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Dickens's Points of View

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Jon Mee


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Communist Manifesto

Read by Jon Ingram


Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx


Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists.…

The Eagle's Shadow

Read by Jon M.Wilson


James Branch Cabell


A romantic comedy in which love is complicated by a large inheritance. - Summary by W. Blaine Dowler

A Shropshire Lad (version 2)

Read by Jon Sindell


A. E. Housman


This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to …

Mighty Roman Shorts

Read by Jon Sindell


Jon Sindell


The Mighty Roman is a baseball book for today, a funny, freewheeling novel about modern American manhood. It’s a modern Mutiny On The Bounty…

10 - Interest and Discipline

In Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education

Read by Jon Miller


John Dewey


An important, controversial, and often cited work on public education. Dewey discusses the role of public education in a democracy and the d…

The Axton Letters

In The American Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Read by Jon Smith


William Macharg and Edward Balmer and William MacHarg


To follow up on the heels of volumes 1 and 2 of "The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes" released on LibriVox, here is a collection of stor…

To An Athlete Dying Young

In Short Poetry Collection 105

Read by Jon Sindell


A.E. Housman (1859-1936) and A. E. Housman


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2012.

67alt - A Sermon to Leopold (alternate reading)

In Thomas Wingfold, Curate

Read by Jon Smith


George MacDonald


Republished in modern times as "The Curate's Awakening". A young man (Thomas Wingfold) "enters the church" through no re…

THE FALSE DEMETRIUS OF RUSSIA

In Claimants to Royalty

Read by Jon Ingram


John H. Ingram and John Henry Ingram


A compilation of chronicles of the numerous impostors and impostures of kings, queens, and rulers. (Summary by Carmen H)

14 - Book 13, Chapters 1 - 5:Unguents: at what period they were first introduce…

In The Natural History Volume 3

Read by Jon Ingram


Pliny the Elder


Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …

Bredon Hill

In Short Poetry Collection 104

Read by Jon Sindell


A.E. Housman (1859-1936) and A. E. Housman


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2012.

The Tell-Tale Heart

In Short Story Collection Vol. 051

Read by Jon Sindell


Edgar Allan Poe


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Turkey Bones and Eating and We Liked It. A Play

In Geography and Plays

Read by Jon Miller


Gertrude Stein


Geography and Plays is a 1922 collection of Gertrude Stein's "word portraits," or stream-of-consciousness writings. These stream-o…

Geo. W. Childs

In Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous

Read by Jon Smith


Sarah Knowles Bolton


These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty…