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In Poems of Schiller - 2nd Period

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Friedrich Schiller


Poems by Friedrich Schiller in his second period 1785 onwards. - Summary by Alan Mapstone

Darkness

In The Prisoner of Chillon

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Lord Byron visited the Castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816 and was intrigued by the legend of Francis Bonnivard who was …

04. Castles in Spain

In Kéramos : and other poems

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


This is a collection of 51 poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. which include many sonnets, plus 7 translations of poems by Virgil, Ovid, Mi…

Verses Inscriptive and Memorial

In Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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Herman Melville


"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…

When I set out for Lyonnesse - TEC

In When I set out for Lyonnesse

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Thomas Hardy


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of When I set out for Lyonnesse by Thomas Hardy.This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 22…

The Benediction

In The Flowers of Evil

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Charles Baudelaire and James Huneker


Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work is described as combining an exoticism inherited from the Romantics with the Realism of othe…

Sonnets

In Poems of Conformity

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Charles Williams


Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …

The Familie

In The Temple

Read by Sheridan Alistair


George Herbert


George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…

The Young British Soldier

In Barrack-Room Ballads

Read by Sheridan Alistair


Rudyard Kipling


Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…

The Wagtail Family

In The Children's Book of Birds

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Olive Thorne Miller


The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…

Letters from Vienna - Freud's correspondence with Pastor Oskar Pfister

In Kellogg College

Read by Alistair Ross


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

33 - Upon our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount, Discourse XIII

In Sermons on Several Occasions, First Series

Read by Alistair Bench


John Wesley


John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …

07 - Sternocostal Articulations; Articulation of Manubrium and Body of Sternum

In Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (Gray's Anatomy)

Read by Alistair Lord


Henry Gray


Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded th…

10 - Chapter X

In Afloat on the Ohio

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Reuben Gold Thwaites


Afloat on the Ohio, An Historical Pilgrimage, of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, From Redstone to Cairo.There were four of us pilgrims—my Wife,…

Charles Summers

In Captains of Industry

Read by Theresa Sheridan


James Parton


In this volume are presented examples of men who shed lustre upon ordinary pursuits, either by the superior manner in which they exercised t…

Chapter 16, The Search for the "Flyaway"

In The Rover Boys on the Ocean

Read by Theresa Sheridan


Edward Stratemeyer and Arthur M. Winfield


The hearty, all-American Rover Boys sail by yacht to Africa in search of their kidnapped father. (Summary by BellonaTimes)

16 - A Mysterious Fire

In Tom Swift and His Sky Racer

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Victor Appleton


A $10,000 prize lures Tom into competing at a local aviation meet at Eagle Park. Tom is determined to build the fastest plane around, but hi…