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In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 030

Read by Amy Koenig


John Horace Pratt and Charles Lamb


Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include botany, dreams, farming, history, li…

23 - Vol. 1 - All That's Past - Never More Sailor

In Collected Poems 1901-1918

Read by Amy Koenig


Walter De la Mare, Walter de la Mare and Walter De La Mare


Early poems written by Walter de la Mare. de la Mare is best remembered for his works for children. This collection includes:Poems: 1906Th…

Love and Friendship - Read by AAK

In Love and Friendship

Read by Amy Koenig


Emily Brontë


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love and Friendship by Emily Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 17, 201…

Selected works by George Chapman

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09

Read by Amy Koenig


George Chapman


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Passer Mortuus Est

In Short Poetry Collection 098

Read by Amy Koenig


Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) and Edna St. Vincent Millay


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2011.

The Dream - Read by AAK

In The Dream

Read by Amy Koenig


John Donne


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne…

Appendix IV. Of Some Verbal Disputes

In An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Read by Amy Koenig


David Hume


David Hume, an eminent Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist, explores the nature and foundation of Morals in this book, which was w…

Chapter XXV, part 1

In Principles of Geology

Read by Amy Koenig


Charles Lyell


Principles of Geology: being an attempt to explain the former changes of the Earth's surface, by reference to causes now in operation is a b…

Chapter II — GREEK MEDICINE, Galen

In The Evolution of Modern Medicine

Read by Amy Koenig


Sir William Osler and Sir William Osler


This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913…

Sapphics

In Short Poetry Collection 099

Read by Amy Koenig


Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) and Algernon Charles Swinburne


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2011.

Elsie at Nantucket

Read by Amy


Martha Finley


Elsie and her family travel to Nantucket Island to spend the summer. The Raymond children and others learn important lessons. After a deligh…

Mildred at Roselands

Read by Amy


Martha Finley


In order to recover her health, Mildred Keith goes to visit her mother's extended family, the Dinsmores, in the South. Mildred makes new fri…

The Game of Life and How to Play It

Read by Amy Conger


Florence Scovel Shinn


Florence Scovel Shinn, an illustrator living in New York City, became a teacher of New Thought after a divorce. New Thought was a movement w…

The Wendigo

Read by Amy Gramour


Algernon Blackwood


Another camper tale, this time set in the Canadian wilderness. A hunting party separates to track moose, and one member is abducted by the W…

The Man Whom the Trees Loved

Read by Amy Gramour


Algernon Blackwood


The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour