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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous...

Gord Mackenzie and 11 more 19 hours 16 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Bram Stoker - Dracula

The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity. The author didn’t invent vampires, but his novel has so captured the...

Kara Shallenberg and 16 more 16 hours 31 minutes

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Children's Fiction

Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales

A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark...

Chris Vee and 31 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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Friedrich Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil

First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacked...

Hugh McGuire and 8 more 8 hours 2 minutes

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Animals & Nature

Beatrix Potter - Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great...

Kara Shallenberg and 15 more 3 hours 31 minutes

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William Shakespeare - Shakespeare's Sonnets

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. (Summary from wikipedia.org)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 10 more 2 hours 44 minutes

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General Fiction

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John Kendrick Bangs - Mrs. Raffles

Mrs. Raffles, widow of the now deceased A. J. Raffles (who was the gentleman thief pursued at one time by Sherlock Holmes), continues the family legacy of crime—but this time in America. These stories are narrated by...

ToddHW and 3 more 2 hours 20 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 001

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.

Peter Yearsley and 17 more 1 hour 19 minutes

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Poetry

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Paul Hamilton Hayne - Freshness of Poetic Perception

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Freshness of Poetic Perception by Paul Hamilton Hayne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 7, 2012. Paul Hamilton Hayne was born in Charleston, South...

Algy Pug and 17 more 24 minutes

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Poetry

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Henry Vaughan - World

LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of The World by Henry Vaughan. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 26th, 2009.

EHehl and 4 more 16 minutes

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Poetry

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Walt Whitman - Noiseless Patient Spider

Librivox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 11 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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