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W. Somerset Maugham
This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…
The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces
Read by Ben Tucker
Nathaniel Hawthorne
This post-humous collection of stories, sketches and essays by celebrated quintessential New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne gives us gli…
The Forgery
Read by Lynne T
George Payne Rainsford James
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well althoug…
With Clive in India
Read by Gary Olman
G. A. Henty
With Clive in India gives a vivid picture of the wonderful events of the ten years, which at their commencement saw Madras in the hands of t…
Glimpses of Italian society in the eighteenth century
Read by Barbara Baker
Hester Lynch Piozzi
Selections from the "Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany" by Hester Ly…
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
The History of Britain
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
John Milton
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to “my author,” meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE a…
The Wish
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Abraham Cowley
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Wish by Abraham Cowley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 24, 2013. Ab…
Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland
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Lewis Carroll
Die Titelheldin Alice wird während eines langweiligen Picknicks mit ihrer Schwester auf ein weißes Kaninchen aufmerksam, dem sie …
The Last Essays of Elia
Read by Tony Addison
Charles Lamb
Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on hi…
Touch and Go
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D. H. Lawrence
A man is speaking to a group of colliers in a small mining village. They have decided that they have had enough of the way they are treated …
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty
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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…
The Powder of Sympathy
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Christopher Morley
Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…
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…
Chrysomela
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Robert Herrick
This is a volume of poetry by Robert Herrick. The volume "Chrysomela" was arranged by Francis Turner Palgrave. The 17th century En…
Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil
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William Henry Smith
In which an English country gentlemen records his and his friends' conversational observations on misery and happiness, leaning ultimately o…
Cock-House at Fellsgarth
Read by Jim Locke
Talbot Baines Reed
A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von
Midsummer
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William Cullen Bryant
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Midsummer by William Cullen Bryant. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 23, 2013.This…