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The Nobel Prize in 1904

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The Nobel Prizes are international awards bestowed once a year by Scandinavian committees for cultural and scientific advances. They were es…

Fatherland

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Sir Henry Parkes



LibriVox volunteers bring you 4 recordings of Fatherland by Sir Henry Parkes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23rd, 2011.Sir …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079

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"It was about the month of May...that I received information ...that two photographs of fairies had been taken in the North of England …

More Australian Legendary Tales

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K. Langloh Parker



The present series of legends have all been collected by myself from the Blacks, as were the previous ones. But in this instance, I had much…

November

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John Clare



LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of November by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2012John Clare wa…

January

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Helen Hunt Jackson



LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of January by Helen Hunt Jackson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2013.Helen M…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077

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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare …

Beethoven: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words

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Ludwig van Beethoven and Ludwig Van Beethoven



This book consists of brief biographical commentaries about Beethoven arranged by topic and followed by quotations by Beethoven about the to…

Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette

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Henriette Campan



Introduced into the royal household as court reader at the age of 15 and later rising to the office of first lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoin…

The Open Window

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Edward Rowland Sill



LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Open Window by Edward Rowland Sill. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 085

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"A regard for decency, even at the cost of success, is but the regard for one's own dignity" was novelist Joseph Conrad's take on …

Adventskalender 2022

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Diese Sammlung ist ein Adventskalender und enthält für jeden Tag vom 1. bis 24. Dezember eine Aufnahme über Weihnachten, den …

Tis the Last Rose of Summer

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Thomas Moore



LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of ’Tis the Last Rose of Summer by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…

Freshness of Poetic Perception

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Paul Hamilton Hayne



LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Freshness of Poetic Perception by Paul Hamilton Hayne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068

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Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain. "The Regulation of Time" and "Uniform Standard Time" are two of seve…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088

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"With opinions, possession is more than nine points of the law. It is next to impossible to dislodge them." Woodrow Wilson's Study…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089

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"From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say." Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians is replete …

Sketches of Imposture, Deception, and Credulity

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Richard Alfred Davenport



This book contains many brief tales from history of commoners pretending to be kings and kings pretending to be commoners. Learn the fate of…

Proeve over de opvoeding, aan de Nederlandsche moeders

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Betje Wolff



"De Proeve van de Opvoeding" van Betje Wolff (1738-1804) is een boekje uit het einde van de achttiende eeuw, gericht aan moeders. …

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082

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"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…

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