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On the Sublime

Read by Amelia Chesley


Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell and Translated Byherbert Lord Havell


This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…

The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

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Leonard Cox


This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of t…

The City of Din

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Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie


A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

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Angelina Emily Grimké


This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.

Lecture 1 of The Meaning of Relativity

In Insomnia Collection Vol. 004

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Albert Einstein


Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. Ho…

How Toby Won his Heritage

In Phoebe Daring

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L. Frank Baum


A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam E…

Finis

In Short Poetry Collection 166

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E. E. Cummings


This is a collection of 36 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2017.

My Sister Nell and I

In Gleams of Sunshine

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Joseph Horatio Chant


This is a volume of religious, and as the subtitle of the book says, 'optimistic' poems by J.H. Chant, a Canadian minister of the United Chu…

Where There is Love; There is God also

In Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi

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Leo Tolstoy


Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; s…

Chapter VI: Savoury Dishes - Mushrooms

In Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery

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Arthur Gay Payne


This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only slowly gaining popularity in England at the time of its publication in 1891…

The Two Fundamentals, by Mary Salome Cutler

In Why do we need a public library?

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Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirr…