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Winter Stars
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Sara Teasdale
In honor of Winter Solstice 2014, LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen readings of Winter Stars by Sara Teasdale. This is the weekly poet…
Selected Poems
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Pauline B. Barrington
Pauline B. Barrington was an American poet and playwright. These poems were published between 1916 and 1918 and take for their inspiration t…
Understood Betsy (version 2)
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Elizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet. When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill…
Stories by English Authors: London
Read by Kirsten Wever
F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …
A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age
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Alice Meynell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Letter From A Girl To Her Own Old Age by Alice Meynell. This was the weekly poetry project …
The Siege of Corinth
Read by Nathan
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: reveal…
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
English as She is Wrote
Read by TriciaG
William James Mcglothlin
"...Showing Curious ways in which the English Language may be made to convey Ideas or obscure them." A collection of unintentional…
The Homing Bee
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E. Pauline Johnson
It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she wa…
Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47
Read by Phil Benson
Geraldine Jewsbury
'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…
The Lost Lagoon
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Lost Lagoon by Emily Pauline Johnson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2022. …
Moll Flanders - Version 2
Read by Peter Dann
Daniel Defoe
This warm and witty novel presents itself as the first person narration of an immensely likeable and resourceful woman who, born in the most…
Le pédagogue n'aime pas les enfants
Read by Pauline Latournerie
Henri Roorda
Dans cet essai publié en 1917, Henri Roorda (1870-1925) fait une critique de la pédagogie scolaire, tout à la fois joye…
Moonset
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Moonset by E. Pauline Johnson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 9, 2024. ------…
Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable
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J.C. Gorham
The well known and delightful tale of Alice in Wonderland but retold in simpler language. All the characters are there, even the Cheshire C…
Consequences
Read by Caroline Driggs
E. M. Delafield
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…
Miß Sara Sampson
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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Miss Sara Sampson, geschrieben von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, gilt als das erste bürgerliche Trauerspiel der neueren deutschen Literatur…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Tea-table Talk
Read by Ruth Golding
Jerome K. Jerome
As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glitte…
A Cry From An Indian Wife
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E. Pauline Johnson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…