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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…

Life’s Tragedy

In Short Poetry Collection 189

Read by Hugh Michael

Paul Laurence Dunbar

This is a collection of 41 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2019.

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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