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Chapter 16 - They Make Ready for the Illustrious Stranger

In The Trumpet-Major

Read by Alana Jordan


Thomas Hardy


Our heroine, Anne Garland, lives quietly in a rural community deep in the English countryside. However, the arrival of several regiments pr…

Boyhood At Port Huron, Michigan

In Edison, His Life and Inventions

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Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin and Frank Lewis Dyer


A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage batter…

Folly and Female Education

In What's Wrong With the World

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GK Chesterton and G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936) has been called the “prince of paradox.” Time magazine observed of his writing style: “Whenever possibl…

Alphabet of Fruits

In Soup of Alphabets, Volume 003

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Unknown


This third "stove-top" full of Alphabet Soups --again-- runs the fullest gamut! It ranges from country scenes (Alphabets of Fruits…

The Earl of Essex

In Queen Elizabeth

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Jacob Abbott


There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels…

Anthony and Cleopatra - O Caesar what a wounding shame(Act V, Scene II)

In Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 09

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William Shakespeare


LibriVox readers present the ninth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 15…

Chapter 13

In Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

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Stephen Crane


Stephen Crane's first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets has been called "the first dark flower of American Naturalism" for its …

The Campaign in Cyprus

In Richard I

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Jacob Abbott


There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels…

Prince Sneeze

In Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection 001

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Henry Beston


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favorite public-domain fairy tales. This is a collection of…

06 - Devotion 6

In Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

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John Donne


Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as …

Lines Written From Home - Read by ACJ

In Lines Written From Home

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Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Lines Written From Home by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3…

The Raven And The Fox

In Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks

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Jean de la Fontaine, W. T. Larned (trans.) and Jean de la Fontaine


Several of La Fontaine's fables, translated into English by W. T. Larned. (Summary by bge1234)

Closing Number

In Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor

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Will M. Cressy


This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis f…