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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…

A Valentine (Sent to a friend..) - Read by HBM

In A Valentine

Read by Holly McGuire


Lewis Carroll


This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)

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…

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…

Essay I: The Roots of Honour

In Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

Read by Hugh McGuire


John Ruskin


John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as …

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 07

In A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

Read by Hugh McGuire


Jules Verne


Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre d…

The Voice of Science by Arthur Conan Doyle

In Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Read by Riley McGuire


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Librivox readers have come together to bring you another diverse collection of short stories. This anthology brings you selections from Thom…

20 - Chapter 23

In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Read by Hugh McGuire


Mary Shelley


Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

Mr Pitkin’s Refutation

In Essays in Radical Empiricism

Read by Hugh McGuire


William James


William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psych…

Version 2

In In Flanders Fields

Read by Hugh McGuire


mccrae_j and John Mccrae


LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Colem…

Magna Charta Introduced: Slight Difficulties Encountered in Overcoming an Unpop…

In Comic History of England

Read by Hugh McGuire


Bill Nye


Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” …

15 - The Dead, part 1

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…

Golden Guineas

In Five Children and It

Read by Hugh McGuire


nesbit_e and E. Nesbit


This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon…

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