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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson


Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Mice & Other Poems

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Gerald Bullett


Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

THE BACKGROUND

In The Chronicles of Clovis

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Saki


This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…

VI Men Kissing Each Other

In The Art of Kissing

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Will Rossiter


The Art of Kissing is both a history of and a manual for the probably most widely practised enjoyment on the planet. (Summary by Availle)

Henry Purcell

In Short Poetry Collection 151

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Gerard Manley Hopkins


This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2015.

Part 1, Chapter 6 - Retribution

In Men, Women and Guns

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H. C. McNeile and Sapper


World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human…

A Glance behind the Curtain

In Miscellaneous Poems

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James Russell Lowell


This is the second part of James Russell Lowell's collected poems: the Miscellaneous Poems. This series of poems covers, as the title implie…

Selected poems

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07

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Gottfried August Bürger


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Psalm 95 (3 versions)

In Psalms of David

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Isaac Watts


Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the Wo…

The Two Songs

In Short Poetry Collection 150

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William Blake


This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2015.

Dirge for the Year - Read by JDB

In Dirge for the Year

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Percy Bysshe Shelley


Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets …

The Retired Cat - Read by JDB

In The Retired Cat

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William Cowper


William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century na…

The End of All

In Short Science Fiction Collection 055

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James Stamers and Andrew Carpenter Wheeler


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Vol. 3 - Chapter 3

In Helen

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Maria Edgeworth


Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…