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'Ambassador of Good Will': Three Centuries of American Art in 1930s Europe

In Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Read by Caroline Riley


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

The Valley of Fear

Read by Katie Riley


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Doyle's final novel featuring the beloved sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, brings the detective and his friend to a country manor where they are pre…

Essays on Political Economy

Read by Katie Riley


Frédéric Bastiat


Bastiat asserted that the only purpose of government is to defend the right of an individual to life, liberty, and property. From this defin…

Sophisms of the Protectionists

Read by Katie Riley


Frédéric Bastiat


"To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them," Bastiat said and believed. He reasoned, employing repetition to various appl…

Fourteen Months in American Bastiles

Read by Katie Riley


Francis Key Howard


Francis Key Howard recounts in this book his life as a political prisoner of the United States. He points out that he was held captive at th…

Heidi, une histoire pour les enfants et pour ceux qui les aiment

Read by Caroline Sophie


Johanna Spyri


Une petite fille orpheline, Heidi, est amenée par sa tante chez son grand-père qui habite isolé sur l’Alpe, loin des ho…

Emily Fox-Seton

Read by Caroline Driggs


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Have you ever wondered what happened to Cinderella after she married the prince? Have you ever asked yourself if it was really "happy e…

Consequences

Read by Caroline Driggs


E. M. Delafield


Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…

The Fox That Wanted Nine Golden Tails

Read by Caroline Lilyard


Kathleen Gray Nelson


A fox aspires to reach his 1000th birthday safely and be rewarded with nine golden tails in this wise and charming fairytale.

The Fall of Hyperion

In Long Poems Collection 007

Read by Katie Riley


John Keats


LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 007: a collection of 15 public domain poems greater than 10 minutes in length.Meta-Coordinator/Cataloging: …

The Automaton Ear

In Short Science Fiction Collection 066

Read by Riley McGuire


Florence McLandburgh


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Version 6

In The Consolation

Read by Katie Riley


Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë


LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Consolation by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 14th, 2010.

17 - Chapter 13 part 1

In The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2

Read by Katie Riley


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is…

The Babe in the Bulrushes

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 016

Read by Adam Riley


Amy Steedman


LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 016: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Part 1: VII. Reading and Writing

In Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None

Read by Connor Riley


Friedrich Nietzsche, transl. Thomas Common and Friedrich Nietzsche


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contempo…