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Lecture 4 - China and Ancient Greece

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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In Art and Heart

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 3…

Chapter 15

In Dracula

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Bram Stoker


The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity…

The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven

In Fables for the Frivolous

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Guy Wetmore Carryl


One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

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In The Sayings of Confucius

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Confucius 孔子


Promoting virtues such as filial devotion, compassion, loyalty, and propriety, these dialogues between the ancient Chinese philosopher Confu…

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In Ozymandias of Egypt

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


LibriVox volunteers bring you sixteen different recordings of Ozymandias of Egypt, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry proje…

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In Recuerdo

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Edna St. Vincent Millay


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Recuerdo, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. This was the weekly poetry project for the …

Parable of the Old Men and the Young

In Short Poetry Collection 010

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Wilfred Owen


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 010: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Lost Sanjak

In Short Story Collection Vol. 004

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Saki


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Judge Somers

In Spoon River Anthology

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Edgar Lee Masters


This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

bk4_08 - Book the Fourth - Chapter 08 A FEW GRAINS OF PEPPER

In Our Mutual Friend

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Charles Dickens


Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …

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