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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…

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…

Part 1, Chapter 6 - Retribution

In Men, Women and Guns

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


H. C. McNeile and Sapper


World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…

VI Men Kissing Each Other

In The Art of Kissing

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Will Rossiter


The Art of Kissing is both a history of and a manual for the probably most widely practised enjoyment on the planet. (Summary by Availle)

Henry Purcell

In Short Poetry Collection 151

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Gerard Manley Hopkins


This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015.

THE BACKGROUND

In The Chronicles of Clovis

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Saki


This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…

Fie, Foolish Earth

In Short Poetry Collection 153

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Fulke Greville


This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2016.

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.

Messmates

In Short Poetry Collection 157

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Sir Henry Newbolt


This is a collection of 23 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2016.

An Original

In The Little Angel and Other Stories

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev


This is a volume of short works by Leonid Andreyev. - Summary by Carolin

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

In Christmas Carol Collection 2015

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


This year's selection includes traditional favourites and lesser-known Christmas carols in English and French. (Summary by Ruth Golding)Berg…

A Legend of Brittany

In Miscellaneous Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


James Russell Lowell


This is the second part of James Russell Lowell's collected poems: the Miscellaneous Poems. This series of poems covers, as the title implie…

Charlemagne and the Charcoal-burner

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 022

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)


Anonymous


LibriVox's Children's Short Works Collection 022: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…