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The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Dean Howells


In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang


Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

Comme tous les soirs

In Poèmes

Read by Jessica


Emile Verhaeren


La poésie du poète flamand Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916) est inspirée par son observation critique de la vie des g…

War Crimes, Character, and Responsibility

In Changing Character of War

Read by Jessica Wolfendale


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Final Explanations

In The Pink Shop

Read by Jessica Hendra


Fergus Hume


The Pink Shop operates outside the limits of the law by a mysterious woman concealed under a black veil. Follow the twists and turns as you …

Of ideas of identity and diversity Part I

In An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

Read by Jessica Louise


John Locke


John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes th…

THE CONCLUSION.

In A Study in Scarlet (Version 8)

Read by Jessica Zdanowicz


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


This exciting story is the first of the Sherlock Holmes detective novels and stories and the beginning of the famed duo with Dr. Watson who …

The Clearer Sight

In Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

Read by Jessica Atha


Ernest Starr


This book, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, is a collection of 23 "modern short stories", written by various autho…

The Sound of the Trees

In Short Poetry Collection 120

Read by Jessica McEvoy


Robert Frost (1874-1963) and Robert Frost


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013.

03 - THE REFUGEES

In The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2)

Read by Jessica Potter


Baroness Emma Orczy


In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republi…

Chapter 7 - Part 1

In Lay Down Your Arms: The Autobiography of Martha von Tilling

Read by Jessica Hendra


Bertha Von Suttner


Die Waffen Nieder, in English: Lay Down Your Arms is a fictional biography, which describes four wars from the perspective of a soldier's wi…

Chapter 22

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

Read by Jessica Hendra


Nathaniel Hawthorne


Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

Ch 07 pt 1

In Miss Mapp

Read by Jessica Louise


E.F. Benson and E. F. Benson


E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Map…

Chapter V, pt 1

In Antonia

Read by Jessica Hendra


George Sand


Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century …

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