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What Shall We Do?

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt


Leo Tolstoy


A vivid description of wealth and poverty in Russia in Tolstoy's day, an inquiry into the root causes of economic inequality, and a vision o…

Ninety-Three

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Victor Hugo


1793. The new revolutionary government of France is laboring mightily to end injustice and bring in an ideal new age of liberty, equality, a…

The Trial of a New Society

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Justus Ebert


In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working…

Sonnets from Hafez and Other Verses

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush and Hafez


Elizabeth Bridges (at the time of this book's publication--later Elizabeth Bridges Dayrush) was a turn-of-the-century English poet who marri…

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (excerpt from Part V)

In Short Poetry Collection 221

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Oscar Wilde


This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2021.

The Little Poor Man

In St. Francis of Assisi (Version 2)

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G. K. Chesterton


Saint Francis of Assisi grew up in a wealthy family and his early life was characterized by splendor, riches and a lavish lifestyle. During …

Gratefulnesse

In The Temple

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George Herbert


George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…

A Parable

In Short Poetry Collection 220

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James Russell Lowell


This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2021.

Miniver Cheevy - Read by JMH

In Miniver Cheevy

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Edwin Arlington Robinson


LibriVox readers bring you 16 recordings of "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This was the fortnightly poem for June 1…

Browning's "Christmas Eve"

In A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

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George MacDonald


Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But t…

Where Love Is There God Is Also (adapted)

In The Pearl Story Book: Stories and Legends of Winter, Christmas, and New Year's …

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Ada M. Skinner


A collection of Christmas, Winter, and New Year tales and poems compiled by Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner (Summary by RomaSingh)

Letter the Ninth

In Lesley Castle (Dramatic Reading)

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Jane Austen


Lesley Castle is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was sixteen years old. Although the novels Austen becam…

Burdens

In The Glory in the Grey

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Archibald Alexander


It sometimes happens, when we are dispirited, that God's gracious gift of reviving comes to us along a very ordinary channel--in the form, p…