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Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch - Read by PMM

In Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay

Read by Peter Makus


William Wordsworth


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, a Sketch by William Wordsworth. This was t…

The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell - Read by PMM

In The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell

Read by Peter Makus


Algernon Charles Swinburne


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Higher Pantheism in a Nutshell by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poe…

An Old Man's Thought of School - Read by PMM

In An Old Man's Thought of School

Read by Peter Makus


Walt Whitman


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for F…

My Flower - Read by PMM

In My Flower

Read by Peter Makus


Ira Titus


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of title by My Flower by Ira Titus. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 19, 2012A sh…

Chapter 39: Personality in the Dance

In The Art of Stage Dancing

Read by Peter Makus


Ned Wayburn


Ned Wayburn, a popular and outstanding choreographer of the early 1900's, writes about the different styles and requirements of dancing and …

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 3)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Lewis Carroll


"Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do ..." .. and from that mom…

The Enchanted Castle

Read by Peter Eastman


E. Nesbit


Three children, forced to remain at school during the holidays, go in search of adventure. What they find is a magic castle straight out of …

The People of the Abyss

Read by Peter Yearsley


Jack London


Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly …

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Read by Peter Bobbe


James Joyce


This is James Joyce's first novel, the semi-autobiographical story of a young Irish boy who struggles with family, country, and religion to …

The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. M. Pattison Muir


A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cuttin…

Ghost Stories of an Antiquary

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. R. James


Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be rea…

Grim Tales

Read by Peter Yearsley


E. Nesbit


A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can tou…

The King in Yellow (part 1)

Read by Peter Yearsley


Robert W. Chambers


Robert W. Chambers (1865-1933) studied art in Paris in the late 80's and early 90's, where his work was displayed at the Salon. However, sho…

Present at a Hanging and Other Ghost Stories

Read by Peter Yearsley


Ambrose Bierce


Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often …

Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2

Read by Peter Yearsley


Rabindranath Tagore


A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in the…

Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century

Read by Peter Yearsley


Edwin Benson


A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, p…

John Barleycorn or Alcoholic Memoirs

Read by Peter Kelleher


Jack London


Jack London died at the age of forty. In this autobiographical work, London describes his life as seen through the eyes of John Barleycorn (…

The Song of Hiawatha

Read by Peter Yearsley


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


I sing the Song of Hiawatha,Brave of heart and strong of arm.Daughter's son of old Nokomis,Fathered by the harsh West Wind.With its regular,…

The Five Jars

Read by Peter Yearsley


M. R. James


The Five Jars is the only novel written by James, who is best known for his ghost stories. It is a peculiarly surreal fantasy apparently wri…

Three Men on the Bummel

Read by Peter Yearsley


Jerome K. Jerome


Some time after "Three Men in a Boat", George, Harris and Jerome decided to go on a cycling holiday through Germany.This relaxed a…

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