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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson


Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson


Gerald Bullett


Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

Vol. 3 - Chapter 4

In Helen

Read by John Burlinson


Maria Edgeworth


Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…

How the Old Horse Won the Bet

In Long Poems Collection 008

Read by John Burlinson


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 008: a collection of 14 public-domain poems longer than 10 minutes in length.

Richard Wagner, Part 1

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

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Elbert Hubbard


Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

The Bronckhorst Divorce-Case by Rudyard Kipling

In Stories of Troubled Marriages

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Rudyard Kipling


Anyone who is, or has been, married knows that marriage takes work. While some marriages may be 'made in heaven', others, quite simply, are …

Lord of the Dynamos

In The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories

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H. G. Wells


A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds". The science fiction …

Sherwood Anderson - Windy McPherson's Son

In 1916: First Chapters Collection

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Sherwood Anderson


These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the yea…

Dirge for the Year - Read by JDB

In Dirge for the Year

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets …

The Retired Cat - Read by JDB

In The Retired Cat

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William Cowper


William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century na…

The Mill

In The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems

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Edwin Arlington Robinson


This is a volume of poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This volume contains, among other poems, the famous poems The Valley of the Shadow an…

Mare Liberum

In The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time

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Henry van Dyke


These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task.Two of the poems, "A Scrap of Pape…

At a Solemn Music

In Short Poetry Collection 156

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John Milton


This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2016.