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Sir Edmund Orme

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…

The Birthplace

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …

Frederic the Great

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

Lord Clive

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

La Grande Bretèche

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…

The Lonetown Mystery

In American Myths and Legends, Volume 1

Read by Ted Perkins


Charles M. Skinner


American Myths and Legends is another collection of folklore from author Charles M. Skinner, whose exhaustive and expansive work in the fiel…

Introduction to "William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathe…

In LibriVox 17th Anniversary Collection

Read by Ted Perkins


Florian Cajori


"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to li…

MANABOZHO, THE MISCHIEF-MAKER

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales (version 2)

Read by Ted Perkins


William Patten


Oh boy! Fairy Tales and Wonder Tales. This is exactly what you are thinking about but with a twist. Of course the well known tales from F…

CHAPTER I, THE DRIVE AGAINST DEATH

In Minos of Sardanes

Read by Ted Perkins


Charles B. Stilson


The micro cosmos of Sardanes faces macro calamity as climatic disruption and social upheaval threaten its existence. Its inhabitants, an anc…

The Last Galley

In The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales

Read by Ted Perkins


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


From the Preface:I HAVE written "Impressions and Tales" upon the title-page of this volume, because I have included within the sam…

Milly the Pony, and Carlo the Dog

In History of My Pets

Read by Ted Perkins


Sara Jane Lippincott


A collection of stories about the various pets the author had during her childhood. In this revised addition, the author also added some sto…

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