Ruth Golding

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Published 1900 onward

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William John Locke - Red Planet

Set during WWI in England, The Red Planet is a rich tale about the life in a little English town from the point of view of Major Duncan Meredyth, a disabled veteran of the Boer Wars. As he struggles to keep his life...

Ruth Golding and 9 more 10 hours 13 minutes

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General Fiction

534

Grant Allen - Woman Who Did

Most times, especially in the time when this book was written (1895), it is just as nature and society would wish: a man and woman «fall in love» and get married. But it is not so for Herminia Barton and Alan...

Ruth Golding 6 hours 1 minute

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Short works

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Children's Short Works, Vol. 002

Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 002: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Ruth Golding and 6 more 1 hour 42 minutes Children's Short Works Collections

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Humorous Fiction

521

Jerome K. Jerome - Tea-table Talk

As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display «the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs in some of his other books.» It takes the...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 33 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres — fiction and non-fiction....

Sally Ann Cook and 15 more 2 hours 51 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Romance

515

Lyndon Orr - Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion

«Famous Affinities of History» is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx,...

James Christopher and 13 more 14 hours 57 minutes

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Poetry

581

Edward Thomas - When First I Came Here

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of When First I Came Here by Edward Thomas. This was the weekly poetry project for July 19th, 2009.

Anna Roberts and 12 more 19 minutes

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Poetry

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Alice Meynell - Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project for July 12th, 2009, and was recorded to celebrate the 21st birthday of...

Bob Sherman and 9 more 30 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

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Thomas Frost - In Kent with Charles Dickens

By his own admission, Thomas Frost found it hard to make a living from his writing, and no doubt he used the name of Dickens in the title of this book to boost sales. Frost tells a good tale, and the book is not...

Ruth Golding 6 hours 8 minutes

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Poetry

532

Short Poetry Collection 081

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of July 2009.

Ruth Golding and 17 more 48 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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*Non-fiction

548

Karl Wilson Gehrkens - Music Notation and Terminology

Until relatively recently, music students at all levels of study—from the conservatories to public schools—had few resources available for the formal study of musical notation and terminology in the classroom. In...

Miriam Esther Goldman and 15 more 6 hours 26 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

508

William Makepeace Thackeray - Book of Snobs

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write that work—My vocation is announced in terms of great eloquence—I show that the...

Julie VW and 19 more 7 hours 21 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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