reader:"Simon Russell Beale and Libby Purves"

Beowulf's Last Rest

In Stories of Beowulf Told to the Children

Read by Maggie Russell

H. E. Marshall and Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall

The brave warrior, Beowulf, comes to the aid of King Hrothgar when he hears that Grendel, a horrible monster, is terrorizing the inhabitants…

Merry Christmas

In Five Minute Stories

Read by Catherine Russell

Laura E. Richards and Laura E. Howe Richards

Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. So…

01 - Lecture I, part 1: The Deteriorative Power of Conventional Art Over Nations

In The Two Paths

Read by Christopher Russell

John Ruskin

"The Two Paths" is a collection of five lectures delivered in 1858 and 1859 by John Ruskin on art and architecture. This is how th…

CHAPTER III

In Syria: the Desert and the Sown

Read by Jordan Russell

Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell's Syria: The Desert and the Sown describes her travels in the Levant (also called Greater Syria) during the first years of the…

2 Nephi 1-3

In The Book of Mormon

Read by Tony Russell

Joseph Smith, Jr.

The Book of Mormon is a volume of holy scripture comparable to the Bible, used by Latter Day Saints. It is a record of God’s dealings with t…

Episode 16: Eumaeus, part 6

In Ulysses (version 2)

Read by Maggie Russell

James Joyce

Ulysses is a groundbreaking novel in which Irish author James Joyce explores realism through stream-of-consciousness technique and shifting …

The Treasure in the House

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 047

Read by Susan Russell

Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 047: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Chapter XII

In A Honeymoon in Space

Read by Catherine Russell

George Griffith

Miss Lilla Zaidie Rennick is on a trans-Atlantic trip to England, she is supposed to marry Marquis of Byfleet, son of the Duke of Duncaster …

The Cow with Golden Horns

In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 1, 1835 to 1842