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Little Wizard Stories of Oz

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L. Frank Baum


The "Little Wizard Stories of Oz" are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish…

Version 31

In Art and Heart

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 3…

Version 9

In Épigramme

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Francois Maynard and François Maynard


LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of a poem in French: Épigramme, by François Maynard. This was the weekl…

Apophtegms and Interludes

In Beyond Good and Evil

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Friedrich Nietzsche


First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

Plato: The Story of a Cat

In Short Story Collection Vol. 005

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A.S. Downs and A. S. Downs


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 005: a collection of 20 works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Barney Hainsfeather

In Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters


This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

Muir Woods

In Byways Around San Francisco Bay

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W.E. Hutchinson and W. E. Hutchinson


California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-…

How the Women Sang Themselves Out of Jail

In The Autobiography of Mother Jones

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Mother Jones and Mary Harris Jones


Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the I…

Chapter 31

In At the Back of the North Wind

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George MacDonald


Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in…

Bk 3: Section VIII, and Song VIII: Human Folly

In The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Chapter 11: Duty to Parents

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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Mary Wollstonecraft


Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) is best known for A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, in which she argued that women are not naturally inferior…

Preface and Letter A

In The Foolish Dictionary

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Gideon Wurdz and Charles Wayland Towne


"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…