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The Courtship of Miles Standish

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbe…

The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Mark Twain


The town of Hadleyburg had the reputation of being the most honest town in a wide area, indeed an incorruptible community. The elders took t…

Selected Poems

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Dante Gabriel Rossetti


Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) and his sister Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-1894) played important roles in the artistic milieu of V…

Indian Summer

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


William Dean Howells


In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of…

Aucassin and Nicolette

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang


Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…

Amoretti: A sonnet sequence

Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)


Edmund Spenser


The Amoretti (meaning little love poems) is a sequence of 89 sonnets written in the tradition of the Petrarchan sonnets, a popular form for …

Comme tous les soirs

In Poèmes

Read by Jessica


Emile Verhaeren


La poésie du poète flamand Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916) est inspirée par son observation critique de la vie des g…

War Crimes, Character, and Responsibility

In Changing Character of War

Read by Jessica Wolfendale


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Final Explanations

In The Pink Shop

Read by Jessica Hendra


Fergus Hume


The Pink Shop operates outside the limits of the law by a mysterious woman concealed under a black veil. Follow the twists and turns as you …

Of ideas of identity and diversity Part I

In An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

Read by Jessica Louise


John Locke


John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes th…

Ch 07 pt 1

In Miss Mapp

Read by Jessica Louise


E.F. Benson and E. F. Benson


E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia series, consists of six novels and three short stories. The novels are: Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Map…

Chapter 22

In Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret

Read by Jessica Hendra


Nathaniel Hawthorne


Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is…

Chapter V, pt 1

In Antonia

Read by Jessica Hendra


George Sand


Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century …

The Fox as Herdsman

In A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children

Read by Jessica Romero


Sir George Webbe Dasent


This is a collection of Norse folktales selected as being appropriate for children. They range from short pieces such as, "How One Wen…

O Hollow! Hollow! Hollow! - Read by JLS

In O Hollow Hollow Hollow

Read by Jessica Louise


W.S.Gilbert and W. S. Gilbert


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of O Hollow Hollow Hollow by W.S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 8, 201…

A Sea Story - Read by BL

In A Sea Story

Read by Jessica Martin


Emily Henrietta Hickey


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Sea Story, by Emily Henrietta Hickey.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 27th,…

Old Mother Holle, from Grimm

In Favorite Fairy Tales Retold

Read by Jessica Allen


Julia Darrow Cowles


In this volume, Ms. Cowles has collected her favourite fairy tales and retold them for children. All of the most famous authors are represen…

His Kindness to others

In The Children's Book of Birds

Read by Jessica Burns


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…

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