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III: The Burial of Sophocles

In A Spring Harvest

Read by Devorah Allen


Geoffrey Bache Smith


G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…

Letters 25-26

In The Power of Sympathy; or, the Triumph of Nature Founded in Truth

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William Hill Brown


The Power of Sympathy was the first American novel, published in Boston in January 1789. An epistolary novel, it tells the tragic story of t…

Author's Preface

In A Year's Prayer-Meeting Talks

Read by Devorah Allen


Louis Albert Banks


This is a series of 52 talks, all of which were delivered by Rev. Banks in the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Cleveland, Ohio on a week…

Introduction

In Greek Literature

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Henry Julius Wetenhall Tillyard


"The Greeks were the most intellectual people of the old world. … The study of Greek literature is therefore a proper element in a libe…

The Worlds Need

In Aggressive Christianity: Practical Sermons

Read by Devorah Allen


Catherine Booth


Catherine Booth was very much partner with her husband, William Booth, in founding the little London mission that would flourish into the gl…

On Black Cats

In The Book of This and That

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Robert Lynd


From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as s…

For Where Your Treasure Is, There Your Heart Will Be Also

In Short Poetry Collection 212

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


This is a collection of 56 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2021.

Introduction

In Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

Read by Devorah Allen


Various


This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern na…

King Cole

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2021

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George MacDonald


The 2021 Christmas collection has some old favourites and some new, some reflections.Shepherds with a difference from New Zealand, and hopef…

The Tale of the Damsel Tohfat al-Kulub and the Caliph Harun al-Rashid Part 4

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 12

Read by Devorah Allen


Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


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

A Serenade - Read by CLA

In A Serenade

Read by Lynn Allen


Thomas Hood


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Serenade, by Thomas Hood.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2024. ------The…

A Scientist Rises

In Short Science Fiction Collection 016

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Desmond Winter Hall


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

Constant Winds

In Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

Read by Allen Kelly


Allen H. Godbey


"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment…

On Adding Insult to Injury

In G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1922

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G. K. Chesterton


A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign…

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