Search Results

the lacquey by the door

In Ulysses

Read by Hugh McGuire


James Joyce


NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as…

Version 9

In Fire and Ice

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Frost


LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Golden Guineas

In Five Children and It

Read by Hugh McGuire


nesbit_e and E. Nesbit


This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon…

20 - Chapter 23

In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Read by Hugh McGuire


Mary Shelley


Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

Mr Pitkin’s Refutation

In Essays in Radical Empiricism

Read by Hugh McGuire


William James


William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psych…

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 …

Stave 4

In A Christmas Carol

Read by Hugh McGuire


Charles Dickens


A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard. In a series of ghostly visits, Scrooge visits his happy past, sees the difficul…

Chapter 15

In Treasure Island

Read by Hugh McGuire


stevenson_rl and Robert Louis Stevenson


Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age …

Love is Enough

In Wedding Poems

Read by Hugh McGuire


William Morris


In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems. Congratulations, you two!

Magna Charta Introduced: Slight Difficulties Encountered in Overcoming an Unpop…

In Comic History of England

Read by Hugh McGuire


Bill Nye


Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” …

Remix: Sonnets 141-148

In Shakespeare's Sonnets

Read by Hugh McGuire


William Shakespeare


Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.…

Version 07

In Mother Night

Read by Hugh McGuire


James Weldon Johnson


LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen different readings of Mother Night, by James Weldon Johnson. This weekly poetry project (for the week …

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Asleep My Love (Act 05, Scene 01)

In Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 06

Read by James


William Shakespeare


LibriVox readers present the sixth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 15…

Tact - Read by JJ

In Tact

Read by James


Ralph Waldo Emerson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Tact by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 22, 2012.Ralph…

I Am Adam 04

In I Am Adam

Read by James Twerell


James Twerell


This is the book of generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him: male and female created he the…

< 7 8 9 10 11 12