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Clarence Darrow, Selected Works
Read by William Allan Jones
Clarence Darrow
This is a collection of 8 works by Clarence Darrow written between 1893 and 1917. Clarence Darrow was most noted in his time as an enormousl…
Banking Under Difficulties
Read by Beeswaxcandle
George Ogilvy Preshaw
An account of life on the Goldfields of Victoria, New South Wales, and New Zealand by a Bank Official.At the present time—1888—it may appear…
The Web of Indian Life
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Sister Nivedita
The Web of Indian Life, written by Sister Nivedita (Irish-born Margaret E. Noble) and published in 1904, is a collection of essays that desc…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern
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Various
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Lands of the Caribbean
Read by Betty B.
Frank G. Carpenter
The author ventures to the islands of the Caribbean for yet another volume in his travel series. This time we visit the countries of Panama,…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…
A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860, landing at Lyttleton, the main port for the Canterbury Settlement. Altho…
There Was a Cherry-Tree
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James Whitcomb Riley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of There Was a Cherry-Tree by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 1…
Ingersoll on VOLTAIRE
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius…
Rousseau and Education According to Nature
Read by Jim Locke
Thomas Davidson
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I ha…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…
Down the Bayou
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Mary Ashley Townsend
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Down the Bayou by Mary Ashley Townsend. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 27th…
The Angler
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Thomas Buchanan Read
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Angler by Thomas Buchanan Read. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 29th, …
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
Ghosts everywhere, and of any colour," was the promise of Spectropia, a book of "surprising spectral illusions" published in …
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
"Certitude is not the test of certainty." This pithy phrase is from Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr's essay on Natural Law, one of…
Toxophilus
Read by Clive Catterall
Roger Ascham
Toxophilus is a book about target archery using the English Longbow. The book is divided into two parts: The first part is an extended argum…
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
Vlaemsche Dichtoefeningen
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Guido Gezelle
De bundel Vlaemsche Dichtoefeningen bevat 52 gedichten. Het is vooral eigen werk van Guido Gezelle, en hiernaast ook enkele vertalingen. Het…
Nocturne
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Thomas Bailey Aldrich
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Nocturne by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2011.Aldrich…
Twenty Years of the Republic
Read by Celine Major
Harry Thurston Peck
Excerpt: At the time when Mr. Cleveland was inaugurated there had been no Democratic President for a full quarter of a century. A whole gene…