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In Beowulf (version 2)

Read by Tad E.


Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere


Beowulf was composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet. Francis Barton Gummere translates this beautiful poem. Beowulf is an epic poem. The m…

Second Book: Poems 63-65

In The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces In the English Language

Read by Tad E.


Francis T. Palgrave


Palgrave's principal contribution to the development of literary taste was contained in his Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics (186…

Chapter X - Saint Anthony's Well

In The Two Destinies

Read by E Ogston


Wilkie Collins


Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…

Chapter VI - The Battle of Chalons, AD 451 - Part 1

In The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World

Read by James E.


Sir Edward Shepherd Creasy


This work is Edward Creasy's best known fundamental work of history. It describes in detail 15 battles of world history, beginning with the …

Gaius

In Bunyan Characters Volume II

Read by E Snow


Alexander Whyte


This is the second volume of four which goes into the details of Characters from John Bunyan's books. This one continues with the characters…

A Description of the Morning

In Short Poetry Collection 030

Read by E. Plein


Jonathan Swift


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 030: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Part 2 - The Mending Apparatus

In The Machine Stops

Read by E. Tavano


E. M. Forster


The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the sur…

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