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In The Long Run
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In The Long Run by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 11th, 201…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 058
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Various
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chest…
Japan and Korea
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another fascinating volume in the author’s quest to travel the world. This time we are taken to Japan and Korea for an in-depth look at thei…
The Gentle Art of Tramping
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Stephen Graham
Stephen Graham tramped extensively around pre-revolutionary Russia, and with immigrants as they landed on the East coast of America and spre…
Visions of My Father: Ode to Killer Joe
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MaryJo Romano
His hand gripped my bicycle seat as he ran alongside me that warm summer day. Even though he was young and strong, he was breathing heavily,…
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poe…
Byways Around San Francisco Bay
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W. E. Hutchinson
California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-…
My Heart and Lute
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 201…
The Cottager to Her Infant
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William Wordsworth
Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply inf…
Recollections of Old Liverpool by a Nonagenarian
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James Stonehouse
These reflections of a 93 year old Liverpudlian provide a unique view of life in late 19th to mid19th century Liverpool. They were transcrib…
Rambles in New Zealand
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John Carne Bidwill
John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family's mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decide…
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East
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Walter A. Wyckoff
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
Napoleon and Josephine 'The Rise of the Empire'
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Walter Geer
FOREWORD: "In the popular estimation the Empress Josephine is crowned with a halo of goodness which makes the task of her biographer on…
In the Rain
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William Wetmore Story
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of In the Rain by William Wetmore Story. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 29…
A Health
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Edward Coote Pinkney
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 19, 201…
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 10 - Legal
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Robert G. Ingersoll
For those who like courtroom drama, here are Ingersoll’s Opening and Closing arguments on the most famous trials of his career--the Star Rou…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 060
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Various
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain independently chosen by the readers. Volume 60 features excerpts from two German philoso…
Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lecture 3
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: [i]"It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of ge…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03
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Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Su…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume IV
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.This vo…