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The Boston Boys

In The Story of the Thirteen Colonies

Read by Hugh Gillis


H. A. Guerber


These short vignettes of American history are written for the young reader. Each one is a little capsule of a person or event. They run fr…

Last night we had a thunderstorm in style...

In Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Louis Stevenson


Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture…

Errors

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Hugh McGuire


Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

FORERUNNERS OF JACQUES CARTIER

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of A…

Read by Hugh McGuire


Stephan Leacock and Stephen Leacock


This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal …

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXI - Canto XXV

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Hugh McGuire


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…

Chapter 15

In The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Read by Hugh McGuire


LibriVox NaNoWriMo 2007 and Librivox Volunteers


An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…

SIX WAYS TO COOK CATFISH

In How to Cook Fish

Read by Hugh McGuire


Olive Green and Myrtle Reed


Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books an…

Chapter 8

In The Spy

Read by Hugh McGuire


cooper_jf and James Fenimore Cooper


James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the A…

01 - Jupiter and His Mighty Company

In Old Greek Stories

Read by Hugh Gillis


James Baldwin


A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures. Tales include those of Prometheus, Io, Perseus and Thes…

Transcendental Analytic

In The Critique of Pure Reason

Read by Hugh McGuire


Immanuel Kant


The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

Chapter 1

In The Secret Agent

Read by Hugh McGuire


conrad_j and Joseph Conrad


The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting …

Chapter 1-3

In Childhood

Read by Hugh McGuire


Leo Tolstoy


Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Publishe…

Struggle for Existence

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Read by Hugh McGuire


Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin


Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…

Nisus and Scylla--Echo and Narcissus--Clytie--Hero and Leander

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Hugh McGuire


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

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