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Brief Lives Volume I

Read by Nicole Lee


John Aubrey


A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, includi…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his re…

Brief Lives Volume II

Read by Nicole Lee


John Aubrey


Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glim…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1664

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Pepys continues to live life to the hilt, juggling extra-marital shenanigans with a complicated homelife, difficulties with staff, power str…

The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1665

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Pepys


Pepys' diary continues with his trademark engaging frankness, as he jockeys for favour, criticises his colleagues on the Navy Board for thei…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return t…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume III

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


The third volume of Teixeira de Mattos' translation of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb covers the spectacular fall, exile, and …

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume IV

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


After the extinction of Napoleon's comet on St Helena, Chateaubriand covers the Bourbon Restoration in this volume, meeting a dazzling array…

The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume V

Read by Nicole Lee


François-René de Chateaubriand


The memoirs of Chateaubriand continue in Volume 5, with the author, now a grand hommes des lettres, still in the thick of political events, …

Lud-in-the-Mist

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Hope Mirrlees


Nathaniel Chanticleer, staid and respectable mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, wants nothing more than to preserve the traditions of his city and th…

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens


A collection of folklore gathered from India, China, Japan, the Philippines, and Persia. - Summary by Nicole J. LeBoeuf

Orlando. A Biography (version 2)

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Virginia Woolf


Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking satire of British culture, customs, literature, philosophy, and politics from the Elizabethan era to the aut…

What Dreams May Come

Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf


Gertrude Atherton


For Harold Dartmouth and Weir Penrhyn, it's love at first sight; love, and an uncanny feeling of recognition which neither understand. Nor d…

First year English Tutorial: Old English Riddles

In English Tutorials at Mansfield College

Read by Lucinda Rumsey


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Rose Pogonias

In Short Poetry Collection 094

Read by Nicole Uhler


Robert Frost (1874-1963) and Robert Frost


This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of January 2011.

Letter I

In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 2

Read by Nicole Lee


Samuel Richardson


Clarissa, or, the History of a Young Lady is an epistolary novel by Samuel Richardson, published in 1748. It tells the tragic story of a her…

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