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Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXI - Canto XXV

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Hugh McGuire


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

SIX WAYS TO COOK CATFISH

In How to Cook Fish

Read by Hugh McGuire


Olive Green and Myrtle Reed


Olive Green is the pseudonym for the prolific late 19th Century/early 20th Century author, Myrtle Reed. She wrote over thirty-three books an…

Essay I: The Roots of Honour

In Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

Read by Hugh McGuire


John Ruskin


John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as …

Errors

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Hugh McGuire


Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Chapter 07

In A Journey to the Interior of the Earth

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Jules Verne


Journey to the Interior of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre d…

20 - Chapter 23

In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

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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

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William James


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

Version 2

In In Flanders Fields

Read by Hugh McGuire


mccrae_j and John Mccrae


LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Colem…

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” …

15 - The Dead, part 1

In Dubliners

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James Joyce


Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)

Version 07

In The Cow

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Co…

10 - Chapter XX, Part 10

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 20)

Read by Hugh Gillis


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 4 chapter 20 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

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…

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 …

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