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Letters of Pliny

Read by Andrew Coleman


Pliny The Younger


The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…

World population and human capital in the 21st century

In Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Read by Andrew Dilnot, David Coleman, Francesco Billari, Sarah Harper and Wolfgang Lutz


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

03 - Devotion 3

In Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Read by Andrew Coleman


John Donne


Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as …

30 - OF CANNIBALS

In Essays book 1

Read by Andrew Coleman


Michel de Montaigne and Michel Eyquem De Montaigne


Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary …

Romance - Read by AJC

In Romance

Read by Andrew Coleman


Andrew Lang


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 readings of Romance by Andrew Lang, probably best known as Edward Elgar's song My Love Dwelt in a Northern …

Book 14, part 3

In The Annals Vol 3

Read by Andrew Coleman


Tacitus - Church/Brodribb and Publius Cornelius Tacitus


The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…

The Velveteen Rabbit

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 021

Read by Andrew Coleman


Margery Williams


LibriVox's Children's Short Works Collection 021: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Xenophanes of Kolophon (translated by Arthur Fairbanks)

In Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists

Read by Andrew Coleman


Various


The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first m…

21 - Book 2, Ch 08-09

In The Wars of the Jews

Read by Andrew Coleman


Josephus and Flavius Josephus


The Wars of the Jews (or The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem, or as it usually appears in modern English translations, The Jewish Wa…

16 - Surah 016: The Bee

In The Meaning of the Glorious Koran

Read by Andrew Coleman


Mohammed Marmaduke Pickthall


The Koran (Qur'an) is regarded by Muslims as the word of God (Allah) as revealed to the prophet Muhammad. It is divided into 114 chapters (…

Book 3, Part 2

In The Annals Vol 1

Read by Andrew Coleman


Tacitus - Church/Brodribb and Publius Cornelius Tacitus


The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…