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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077

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Various


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare …

The Early Diary of Frances Burney, Vol. 1

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Frances Burney and Annie Raine Ellis


Vol. 1 of Diaries and letters of the young Fanny Burney. The diaries give a lively and accurate account of her experiences in the literary a…

More Australian Legendary Tales

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K. Langloh Parker


The present series of legends have all been collected by myself from the Blacks, as were the previous ones. But in this instance, I had much…

Catalogs to Sleep By

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Various


Excerpts from vintage catalogs, read in a soft, soothing voice and meant to lull you to sleep. Drift off to dreamland with details of such t…

The Open Window

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Edward Rowland Sill


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Open Window by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February …

A to Zed Collection Vol. 002

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This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet.

Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

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Ludwig van Beethoven and Ludwig Van Beethoven


This book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven arranged by topic and followed by quotations by Beethoven about the to…

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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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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Various


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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"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…

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