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Chapter 2

In Consuelo

Read by Ryan Williams

George Sand

This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. Afte…

The Ladies

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086

Read by Ryan Williams

Mark Twain

"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…

Chapter 27

In Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England

Read by Ryan Williams

Robert Smith Surtees

Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

Read by Graham Williams

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Sonnet 130 - read by GW

In Sonnet 130

Read by Graham Williams

William Shakespeare

LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal…

The Death of Rustem

In The Epic of Kings: Stories Retold from Firdusi

Read by Ryan Williams

Abul-Qâsem Ferdowsi Tusi

The Shahnameh (The Book of Kings) is a monumental poem composed around 1000 C.E. by the Persian poet Ferdowsi. It narrates the exploits of m…

Chapter 10

In The Green Millennium

Read by Mira Williams

Fritz Leiber

From the classic science-fiction and fantasy author Fritz Leiber comes this intriguing tale of a green cat. From the author's introduction:…

Private and Confidential

In Vanity Fair

Read by Graham Williams

William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair: A Novel without a Hero is a novel by William Makepeace Thackeray that satirizes society in early 19th-century England. Like man…

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