Search Results

On Some Military Snobs

In The Book of Snobs

Read by Bev J Stevens

W M Thackeray and William Makepeace Thackeray

The necessity of a work on Snobs, demonstrated from History, and proved by felicitous illustrations:—I am the individual destined to write t…

Verses 321 - 400

In Omar Resung

Read by Bev J Stevens

Charles G. Blanden

Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this conve…

Grandma's Prayer - Read by BJS

In Grandma's Prayer

Read by Bev J Stevens

Eugene Field

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Grandma's Prayer by Eugene Field . This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 4, 2011.E…

Its Supposed Checks and Balances, part 1

In The English Constitution

Read by Bev J Stevens

Walter Bagehot

The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized for…

Folly 5: The Transmutation of Metals--Alchemy

In The Seven Follies of Science

Read by Bev J Stevens

John Phin

The seven follies of science; a popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve…

09 - The Red-Haired Girl

In The Book of Ghosts

Read by Bev J Stevens

Sabine Baring-Gould

Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he publis…

The Rope of Fear

In Short Mystery Story Collection 004

Read by Bev J Stevens

Mary E. and Thomas W. Hanshew and Thomas W. Hanshew

LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 004: a collection of ten short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of…

Conjectures

In The Mystery of a Turkish Bath

Read by Bev J Stevens

Rita

A group of guests, at an exclusive luxury hotel in Hampshire, are the witnesses of an illustration of occult powers, demonstrated by “the My…

< 21 22 23 24 25 26