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Lady Connie
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Constance Bledlow is a beautiful monied 20 year old with the world at her feet. She arrives in Oxford to spend a few months with her impover…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Amelia (Vol. 2)
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Henry Fielding
The second volume of Amelia. - Summary by Libby Gohn
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream
Read by Judi Mason
Louis Pope Gratacap
This book is ostensibly about a theoretical catastrophic geologic event. It turns into a meditation on what it means to be an English person…
Of All Things (Version 2)
Read by Aaron Sproule
Robert C. Benchley
A collection of exaggerated stories about the common man. Dry and deadpan style of humor. Dedicated to my father, Michael Earl Sproule. (19…
Favourite Chapters Collection 003
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Various
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…
Jabberwocky
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Lewis Carroll
LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of J…
The History of Robinson Crusoe
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
William James Mcglothlin
A 6-page digest of Defoe's famous work for young readers (Summary by Dennis Sayers)
Lectures on the Harvard Classics
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Charles William Eliot
The Lecture Series on the contents of The Harvard Classics ought to do much to open that collection of literary materials to many ambitious …
The Cabinet Minister
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Arthur Wing Pinero
Mr. Pinero holds that farce should treat of probable people placed in possible circumstances, but regarded from a point of view which exagge…
The Bookman, March 1921
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John Farrar
This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is J…
Favourite Chapters Collection 002
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Various
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062
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Various
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…
Cock-House at Fellsgarth
Read by Jim Locke
Talbot Baines Reed
A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
Lenz
Read by Rolf Kaiser
Georg Büchner
Büchner schildert in dieser Erzählung, wie der deutsche Schriftsteller Jakob Lenz dem Wahnsinn verfällt.Vor dem abwechselnd d…