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Thomas Paine
In The Age of Reason (version 3)
In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…
Section 2
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Sir Philip Sidney
In The Defense of Poesy
Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …
A Choice Assignment
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Edward Earl Repp
In The Radium Pool
Deep beneath the many-hued, volcanic sands of the Manalava Plains is an eerie world. And in this world, in a gem-encrusted cavern, is a pool…
On Time
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John Milton
In Milton's Minor Poems
“On Shakespear 1630” typifies much of Milton’s poetry. By some miracle never yet explained, at age 24 he managed to get a 16-line encomium i…
Vignettes
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Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Preface
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Edmund Spenser
In Amoretti and Epithalamion
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…
The Exequy
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Henry King
In Short Poetry Collection 139
This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2014.
Book 1 Concluded
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Sir Philip Sidney
In The "Old" Arcadia
Sir Philip Sidney wrote two romances which he called Arcadia. The revised version he never finished because of his untimely death on the bat…
A Long Way Back
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Ben Bova
In Short Science Fiction Collection 104
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Section 4
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In The Maracot Deep
Professor Maracot, accompanied by two American associates, conducts an exploration of the Atlantic Ocean floor, beginning in a diving bell o…
Chapter 23, The March on Ivywood
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G. K. Chesterton
In The Flying Inn (Version 2)
Captain Patrick Dalroy and Humphrey Pump take to the road in a donkey cart with a cask of good rum, a giant round of cheese, and the signpos…
Part 2
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Edmund Spenser
In Four Hymns
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…
02 - Part 2
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Francis Godwin
In The Man in the Moone
A self-serving Spaniard discovers a means of traveling to the moon, describing his sensations in transit in terms remarkably consistent with…
Chapter 5
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Edith Wharton
In Twilight Sleep
Wharton miraculously finds it possible to satirize the very rich while simultaneously showing compassion and even grudging admiration for so…
Section 2
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George Bernard Shaw
In Back to Methuselah
In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…
Lowell Thomas and the News
Robert Farrell
In News From The 30's Through The 70's
News From The 30's Through The 70's
Section 1: Preface
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Robert Herrick
In A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick had been apprenticed to a goldsmith before entering holy orders. This early training has been credited with influencing his m…
Book 2, Concluded
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William Shakespeare
In Shakespeare's Ovid, Being Arthur Golding's Translation of the Metamorphoses
Ovid represents his work as a celebration of mutability in the form of a history of the world's notable transformations. It is a compendium …
Of Education
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John Milton
A well educated population is the cornerstone of a strong society. On the personal level, education contributes to virtue and self-knowledge…