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Pastoral Poetry

In History of the Eighteenth Century in Ten Poems

Read by Kathleen Lawton-Trask


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California

Read by Emily Kathleen Cooke


Emily Kathleen Cooke


November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been h…

Nobody's Property: Living on the Remains of a Life in California

Read by Emily Kathleen Cooke


Emily Kathleen Cooke


November 4, 1971Jennifer Rose Cooke, a girl from California, just turned 18, goes missing in a frigid forest in West Germany. She has been h…

Crossroads of Destiny

In Short Story Collection Vol. 011

Read by Trask


H. Beam Piper


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 011: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Electioneering Experience

In Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Read by Thomas Trask


Charles Babbage


Some men write their lives to save themselves from ennui, careless of the amount they inflict on their readers. Others write their personal …

XIX Secondary Sexual Characters of Man pt.1

In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 3

Read by Rory Lawton


Charles Darwin


III. SEXUAL SELECTION IN RELATION TO MAN, AND CONCLUSION.Part 3 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, …

XIII - Secondary Sexual Characters of Birds Part 3

In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 2

Read by Rory Lawton


Charles Darwin


Part 2 of 3 of a book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great boo…

II On Manner of Development of Man from some Lower Form pt.3

In The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Part 1

Read by Rory Lawton


Charles Darwin


A book on evolutionary theory by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871. It was Darwin's second great book on evolutiona…

FROM SISTER SONGS: A Child's Kiss

In Selected Poems of Francis Thompson

Read by Lawton James


Francis Thompson


Francis Thompson, an English poet and author, is best known for his poem "Hound of Heaven," included in this selection of his poe…

The Maidens' Song by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Read by LJ

In The Maidens' Song

Read by Lawton James


Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson


Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to h…

Riches and Charity, Part 1

In Thrift

Read by Kathleen


Samuel Smiles


"This book is intended as a sequel to Self-Help and Character. It might, indeed, have appeared as an introduction to these volumes; for…

Dr. Solander's Tea, part 2

In A Treatise on Foreign Teas

Read by Kathleen Moore


Hugh Smith


What would England be without tea? It is difficult to imagine, but there was a time in which tea was not quite as ubiquitous in Europe as it…

The Lute

In Day Dreams

Read by Kathleen Moore


Rudolph Valentino


Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…