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17 - The Dead, part 3

In Dubliners

Read by Hugh McGuire


James Joyce


Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)

Version 07

In The Cow

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Co…

Chapter 16

In Treasure Island

Read by Hugh McGuire


stevenson_rl and Robert Louis Stevenson


Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age …

Chapter 1-3

In Childhood

Read by Hugh McGuire


Leo Tolstoy


Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Publishe…

SIX WAYS TO COOK CATFISH

In How to Cook Fish

Read by Hugh McGuire


Olive Green and Myrtle Reed


Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books an…

Of A Particular Providence and of a Future State

In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Read by Hugh McGuire


David Hume


The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sough…

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

In The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Read by Hugh McGuire


Beatrix Potter


Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

Chapter 8

In The Spy

Read by Hugh McGuire


cooper_jf and James Fenimore Cooper


James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the A…

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXI - Canto XXV

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Hugh McGuire


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Errors

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Hugh McGuire


Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Chapter 15

In The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Read by Hugh McGuire


LibriVox NaNoWriMo 2007 and Librivox Volunteers


An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…

Nisus and Scylla--Echo and Narcissus--Clytie--Hero and Leander

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

Read by Hugh McGuire


Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Bk 1: Song VII: The Perturbations of Passion

In The Consolation of Philosophy

Read by Hugh McGuire


Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

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