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Voyage en Italie

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François-René de Chateaubriand


Chateaubriand écrit à son ami, monsieur Joubert, aussi à monsieur de Fontanes, il nous relate son voyage dans diff&eacu…

Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria

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Elphinstone Dayrell


Elphinstone Daryell [1869-1917] was a British colonial administrator in southern Nigeria who had an interest in anthropology and folklore. T…

A Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland

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William Wordsworth


This poem is part of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," writen by Wordsworth between 1821 - 22. - Summary by David Lawrence

Tattlings of a Retired Politician

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Forrest Crissey


"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…

The Wishing Bridge

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John Greenleaf Whittier


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wishing Bridge by John Greenleaf Whittier.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Jul…

The Flame Tree and Other Folk-Lore Stories from Uganda

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Rosetta Baskerville


Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1925, are s…

The King of the Snakes and Other Folklore Stories from Uganda

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Rosetta Baskerville


Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1922, are s…

The Soldiers' Recessional

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John Huston Finley


Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of forty copies for private distribution, by the courtesy of Charles Scribn…

The Valley of the Squinting Windows

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Brinsley Macnamara


The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a sma…

The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races

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Oscar Micheaux


This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …

Bauern ABC

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Franz Graf Von Pocci


Graf Franz Ludwig Evarist Alexander von Pocci, aufgrund seiner Werke für das Kasperl- und Marionettentheater auch als 'Kasperlgraf' bek…

The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories

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Alice Dunbar Nelson


These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…

True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life

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Sarah Farro


The author is aware that she is entering a field which has been diligently cultivated by the best minds in Europe and America. Her design in…

The Nibelungenlied (English Verse)

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Anonymoustranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler and Unknowntranslated Bygeorge Henry Needler


The only translation into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original of the epic German poem The Nibelungenlied. There was a 2013 Li…

Porgy

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DuBose Heyward and Dubose Heyward


Story about Southern African American man with disabilities and the life he leads in the 1900's. - Summary by Denise Ray

Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales

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Robert Hamill Nassau


Robert Nassau spent four decades as a medical missionary in Africa, arriving at Corisco Island, now part of Equatorial Guinea, in 1861; he a…

Black Tales for White Children

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Nancy Stigand and Chauncey Hugh Stigand


Chauncey Hugh Stigand wrote this book of 29 East African folktales together with his wife, Nancy Stigand. Stigard was an officer in the Brit…

Un peu de ma vie

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Henry Gréville


Ouvrage varié de souvenirs et de poèmes de cette écrivaine érudite, très connue à son époqu…

Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas

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Anonymous


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous.This was the Fortnightly Poetry proje…

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