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Reminiscences of Forts Sumter and Moultrie

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Abner Doubleday



Now that the prejudices and bitter partisan feeling of the past are subsiding, it seems a fitting time to record the facts and incidents con…

Divine Conduct

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John Flavel



Shows God's providence in every aspect of our lives. - Summary by RuthP

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

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Benvenuto Cellini



Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

The Malay Archipelago

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Alfred Russel Wallace



A fascinating and classic Victorian ethnology of SE Asia, first published in 1869. The author was co-discoverer of evolution, together with …

Mrs. Shelley

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Lucy Madox Rossetti



"I have to thank all the previous students of Shelley as poet and man--not last nor least among whom is my husband--for their loving an…

Opportunity

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Walter Malone



LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Opportunity by Walter Malone. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 27, 2013.Wa…

The Essentials of Spirituality

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Felix Adler



This recording contains four addresses of Felix Adler (1851-1933) concerning spirituality from the perspective of Ethical Culture, an educat…

The Cow

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Robert Louis Stevenson



LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Co…

The Owl and the Pussycat

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Edward Lear



LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first…

Current Superstitions

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Fanny Dickerson Bergen



No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…

Von der Gnade

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Lucius Annaeus Seneca



Kein lebendes Wesen ist störrischer, keines will mit mehr Kunst behandelt seyn, als der Mensch; keines muß mehr geschont werden. …

Shandygaff

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Christopher Morley



A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to th…

The Market For Liberty

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Linda Tannehill



Well over a quarter century old, Morris and Linda Tannehill’s iconoclastic "The Market for Liberty" is one of the most important b…

The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott

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Robert Falcon Scott



Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has …

The History of England, from the Accession of James II

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Thomas Babington Macaulay



This is volume 5 chapter 24 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859). Volume 5 was published after his death.Chapter 2…

Claimants to Royalty

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John Henry Ingram



A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

A System of Logic

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John Stuart Mill



"In this work, he formulated the five principles of inductive reasoning that are known as Mill's Methods. This work is important in the…

The Khaki Kook Book

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Mary Kennedy Core



We cannot ignore the fact that we must eat, and that much as we dislike to acknowledge it, we are compelled to think a great deal about fill…

Grandma's Prayer

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Eugene Field



LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Grandma's Prayer by Eugene Field . This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 4, 2011.E…

The Great Events by Famous Historians

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Charles F. Horne



A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narrati…

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