Search Results

Transcendental Analytic

In The Critique of Pure Reason

Read by Hugh McGuire


Immanuel Kant


The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philo…

Chapter 8

In The Spy

Read by Hugh McGuire


cooper_jf and James Fenimore Cooper


James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the A…

Chapter 1

In The Secret Agent

Read by Hugh McGuire


conrad_j and Joseph Conrad


The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting …

Chapter 07

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by Hugh McGuire


Written by Hugh McGuire, recorded by Hugh McGuire and 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…

Chapter 15

In The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Read by Hugh McGuire


LibriVox NaNoWriMo 2007 and Librivox Volunteers


An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…

Version 1

In The Voice of the Ancient Bard

Read by Hugh McGuire


William Blake


LibriVox volunteers bring you six different readings of The Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake. This is a weekly poetry project. (…

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” …

Version 4

In Sonnet 023

Read by Hugh McGuire


shakespeare and William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project.(Summary by Annie Coleman…

Version 07

In The Cow

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Co…

Chapter XXI: Saxonsteade Arms

In The Paradise Mystery

Read by Hugh McGuire


J.S. Fletcher and J. S. Fletcher


A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery.…

Part 1 Chapter 10-11

In Notes from the Underground

Read by Hugh McGuire


dostoyevsky_f and Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…

Ch. 17-18

In The Prince

Read by Hugh McGuire


Niccolò Machiavelli


ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (…

Chapter 07

In A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Read by Hugh McGuire


Jules Verne


Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre d…

THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH, PART I

In Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

Read by Hugh McGuire


Thomas de Quincey and Thomas De Quincey


The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…