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The Wagtail Family

In The Children's Book of Birds

Read by Sheridan


Olive Thorne Miller


The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…

Chapter 15 - Women as patriots

In Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897

Read by Theresa Sheridan


Elizabeth Cady Stanton


Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the premier movers in the original women’s rights movement, along with Susan B. Anthony, her best friend f…

The Artists

In Poems of Schiller - 2nd Period

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Friedrich Schiller


Poems by Friedrich Schiller in his second period 1785 onwards. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Darkness

In The Prisoner of Chillon

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Lord Byron visited the Castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816 and was intrigued by the legend of Francis Bonnivard who was …

10 - Chapter X

In Afloat on the Ohio

Read by Theresa Sheridan


Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Chapter 16, The Search for the "Flyaway"

In The Rover Boys on the Ocean

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Edward Stratemeyer and Arthur M. Winfield


The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

01 - An Explosion

In Tom Swift and his Airship

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Victor Appleton


In Tom Swift and His Airship, Tom Swift has finished his latest invention- the Red Cloud, a fast and innovative airship. Tom is anxious for …

10 -- Ch 5, Parts 1-3

In The War in the Air

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H. G. Wells


War in the Air was written during a prolific time in H. G. Wells's writing career. Having withdrawn from British politics to spend more time…

16 - A Mysterious Fire

In Tom Swift and His Sky Racer

Read by Theresa Sheridan


Victor Appleton


A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but hi…

The Benediction

In The Flowers of Evil

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Charles Baudelaire and James Huneker


Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work is described as combining an exoticism inherited from the Romantics with the Realism of othe…

When I set out for Lyonnesse - TEC

In When I set out for Lyonnesse

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Thomas Hardy


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of When I set out for Lyonnesse by Thomas Hardy.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 22…

The Familie

In The Temple

Read by Sheridan Alistair


George Herbert


George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…

Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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Herman Melville


"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…