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In Devotions upon Emergent Occasions

Read by Andrew Coleman


John Donne


Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as …

Chapters 18-22

In Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Vol 1

Read by Andrew Coleman


Benvenuto Cellini


Cellini's autobiographical memoirs, which he began writing in Florence in 1558, give a detailed account of his singular career, as well as h…

Romance - Read by AJC

In Romance

Read by Andrew Coleman


Andrew Lang


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 readings of Romance by Andrew Lang, probably best known as Edward Elgar's song My Love Dwelt in a Northern …

The First Jasmines - Read by AJC

In The First Jasmines

Read by Andrew Coleman


Rabindranath Tagore


Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in th…

Section 1

In Germania

Read by Andrew Coleman


Publius Cornelius Tacitus


The Germania (Latin: De Origine et situ Germanorum, literally The Origin and Situation of the Germans), written by Gaius Cornelius Tacitus a…

Chapter LI

In The Golden Bough (Complete)

Read by Andrew Coleman


Sir James Frazer and James Frazer


The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropol…

Chapter 5

In Book of the Damned

Read by Andrew Coleman


Charles Fort and Charles Hoy Fort


The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types o…

In The Trenches - Read by AJC

In In The Trenches

Read by Andrew Coleman


Thomas O'Hagan


Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that "every…

Ch 15: Of Husband and Wife

In Commentaries on the Laws of England. Book 1 (1765)

Read by Andrew Coleman


William Blackstone


~ BOOK THE FIRST ~The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir Willi…

Bk 3 pt 1

In Anabasis

Read by Andrew Coleman


Xenophon


Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave hi…

Vol 2 The Treatise of Eusebius, Ch 22-29

In The Life of Apollonius of Tyana

Read by Andrew Coleman


Philostratus, tr by Conybeare and Flavius Philostratus


Apollonius of Tyana (ca. 40-120 AD) was a Greek Pythagorean philosopher and teacher. He hailed from the town of Tyana in the Roman province …

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