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047 古意 (An Old Air) (Mandarin) by Li Qi 李颀

In 唐诗三百首 卷二 Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 2

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Li Qi

Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Two i…

What Men Live By

In What Men Live By and Other Tales

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Leo Tolstoy

Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…

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In The Metamorphosis

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Franz Kafka (trans. Ian Johnston) and Franz Kafka

The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arg…

SIXTY-FIVE WAYS TO COOK MACKEREL

In How to Cook Fish

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Olive Green and Myrtle Reed

Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books an…

Requirements of Speech

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

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Joseph Devlin

This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Chapter III, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay

This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…

My Madonna -Read by DRB

In My Madonna

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Robert W. Service

LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 different recordings of My Madonna by Robert W. Service. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of…

O Wert Thou in the Storm

In Short Poetry Collection 043

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John Clare

LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 043: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Thanksgiving

In Selection from The Temple

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George Herbert

George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Throughout his life he wrote religious poems character…

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