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“The Flu”: A Brief History of Influenza in U. S. America, Europe, Hawaii

Read by Grace Buchanan


A. Mouritz


PREFACEThis Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the histor…

The Best Nonsense Verses

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Josephine Daskam Bacon


From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky to limericks written by Anonymous, some of the crankiest, most logical and lyrical people turn common sense…

Old Hallowe’en Friends

In Boys and Girls

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James W. Foley


A collection of charming poems by James W. Foley, Poet Laureate of North Dakota where he was also city editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Each…

A Campfire Interpreter -- Alice C. Fletcher

In Heroines of Service

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Mary Rosetta Parkman


From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were ch…

“Grandmither, think not I forget”

In April Twilights and Other Poems

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)

Preface

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

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Nathaniel Hawthorne


Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

I’m Nobody

In Short Poetry Collection 204

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Emily Dickinson


This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2020.

I. PROSPER LE GAI RIDES OUT

In The Forest Lovers

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Maurice Henry Hewlett


My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…

Of Seneca's Writings

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 070

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Roger L'Estrange


Twenty short nonfiction works selected by the readers. “Shall we ever be able to visit the moon?” queries journalist Charles Nevers Holmes i…

Chapter 1

In The Man On The Other Side

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Ada Barnett


Ruth never expected to have a house of her own. Raised in an orphanage, she is forced to work for her living. She chooses to work in a book …

The Dedication, The Approbation

In Zadig or The Book of Fate (Version 2)

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Voltaire


"there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:" -- this quote from this novel sums it up. One of Voltaire's most…