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Indian Summer (version 2)

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


William Dean Howells


Set in Florence's Anglo-American colony in the late 19th century, this is a romantic story of a middle-aged man, returning to the scene of h…

The May Day Murders

Read by Scott Wittenburg


Scott Wittenburg


The autumnal tranquility of Smithtown, Ohio is shattered when Dr. David Bradley arrives home to find that his wife has been raped and murder…

The Enchanted April (Version 3)

Read by TR Love


Elizabeth Von Arnim


Escaping their lives for a month in a castle on the Riviera, four women spend considerable effort suspiciously guarding their solitude, beli…

The New Idealism

Read by Expatriate


May Sinclair


The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossifie…

John Marchmont's Legacy

Read by Cate Barratt


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Like Wuthering Heights, the center of this story is a dramatic love triangle, the setting is a huge English manor. Olivia Marchmont has alwa…

The May Day Murders

Read by Scott Wittenburg


Scott Wittenburg


The autumnal tranquility of Smithtown, Ohio is shattered when Dr. David Bradley arrives home to find that his wife has been raped and murder…

The Pupil

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…

Modern Essays

Read by David Wales


Christopher Morley


Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…

Bill Nye's Cordwood

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Bill Nye


From Galileo to Grover Cleveland, from wasps to cattle, from dinosaurs to the railroad, Bill Nye's wide ranging wit pokes gentle fun at ever…

Heretics

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


The Author Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere "rollicki…

Tremendous Trifles

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…

English Literature

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Geraldine Hodgson


This book is not meant to be a History of English Literature, but an introduction for those who do not know much about it, or who may be thi…

Heretics

Read by G.K. Chesterton


G. K. Chesterton


"Heretics," a series of essays by Gilbert Keith Chesterton. First published in 1905. Chesterton had a sense of humor, had a sense …

London Labour and the London Poor Volume I

Read by Peter Yearsley


Henry Mayhew


Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…

Summer (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Edith Wharton


Wharton's 1917 novella Summer, like her more famous work Ethan Frome, is set in a very small rural New England town. Charity Royall longs t…

Writing Wrongly

Read by Thomas Corfield


Thomas Corfield


When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…

The Enterprise of the ''Mayflower''

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Amice Macdonell and Amice MacDonell


"Welcome to all! We show the story of how, nearly three hundred years ago, when this country was not so happy as it is now, some people…

Senator North

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Gertrude Atherton


"When, Mr. President, a man, however eminent in other pursuits and whatever claims he may have to public confidence, becomes a member o…

May Garden

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John Drinkwater


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of May Garden by John Drinkwater.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 23, 2021. ------Joh…

A Brief History of English and American Literature

Read by Kalynda


Henry A. Beers


Henry Augustin Beers, native of Buffalo, NY and professor of English at Yale, with the help of John Fletcher Hurst (1834-1903), Methodist bi…

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