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Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Read by Cori Samuel


Mary Seacole


I should have thought that no preface would have been required to introduce Mrs. Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which…

A Christmas Carol (version 07)

Read by Cori Samuel


Charles Dickens


The classic Christmas story of an old miser and the astonishing effect a series of ghostly visitors has upon him. This version has been rea…

Tender Buttons

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Gertrude Stein


"The time came when there was a birthday. Every day was no excitement and a birthday was added, it was added on Monday, this made the m…

The Story of a Candy Rabbit

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Laura Lee Hope


The Candy Rabbit wakes up one morning to find his Destiny has arrived: he is part of a wonderful Easter display at the toy shop in which he …

Our Little English Cousin (Version 2)

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Blanche Mcmanus


Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her dai…

The Soul of London

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Ford Madox Ford


'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who ar…

To The Lighthouse

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Virginia Woolf


The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…

Orlando

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Virginia Woolf


A fictional biography following the adventures of Orlando: initially a gentleman, later a lady — always a poet — who romps through British h…

Part 13

In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I

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James Boswell


Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in it…

Song (Behn version) read by Cori Samuel

In Song (Behn version)

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Aphra Behn


LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 different recordings of Song by Aphra Behn. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 6th, 2007…

Hearts and Hands

In Short Story Collection Vol. 051

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O. Henry


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

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In John Halifax, Gentleman

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Dinah Craik and Dinah Maria Mulock Craik


This novel, published in 1856, was one of the popular and beloved novels in the Victorian era. It is told in the first person by Phineas Fle…

A Short System of English Grammar

In LibriVox Language Learning Collection Vol. 004

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Henry Bate


This collection is part of an initiative to create a language learning resource at LibriVox. The LibriVox Language Learning Collections cont…

Bk 4: Section I, and Song I: The Soul's Flight

In The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Chapter 8

In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

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Olaudah Equiano


The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, written in 1789, is the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano. It discusses his time sp…

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