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Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch

Read by David Barnes

General Sir John Miller Adye

"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our East…

Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2

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John Clare

John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature po…

045 - 遊子吟 (A Traveller’s Song) (Mandarin) by Meng Jiao 孟郊

In 唐诗三百首 卷一 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 1

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Meng Jiao and Jiao Meng 孟郊

The Tang Dynasty (618 to 907) was a golden age of Chinese culture: religion and philosophy, painting and calligraphy, sculpture, architectur…

The Dance of Death

In Three Short Works

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Gustave Flaubert

Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheo…

The Village Blacksmith - Read by DRB

In The Village Blacksmith

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of The Village Blacksmith, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poet…

Chapter 08

In War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

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Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

The Butcher and His Customers

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275)

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Aesop

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

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