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    A Summer's Afternoon
    A Summer's Afternoon
    A Summer's Afternoon
    Audiobook18 minutes

    A Summer's Afternoon

    Written by Benjamin King

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook


    As the summer days wind down, LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of A Summer’s Afternoon by Benjamin King. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 29th, 2007.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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