Shivratri (the Night of Shiva)
Laurence Hope
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Shivratri (the Night of Shiva) by Laurence Hope.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 9, 2025.
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Violet Nicolson, otherwise known as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory), was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author.
Adela married Colonel Malcolm Hassels Nicolson. A talented linguist, he introduced her to his love of India and native customs and food, which she began to share. This widely gave the couple a reputation for being eccentric. On the Zhob Valley expedition of 1890 she followed her husband through the passes of the Afghan border disguised as a Pathan boy. - Summary by Wikipedia (0 hr 25 min)
Chapters
| Shivratri - read by BK | 2:02 | Read by Bruce Kachuk |
| Shivratri - read by BWC | 1:44 | Read by Beeswaxcandle |
| Shivratri - read by CG | 1:54 | Read by Caijoreads |
| Shivratri - read by DC | 1:45 | Read by dc |
| Shivratri - read by DL | 2:00 | Read by David Lawrence |
| Shivratri - read by DLS | 2:02 | Read by LeeSalter |
| Shivratri - read by EL0 | 2:12 | Read by Newgatenovelist |
| Shivratri - read by JBW | 1:43 | Read by jenno |
| Shivratri - read by JK | 1:45 | Read by James Kruk |
| Shivratri - read by PDS | 1:29 | Read by Public Domain Scholar |
| Shivratri - read by PFS | 1:53 | Read by Phil Schempf |
| Shivratri - read by PTB | 1:36 | Read by P. T. Bearden |
| Shivratri - read by SLM | 1:37 | Read by Stacey Malcolm |
| Shivratri - read by TLK | 1:48 |