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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 …
Biographia Literaria
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
The Gentle Persuasion
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Alan Gray
Twelve stories from the author's life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan Gray. For more information on the author se…
Gulliver's Travels (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Jonathan Swift
First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" presents, as a mock travel tale, a series of thought experiments mi…
The Wonderful Visit
Read by Mary Bard
H. G. Wells
An other-worldly creature visits a small English village, and H. G. Wells uses humour and satire to convey some of the imperfections of Vict…
The Flight of the Heron
Read by Elin
D. K. Broster
Ewen Cameron, a young and handsome Highland laird devoted to the Jacobite cause, takes the English army captain Keith Windham prisoner on th…
Der Waldteufel
Read by Dirk Weber
Robert Kraft
Der Waldteufel erschien 1898 im Rahmen der 5 Hefte umfassenden Serie „Aus allen Welttheilen“, wobei jedes Heft eine abgeschlossene Geschicht…
Travels in Lancashire
Read by Phil Benson
Various,William Roscoe
A collection of fiction, non-fiction and poetry on travels in Lancashire, England, with occasional sorties into adjacent counties. - Summary…
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars
Read by Grant Hurlock
Bampfylde Moore Carew
The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew recounts the wide-ranging exploits of a real-life rogue – a wily professional mendicant w…
Stories I Told Myself
Read by Patrick E. McLean
Patrick E. McLean
Funny, moving and always exquisitely well-produced, this collection of short stories and essays from the award-winning Seanachai podcast is …
Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium
Various
University of Oxford Podcasts
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…
Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects
Read by InTheDesert
John Newton
Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…
The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Volume 2
Read by James R. Hedrick
Robert Paltock
The imaginary voyage, from which a hero returns made wise through extraordinary experience, is at least as old as Odysseus. But the major in…
Take it From Dad
Read by Lee Smalley
George Livermore and George G. Livermore
Take It From Dad is a collection of letters written by a father to his son, Ted, at boarding school, away from home for the first time. In e…
A Long Way from Disney - Part I
Read by Seth Harwood
Seth Harwood
It's the 1980s in Boston: the Celtics are rolling, the Patriots got crushed by the Bears, and the Sox are the Sox. Adam Berkman is learning …
The Brushwood Boy
Read by Liam Neely
Rudyard Kipling
The experiences in public school, Sandhurst and military life in India of Major George Cotter together with his adventures in the dream worl…
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
A collection of Twain short stories including:The Loves Of Alonzo FitzClarence And Rosannah EtheltonOn The Decay Of The Art Of LyingAbout Ma…
The Lust of Hate
Read by Peter John Keeble
Guy Boothby
This is the third Dr Nikola book in a series of five written by Guy Boothby. The main character is Gilbert Pennethorne a man whom "Lady…
Merry Autumn
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Merry Autumn by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 10t…