Samuel Johnson
LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 001
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This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections cont…
Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia
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In this enchanting fable (subtitled The Choice of Life), Rasselas and his retinue burrow their way out of the totalitarian paradise of the H…
Selected Essays of Samuel Johnson
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This is a volume of selected essays by "the great master of reason" Samuel Johnson. The most famous exerpts from The Rambler, The …
Short Story Collection Vol. 062
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LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, includi…
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books
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Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Baco…
Plan and Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
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The published dictionary was a huge book: with pages nearly 1½ feet tall and 20 inches wide, it contained 42,773 words; it also sold …
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1)
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The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Long Poems Collection 007
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LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 007: a collection of 15 public domain poems greater than 10 minutes in length.Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: …
Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose
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A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English languag…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064
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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's "The Failure of Speculative Philosophy," is one of several essays de…
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
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Samuel Johnson’s wit and tongue-in-cheek expressions make this record of the economy, education and politicks [sic] of remote settlements an…
Prayers and Meditations
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The prayers and meditations of Samuel Johnson, published posthumously by George Strahan to whom Johnson had entrusted the manuscripts. Johns…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074
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Twenty-one short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "We must learn to dignify common labor." Booker T. Washington spoke plain…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 075
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Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Is the sound of a dripping faucet music? According to Aldous Huxley, "The music of…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082
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"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gres…
Short Poetry Collection 071
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This is a collection of poems for the month of September 2008.
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 093
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"Flirting is more serious than talking nonsense and not so serious as making love" was journalist Eliza Lynn Linton's take on rela…