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    Baby

    Written by George Macdonald

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Baby by George MacDonald. This was the fortnightly poetry project for February 22nd, 2009.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Baby
    Author

    George Macdonald

    George MacDonald (1824-1905) was a popular Scottish lecturer and writer of novels, poetry, and fairy tales. Born in Aberdeenshire, he was briefly a clergyman, then a professor of English literature at Bedford and King's College in London. W. H. Auden called him "one of the most remarkable writers of the nineteenth century."

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