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Eirik the Red's Saga

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Anonymoustranslated Byjohn Sephton


In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson's discovery of Vinland…

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

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Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

I’m Nobody read by Julian Jamison

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…

Comin Thro' the Rye

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 002

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Robert Burns


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. …

Chapter 06

In Warlord of Kor

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Terry Carr


Terry Carr never really shone as a writer, though he did write some remarkably thoughtful stories. However, his talents as an editor and ant…

Voluspa

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 001

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Anonymous


LibriVox’s first Multilingual Poetry Collection, where LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than …

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In Jabberwocky

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Lewis Carroll


LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of J…

Version 2

In The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day

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Lydia Maria Child


LibriVox volunteers bring you two different recordings of The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day, by Lydia Maria Child, to celebr…

Of the Origin of Ideas

In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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David Hume


The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sough…

Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni

In Long Poems Collection 004

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 004: a collection of 8 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length.

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In The Concept of Nature

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Alfred North Whitehead


In The Concept of Nature, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception.The idea of objects as …

On the Imperfection of the Geological Record – Part 1

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin


Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…

The Man with the Twisted Lip

In The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his famous detective. They were origina…

Significant Phrases: indorsed and applauded - isolated and detached

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

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Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Chapter 05

In The Red Badge of Courage

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Stephen Crane


This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on…

Come Away, Come Away!

In Peter Pan

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J. M. Barrie


Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fa…

Mending Wall

In Short Poetry Collection 017

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Robert Frost


LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 017: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Wedding-Day, from The Courtship of Miles Standish

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007.