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01 – Preface, Forward, Chapter I - MY ARRIVAL AT TSAVO

In The Man-Eaters of Tsavo

Read by James Christopher


J.H. Patterson and John Henry Patterson


In 1898, during the construction of river-crossing bridge for the Uganda Railway at the Tsavo River, as many as 135 railway workers were att…

PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION (800 words)

In The Sleeper Awakes

Read by James Christopher


H. G. Wells


The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, b…

12 - The House-Boat Disappears

In A House-Boat on the Styx

Read by James Christopher


John Kendrick Bangs


The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of …

The Apology - Read by JFG

In The Apology

Read by James Gladwin


Ralph Waldo Emerson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 different recordings of The Apology by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week…

Sonnet 28 - Read by JFG

In Sonnet 028

Read by James Gladwin


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…

Good Hours - Read by JFG

In Good Hours

Read by James Gladwin


Robert Frost


LibriVox volunteers bring you 41 different recordings of Good Hours by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of Sept…

Book 2, Part 1

In The Annals Vol 1

Read by James Christopher


Tacitus - Church/Brodribb and Publius Cornelius Tacitus


The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…

Chapter 1: Prep. School Days

In Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball

Read by James Rye


William H. Edwards and William Hanford Edwards


A book reminiscent of the days when football was gaining popularity in America. (summary by Ian Hatley)

Speech on the Weather

In Short Story Collection Vol. 034

Read by James Christopher


Mark Twain


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 034: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Drummer Hodge (The Dead Drummer)

In Short Poetry Collection 086

Read by James Martin


Thomas Hardy


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of February 2010.

The Chemist's Wife

In Short Story Collection Vol. 025

Read by James Christopher


Anton Chekhov


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 025: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

11 - Part II, Sectio n III: Intro - Chapter I

In The Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition)

Read by James Christopher


Adam Smith


"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of other…

Chapter XVII

In Gulliver of Mars

Read by James Christopher


Edwin L. Arnold, Sir Edwin Arnold and Edwin Lester Arnold


This escapist novel first published in 1905 as Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation follows the exploits of American Navy Lieutenant Gull…

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