This is the twenty-second Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this collection is Days Gone By. All pieces were of a historical nature at the time written (i.e. not enough that they are historical now!). Ancient Rome, Greece or Egypt, medieval Europe, the early days of the American colonies.
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10 min
Chapter 1 - The Wild West from The Life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham
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7 min
The Wandering Nations, (Chapter 2 of A Short History of Wales) by Owen M. Edwards
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5 min
The Poem in the Tomb of Antuf by Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge
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18 min
Old Salem Shops by Eleanor Putnam
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5 min
Marrying a God by Saxo Grammaticus
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4 min
Intellectual Life by William B. Forwood
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4 min
Fourteenth Century Prayers by Various
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5 min
The Foundation of Rome by John Frost
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2 min
The First Thanksgiving by Cotton Mather
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5 min
The First Saxon Settlement by Walter Besant
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3 min
The First Americans by Cotton Mather
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5 min
The Earliest Egyptian Remains by Charles Francis Horne
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12 min
A Day at Strawberry Hill by Austin Dobson
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8 min
The Sad Story of a Boy King by George Cary Eggleston
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11 min
The Birth Time of the Gods Chapter 1 of Old-World Japan: Legends of the Land of the Gods by Frank Rinder