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Lives of Girls Who Became Famous
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Sarah Knowles Bolton
This book is a collection of short biographies of notable women, including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Florence Nightingale, a…
Chapter 5, Part 2
Read by Ted Lienhart
Rebecca Burlend
In A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America
Complete title: "A True Picture of Emigration: or Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America; being a full and impartial account o…
Chapter 6
Read by Peter Kelleher
Stanton H. King and Stanton Henry King
In Dog-Watches At Sea
Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reaso…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 011
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Various
A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, articles, speeches and reports included in this collection…
OBITUARY. BY WILLIAM THOMSON
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Various
In Successful Recitations
A compilation of poetry designed for performance. This compilation focuses on the art of recitation, highlighting the importance of clarity,…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009
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Various
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collecti…
Life
Read by Suzanne Carol
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 033
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Various
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include astronomy, religion, United States…
History of a Life
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Barry Cornwall
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall). This was the Weekly Poetry…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the re…
The Dictionary of National Biography
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Sir Henry Newbolt
In Admirals All
A short collection of poems on Naval and other military themes by the English poet and military historian Sir Henry Newbolt published in1897…
Part I, Segment D
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Ellen Craft
In Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom
Ellen and William Craft were a married couple who escaped from slavery in 1848 when Ellen disguised herself as a white, literate man and Wil…
Preface
Read by Patrick Randall
William Langland
In The Vision of Piers the Plowman (Warren translation)
William Langland’s Vision of Piers the Plowman is one of the Early English poems that may well appeal to many other readers than the profess…
Section V
Read by Frédéric Surget
Various
In The Jade Flute
A collection of mindful ancient Chinese poetry by Li Po, Wan Ts’u, Mei Chang and other masters set in English prose by anonymous translators…
Biographia Literaria
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
Preface
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Betsy Balcombe and Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
In Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena
In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious 14 year old at the time of events, we are provided with a rare account of the…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018
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Various
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the rea…
Today by Arthur Brisbane
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Various
In The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 1
Thirty one articles each month from leading magazines - Each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form.A most co…
Chapters 1-4
Read by Celine Major
Ernest Belfort Bax
In The Story of the French Revolution
Preface Excerpt: "The following sketch of the course of the French Revolution was originally published during 1889 in serial form in &q…
My First Book (Version 2)
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Various
Have you ever wondered how your favorite author started on his or her writing career? Did they launch themselves wholeheartedly into literat…