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Selection from The Temple

Read by David Barnes


George Herbert


George Herbert (April 3, 1593 – March 1, 1633) was a Welsh poet, orator and a priest. Throughout his life he wrote religious poems character…

Indian Frontier Policy, an Historical Sketch

Read by David Barnes


General Sir John Miller Adye


"The subject of our policy on the North-West frontier of India is one of great importance, as affecting the general welfare of our East…

Kubla Khan read by David Barnes

In Kubla Khan

Read by David Barnes


Samuel Taylor Coleridge


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the weekly poetry project for the w…

Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs

Read by David Wales


William Tecumseh Sherman


This LibriVox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with…

British EU Policy After The Election

In St Antony's College Podcasts

Read by David Hannay


Various


St Antony's College is the most international of the six graduate colleges of the University of Oxford, specialising in international relati…

Chapter 25

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by David Barnes


Written by David Barnes, recorded by David Barnes and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

British EU Policy After The Election

In European Studies Centre

Read by David Hannay, Stephen Wall, Chris Patten and Jane Caplan


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Bk 2, Purgatory: Canto XXII - Canto XXVII

In The Divine Comedy

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Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Book 14

In The Odyssey

Read by David Barnes


Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer


The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

Introduction

In Dream Psychology

Read by David Barnes


Sigmund Freud


Not a few serious-minded students, [...], have been discouraged from attempting a study of Freud's dream psychology. The book in which he or…

Chapters 1 to 3

In The Canterville Ghost

Read by David Barnes


Oscar Wilde


The American Minister and his family have bought the English stately home Canterville Chase, complete with the ghost of Sir Simon de Canterv…

Three Wise Men of Gotham

In Mother Goose in Prose

Read by David Barnes


L. Frank Baum


Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…

Version 3

In Épigramme

Read by David Barnes


Francois Maynard and François Maynard


LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of a poem in French: Épigramme, by François Maynard. This was the weekl…

Preface - Lecture 1 - The Chinese Language

In China and the Chinese

Read by David Barnes


Herbert Allen Giles


Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor…

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