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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…

Gifts – Read by VLB

In Gifts

Read by Victor L. Barber


James Thomson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Gifts by James Thomson. This was the weekly poetry project for August 9th, 2009.

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In Piggy Moto - All Star Boar Band

Read by Nicholas McRae


Nicholas McRae


A band of porcine musicians have entered an international competition with the hopes of changing the world's unflattering prejudices concern…

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