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Digger Smith

Read by Son of the Exiles


C. J. Dennis


“Digger Smith” is a series of narrative poems about an Australian soldier coming home in the closing months of the Great War minus a leg and…

A Calendar of Sonnets

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Helen Hunt Jackson


Helen Hunt Jackson is probably most famous for her work on behalf of Native Americans’ rights. However, this short volume presents a sonnet …

Bill & Doreen's Married Life

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C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (Selections from "Doreen")" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship"…

Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke")

Read by Son of the Exiles


C. J. Dennis


"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "The Songs of a Sentimental Blok…

Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus Value--Chapter XV: Machinery and Modern…

In Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Vol 1

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Karl Marx, transl. Moore and Aveling and Karl Marx


Capital, Volume I is the first of three volumes in Karl Marx’s monumental work, Das Kapital, and the only volume to be published during his …

Book 1, part 7

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 1

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Herodotus


The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Book 13

In Leaves of Grass

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Walt Whitman


American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

05 - Why the Lamb Is Meek

In Fairy Tales from Brazil

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Elsie Spicer Eells


This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths…

The Story of a Fierce Bad Rabbit

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 051

Read by The Countess


Beatrix Potter


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 051: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

07 - The Mother of Pansies, part 1

In The Book of Ghosts

Read by The Gypsy


Sabine Baring-Gould


Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

The Statue

In Poems of Optimism

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This is a volume of Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The topic of this volume is "optimism". - Summary by Carolin

The Despairing Lover - Read by NY

In The Despairing Lover

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William Walsh


LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Despairing Lover by William Walsh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 11, …

Chapter 13, Table Etiquette

In The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness

Read by The Countess


Florence Hartley


A COMPLETE HAND BOOK FOR THE USE OF THE LADY IN POLITE SOCIETY. CONTAINING FULL DIRECTIONS FOR CORRECT MANNERS, DRESS, DEPORTMENT, AND CONVE…

Book 2, Chapters 30-31

In Against Heresies

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Irenaeus


St. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons, describes several schools of Gnosticism which were prevalent among pre-Nicene Christianity. He then refutes t…

The City in the Sea

In Short Poetry Collection 122

Read by The Snake


Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) and Edgar Allan Poe


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2013.

Sauces and Fudge

In Recipes: Hershey's Baking Chocolate

Read by The Countess


Hershey Chocolate Corporation


This little booklet, published by the Hershey Chocolate Corporation, presents a group of basic chocolate recipes including sauces. fudge, ca…

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