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Serenade - Read by RD

In Serenade

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Oscar Wilde


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Serenade by Oscar Wilde. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 2…

09 - How the Alphabet was Made

In Just So Stories (version 3)

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Rudyard Kipling


These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite "why" and "how" questions. With …

10 - Story-tellers' Night

In A House-Boat on the Styx

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John Kendrick Bangs


The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of …

Letter XXXII

In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 1

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Samuel Richardson


Clarissa Harlowe, the tragic heroine of Clarissa, is a beautiful and virtuous young lady whose family has become very wealthy only in recent…

General Influences of Economic Progress

In Principles of Economics, Book 6: The Distribution of National Income

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Alfred Marshall


Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the…

Chapter XLVII: Ecclesiastical Discord Pt. 3

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. IV

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Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Book 5, Chapter VII

In Last Days of Pompeii

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Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton and Edward Bulwer-Lytton


Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmi…

Youth and the Pilgrim

In Helen of Troy and Other Poems

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Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale was an American poet, originally from Missouri, later attaching herself more to New York. Helen of Troy was one of her first g…

Dulce et Decorum Est Read by RD

In Dulce et Decorum Est

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Wilfred Owen


LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 different recordings of Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen. This was the weekly poetry project for the we…

Epitaph on M.H.

In Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

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Charles Cotton


Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture…

Ch 72: "He Thinks That Our Days Are Numbered"

In The Prime Minister

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Anthony Trollope


The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new c…

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