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Richelieu: A Tale of France

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


Written in three volumes, this fictionalized biography of Richelieu is supposedly based on a manuscript that fell into the author's hands an…

Lord Montagu's Page

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


A young man is crossing the English Channel bound for France. It is obviously not his first such trip, but who is he and what is his errand?…

The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


The lot of a younger son was less assured than his older brother in days gone by. It was worse for his descendant, especially if he wanted t…

Arrah Neil; or, Times of Old

Read by Lynne T


George Payne Rainsford James


During his lifetime, James published an estimated 100 novels. Arrah Neil was published some 40 years after his death. In this historical nov…

Book 1, Chapter 7, Part 1

In Open The Door

Read by Lynne


Catherine Carswell


This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her…

A Busy Saturday

In The Chinese Kitten

Read by Tivia Lynnell


Edna Adelaide Brown


Lucy and Dora are so excited to learn they will be sleeping in a tent at the beach! Then Mother and Uncle Dan tell them that their kitten, T…

Topic 8, Fourth Paper, by Mrs. Paul L. Dunbar

In Twentieth Century Negro Literature or A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topi…

Read by Tivia Lynnell


Daniel Wallace Culp


The object of this book is... (1) To enlighten the uninformed white people on the intellectual ability of the Negro. (2) To give to those, w…

Why Peter Rabbit Has One Less Enemy

In The Wishing-Stone Stories

Read by Lynnette Rose


Thornton W. Burgess


“Tommy scuffed his bare, brown feet in the grass … A scowl, a deep, dark, heavy scowl, had chased all merriment from his round, freckled fac…

Creating and Sustaining DH Teams: Scaling from the Smaller to the Larger, from t…

In Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Read by Lynne Siemens


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Periodic Winds

In Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History

Read by Lynne T


Allen H. Godbey


"Mankind is constantly astonished by reports of mishaps and disasters of manifold character, when there is seldom room for astonishment…

Book 2 Chapter 32

In Anna Karenina, Book 2

Read by Lynne Carroll


Leo Tolstoy


In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to …

Introduction

In War Stories for My Grandchildren

Read by Lynne T


John Watson Foster


After years of telling these stories to his grandchildren, Foster was prevailed on to write them down for future generations. Rather than re…

Chapter 31

In The Visioning, A Novel

Read by Lynne T


Susan Glaspell


"The Visioning, Susan Glaspell's second novel, tells about Katie Jones, a young woman who lives in the comfortable world she knows with…

Epilogue

In Zarah the Cruel

Read by Lynne T


Joan Conquest


As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, an…

The Sending of Dana Da by Rudyard Kipling

In Short Story Collection Vol. 074

Read by Lynne T


Rudyard Kipling


A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Arthur Conan D…

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