Ruth Golding

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Animals

456

Frederick G. Aflalo - Birds in the Calendar

Delightful sketches of British wild birds — a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This collection of articles, reprinted in book form from the periodical The...

Ruth Golding 2 hours 29 minutes

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Literary Fiction

489

Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights (Version 2)

Emily Brontë's only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this...

Ruth Golding 14 hours 49 minutes

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Poetry

549

Short Poetry Collection 077

This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of March 2009.

Rhonda Federman and 14 more 59 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

523

Edward Lear - Jumblies

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Jumblies by Edward Lear. This was the fortnightly poetry project for March 8th, 2009.

Alan Davis Drake and 18 more 1 hour 5 minutes

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Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

Middle Ages/Middle History

584

Jean de la Lacroix - Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period

A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on private life, food, hunting, games and pastimes, costume, privileges and...

Leni and 5 more 17 hours 5 minutes

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Historical Fiction

553

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Last Days of Pompeii

Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the...

Ric F and 11 more 16 hours 45 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

486

Richard Marsh - Beetle

A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational...

icyjumbo and 3 more 11 hours 56 minutes

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General

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Jacob Abbott - Charles I

There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history,...

reservedforgreatness and 7 more 5 hours 16 minutes

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History

528

Walter Besant - History of London

Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, were probably best known through the detailed 10-volume Survey of...

Ruth Golding 8 hours 35 minutes

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Poetry

456

Voltairine de Cleyre - Selected Works: Poems

Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912)was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected poems....

Hannah Dowell and 9 more 3 hours 5 minutes

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Poetry

535

Short Poetry Collection 076

This is an open collection of poems for the month of February 2009.

Rhonda Federman and 15 more 1 hour 23 minutes Short Poetry Collections

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Children's Fiction

482

E. Nesbit - Magic World

Talking cats, birds, fish and bells, wicked fairies, uglified princesses — adventure, magic, and more magic. A delightful collection of stories for children of all ages. The Magic World is an influential...

Ruth Golding 7 hours 27 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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