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In The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Vol. 1

Read by Melody Martinez


Giacomo Casanova


This is the first of five volumes. - Giacomo Casanova (1725 in Venice – 1798 in Dux, Bohemia, now Duchcov, Czech Republic) was a famous Vene…

Vinzi: A Story of the Swiss Alps

Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez


Johanna Spyri


At 12 years old, Vinzi's only desire is to study his beloved music. But his father wants to make a farmer of him, and is displeased whenever…

Chapter I — ORIGIN OF MEDICINE, Egyptian Medicine

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Read by Melody Khoriaty


Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler


This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

The Wood Harmony

In Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 2, September 1902

Read by Melody Khoriaty


Various


"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes…

Night 899 - 900

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09

Read by Melody Khoriaty


Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

05 - Autumn Flowers

In Sasha

Read by Melody Khoriaty


Aleksandr Kuprin


Kuprin is well-known to Russian readers and has been described as one of the last exponents of Russian critical realism. He first made a car…

Yonder See the Morning Blink - Read by NM

In Yonder See the Morning Blink

Read by Nova Melody


A. E. Housman


LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of Yonder See the Morning Blink by A. E. Housman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 3…

Story of the Retired Sage and His Pupil, Related to the Sultan by the…

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 04

Read by Melody Khoriaty


Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott


The fourth and final volume of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in h…

The Shopman

In Certain Personal Matters

Read by Melody Khoriaty


H. G. Wells


Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pi…

The Use of Night

In Summer of Love

Read by Melody Khoriaty


Joyce Kilmer


Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…

Ch 5. Characteristics (Continued)

In Loom and Spindle

Read by Zoe Martinez


Harriet H. Robinson


Harriet Robinson was a frequent contributor to the famous monthly periodical, "The Lowell Offering", which featured poetry, essays…

His Christmas Gift

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2019

Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez


Jacob A. Riis


2019 collection of items with a Christmas theme containing traditional stories, Christmas traditions, Christmas cakes. We hope you will enj…

Twilight Tales and Totems

In Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin

Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez


Mary F. Nixon-Roulet


Away up toward the frozen north lies the great peninsula, which the United States bought from the Russians, and thus became responsible for …

The Blue-green Areas

In Mars and Its Canals

Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez


Percival Lowell


In the days before telescope photography, astronomers had to draw what they thought they saw through the eyepiece throughout the long dark n…

IV

In A House Divided Against Itself

Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez


Margaret O. Oliphant


"A house divided against itself cannot stand." So said Abraham Lincoln in 1858. Here we have the irascible Mr. Waring, an elderly …

The Titanic

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 067

Read by Anita Sloma-Martinez


Elbert Hubbard


Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Two U.S. Presidents are remembered in "A Colored Man's Reminiscences of James Madi…

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