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The Battle Hymn of the Republic

In Poems of American History, Volume 4, The Civil War

Read by Niki Myers

Various

This volume is a fascinating reflection on the Civil War years from a perspective in 1908, when many Civil War veterans were still alive, wh…

The Place of Safety

In The Stoneground Ghost Tales

Read by Niki Myers

Edmund Gill Swain

The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country…

Preface

In The Chemistry of Cookery

Read by Niki Myers

W. Mattieu Williams

This book, written in the late 1800s, is a book of chemistry that explains the whys and hows of cooking to trained chefs and laymen alike. T…

Fables 105-108: The Fox and the Hedgehog; The Bat and the Weasels; The Quack To…

In The Aesop for Children

Read by Niki Kernow

Aesop

A collection of Aesop's fables for children from the classic American book illustrated by Milo Winter. Read along and see the illustrations …

16 - Fortune and the Wood-Cutter

In The Brown Fairy Book

Read by Niki Salfranc

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was …

The Point of View

In Problems of the Playwright

Read by Val Myers

Clayton Hamilton

A third volume of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton, published as a companion piece to The Theory of the Theatre & Studies in S…

A Melody by Scarlatti

In Short Poetry Collection 128

Read by Tristan Myers

Aldous Huxley

This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2014.

Jeanne D'Arc Returns

In The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time

Read by Mary Myers

Henry van Dyke

These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task.Two of the poems, "A Scrap of Pape…

Magic Horse

In Fifty Funny Animal Tales

Read by Val Myers

Laura Rountree Smith

"This book contains short stories of animals that will charm the children. Such characters as the Funny Fox, the Happy Hare, the Willfu…

About May

In The Kingdom of Love

Read by Mary Myers

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This is a volume of poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, named after the poem 'the Kingdom of Love'. - Summary by Carolin