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Chapter 10 - Pioneer Labor Legislation in Illinois

In Twenty Years at Hull House

Read by Dianne Lanning


Jane Addams


Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXXI - Canto XXXIV

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Marlo Dianne


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

The Lamp

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 03 (Fables 51-75)

Read by Marlo Dianne


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Recurrence

In Short Poetry Collection 231

Read by Dianne Erdmann


Dorothy Parker


This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2022.

Book 6 – 04

In The Return of the Native

Read by Marlo Dianne


Thomas Hardy


Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Vic…

Lily and The Lion

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Marlo Dianne


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

A Runaway Reef

In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Read by Marlo Dianne


Jules Verne


Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pea…

Version 15

In The Owl and the Pussycat

Read by Marlo Dianne


Edward Lear


LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first…

Snow-White and Rose-Red

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 051

Read by Dianne Erdmann


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 051: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Version 08

In The Song My Paddle Sings

Read by Marlo Dianne


E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of "The Song My Paddle Sings" from the …

Version 11

In If

Read by Marlo Dianne


Rudyard Kipling


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion po…

Version 6

In The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay

Read by Marlo Dianne


William McGonagall and William Topaz Mcgonagall


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall, to celebrate April Fo…

Mme. Giry's Revelations

In The Phantom of the Opera

Read by Marlo Dianne


Gaston Leroux


An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doe…

A Concert a Catastrophe and a Confession

In Anne of Green Gables

Read by Marlo Dianne


L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can…

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