Ruth Golding

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Animals & Nature

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Ella Rodman Church - Among the Trees at Elmridge

«On that bright spring afternoon when three happy, interested children went off to the woods with their governess to take their first lesson in the study of wild flowers, they saw also some other things which made a...

RachClem and 12 more 6 hours 39 minutes

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Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1

Psychology

479

Hans Gross - Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 1

Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of...

Availle and 13 more 15 hours 44 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

459

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Wreck of the Hesperus

LibriVox volunteers bring you ten recordings of «The Wreck of the Hesperus” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,the Fortnightly Poem for August 31, 2014. May we each be spared from the wreck of pride on the reef of Norman's...

Beth Thomas and 9 more 46 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

431

Mark Lemon - How to Make a Man of Consequence

Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the writing of plays. More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and...

Andrew K Waugh and 16 more 15 minutes

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Essays & Short Works

413

Magna Carta Commemoration Essays

On 15th June 1215 the Magna Carta was sealed under oath by King John at Runnymede, on the bank of the River Thames near Windsor, England. 2015 is the 800th anniversary of this charter, which led eventually to the...

Ruth Golding and 4 more 10 hours 8 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

483

Sara Teasdale - Red Maples

Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible! Thank you to RuthieG for the suggestion .

Andrew Coleman and 23 more 26 minutes

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488

Andrew Lang - Romance

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 readings of Romance by Andrew Lang, probably best known as Edward Elgar's song My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land . Interestingly, Lang initially refused permission for his words to...

Andrew Coleman and 15 more 24 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Grantland Rice - Vanished Country

LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 readings of The Vanished Country , Grantland Rice's bittersweet reflection on life. (Summary by Ruth Golding)

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 23 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Gladys Cromwell - Star Song

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Star Song by Gladys Cromwell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 4th, 2014. Gladys Cromwell was a fine young poet who, with her twin sister, sadly ended...

ashleighjane and 15 more 21 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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William Harrison Ainsworth - Windsor Castle, Book 6

Book 6 — Jane Seymour. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other...

Jay Wills and 3 more 1 hour 33 minutes Windsor Castle

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Language learning

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Percival Leigh - Comic English Grammar

This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author,...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 38 minutes

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Single author

559

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Songs of the Road

Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of advenure — he was also a rather successful poet. This is a collection of poems...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 1 hour 21 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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