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In Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches

Read by Allen Rubinstein


Maurice Baring


In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…

Fried Green Zombies

Read by John Allen


John Allen


Chett and Harry are two recently unemployed construction workers on their way to a weekend of beer, Southern Comfort, and frog gigging at th…

The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

Read by George Allen


Virgil


The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

Donal Grant

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also hou…

Malcolm

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


Malcolm MacPhail has lived, for all of his twenty or so years, in a fishing village on the north coast of Scotland. He lives with his grandf…

Little Miss Grasshopper

Read by Devorah Allen


Johanna Spyri


The Feland family go on a holiday in Switzerland. While there, their impulsive younger daughter gets into a scrape that teaches the whole fa…

Symbolism

Read by Jeff Allen


Johann Adam Möhler


Johann Adam Möhler was professor theology at the Tübingen University where both Catholics and Protestants taught and studied. In 1…

Dymer

Read by Devorah Allen


C. S. Lewis


This is a narrative poem written by C.S. Lewis, begun in his teen years and published when he was a tutor at Oxford. It appeared in print un…

Human Sacrifice

Read by Jeff Allen


John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton


This was one of Lord Acton's essays, that was in response to the publication of the letters between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Macaulay. Lord…

The Marquis of Lossie

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


This book is the sequel to Malcolm.Having now learned the truth of his own parentage, and some important facts regarding the birth of his la…

The Basis Of Morality

Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf


Arthur Schopenhauer


In 1837, the Danish Royal Society of Sciences offered a prize to any essayist who could satisfactorily answer the question, "Is the fou…

My Brother's Story

Read by Allen Johnson Jr.


Allen Johnson Jr.


The Blackwater Novels are set in the 1930s along the Blackwater Swamp, near the fictional town of Turpentine, Georgia. Get in trouble with t…

The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Sankaracarya, Volume 1

Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf


Bādarāyaṇaandadi Shankara


The Vedanta Sutras, or Brahma Sutras as they are also known, is a Sanskrit text attributed to the sage Badarayana (also known as Vyasa) writ…

Animals’ Rights Considered In Relation To Social Progress (Version 2)

Read by Jeffrey Allen Stumpf


Henry Salt


Published in 1892, this pioneering book presents early philosophical and ethical arguments for the compassionate treatment of animals and cr…

Fountain of Siloam

In Short Poetry Collection 187

Read by Devorah Allen


Robert Murray M'Cheyne


This is a collection of 32 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2018.

17 - Almond - Apricot

In The Family Kitchen Gardener

Read by dana-allen


Robert Buist


The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically Am…

My Uncle Peter

In Christmas Short Works Collection 2022

Read by Devorah Allen


George MacDonald


The 2022 Christmas collection brings some old favourites along with some new selections, from the traditional to the bizarre. Among the sele…

Pillar 4. Community Policing and Crime Reduction, part 1

In Final Report of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing

Read by Devorah Allen


President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing and President'S Task Force On 21St Century Policing


In light of recent events that have exposed rifts in the relationships between local police and the communities they protect and serve, on D…

Chapter 5 - The Scattering of the People

In The Bible in Its Making

Read by Jamie Allen


Mildred Duff and Noel Hope and Mildred Duff


One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the …