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My First Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
Putting the Most Into Life
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Booker T. Washington
The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…
Dombey en Zoon
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De trotse Dombey, eigenaar van het handelskantoor 'Dombey en zoon', heeft zich als doel in zijn leven gesteld zich in zijn bedrijf te laten …
Lines on The Mermaid Tavern
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John Keats
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines on The Mermaid Tavern by John Keats. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August…
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 (…
Simon Called Peter
Read by Simon Evers
Robert Keable
Peter, a conventional Anglican priest, becomes a padre in northern France during the First World War. He is posted to a hospital on the coas…
In the Net of the Stars
Read by Nemo
F. S. Flint
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
Diary of a Pilgrimage
Read by Szindbad
Jerome K. Jerome
A possibly fictionalised account by the comic novelist Jerome K. Jerome of a trip to Germany that he undertook with a friend in order to see…
Ultima Thule
Read by Karen Savage
Dallas Mccord Reynolds and Mack Reynolds
Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when …
The Literary Sense
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E. Nesbit
A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoe…
Kathleen
Read by KirksVoice
Christopher Morley
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of…
Skiddoo!
Read by Laurie Banza
Hugh Mchugh
John Henry is quite a character! King of the "Beloved of the Short Arm Jab". John Henry has his own unique perspective on the even…
The Lust of Hate
Read by Peter John Keeble
Guy Boothby
This is the third Dr Nikola book in a series of five written by Guy Boothby. The main character is Gilbert Pennethorne a man whom "Lady…
An Amiable Charlatan
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
De Kerkklokken
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
Dit is het tweede 'kerstverhaal' van Charles Dickens. Het boek is geschreven in 1844 een jaar na het beroemdere Chrismas Carol. Eigenlijk is…
Philebus
Read by Geoffrey Edwards
Plato
Philebus (ΦΙΛΗΒΟΣ) discusses pleasure, wisdom, soul and God. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)
Humour of the North
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Variousandlawrence J. Burpee
Some day an enterprising editor may find time to glean from the whole field of Canadian literature a representative collection of wit and hu…
Schnock
Read by Claus Misfeldt
Friedrich Hebbel
Hebbel schildert in seiner Kurzgeschichte die Umstände einer zufällig gemachten Reisebekanntschaft. - Summary by Claus Misfeldt
After Dark
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Wilkie Collins
William Kerby is in danger of losing his sight, which would hit him especially hard as he is a painter. Only rest can preserve it, but a man…
Francis Durbridge - The Kelby Affair
Francis Durbridge - Paul Temple And The Kelby Affair The great radio detective lives again in a reading by Anthony Head. Returning fro…