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“The Flu”: A Brief History of Influenza in U. S. America, Europe, Hawaii

Read by Grace Buchanan

A. Mouritz

PREFACEThis Booklet has been written and compiled for the use of any student or layman who seeks concise and clear information on the histor…

The Best Nonsense Verses

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Josephine Daskam Bacon

From Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky to limericks written by Anonymous, some of the crankiest, most logical and lyrical people turn common sense…

I. PROSPER LE GAI RIDES OUT

In The Forest Lovers

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Maurice Henry Hewlett

My story will take you into times and spaces alike rude and uncivil. Blood will be spilt, virgins suffer distresses; the horn will sound thr…

Old Hallowe’en Friends

In Boys and Girls

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James W. Foley

A collection of charming poems by James W. Foley, Poet Laureate of North Dakota where he was also city editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Each…

Preface

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

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Nathaniel Hawthorne

Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

Fides, Spes

In April Twilights and Other Poems

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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather

A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)

A Campfire Interpreter -- Alice C. Fletcher

In Heroines of Service

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Mary Rosetta Parkman

From time immemorial, women have served as wives, mothers and domestic organizers. But in the nineteenth century, the lives of women were ch…

I’m Nobody

In Short Poetry Collection 204

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Emily Dickinson

This is a collection of 54 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2020.

The Nose

In Zadig or The Book of Fate (Version 2)

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Voltaire

"there is no Evil under the Sun, but some Good proceeds from it:" -- this quote from this novel sums it up. One of Voltaire's most…

Chapter 1

In The Man On The Other Side

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Ada Barnett

Ruth never expected to have a house of her own. Raised in an orphanage, she is forced to work for her living. She chooses to work in a book …