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Emily Dickinson - She sweeps with many-colored Brooms

LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of She sweeps with many-colored Brooms by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 24, 2013. Dickinson was a prolific private poet, but fewer than...

drakaunus and 10 more 9 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

504

Gene Stratton-Porter - At the Foot of the Rainbow

This story is about three people, two men and a woman. Jimmy, selfish and deceitful, who has shamelessly lied to, cheated, and used his dear friend Dannie for years. His wife Mary, who loves another. And finally...

Kevin W. Davidson and 5 more 4 hours 34 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Fitz-James O'Brien - Demon of the Gibbet

LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Demon of the Gibbet by Fitz-James O'Brien. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 10, 2013. Fitz James O'Brien was an Irish-born American writer,...

CaprishaPage and 11 more 26 minutes

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Romance

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George Gissing - Life's Morning

This is the story of a poor young lady Emily Hood who while working as a governess falls in love with Wilfrid Athel the son of her employer. They become engaged, however things do not run smoothly after a visit home...

shihping and 5 more 17 hours 20 minutes

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Romance

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Susan Warner - Nobody

There are many romantic tales about a handsome and rich man falling in love with a beautiful lower class woman over the objections of his family. Remember Elizabeth Bennett and Fitzwilliam Darcy? however, it takes...

Arie and 10 more 16 hours 42 minutes

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Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

Animals & Nature

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William Patten - Junior Classics Volume 8: Animal and Nature Stories

The eighth book in the Junior Classics Series is an anthology of collected animal and nature tales designed to appeal to the young and young at heart. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)

Lynne T and 24 more 14 hours 49 minutes The Junior Classics

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General Fiction

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Wilkie Collins - Evil Genius

The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled «A Domestic Scene». It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, including the «evil genius», and their governess Sydney Westerfield. In colorful...

ToddHW and 14 more 12 hours 50 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Victor Appleton - Tom Swift and His Wireless Message

Tom Swift & friends decide to trial an experimental airship near the New Jersey coast, and are unexpectedly swept out to sea by hurricane winds. Unable to steer or navigate without tearing the airship apart, the...

Richard Kilmer and 8 more 4 hours 18 minutes Tom Swift Adventure Series

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History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1E

Middle Ages/Middle History

540

David Hume - History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1E

David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His «The History of...

Theodulf and 14 more 23 hours 58 minutes Hume - History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688

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Poetry

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Walter Malone - Opportunity

LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013. Walter Malone was born in DeSoto Count, Mississippi. He wrote 2 volumes...

Bill Mosley and 18 more 35 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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Orison Swett Marden - How to Succeed

In this volume, Orison Swett Marden explains the road to success in simple terms for the benefit of anyone, who wishes to follow in his footsteps. Over 100 years after publication, most of these lessons are still...

Pamela Krantz and 9 more 8 hours 54 minutes

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General Fiction

449

Joseph A. Altsheler - Sword of Antietam

«The Sword of Antietam» tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in «The Guns of Bull Run» and continued through «The Guns of Shiloh» and «The Scouts of Stonewall.» The young...

ashleighjane and 5 more 8 hours 34 minutes The Civil War Series

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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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