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Essais
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Collection d'essais de Montaigne sur des sujets variés. (Résumé par Jc)
In The Long Run
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In The Long Run by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 11th, 201…
The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poe…
Short Nonfiction Collection
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Various
Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chest…
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan
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Amy Lowell, Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Izumi Shikibu and Murasaki Shikibu
A collection of three translated diaries written during the latter part of the Heian Period (11th century A.D.). The original authors, Sugaw…
Visions of My Father
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MaryJo Romano
His hand gripped my bicycle seat as he ran alongside me that warm summer day. Even though he was young and strong, he was breathing heavily,…
Byways Around San Francisco Bay
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W. E. Hutchinson
Explore the breathtaking landscapes of California in Byways Around San Francisco Bay by W. E. Hutchinson. This engaging non-fiction work inv…
Rambles in New Zealand
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John Carne Bidwill
John Carne Bidwill came out to Sydney in 1838 to represent his family's mercantile business. Finding that he had time on his hands he decide…
My Heart and Lute
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Thomas Moore
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 201…
The Cottager to Her Infant
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William Wordsworth
Wordsworth was a defining member of the English Romantic Movement. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth’s personality and poetry were deeply inf…
Recollections of Old Liverpool
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James Stonehouse
These reflections of a 93 year old Liverpudlian provide a unique view of life in late 19th to mid19th century Liverpool. They were transcrib…
London Labour and the London Poor
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Henry Mayhew
Subtitled A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.This vo…
Napoleon and Josephine
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Walter Geer
FOREWORD: "In the popular estimation the Empress Josephine is crowned with a halo of goodness which makes the task of her biographer on…
The Secret Doctrine
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Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
A vast, sweeping survey on the origin of creation, its expansion, contraction, maintenance and instructions for humanity in the contexts of …
A Health
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Edward Coote Pinkney
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Health by Edward Coote Pinkney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 19, 201…
The Life of Christ
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Frederic Farrar and Frederic W. Farrar
The author, Frederic W. Farrar, was a Doctor of Divinity, and Fellow of the Royal Society, and at the time of publication of this edition, a…
The Workers
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Walter A. Wyckoff
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any jo…
Catalogs to Sleep By
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Various
Excerpts from vintage catalogs, read in a soft, soothing voice and meant to lull you to sleep. Drift off to dreamland with details of such t…
Uganda to the Cape
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Frank G. Carpenter
Another volume in the author's series of travelling the world and telling of its peoples, agriculture, industry, and social habits . This ti…
In the Rain
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William Wetmore Story
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of In the Rain by William Wetmore Story. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 29…