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Tis the Last Rose of Summer

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Thomas Moore


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…

Freshness of Poetic Perception

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Paul Hamilton Hayne


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Freshness of Poetic Perception by Paul Hamilton Hayne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain. "The Regulation of Time" and "Uniform Standard Time" are two of seve…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085

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Various


"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …

Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity

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Richard Alfred Davenport


This book contains many brief tales from history of commoners pretending to be kings and kings pretending to be commoners. Learn the fate of…

Adventskalender 2022

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Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. bis 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme über Weihnachten, den …

Proeve over de opvoeding, aan de Nederlandsche moeders

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Betje Wolff


"De Proeve van de Opvoeding" van Betje Wolff (1738-1804) is een boekje uit het einde van de achttiende eeuw, gericht aan moeders. …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079

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Various


"It was about the month of May...that I received information ...that two photographs of fairies had been taken in the North of England …

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette

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Henriette Campan


Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…

Uganda to the Cape

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Frank G. Carpenter


Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…

There Was a Cherry-Tree

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…

Rousseau and Education According to Nature

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Thomas Davidson


In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088

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Various


"With opinions, possession is more than nine points of the law. It is next to impossible to dislodge them." Woodrow Wilson's Study…

The Web of Indian Life

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Sister Nivedita


The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…

The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science

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Ludwig Von Mises


This is the last book that von Mises wrote. It reflects a lifetime of learning and writing about economics as the leader of the Austrian Sch…

Down the Bayou

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Mary Ashley Townsend


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Down the Bayou by Mary Ashley Townsend. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 27th…

The Angler

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Thomas Buchanan Read


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Angler by Thomas Buchanan Read. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 29th, …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082

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Various


"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 084

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Various


Ghosts everywhere, and of any colour," was the promise of Spectropia, a book of "surprising spectral illusions" published in …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086

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Various


"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…

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