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What Sir Walter Raleigh thought of Guiana (1595), by Sir Walter Raleigh

In The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and…

Read by Alan Mapstone


Eva March Tappan


This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March…

Dialogue V: Panope relates to Galene the scene of the introduction of the golde…

In Lucian's Dialogues Volume 2: The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods

Read by Alan Mapstone


Lucian of Samosata and Lucian Of Samosata


The Dialogues of the Sea-Gods are 15 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods, originally written in Attic Greek…

Clare on the Farm

In A Rough Shaking

Read by Alan Schulte


George MacDonald


Clare was a wanderer. Orphaned by an earthquake when too young to even remember his full name, his childhood was a succession of challenges …

The wise chieftain

In Echoes of the Forest

Read by Alan Mapstone


William Edgar Brown


Twenty-six stories of first nations' origin rendered in English in verse. The author's dedication claims the stories "help us to unders…

Sonnet 28 - Read by ACC

In Sonnet 028

Read by Alan Clare


William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Sonnet 28 by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for the week o…

Voltaire

In Among the Great Masters of the Drama

Read by Alan Mapstone


Walter Rowlands


In "Among the great masters of the drama; scenes in the lives of famous actors; thirty-two reproductions of famous pictures with text&q…

Chapter VII

In Dead Men's Money

Read by Alan Chant


J. S. Fletcher


This classic mystery produces its first dead body during a clandestine midnight meeting. Already nothing is what it seems... (Summary by Ges…

The Rainy Day - Read by APR

In The Rainy Day

Read by Alan Rose


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September…

chapter 39

In Felix Holt, The Radical

Read by Alan Weyman


George Eliot


"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

The Reiver

In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses

Read by Alan Mapstone


Marie E. J. Pitt


Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…

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