Ruth Golding

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Family Life

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Charles Dickens - Chimes

The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In is the second of Charles Dickens' Christmas books, published in 1844. Its contemporary setting is the «Hungry Forties», a time...

Ruth Golding 4 hours 11 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

466

George Washington Cable - New Arrival

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A New Arrival by George W. Cable. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 17th, 2010. «The New Arrival» is a valuable poem because it expresses the joy of a...

adirondack and 11 more 16 minutes

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Poetry

534

Ewart Alan Mackintosh - In Memoriam

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of In Memoriam by Ewart Alan Mackintosh. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 7th, 2010. This week's poem has been chosen for this time of remembrance....

Andrea Boltz and 17 more 37 minutes

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Family Life

440

John Leighton - Christmas Comes but Once a Year

A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), and poor Soavo Spohf, organist of St. Stiff the Martyr, gifted in musical...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 9 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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W. S. Gilbert - Ghosts' High Noon

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Ghosts' High Noon by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry HALLOWE'EN project for October 24th, 2010.

Amaria Orden and 18 more 32 minutes

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Poetry

542

Nathaniel Parker Willis - Love in a Cottage

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love in a Cottage by Nathaniel Parker Willis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 24th, 2010.

A. J. Carroll and 17 more 31 minutes

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Biography & Autobiography

463

Arthur Graeme West - Diary of a Dead Officer

Published posthumously in 1919, this collection of diary entries presents a scathing picture of army life and is said to be one of the most vivid accounts of daily life in the trenches. It chronicles West's...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 43 minutes

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Poetry

502

Sir Henry Newbolt - Vitai Lampada

LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Vitai Lampada by Sir Henry Newbolt. 'Vitai lampada' is a quotation from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of the Universe) by Lucretius and literally means 'The torch...

Christine Blachford and 9 more 15 minutes

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Short Stories

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Short Story Collection Vol. 046

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 046: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Mary-Beth Blackburn and 8 more 7 hours 36 minutes Short Story Collections

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Action & Adventure Fiction

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Albert Kinross - Fearsome Island

No ordinary sailor's tale, this. Based allegedly on the real experiences of Silas Fordred, Master Mariner of Hythe, this is a story of shipwreck on an uncharted island and his supernatural adventures there with a...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 55 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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E. Nesbit - Children's Shakespeare

This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short stories or fairy tales suitable to keep the attention of child readers or...

Tim Ferreira and 7 more 2 hours 34 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Hugo Münsterberg - Psychotherapy

Talking about viewing the Ocean «If I take the attitude of appreciation, it would be absurd to say that this wave is composed of chemical elements which I do not see; and if I take the attitude of physical...

Availle and 10 more 12 hours 12 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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