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Sir Edmund Orme

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…

The Birthplace

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …

Frederic the Great

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

Lord Clive

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

La Grande Bretèche

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…

An Accident

In Daisy: the Autobiography of a Cat

Read by Ted Perkins


Miranda Elliot Swan


"I was born in a clothes-basket, and do not feel ashamed of my birthplace, though fire and the swill man long ago removed all trace of …

Who is Santa Klaus

In The Story of Santa Klaus

Read by Ted Perkins


William S. Walsh


Who was Santa Klaus? Did he exist? In this study of custom and folklore, the author looks at the real and the legendary man, according to va…

XLII

In A House Divided Against Itself

Read by Jan Perkins


Margaret O. Oliphant


"A house divided against itself cannot stand." So said Abraham Lincoln in 1858. Here we have the irascible Mr. Waring, an elderly …

She Walks in Beauty

In Short Poetry Collection 147

Read by John Perkins


George Gordon, Lord Byron


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

CHAPTER 12

In You Can't Win

Read by Ted Perkins


Jack Black


'You Can't Win' is an autobiography that was serialized in the San Francisco Call and Post (1925). It became so popular that it was publishe…

The Imp

In Leave it to Doris

Read by Jan Perkins


Ethel Hueston


The Reverend Mr. Artman is a widower of three years and is worried he might not be able to escape the clutches of Miss Carlton, his housekee…

Au Lecteur

In Multilingual Poetry Collection 017

Read by Gryphon Perkins


Charles Baudelaire


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. …

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