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In Les Mille et une nuits, tome 1

Read by Hugh McGuire


Antoine Galland and Anonymoustranslated Byantoine Galland


Afin de ne plus être déçu par les femmes, le sultan Schahriar décide d'épouser une jeune fille chaque jour…

Part 2, Chapter 1

In White Fang

Read by Hugh McGuire


Jack London


White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the …

Chapter 11

In Dracula

Read by Hugh McGuire


Bram Stoker


The classic vampire story by Bram Stoker revolves around a struggle between good and evil, tradition and modernity, and lust versus chastity…

Aphorisms 1 - 21

In The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

Read by Hugh McGuire


Epictetus


Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.

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…

Errors

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Hugh McGuire


Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXI - Canto XXV

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Hugh McGuire


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Book IV: A quarrel in Olympus

In The Iliad

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Homer, trans. Butler and Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Book 07

In The Odyssey

Read by Hugh McGuire


Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer


The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

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…

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” (…

Book 2

In Leaves of Grass

Read by Hugh McGuire


Walt Whitman


American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

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