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What Shall We Do?

Read by Joanna Michal Hoyt


Leo Tolstoy


A vivid description of wealth and poverty in Russia in Tolstoy's day, an inquiry into the root causes of economic inequality, and a vision o…

Ninety-Three

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Victor Hugo


1793. The new revolutionary government of France is laboring mightily to end injustice and bring in an ideal new age of liberty, equality, a…

The Trial of a New Society

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Justus Ebert


In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working…

Sonnets from Hafez and Other Verses

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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush and Hafez


Elizabeth Bridges (at the time of this book's publication--later Elizabeth Bridges Dayrush) was a turn-of-the-century English poet who marri…

As Hai Low kept House

In Shen of the Sea: A Book for Children

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Arthur Bowie Chrisman


This book was awarded the John Newbery Medal by the Children’s Librarians’ Section of the American Library Association, for the most disting…

Fra Lippo Lippi

In Short Poetry Collection 217

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Robert Browning


This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2021.

Chapter 1

In Pray You, Sir, Whose Daughter?

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Helen H. Gardener


Twenty-year-old Gertrude Foster has had the sheltered upbringing typical of women of her class. Yet, she questions the restrictive norms wit…

Miniver Cheevy - Read by JMH

In Miniver Cheevy

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Edwin Arlington Robinson


LibriVox readers bring you 16 recordings of "Miniver Cheevy" by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This was the fortnightly poem for June 1…

Letter the Ninth

In Lesley Castle (Dramatic Reading)

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Jane Austen


Lesley Castle is a melodramatic epistolary novelette written by Jane Austen when she was sixteen years old. Although the novels Austen becam…

The Bird with the Woe by Edwin Markham

In A Tree with a Bird in it

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Margaret Widdemer


Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…

A Sermon

In A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare

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George MacDonald


Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But t…

The Forsaken Merman

In Coffee Break Collection 030 - Mythical Creatures

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Matthew Arnold


This is the 30th Coffee Break Collection, in which LibriVox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…