Stefan Schmelz

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Rudyard Kipling - If

Librivox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion poll in 1995. (Summary from Wikipedia)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 16 more 38 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later...

James Smith and 18 more 7 hours 42 minutes

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William Butler Yeats - Where My Books Go

Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of the short poem Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

AliceG and 12 more 9 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Hugh Lofting - Story of Doctor Dolittle

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 12 more 3 hours 8 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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William Butler Yeats - Song of Wandering Aengus

LibriVox volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus , by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 17 more 26 minutes

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Edward Lear - Owl and the Pussycat

Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871. Its most notable feature is the introduction of the...

Amy Boatman and 18 more 37 minutes

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Fay Inchfawn - Early Spring

The Vernal Equinox signals the time when the winter’s cold mantle begins to succumb to the warming influences of the oncoming spring. Fay Inchfawn (nee Elizabeth Rebecca Ward) took the springtime of 1920 as her...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 9 minutes

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Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

Medieval

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René Descartes - Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could...

Stefan Schmelz and 5 more 2 hours 29 minutes

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Poetry

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World English Bible - Bible (WEB) 19: Psalms - Selections

To celebrate Easter, LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of various psalms from the World English Bible . This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 9th, 2006. (Summary by Annie...

Mark F. Smith and 8 more 14 minutes

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Poetry

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Maxwell Bodenheim - Poet To His Love

Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of Poet To His Love, by Maxwell Bodenheim. This weekly poetry project was selected to celebrate Valentine’s Day. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Andrea L and 12 more 9 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 073

To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 23rd, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Alys AtteWater and 9 more 12 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Sonnet 130

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now,...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 16 more 20 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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