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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (A Visit From St. Nicholas)

by Clement Clarke Moore (1779-1863)

Librivox volunteers bring you nine different readings of Clement C. Moore’s ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

• Gutenberg e-text #17135
• Wikipedia - Clement C. Moore
• LibriVox’s ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas Internet Archive page
• Zip file of the entire book (16 MB)
• RSS feed · Subscribe in iTunes · Chapter-a-day

mp3 and ogg files

• Version 1 - 00:04:09
  [mp3@64kbps - 2MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 3MB]
  Read by: Annie Coleman
• Version 2 - 00:03:55
  [mp3@64kbps 1.9MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.1MB]
  Read by: Betsie Bush
• Version 3 - 00:02:57
  [mp3@64kbps 1.4MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 2.8MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.9MB]
  Read by: Chris Goringe
• Version 4 - 00:03:46
  [mp3@64kbps 1.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.6MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.6MB]
  Read by: Grace and Brad Bush
• Version 5 - 00:03:41
  [mp3@64kbps 1.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.5MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.9MB]
  Read by: Kara Shallenberg
• Version 6 - 00:03:50
  [mp3@64kbps 1.8MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.7MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.2MB]
  Read by: Peter Yearsley
• Version 7 - 00:03:31
  [mp3@64kbps 1.7MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.4MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.0MB]
  Read by: Squiddhartha
• Version 8 - 00:03:19
  [mp3@64kbps 1.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.2MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 2.3MB]
  Read by: Sam Lipten
• Version 9 - 00:03:16
  [mp3@64kbps 1.6MB]
  [mp3@128kbps - 3.1MB]
  [ogg vorbis - 1.4MB]
  Read by: Sean Randall