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The Brain

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Edmond Hamilton


A gigantic mechanical brain, constructed in a secret location known only to a few, is America's new weapon against the looming threat of war…

Climate--Incorporated

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George O. Smith


Climate control was an elusive dream. A brilliant inventor chanced upon a solution and the dream briefly became a luxurious reality. But nob…

Epitaph on a Friend

In Hours of Idleness

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…

Wings by Anna Cogswell Tyler

In Coffee Break Collection 035 - Birds

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Anna Cogswell Tyler


This is the 35th Coffee Break Collection, in which LibriVox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…

Section 13

In The Tower Menagerie

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Edward Turner Bennett


Such is a brief outline of the history up to the present period of the establishment known as the Tower Menagerie. Of the animals contained …

SIR JOSEPH LISTER AND ANTISEPTIC SURGERY

In Eminent Doctors: Their Lives and Their Work; Vol. 2

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George Thomas Bettany


Short biographies of doctors who were leaders in their profession. In this collection, we learn about men who developed specialities, of ten…

The Cross of Snow - Read by QTN

In The Cross of Snow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Januar…

The Power Of Song - Read by QTN

In The Power of Song

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Friedrich Schiller


LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Power of Song by Friedrich Schiller. Translated by Edgar A. BowringThis was the Fortnigh…

Blizzard

In Short Poetry Collection 236

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William Carlos Williams


This is a collection of 43 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2023.Note: The poem in Section 27, "On a Lady's pre…

Pasture Pot Pourri

In Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 18, March, 1921

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W. H. Fawcett


"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue was packe…

The Vanderlark

In Short Science Fiction Collection 090

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Mack Reynolds and Margaret St. Clair


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…

Flowering Evil

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 066

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Margaret St. Clair


A collection of nineteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, four-legged beasts and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up yo…

The Long Hill - Read by QTN

In The Long Hill

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Sara Teasdale


LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Long Hill by Sara Teasdale.This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 15, 2023.

A Popular Personage at Home - Read by QTN

In A Popular Personage at Home

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Thomas Hardy


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of 'A Popular Personage at Home' by Thomas Hardy.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Jan…

The Financial Circumstances of the Great Composers

In Anecdotes of Great Musicians

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Willey Francis Gates


Three hundred anecdotes and biographical sketches of famous composers and performers.I have attempted to cull from the mass of material that…