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06 - Chapter 04, Saint Mark's, part 2

In The Stones of Venice, Volume 2

Read by Alan Weyman

John Ruskin

The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from …

chapter 39

In Felix Holt, The Radical

Read by Alan Weyman

George Eliot

"Harold Transome is a landowner who goes against his family's political tradition (much to his mother's distress), while Felix Holt is …

Selected excerpts

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04

Read by Alan Weyman

Charles Dudely Warner, ed. and Pierre Beaumarchais

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Act 4

In Earth Spirit

Read by Alan Mapstone

Frank Wedekind

Earth Spirit (1895) (Erdgeist) is a play by the German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the first part of his pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the…

20 - Book First, Chapters 5 to 10. Of the kingdom of Mausul. Of the great city …

In The Book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian, concerning the kingdoms and marvels o…

Read by Alan Mapstone

Rustichello da Pisa and Rustichello Da Pisa

"Books of the Marvels of the World" or "Description of the World" (Divisament dou monde), also nicknamed "Il Milion…

01 - Part 1

In History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 1

Read by Alan Winterrowd

Friedrich von Schiller and Friedrich Schiller

The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Writ…

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