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The Forgotten Planet

In Short Science Fiction Collection 063

Read by Miranda Johnson


Sewell Peaslee Wright


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…

The Phantom Coach

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 031

Read by Miranda Johnson


Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

P2. Chapter II

In Mizora: A Prophecy.

Read by Miranda Johnson


Mary E Bradley Lane


After being exiled from her home and family, Vera Zarovich finds herself in Mizora, a civilization at the center of the Earth made up entire…

The Jovian Jest

In Short Science Fiction Collection 062

Read by Miranda Johnson


Lilith Lorraine


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…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Son of Man

Read by CW Johnson


CW Johnson


Imagine they set out to clone the Son of God. Imagine they succeed... The Holy Blood Altar, an elaborate shrine whose centerpiece is said to…

Running Fox

Read by Drew Johnson


Elmer Russell Gregor


Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his r…

The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant

Read by A. Bryan Johnson


Alexander Dunlop Lindsay


Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief…

My Brother's Story

Read by Allen Johnson Jr.


Allen Johnson Jr.


The Blackwater Novels are set in the 1930s along the Blackwater Swamp, near the fictional town of Turpentine, Georgia. Get in trouble with t…

Writing news for young people

In Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

Read by Miranda Green


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

On The High Price Of Fish - Read by MR

In On The High Price Of Fish

Read by Miranda Rumph


William Cowper


LibriVox readers bring you 26 recordings of On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper. This was the weekly poem for June 6, 2021.------Her…

Story of the Emperor's New Clothes

In The Yellow Fairy Book

Read by Miranda Stinson


Andrew Lang


"Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books are a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Althou…