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Ravensdene Court

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


J. S. Fletcher


Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…

Pensées

Read by dexter


Blaise Pascal


Pascal's Pensées is widely considered to be a masterpiece, and a landmark in French prose. When commenting on one particular section …

Tremendous Trifles

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…

Certain Personal Matters

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H. G. Wells


Although best known for his works of science fiction, social commentary and history, H.G. Wells here gives us humorous and light-hearted pi…

Best Way to Read a Book

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Edgar A. Guest


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…

Serve It Cold

Read by Ronnie Blackwell


Ronnie Blackwell


Detective Jonny C. Speed’s life can’t get much better. He’s booked into the French Quarter’s most luxurious guesthouse, and his day job as …

The Peterkin Papers (version 2)

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Lucretia P. Hale


The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are …

The Regent

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Arnold Bennett


'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…

The Raven and The Philosophy Of Composition

Read by David Wales


Edgar Allan Poe


Poe’s famous narrative poem and the author’s reflections on its composition. (David Wales)

A General View of Positivism

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Auguste Comte


Auguste Comte was from France and published this book in French in 1844. He made a very great impact on the sciences and claims to have “dis…

Letters of a Woman Homesteader

Read by Lynne Carroll


Elinore Pruitt Stewart


The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for hers…

The Wind in the Willows (version 3)

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Kenneth Grahame


The classic story of how Rat, Mole, and the other river-bankers saved Toad from his excesses. This book has it all: excitement, sentiment, d…

Through the Looking-Glass (version 4)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Lewis Carroll


In this sequel to "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", Alice is playing with her kittens — a black kitten and a white kitten, the o…

Sentry of the Sky

Read by Mark Nelson


Evelyn E. Smith


There had to be a way for Sub-Archivist Clarey to get up in the world—but this way was right out of the tri-di dramas. - Summary by original…

Haste and Waste; The Young Pilot of Lake Champlain

Read by Scarlett Martin


Oliver Optic


The sixth and last volume of the Woodville stories contains the record of a mechanical, rather than a moral triumph, though the virtues of p…

The Hunting of the Snark

Read by Robert Garrison


Lewis Carroll


This is a whimsical poem that takes the reader on a sailing hunt for the mythical Snark. The Bellman, the Butcher, the Baker, the Beaver and…

Humour of the North

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Variousandlawrence J. Burpee


Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and hu…

Robert Falconer

Read by Kenneth R. Morefield


George MacDonald


A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)

The Best Man

Read by Gail Mattern


Grace Livingston Hill


Cyril Gordon, a young and handsome secret service agent is running from pursuers who desperately want the information he holds. He hides out…

The Admirable Bashville

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George Bernard Shaw


The Admirable Bashville is a product of the British law of copyright. As that law stands at present, the first person who patches up a stage…

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