Ceci est un enregistrement LibriVox recording du Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité entre les hommes, par Jean-Jacques Rousseau. De l’inégalité parmi les hommes est un essai philosophique d’une centaine de pages environ, richement annoté par l’auteur, introduit par une lettre de louanges à la République de Genève ainsi que par une préface de l’auteur datée du 12 Juin 1754. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS...
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LibriVox recording of LibriVox 5th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3. What do you do for a fifth anniversary? We decided to have a collection of short works with a difference. We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'five' in the title - in any language. They have done us proud, and the collection extends to three volumes of short stories, poems, fairy tales, memoirs, non-fiction and bible readings, in six languages. This is the third volume. (Summary by Ruth Golding) See also...
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Librivox recording of Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon. Read by Librivox volunteers First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is an adventure novel in two parts by Jules Verne, having a basis in codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction. Rather, it describes a voyage down the Amazon River on a large raft, or jangada). Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail. Summary by not.a.moose, Adapted...
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LibriVox recording of Life in a Thousand Worlds, by William Shuler Harris. A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver's Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer of C. S. Lewis, on a rainy Sunday afternoon, after one too many mugs of cocoa. Includes some thought on alien philosophies and how to apply them to moral and social problems here on Planet Earth. Unrelated to the book, this was also the one-thousandth project to be started at...
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Le Horla par Guy de Maupassant, lu pour Librivox par Naf. D'événements étranges en événements étranges, le narrateur raconte, dans son journal, comment il en vient à penser qu'une créature surnaturelle hante sa maison... (Résumé par Naf) Pour obtenir d'autres renseignements, notamment sur le texte en ligne, la lectrice, les flux RSS, la jaquette de CD et les autres formats éventuellement disponibles, rendez-vous sur la page de ce livre audio dans le catalogue de LibriVox. M4B...
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LibriVox recording of The Lost Prince, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Read by Susan Umpleby. The Lost Prince is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin named The Rat. Marco's father, Stefan, is a Samavian patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom of Samavia. Marco and his father, Stefan, come to London where Marco strikes up a friendship with a crippled street urchin known as The Rat. Marco’s father, realizing that two boys are less likely to be...
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LibriVox recording of The Lovels of Arden by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Read by Cathy Barratt The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first glimpse at love - and that not from the best vantage point. (Summary by Cathy Barratt) For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "The Lie" by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the fortnightly poem for the period beginning September 16, 2012. The Lie is a political and social criticism poem probably written by Sir Walter Raleigh. Speaking in the imperative mood throughout, he commands his soul to go "upon a thankless errand" and tell various people and organizations of their misdeeds and wrongdoings. And if they object, Raleigh commands, publicly accuse them to...
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LibriVox recording of "Life of Alfred the Great" by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne, translated by J. A. Giles, and read by R. S. Steinberg. A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some scholars contend that the work was actually composed much later by an unknown hand. (Summary by Douglas B. Killings) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD...
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LibriVox recording of A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison, by James E. Seaver. Read by LibriVox volunteers. Mrs. Mary Jemison was taken by the Indians, in the year 1755, when only about twelve years of age, and has continued to reside amongst them to the present time. Containing an account of the murder of her father and his family; her sufferings; her marriage to two Indians; her troubles with her children; barbarities of the Indians in the French and Revolutionary Wars; the life of...
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LibriVox recording of The Life Of Charlotte Bronte Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Charlotte Brontë was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Brontë sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre , one of the greatest classics of all time. Just two years after Charlotte's death, her friend Elizabeth Gaskell wrote her biography. Want to know more about Charlotte Brontë? If you do, please read this biography. (Summary by...
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LibriVox recording of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2, by James Boswell. Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical writing, a treasure-house of Johnson's witticisms and opinions, and a window on his social circle that is packed with incidental detail of 18th-century life and concerns. This second of four volumes covers the...
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LibriVox recording of The Life of Cicero, Vol. II, by Anthony Trollope. Read by Philippa. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43BC) was an orator, statesman, philosopher and prolific correspondent, who rose as a ‘new man’ in Rome in the turbulent last years of its republican government. Anthony Trollope, best known as a novelist, admired Cicero greatly and wrote this biography late in life in order to argue his virtues against authors who had granted him literary greatness but questioned his...
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LibriVox recording of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, by L. Frank Baum. Read by Jedopi. This wonderful children’s short story tells all about the youth, manhood and old age of Santa Claus and how he became immortal. (Introduction by jedopi) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader,...
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LibriVox recording of The Lamplighter, by Maria Susanna Cummins. Read by Bridget Gaige. Gertrude began life as an abused child in the care of Nan Grant, a cold and cruel woman. The only human character who was kind to her was the lamplighter, Truman Flint. When Nan, in one of her tantrums, threw Gertrude away from her house, he took her into his care. A few unforgettable people taught Gertrude everything that a young lady has to know. Almost everybody loves and admires Gertrude. But the one she...
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LibriVox recording of Lancashire Characters and Places by Thomas Newbigging. Read by Phil Benson. An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and Edwin Waugh. Thomas Newbigging was born in Glasgow and died in Knutsford, Cheshire, living in between in Rossendale, Pernambuco, and Manchester. A gas manager by profession and writer-historian by inclination, his two major works were the Handbook for Gas...
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L'ascension du mont Ventoux de François Pétrarque, traduit par Victor Develay, lu pour Librivox par Aldor. Au printemps 1336, François Pétrarque entreprend avec son frère l’ascension du mont Ventoux, qui, de ses 1912 mètres, domine le Comtat Venaissin et la Provence. C’est cette ascension et son pendant mystique que François Pétrarque relate, le jour même, dans une lettre datée du 26 avril, à son ami et confesseur Dionigi di Borgo San Sepolcro, lettre qui fut ensuite publiée...
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LibriVox recording of The Last Chronicle of Barset, by Anthony Trollope. Both Trollope and some of his later critics have considered The Last Chronicle to be his greatest novel. Many of its characters are familiar from the earlier Barsetshire novels, including the Rev. Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, whose alleged theft of £20, together with the efforts of many to clear up the mystery, lie here at the center. Central also is the trying courtship between Major Grantly...
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Librivox recording of "The Leavenworth Case", by Anna Katharine Green. Read by Kirsten Ferreri Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, but the technical excellence of her books caused several law schools to use The Leavenworth Case as a textbook in some of their classes, as an example of how misleading circumstantial evidence can be. (Summary by Kirsten Ferreri) For further information,...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/love-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge/ . For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B (14MB)
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Librivox recording of Love Among the Chickens by P. G. Wodehouse. Read by Mark Nelson Jeremy Garnet, a second-rate novelist, gets talked into joining his old pal Stanley Featheringstonehaugh Ukridge in an insane plan to start a chicken ranch. Garnet should bail out on his crazy friend, but he falls in love with one of Ukridge's neighbors, Phyllis. Soon he is up to his neck in sick chickens, bad debts, a hostile future father-in-law, a sinister plot, and dirty golf. It all gets a bit thick,...
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LibriVox recording of THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF A BIBLIOMANIAC, by Eugene Field. Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any great intrinsic value to a genuine book collector. The purchase of multiple copies of the same book and edition and the accumulation of books beyond possible capacity of use or...
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LibriVox recording of The Literary Sense, by Edith Nesbit. A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoenix and the Carpet. Many of her books have been made into television series or films. She wrote for both adults and children and also wrote non-fiction and poetry. (Summary by Michele Eaton) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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LibriVox recording of A Little Florida Lady, by Dorothy C. Paine. Read by Bellona Times This is the story of a little girl from New York who moves with her family to Florida in the late 19th Century. Parental warning: as this book was first published in 1903 and set in the American South, and although the author tries to be open-minded, please be aware that there are slang words used for African Americans.(Summary by BellonaTimes) For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of A Little Swiss Sojurn, by William Dean Howells. Read by Nicholas Clifford A charming brief account of a two months' autumnal stay on the shores of the Lake of Geneva. Howells, who was there with his family traveling from England to Italy, has a sharp eye not only for scenery and architecture, but for people and customs, both Swiss and foreign. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Little Star , author unknown, which parodies the previous week's children's favourite The Star . This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 31st, 2013. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (10MB)
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LibriVox recording of The Little Colonel at Boarding-School, by Annie Fellows Johnston. Because of the illness of her grandfather, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky. Jolly times are mixed with lessons in this 7th book in the "Little Colonel" series for girls. (Summary by Maria Therese) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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LibriVox recording of The Little Colonel in Arizona, by Annie Fellows Johnston. Read by Lars Rolander. In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the mother's illness, have to move from Kentucky to Arizona. Joyce now has to take most of the responsibility for holding the family together. She is having difficulties in coming to terms with the family's new existence, feeling lonely and that her dreams for...
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LibriVox recording of THE LITTLE COLONEL'S HOUSE PARTY, by ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON. Lloyd Sherman, the "Little Colonel", is a girl of eleven whose mother invites three other girls to spend a month with Lloyd in her beautiful home in Kentucky. The children come from very different homes, but fall into the new ways very readily. The account of their escapades will amuse young readers. A bit of disobedience on the part of one spoilt girl leads to something of a tragedy, in which Betty,...
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LibriVox recording of Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch, by H. Rider Haggard. Read by Abigail Rasmussen. This is a great book if you're looking for an adventure filled novel. It takes place during the Spanish Inquisition and describes some of the horrors that happened giving you an idea of what it was really like to live during that time period. Follow Lysbeth, a young Hollander girl, as she struggles through life enduring times of hardship and peace, sorrow and happiness, war and love....
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LibriVox recording of The Machine, by Upton Sinclair. Read by a full cast. Upton Sinclair is best known for his novel The Jungle, an expose of the meatpacking industry. He was also a playwright whose works for the stage reflected the same progressive viewpoints found in his other writing. In The Machine, published as part of Sinclair's 1912 collection Plays of Protest, Socialist activists show a rich man's daughter the truth about the society in which she has been raised. (Summary by...
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LibriVox recording of Niels Holgersens wunderbare Reise mit den Wildgänsen - Erster Teil, by Selma Lagerlöf. Read in German by LibriVox volunteers. Dies ist die Geschichte des 14-jährigen Niels Holgersen, der von einem Kobold, den er ärgert, selbst auf Koboldgröße geschrumpft wird. Mit der Hausgans Martin, die sich einem Schwarm Wildgänsen anschließt, fliegt er durch ganz Schweden bis zu den Brutgebieten der Gänse im nördlichen Lappland und wieder zurück. Unterwegs erlebt er viele...
Topics: librivox, literature, audiobook, Hörbuch, German, deutsch, Lagerlöf, Kinderbuch
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Librivox recording of Nederigheid by Andrew Murray read by Jack Hielema. Probably the most needful characteristic of any Christian when following Christ is humility; Andrew Murray has an insight into this important subject unparalleled in writers of any age. Summary by Jack Hielema. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audiobooks...
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LibriVox recording of Nehemiah, King James Version. Read by volunteer readers. The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem by Nehemiah, a Jew who is a high official at the Persian court, and the dedication of the city and its people to God's laws (torah). The events take place in the second half of the 5th century BCE, and together with the Book of Ezra, it represents the final...
Topics: Librivox, audiobook, religion, Christianity, Bible, Old Testament, history, post-exilic Israel
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LibriVox recording of The New Atlantis by Francis Bacon. Read by Bill Boerst In 1623, Francis Bacon expressed his aspirations and ideas in New Atlantis. Released in 1627, this was his creation of an ideal land where people were kind, knowledgeable, and civic-minded. Part of this new land was his perfect college, a vision for our modern research universities. Islands he had visited may have served as models for his ideas. ( Summary by Wikipedia ) For further information, including links to...
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Enregistrement Librivox de Maria Chapdelaine, par Louis Hémon. Lu par Jc Guan. LibriVox recording of Maria Chapdelaine, by Louis Hémon. Read in French by Jc Guan. Maria Chapdelaine raconte la vie difficile d'une famille paysanne au Québec, au début des années 1900. Page LibriVox du livre: http://librivox.org/maria-chapdelaine-by-louis-hemon/ Pour plus d'informations, ou pour participer, visitez LibriVox.org M4B Audiobook (140MB)
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LibriVox recording of Mary Cary, Frequently Martha, by Kate Langley Bosher. Read by Jan MacGillivray. "My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are sure enough children, and real much like the kind that have Mothers and Fathers; and that’s why I am going to write this story." So begins Mary’s diary, which she fills with her various doings and misadventures at the Asylum in Virginia...
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LibriVox recording of 二百十日 (Nihyakutouka), by Natsume Sōseki. Read in Japanese by ekzemplaro....
Topics: LibriVox, audiobook, fiction, Mt. Aso, climbing, conversation, typhoon
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 24, 2012. Lazarus wrote her own important poems and edited many adaptations of German poems, notably those of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine. She also wrote a novel and two plays. Her most famous work is "The New Colossus", which is inscribed on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. Lazarus' close friend Rose Hawthorne Lathrop was inspired...
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LibriVox recording of "The Napoleon of Notting Hill" by G. K. Chesterton, read by Ray Clare. While the novel is humorous (one instance has the King sitting on top of an omnibus and speaking to it as to a horse: "Forward, my beauty, my Arab," he said, patting the omnibus encouragingly, "fleetest of all thy bounding tribe"), it is also an adventure story: Chesterton is not afraid to let blood be drawn in his battles, fought with sword and halberd in the London...
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LibriVox opname van Overdrukken, van Charles Dickens. Gelezen door Marcel Coenders. Vertaling van 'Reprinted Pieces' uit 1861. Een verzameling van journalistieke artikelen geschreven door de journalist Charles Dickens. In sommige artikelen, zoals bijvoorbeeld 'De geschiedenis van een armen man die een octrooi verlangde' zien we onderwerpen besproken die later ook in romans (in dit geval Kleine Dorrit) terugkomen. Voor meer informatie, inclusief een link naar het M4B luisterboek, de on-line...
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LibriVox recording of En Nyckfull kvinna del 3 - Hustrun, by Emilie Flygare-Carlén. Read by Lars Rolander. I denna den tredje delen av En nyckfull kvinna - Hustrun - har Edith Sternfelt till sist erkänt sina känslor för gårdens bruksförvaltare, Ernst Helmer, inför sig själv - och för Ernst. Hon har mot sin mors vilja slutligen också drivit igenom giftermål, men därmed även tvingats lämna sitt hem och sitt gamla liv bakom sig, för att tillsammans med Ernst bygga upp ett helt nytt...
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LibriVox recording of En Nyckfull kvinna, del 1 – Den Obundna flickan , by Emilie Flygare-Carlén. Read by Lars Rolander and Cecilia. Emilie Flygare-Carlén var under 1800-talet en av Sveriges mest populära och lästa författare. En Nyckfull kvinna, som gavs ut i fyra delar, har den unga Edith Sternfelt som centralgestalt. Hon är på ytan en mycket självmedveten, självsäker och nyckfull kvinna, men bär samtidigt på en stor osäkerhet. I första delen, Den obundna flickan, presenteras...
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LibriVox recording of O Alienista, by Machado de Assis. Read by Leni. O Alienista, de Machado de Assis, é um pequeno romance sobre loucura, cientificismo e poder. O enredo se desenrola a partir dos esforços científicos de um importante médico português, o dr. Simão Bacamarte, cuja obsessão pela busca de um método universal para tratar e curar distúrbios mentais leva os habitantes da pequena cidade de Itaguaí ao terror, conspiração e a tentativas de revolução. Em pouco tempo, o...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Nocturne by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 3, 2011. Aldrich attended school in Portsmouth to prepare for college. This period of his life is partly described in his semi-autobiographical novel The Story of a Bad Boy (1870), in which "Tom Bailey" is the juvenile hero. Critics have said that this novel contains the first realistic depiction of childhood in American fiction and prepared the ground for...
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LibriVox recording of Nonsense Novels, by Stephen Leacock. Read by Tricia G. Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (94MB)
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LibriVox recording of Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 008. A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, literature, philosophy, shoe-making, bathing, and cats. (Summary by Leon Mire) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go...
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Librivox recording of LIbriVox Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013 by Various Authors. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, medicine, nature and religion. (summary by J. M. Smallheer) For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B...
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Librivox recording of LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009 by Various. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in these collections are independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, nature, religion, etc. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
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LibriVox recording of LibriVox Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027 by Various Authors. Read by LibriVox Volunteers A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers and include speeches and essays on history, science, politics, nature, travel, psychology and love. (summary by J. M. Smallheer) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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