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Sonnet 73 - read by HMG

In Sonnet 073

Read by Hugh McGuire


William Shakespeare


To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project…

Book IV: A quarrel in Olympus

In The Iliad

Read by hugh mac


Homer, trans. Butler and Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Ch. 17-18

In The Prince

Read by Hugh McGuire


Niccolò Machiavelli


ll Principe (The Prince) is a political treatise by the Florentine writer Niccolò Machiavelli, originally called “De Principatibus” (…

Book 2

In Leaves of Grass

Read by Hugh McGuire


Walt Whitman


American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

029 - Vingt-neuvième nuit

In Les Mille et une nuits, tome 1

Read by Hugh McGuire


Antoine Galland and Anonymoustranslated Byantoine Galland


Afin de ne plus être déçu par les femmes, le sultan Schahriar décide d'épouser une jeune fille chaque jour…

09 -Chapter XIX, Section 09

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 19)

Read by Hugh Gillis


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 4 chapter 19 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

Version 4

In The Road

Read by Hugh McGuire


sassoon_s and Siegfried Sassoon


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Siegfried Sassoon's The Road, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

Chapter XXI: Saxonsteade Arms

In The Paradise Mystery

Read by Hugh McGuire


J.S. Fletcher and J. S. Fletcher


A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery.…

Part 1 Chapter 10-11

In Notes from the Underground

Read by Hugh McGuire


dostoyevsky_f and Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…

The Story of Zobeide

In The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Volume 01

Read by hugh mac


Anonymous, translated by Dr. Jonathan Scott and Anonymoustranslated Byjonathan Scott


The main frame story concerns a king and his new bride. The king, Shahryar, upon discovering his ex-wife's infidelity executes her and then …

IV - Of Speech

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

Read by hugh mac


Thomas Hobbes


Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

Chapter XXII, Part 4

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 22)

Read by Hugh Gillis


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 4 chapter 22 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

Remix: Sonnets 141-148

In Shakespeare's Sonnets

Read by Hugh McGuire


William Shakespeare


Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.…

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