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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Gerald Bullett

Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

How the Old Horse Won the Bet

In Long Poems Collection 008

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 008: a collection of 14 public-domain poems longer than 10 minutes in length.

Vol. 3 - Chapter 3

In Helen

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…

Stanzas To Rhubarb

In Short Poetry Collection 158

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

William James McGlothlin

This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2016.

Chapter 2

In The Inheritors

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Joseph Conrad

The Inheritors: An Extravagant Story (1901) is a quasi-science fiction novel on which Ford Madox Ford and Joseph Conrad collaborated. It loo…

The Game of Life by John Godfrey Saxe

In The Coo-ee Reciter

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

John Godfrey Saxe

Recitation was a vital part of the curriculum in education in the Victorian and Edwardian eras. It not only enabled students to gain practic…