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Some Impressions of the Great Peace Conference

In Birdseye Views of Far Lands

Read by Hugh Gillis


James T. Nichols


Birdseye Views of Far Lands is an interesting, wholesome presentation of something that a keen-eyed, alert traveler with the faculty of maki…

stately, plump Buck ...

In Ulysses

Read by Hugh McGuire


James Joyce


NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as…

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In Where My Books Go

Read by Hugh McGuire


William Butler Yeats


LibriVox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of the short poem Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats, a weekly poetry proje…

Mr Pitkin’s Refutation

In Essays in Radical Empiricism

Read by Hugh McGuire


William James


William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psych…

Lecture I: Outline

In Lectures on Landscape

Read by Hugh McGuire


John Ruskin


A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin.

10 - Chapter XX, Part 10

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 20)

Read by Hugh Gillis


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 4 chapter 20 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

20 - Chapter 23

In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Read by Hugh McGuire


Mary Shelley


Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

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…

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 …

Magna Charta Introduced: Slight Difficulties Encountered in Overcoming an Unpop…

In Comic History of England

Read by Hugh McGuire


Bill Nye


Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” …

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In In Flanders Fields

Read by Hugh McGuire


mccrae_j and John Mccrae


LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Colem…

15 - The Dead, part 1

In Dubliners

Read by Hugh McGuire


James Joyce


Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)

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