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Mornings at Bow Street

Read by Chris Caron

John Wight

This is a collection of various articles found in Morning Herald columns. Some are found interesting, some may be hilarious! The 84 pieces o…

Chapter 210

In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 3

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Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest

This is volume 3 of 3. -- Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vam…

Ch. 21, pt. 1

In Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphan…

Read by Chris Caron

John Foxe, William B. Forbush, ed. and John Foxe

The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beli…

The Death of Balder

In Short Story Collection Vol. 043

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Norse Stories

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 043: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Chapter 22B: Lest We Forget

In Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

Read by Chris Caron

William H. Edwards and William Hanford Edwards

A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)

Chapter 1.XLIII.—How the scouts and fore-party of Picrochole were met with by G…

In Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I

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Francois Rabelais and François Rabelais

The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…

The Capture of Philadelphia

In True to the Old Flag

Read by Chris Caron

G. A. Henty

This book tells the story of the American war of Independence from the side of the British. The old flag mentioned in the title is the flag …

45 - Partition 1, Section 2 , Member 4, Subsection 7, Part 2

In The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 1

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Robert Burton

The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

12 - A Declaration of Love, Set to Music

In Modeste Mignon

Read by Chris Caron

Honoré de Balzac

Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de C…

35 - Chapter 35

In John Halifax, Gentleman

Read by Chris Caron

Dinah Craik and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fle…