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Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Hester Lynch Piozzi
Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illus…
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer
Read by Elijah Fisher
Richard Steele
Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrol…
Follies in Fiction
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Stephen Leacock
A pamphlet from the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto, containing selections from Further Foolishness and Frenzie…
Winnowed Wisdom
Read by David Wales
Stephen Leacock
This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare (Version 3, Dramatic Reading)
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G. K. Chesterton
This is undoubtedly the best of Chesterton's novels, a thriller which follows Gabriel Syme as he tries to find a way to bring the Supreme An…
The Reader's Digest, Volume 1, Issue 2
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Various
Twenty one articles each month from leading magazines - Each article of enduring value and interest, in condensed and compact form.A most co…
Fred Allen Texaco Star Theater 40 12 04 Death Comes To The Mystery Story Writer
The News of the Week reports on the cold wave sweeping the nation. Fred jokes about Jack Benny, then interviews an 11 year old Major Bowe's …
Child’s New Story Book
Read by Sibella Denton
William James Mcglothlin
Short and sweet stories for children. (Summary by Dr. Heather A. D. Mbaye)
My Comforter
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William James Mcglothlin
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of My Comforter by anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 25, 2012.
Lenz
Read by Rolf Kaiser
Georg Büchner
Büchner schildert in dieser Erzählung, wie der deutsche Schriftsteller Jakob Lenz dem Wahnsinn verfällt.Vor dem abwechselnd d…
Chase And Sanborn Program 43 05 23 Charles Boyer
Charlie has become a printer, printing up phony report cards. Professor of Gremlinology Bill Thompson, discusses a new species of Gremlin he…
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
Read by Paul Henry Tremblay
John Greenleaf Whittier
A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator's childhood. (Summary by Paul Tremblay)
Notes on Life and Letters
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
Conrad described the twenty-six essays collected here as a "one-man show" comprising "Conrad literary, Conrad political, Conr…
The Bookman, March 1921
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John Farrar
This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is J…
The Man of Feeling
Read by Jim Locke
Henry Mackenzie
A man of refined taste, who caught the tone of the French sentiment of his time, has, of course, pleased French critics, and has been transl…
Favourite Chapters Collection 003
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Various
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…
Walker's Appeal
Read by Jim Locke
David Walker
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
Jeremy At Crale; His Friends, His Ambitions And His One Great Enemy
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
This 1927 work is the third and final in Walpole’s Jeremy series. (The others are Jeremy and Jeremy And Hamlet.) Jeremy’s home is in Polches…