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Ravensdene Court
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
J. S. Fletcher
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…
The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton
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E. Phillips Oppenheim
Alfred Burton, a smooth-talking salesman, is having a perfectly ordinary day on the job when he stumbles across a strange plant in an old ho…
Days With Sir Roger de Coverley
Read by Elijah Fisher
Joseph Addison
The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley'…
Rob Gittins Investigating Mr. Thomas
Afternoon Play: Investigating Mr Thomas First broadcast: Wed 12th Mar 2008, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM When Time magaz…
That Affair at Elizabeth
Read by Cate Barratt
Burton Egbert Stevenson
A detective novel set in turn-of-the-century New York City, in which a young lawyer plays the sleuth. Packed with plot twists (and the ubiqu…
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Read by Tadhg
Thomas Hardy
The book describes the love triangle between a young woman, Elfride Swancourt, and her two suitors from very different backgrounds. Stephen …
Thomas Hobbes
Read by Jim Locke
Alfred Edward Taylor
This work is a look at the life and ideas of Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher of the seventeenth century. The most important ideas are fo…
American Men of Action
Read by William Tomcho
Burton Egbert Stevenson
In this book, Burton Egbert Stevenson writes a brief biography of some of the most noteworthy men in American history. He begins at the very…
Lin McLean
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (S…
Lancashire Characters and Places
Read by Phil Benson
Thomas Newbigging
An eclectic collection of essays on late 19th-century Lancashire culture and life, including essays on the poets John Critchley Prince and E…
Warren Hastings
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Thomas Babington Macaulay
"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 002
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Various
Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…
An Inquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense
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Thomas Reid
"That excellent book by Thomas Reid, the Inquiry into the Human Mind (first edition, 1764; 6th edition, 1810), as a negative proof of t…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection
Read by Barbara Baker
Horace Walpole
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…
Sense Memory
Read by Brion J. Humphrey
Brion J. Humphrey
If our memory is the thing that shapes and defines us, that informs who we are at our very core, then God help us all...for memory, is a wic…
Indian Child Life
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Charles Alexander Eastman
The author was raised as an American Indian and describes what it was like to be an Indian boy (the first 7 chapters) and an Indian Girl (th…