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The Bab Ballads

Read by Graham Redman

W. S. Gilbert

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), …

More Bab Ballads

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W. S. Gilbert

This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert…

Chapter 16

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 2

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Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…

Doctor Faustus (closing lines)

In Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

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Christopher Marlowe

Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture…

An Early Christian Ceremony

In She

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H. Rider Haggard

At 5 years old Leo Vincey is left in the care of a Cambridge professor by the name of Horace Holly. His father leaves him a strange casket w…

10 - The Crab that Played with the Sea

In Just So Stories (version 3)

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Rudyard Kipling

These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite "why" and "how" questions. With …

Esme

In The Chronicles of Clovis

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Saki

This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…