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In Rootabaga Stories

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Carl Sandburg


Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a s…

Love

In Wedding Poems

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems. Congratulations, you two!

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In Work without Hope

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Work without Hope, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in honor of Labor Day. This was th…

Arcadian Simplicity

In Vanity Fair

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William Makepeace Thackeray


Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like man…

Candies

In Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus

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Rufus Estes


Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville …

017 - Recipes. Chapter 8. Part 4.

In The Book of Household Management

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Isabella Beeton and Mrs. Isabella Beeton


"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…

DRUMMERS AND CARPENTERS: The Downy, Hairy and Red-headed Woodpeckers.

In The Burgess Bird Book for Children

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Thornton W. Burgess


The Burgess Bird Book for Children is a zoology book written in the form of a story featuring Peter Rabbit. Peter learns from his friend Je…

Chapter 10

In Dot and the Kangaroo

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Ethel C. Pedley


Dot and the Kangaroo, written in 1899, is a children's book by Ethel C. Pedley about a little girl named Dot who gets lost in the Australian…

I’m Nobody read by Betsie Bush

In I'm Nobody

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Emily Dickinson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of I’m Nobody, by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s text of this poem contains two possible…

Ch. 23: Christenings

In Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

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Emily Post


From advice on planning the perfect wedding to eating an artichoke correctly, Emily Post offers instruction on how to live a well-mannered l…

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In Beautiful Soup

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Lewis Carroll


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 different recordings of Beautiful Soup by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of…

02 - Going to the South

In Clotel, or, The President's Daughter

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William Wells Brown


Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published…

Cat and Mouse

In Short Science Fiction Collection 007

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Ralph Williams


Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…

The Troublous Middle Ages: Demonstrating a Short Reign for Those Who Travel at …

In Comic History of England

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Bill Nye


Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” …

Preface

In A Dictionary of English Synonymes, Vol. 01

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Richard Soule


A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseolog…

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