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"You Bid Me Try" - Read by BEM

In You Bid Me Try

Read by Barbara E. McCarthy


Austin Dobson and Henry Austin Dobson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of "You Bid Me Try" by Austin Dobson . This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 24…

06 - Part I: Hunting Dogs, Chapter 6: Wolf and Coyote Hunting

In Hunting Dogs

Read by Barbara E. McCarthy


Oliver Hartley


The title of this book quotes its object. To tell something of night hunting, and especially to suggest how the ever necessary dog can best …

The Damned Thing

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 014

Read by Barbara E. McCarthy


Ambrose Bierce


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

Beowulf (version 2)

Read by Tad E.


Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere


Beowulf was composed by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet. Francis Barton Gummere translates this beautiful poem. Beowulf is an epic poem. The m…

The Beautiful and Damned

Read by E. Tavano


F. Scott Fitzgerald


This novel tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune; the relationship with his wife Gl…

Alexander's Bridge (version 2)

Read by E. Tavano


Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather


Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a m…

The Creating Formula

Read by Barbara Joye


Barbara Joye


You have been told that you create your own reality …You have read all about the Law of Attraction …You have heard and seen how some individ…

Discourses: Biological and Geological

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Henry Huxley


Thomas Henry Hux­ley was an English biologist (comparative anatomist). He was the most effective supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evoluti…

The English Language

Read by Barbara Baker


Logan Pearsall Smith


A description and history of the development of the English Language and reflections on the influences that changed the language. - Summary …

The Novels of Jane Austen

Read by Barbara Baker


George Henry Lewes


An 1859 essay by the prominent philosopher and literary critic, G. H. Lewes, who was an enthusiastic promoter of the novels of Jane Austen a…

The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I (version 2)

Read by Barbara Baker


James Boswell


This is the first of four volumes of a what was a new, intimate, type of biography when it was first published in 1791 and which has been an…

Hieroglyphic Tales

Read by Barbara Baker


Horace Walpole


Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...…

Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Babington Macaulay


An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay'…

Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire

Read by Barbara Baker


Henriette Lucie Dillon, marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet


An aristocratic Frenchwoman's personal record of the dazzling extravagance of the Ancien Régime, of the court of Marie Antoinette, of…

Italian Hours

Read by Barbara Baker


Henry James


A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2

Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia and Letter to a Friend

Read by Barbara Baker


Thomas Browne


Selections from the varied writings of a 17th century English doctor with a well-stocked mind, an interest in the new science of his age and…

The Desirable Alien at Home in Germany

Read by Barbara Baker


Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt


A travel journal of a year the author spent in Germany. With a preface and two additional chapters by her partner, the novelist Ford Madox F…

Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection

Read by Barbara Baker


Horace Walpole


Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His…