Will

Orison Swett Marden was well-known at the turn of the 20th century for his inspirational and spiritual books of self-help. This one deals with the importance of a man developing his own will-power. Swett Marden...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 36 minutes

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Self-Help

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P. T. Barnum - Art of Money Getting (version 2)

Although Barnum considered himself primarily a showman and his main goal was to put money in his own pocket, this little book, subtitled Golden Rules for Making Money does have a good deal of common sense about how to...

Ruth Golding 1 hour 34 minutes

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Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2

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Wallace Stevens - Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2

A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure,...

Winston Tharp and 2 more 1 hour 22 minutes The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens

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Sports Fiction

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Short Works on Sports Collection 01

A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The collection includes pieces on baseball, cricket, lacrosse, cycling, athletics,...

Larry Wilson and 9 more 5 hours 3 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Bab Ballads (version 2)

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In...

Phil Chenevert and 13 more 2 hours 47 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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