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The Story of Prince Ahmed, and the Fairy Perie Banou, part 4

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 04

Read by Tasha Hobbs Peterson


Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott


The fourth and final volume of Middle Eastern tales, originally written in Arabic. Scheherazade tries to prolong her husband's interest in h…

Pigottism

In Flowers of Freethought (Second Series)

Read by Tasha Hobbs Peterson


George William Foote


The Freethinker, founded in 1881 was one of the first secular humanist magazines, and also one of the oldest surviving one, moving online on…

A Canadian Song - Read by THP

In A Canadian Song

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Susanna Moodie


LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of A Canadian Song by Susanna Moodie..This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 25, 2020. …

Two Counts of Cadillac

In Captain Sparkle, Pirate

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Nicholas Carter


Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom …

An Epitaph On A Goldfish - Read by TH

In An Epitaph On A Goldfish

Read by Tasha Hobbs Peterson


Richard le Gallienne and Richard Le Gallienne


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of An Epitaph On A Goldfish by Richard le Gallienne.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Octo…

A Day in Florida

In Hope Farm Notes

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Herbert W. Collingwood


“Most of these notes were originally printed in the Rural New-Yorker from week to week and covering a period of about 20 years. . . . From t…

Mohammedism in India

In Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3

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Charles Eliot


Started in 1907, An Historical Sketch was a work in 3 volumes. The author was a British diplomat posted to Asia and his great work was inter…

Chapter Six

In Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees

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Johnny Gruelle


Raggedy Ann, you remember, always thought lovely kindly thoughts because there was a little candy heart with the words "I love you"…

Art and Life, part 1

In The waning of the middle ages: a study of the forms of life, thought and art in…

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Johan Huizinga


The Waning of the Middle Ages (also known as The Autumn of the Middle Ages, or Autumntide of the Middle Ages), subtitled A study of the form…

Chapter 12

In Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon

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Austen Layard


Austen Henry Layard is best known as the excavator of Nimrud and of Nineveh, where he uncovered a large proportion of the Assyrian palace re…

The Green Overcoat

Read by Russ Hobbs


Hilaire Belloc


This rollicking novel captures the minor moral dilemma of thin, shy, nervous, Professor Higginson, psychologist, as he comes under the eye o…

Parochial and Plain Sermons, Volume 1

Read by Russ Hobbs


John Henry Newman


John Henry Newman's sermons enter the human heart easily and with transformative power. Lucid thinking, beautiful English prose, an integra…

The Dream of Gerontius

Read by Russ Hobbs


John Henry Newman


As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kind…

Sermons Preached on Various Occasions

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John Henry Newman


What language do the human heart and soul speak? Many would say they speak poetry and song. But what if reason and spirituality join heart…

Inside the Whale

Read by Joseph G. Peterson


Joseph G. Peterson


Inside the Whale is an epic novel that, in the spirit of Beowulf, imagines a bardic drone chanting the mnemonics of rhythm and rhyme to ente…

A Kindergarten Hold-Up, by Mabell Shippie Clarke

In The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 12 September 1896

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Various


The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…

Transplanted Flowers

In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 05

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Seba Smith


"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…