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The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Robert Henry Newell
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Pagan Papers
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Kenneth Grahame
We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered m…
Thrice Welcome
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Harrison S. Morris and Poor Robin
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Thrice Welcome from Poor Robin's Almanac. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 11,…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Society as I Have Found It
Read by John Greenman
Ward Mcallister
Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…
The Aristocrats
Read by TR Love
Gertrude Atherton
Being the impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in The Great North Woods as spontaneously recorded in her letters to her fri…
Biographia Literaria
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
Pee-wee Harris F. O. B. Bridgeboro
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Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee is back for another scouting adventure, disaster only averted by the judicious application of snacks!
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Favourite Chapters Collection 003
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Various
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…
The Poet and The Baby
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
What struck me in reading Mr. Dunbar's poetry was what had already struck his friends in Ohio and Indiana, in Kentucky and Illinois. They ha…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 049
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Various
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--carniv…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
In Old Plantation Days
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern p…
English Prose Style
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Herbert Read
Read's book describes the basic elements of composition and rhetoric: narrative form, eloquence, rhythm, and other important elements of wha…
Touch and Go
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D. H. Lawrence
A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They have decided that they have had enough of the way they are treated …
Favourite Chapters Collection 002
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Various
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…
Lectures on the Harvard Classics
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Charles William Eliot
The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062
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Various
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…