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In The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III

Read by Larry Beasley


James Boswell


This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this …

10 - Sir Magnus Mountjoy

In Mr Scarborough's Family

Read by Larry Beasley


Anthony Trollope


MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance …

18 - Book IV, Chapters 1-4

In Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England

Read by Larry Beasley


The Venerable Bede


Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England gene…

Days - Read by LJB

In Days

Read by Larry Beasley


Ralph Waldo Emerson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012.As a lectur…

15 - Chapter XV

In The Golden Lion of Granpere

Read by Larry Beasley


Anthony Trollope


Time to do a short Continental trip with Trollope and see if we agree with Walpole. "...not only Trollope's very best shorter book, but…

Poems of Nature

Read by Larry Wilson


Henry David Thoreau


The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…

A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818

Read by Larry Wilson


Elisabeth G. Stryker


This is a brief biography of Samuel J. Mills who was instrumental in establishing the first missionary society in the United States, and als…

Clara A. Swain, M.D.

Read by Larry Wilson


Mrs. Robert Hoskins


This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the "first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient." S…

G.K. Chesterton in The Open Road

Read by Larry Wilson


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of 2 book reviews written by G.K. Chesterton in "The Open Road", both from 1911. (Summary by Maria Therese)

Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution

Read by Larry Wilson


John Dryden Kuser


This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in H…

G.K. Chesterton in The Bibliophile Magazine

Read by Larry Wilson


G. K. Chesterton


Two essays/articles by G.K. Chesterton, published in 'The Bibliophile' magazine in 1908. (Summary by Maria Therese)

The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems

Read by Larry Wilson


Edwin Markham


Edwin Markham was an American poet whose poems often drew attention to the laborers of the world and frequently expressed elements of faith.…

Songs by the Sea

Read by Larry Wilson


Rebecca Ruter Springer


Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebra…

California at Christmas Tide

Read by Larry Wilson


Ella M. Sexton


Ten short poems about Christmas in California - Summary by Larry Wilson

The New Joan and Other Poems

Read by Larry Wilson


Katherine Hale


Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections w…

Experimental Psychology Department

Read by Larry Weiskrantz and Oliver Braddick


Larry Weiskrantz and Oliver Braddick


University of Oxford Podcasts

Ezra Pound

In Great Writers Inspire

Read by Rebecca Beasley


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Pandemics - Can we eliminate major worldwide epidemics?

In Oxford Martin School: Public Lectures and Seminars

Read by Larry Brilliant


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Christmas Greeting

In From Dreamland Sent

Read by Larry Wilson


Lilian Whiting


This is a volume of poetry by Lilian Whiting. As the title of the volume already hints at, the poems share a dreamy atmosphere, and in that …