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The Spinster Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Myrtle Reed
A cross between guidebook and social commentary, The Spinster Book gives clever and humorous insights on topics such as courting, handling m…
Beautiful Joe
Read by Allyson Hester
Marshall Saunders
Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and "Beautiful Joe" is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master…
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon
Read by Robert Garrison
American Standard Version
The Song of Songs is the twenty-second book of The Bible and was authored by Solomon. In some translations, this book is entitled The Song o…
Six Years in the Prisons of England
Read by Elaine Webb
Frank Henderson
A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fello…
Shakespeare and Music
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Christopher Wilson
Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries mus…
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front
Read by Clive Catterall
E. W. Hornung
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was onl…
Our Cats and All About Them
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Harrison Weir
The Englishman Harrison Weir organized the first cat show in England in 1871. In 1887 he founded the National Cat Club and was its first Pre…
Just Me
Read by Pamela Krantz
Pearl White
Perhaps the first memoir written by a film celebrity, Pearl White's Just Me gives a first-person account of the actress' rise to stardom. Wh…
Have We Been Played? The Hidden Game Revealed
Read by John Berling Hardy
John Berling Hardy
THIS BOOK IS MOST LIKELY NOT FOR YOU! It will NOT guarantee success – Life holds no promises! It will NOT guarantee happiness – I…
From The Temple
Read by Kirsten Ferreri
George Herbert
George Herbert was a country minister and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In From The Temple, Herbert com…
Strange Pages from Family Papers
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Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
“Among other qualities which have been supposed to belong to a dead man’s hand, are its medicinal virtues, in connection with which may be m…
The Bird Study Book
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Thomas Gilbert Pearson
Do you enjoy bird watching? Would you like to learn a little more about the early conservation efforts to protect wild birds? In the Preface…
The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the …
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Cotton Mather
Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous "Salem Witch Trials". In addition to Mather's interpretation of t…
Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of The Universe: Introduction
Read by David Wales
Alexander Von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of romantic phi…
A Woman's Experiences in the Great War
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Louise Mack
An eye-witness account of the fall of Antwerp to the Germans in the opening months of World War I, Mack’s story has passages of extraordinar…
The Great Taxicab Robbery
Read by Roger Melin
James H. Collins
In 1912, $25,000 was stolen during a bank transfer in New York City in broad daylight. In what may appear astonishing in today's world, the …
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 003
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Various
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…
Highways and Byways in Sussex
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. V. Lucas
A very personal and opinionated wander through the Sussex of around 1900, illustrated with anecdotes, literary and poetic quotations, graves…
The Vagabond
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Robert Louis Stevenson
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of The Vagabond by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 22, 20…
Historical Tales, Vol IV: English
Read by Kalynda
Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume IV of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers …