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Alarms and Discursions

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, p…

Irish Impressions

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“For the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I …

Varied Types

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of our day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Here he …

Lord Kitchener

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


“The paradox of all this part of his life lies in this--that, destined as he was to be the greatest enemy of Mahomedanism, he was quite exce…

Robert Browning

Read by Ray Clare


G. K. Chesterton


There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of…

First and Last

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the c…

On Anything

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days…

On Nothing & Kindred Subjects

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were …

On Something

Read by Ray Clare


Hilaire Belloc


“Now that story is a symbol, and tells the truth. We see some one thing in this world, and suddenly it becomes particular and sacramental; a…

Marcus on Becoming Whole

In Power Structuralism in Ancient Ontologies

Read by Michael Griffin


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Conflicting Views: Print Propaganda Depicting Tourism in a Landscape of War

In Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Read by Dori Griffin


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Staking out a Fortune

In The Young Ice Whalers

Read by Melissa Griffin


Winthrop Packard


Noted American naturalist, Winthrop Packard, has given such enchanting nature books as Wildwood Ways, White Mountain Trails, and Woodland W…

A Place of Memories

In The Camp Fire Girls' Careers

Read by Melissa Griffin


Margaret Vandercook


The next volume in the Camp Fire Series shall be known as "The Camp Fire Girls' Careers." The group of girls who first came togeth…

08 - A Tribute to Mrs. Ida Whiting Knowles

In The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 12 - Tributes

Read by Melissa Griffin


Robert G. Ingersoll


Col. Ingersoll, a renowned trial lawyer and known as "the Great Agnostic", was one of the most sought after Toastmasters of his da…

How Old King Eagle Won His White Head

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 012

Read by Antoinette Griffin


Thornton W. Burgess


Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 012: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

A Nightmare of the Doldrums

In The Phantom Death and Other Stories

Read by Molly Griffin


William Clark Russell


This is a book of remarkable nautical ghost and horror stories written by William Clark Russell in 1893. The stories are for the most part s…

Treatment of Vegetables, Part 1

In A Handbook of Cookery for a Small House

Read by Melissa Griffin


Jessie Conrad


This book of British recipes and cooking advice was compiled by Jessie Conrad, wife of celebrated author Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim, Heart of D…

How Old Mr. Mink taught himself to swim

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 013

Read by Antoinette Griffin


Thornton W Burgess (1874-1965) and Thornton W. Burgess


LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 013: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

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