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Chapter 15

In The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Read by Hugh McGuire


LibriVox NaNoWriMo 2007 and Librivox Volunteers


An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Eli…

FORERUNNERS OF JACQUES CARTIER

In Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of A…

Read by Hugh McGuire


Stephan Leacock and Stephen Leacock


This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal …

Last night we had a thunderstorm in style...

In Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Louis Stevenson


Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture…

Chapter XXI: Saxonsteade Arms

In The Paradise Mystery

Read by Hugh McGuire


J.S. Fletcher and J. S. Fletcher


A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery.…

Part 1 Chapter 10-11

In Notes from the Underground

Read by Hugh McGuire


dostoyevsky_f and Fyodor Dostoyevsky


Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the a…

Version 4

In The Road

Read by Hugh McGuire


sassoon_s and Siegfried Sassoon


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Siegfried Sassoon's The Road, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

029 - Vingt-neuvième nuit

In Les Mille et une nuits, tome 1

Read by Hugh McGuire


Antoine Galland and Anonymoustranslated Byantoine Galland


Afin de ne plus être déçu par les femmes, le sultan Schahriar décide d'épouser une jeune fille chaque jour…

THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH, PART I

In Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

Read by Hugh McGuire


Thomas de Quincey and Thomas De Quincey


The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…

Book 17

In Leaves of Grass

Read by Hugh McGuire


Walt Whitman


American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

Struggle for Existence

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Read by Hugh McGuire


Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin


Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…

Lecture I: Outline

In Lectures on Landscape

Read by Hugh McGuire


John Ruskin


A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin.

Part 2, Chapter 1

In White Fang

Read by Hugh McGuire


Jack London


White Fang (1906) was written as a companion to Jack London's successful Call of the Wild (1903). It is the tale of a wild dog born in the …

Love and duty

In The Lady's Mile

Read by Riley McGuire


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


If you drive through the Lady's Mile, the most fashionable district in London, you will see people whose most distinguished ambition was to …

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