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Eirik the Red's Saga

Read by Julian Jamison


Anonymoustranslated Byjohn Sephton


In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson's discovery of Vinland…

Why the Moon and Stars Get Light from the Sun

In West African Folk Tales

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William H. Barker


A collection of folk tales mostly centered around Anansi. In West African lore Anansi is known as a trickster god, and is often depicted as …

Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

Version 2

In The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day

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Lydia Maria Child


LibriVox volunteers bring you two different recordings of The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day, by Lydia Maria Child, to celebr…

Eldorado

In Short Poetry Collection 018

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Edgar Allan Poe


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 018: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Comin Thro' the Rye

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 002

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Robert Burns


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. …

Voluspa

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 001

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Anonymous


LibriVox’s first Multilingual Poetry Collection, where LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than …

Chapter 06

In Warlord of Kor

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Terry Carr


Terry Carr never really shone as a writer, though he did write some remarkably thoughtful stories. However, his talents as an editor and ant…

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In Jabberwocky

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Lewis Carroll


LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of J…

The Story of the Three Bears

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

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William Patten


The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

Come Away, Come Away!

In Peter Pan

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J. M. Barrie


Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fa…

Chapter VIII: Part 1

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Mending Wall

In Short Poetry Collection 017

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Robert Frost


LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 017: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Wedding-Day, from The Courtship of Miles Standish

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.

On the Imperfection of the Geological Record – Part 1

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin


Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…