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Chapter 04 - The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators

In Secret Chambers and Hiding Places

Read by Peter Yearsley

Allan Fea

“Secret Chambers and Hiding Places” is a collection of concealments and their uses, almost all within England, although a very few passages …

Chapter 09

In Death Be Not Proud

Read by Peter Yearsley

John Donne

This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remembe…

Version 33

In Art and Heart

Read by Peter Yearsley

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 3…

Chapter 05

In Beowulf

Read by Peter Yearsley

Tr. Francis Barton Gummere, Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere

This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a my…

Chapter 01

In A Princess of Mars

Read by Peter Yearsley

E. R. Burroughs and Edgar Rice Burroughs

Part One of Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Mars-Series. Easy, swank, pulp read about an omnipotent gentleman teleported to Mars, finding an outlandi…

Version 6

In A Noiseless Patient Spider

Read by Peter Yearsley

whitman_w and Walt Whitman

LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Walt Whitman’s A Noiseless Patient Spider, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by An…

Jazz Fantasia - Read by PY

In Jazz Fantasia

Read by Peter Yearsley

Carl Sandburg

As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is cent…

Uncle Abraham’s Romance

In Ghost Story Collection 001

Read by Peter Yearsley

E. Nesbit

A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…

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