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Literary Taste: How to Form It
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
Introduction to David Hume's Treatise of Human Nature Book One
Peter Millican
Dr Peter Millican gives a series of lectures looking at Scottish 18th Century Philosopher David Hume and the first book of his Treatise of H…
Short Story Collection Vol. 073
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Saki, Katheri…
Pipefuls
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Christopher Morley
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
Eline Vere
Read by Carola Janssen
Louis Couperus
De 19e eeuwse klassieker Eline Vere speelt in de gegoede kringen van Den Haag. Eline is een jonge, mooie maar labiele vrouw die zich veel va…
David Ransom's Watch
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
A tale of human choices and lost opportunities, and how one's choices affect so many other lives, for good or ill.A borrowed watch. A selfis…
The Wind and the Moon
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George MacDonald
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 readings of The Wind and the Moon by George Macdonald. This is the fortnightly poetry project for September…
Discoveries: Essays in Literary Criticism
Read by Jim Locke
John Middleton Murry
Introductory Note: I have called these essays and lectures by a title that some people may think presumptuous: first, because it is the titl…
A Pickle For the Knowing Ones
Read by MelissaMarie
Timothy Dexter
Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …
The Shining Gateway
Read by Audio Andrea
James Allen
Students of the works of James Allen all over the world will welcome with joy another book from his able pen. In this work we find the Proph…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
The Westminster Alice
Read by Ruth Golding
Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
Saunterings In And About London
Read by David Wales
Max Schlesinger and Max Schlesingertranslated Byotto Von Wenckstern
A witty 1853 travelogue by a cultured German for his countrymen. “…for I did not write for an English public, nor did I ever pretend to popu…
The Stark Munro Letters
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…
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…
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV
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John Locke
This is the fourth book of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding. His book deals with knowledge and probability. He asks how far…
Bible (WEB) NT 18: Philemon
Read by Leon Mire
World English Bible
While in prison, Paul writes this letter to another Christian, Philemon. Paul has met with and converted a man named Onesimus, probably a r…
Recompence
Read by Simon Evers
Robert Keable
The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same author. It picks up the separate stories of Peter and Julie, at first in South Afri…
The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)
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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…