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The Riot Act (1714 – 1715)

In The Riot Act

Read by David Barnes


British Parliament and Parliament Of The United Kingdom Of Great Britain


The Riot Act was passed by the British Parliament in 1714, the first year of the reign of George I, and came into effect in August 1715. Thi…

The Village Blacksmith - Read by DRB

In The Village Blacksmith

Read by David Barnes


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of The Village Blacksmith, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poet…

Chapter 1 to 3

In The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Read by David Barnes


Robert Louis Stevenson


The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a novella by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. London lawyer…

Book 2 – 05

In The Return of the Native

Read by David Barnes


Thomas Hardy


Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Vic…

Lecture 4 - China and Ancient Greece

In China and the Chinese

Read by David Barnes


Herbert Allen Giles


Herbert Allen Giles (1845-1935) spent several years as a diplomat in China and in 1897 was appointed Cambridge University’s second professor…

Pitfalls to Avoid

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by David Barnes


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…

What Men Live By

In What Men Live By and Other Tales

Read by David Barnes


Leo Tolstoy


Although Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) was a wealthy landowner, in his later life he had what was considered a “religious awakening.” This experie…

SIXTY-FIVE WAYS TO COOK MACKEREL

In How to Cook Fish

Read by David Barnes


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…

Chapter III, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)

Read by David Barnes


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…

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