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CHAPTER X
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Samuel Butler
In A First Year in Canterbury Settlement
Samuel Butler travelled to the South Island of New Zealand in 1860, landing at Lyttleton, the main port for the Canterbury Settlement. Altho…
25 - The Seminary
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Stendhal
In The Red and the Black, Volume I
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…
59. March 1771
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Joseph Banks
In The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks from 25 August 1768-12 July 1771
In this Journal, Joseph Banks records almost daily observations of the journey of the ship the Endeavour on the first of James Cook’s voyage…
Chapter V. At play
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
George Reginald Marriner
In The KEA: a New Zealand problem
The kea (Nestor notabilis) is the world's only alpine parrot, and is endemic to the South Island of New Zealand. Although this large parrot …
Introductory
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Katharine Carl
In With the Empress Dowager of China
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
Preface
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Mary Anne Barker
In Station Amusements in New Zealand
Station Amusements in New Zealand is a collection of vignettes about life on a sheep station (high country farm) in colonial New Zealand dur…
Chapter XXI Part 1
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
In The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
Version 4
Read by Martin Geeson
Henry Vaughan
In The World
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of The World by Henry Vaughan. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 26th, 2009.
Chapter XX. Amboyna
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Alfred Russel Wallace
In The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1
The Malay Archipelago is a classical Victorian work combining natural history, biogeography and ethnology while describing Wallace's travels…
Mr. Merritt Instructs Me
Read by Sharon Kilmer
Elizabeth Kent
In The House Opposite
While trying to escape the heat, a doctor witnesses some strange behavior of his neighbors. Suddenly, everyone and no one become suspects in…
Letter V: A pastoral letter
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Lady Mary Anne Barker and Mary Anne Barker
In Station Life in New Zealand
Station Life in New Zealand is a collection of cheerful and interesting letters written by Lady Mary Anne Barker (nee Mary Anne Stewart) tha…
04 - Godfrey Wardour
Read by bobolink
George MacDonald
In Mary Marston
Written at the height of George MacDonald's literary career, the story centers around the life of a simple merchant's daughter. Mary Marston…
65 - Political Rivals
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Alexandre Dumas
In Louise de la Valliere
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…
The New Timon and the Poets
Read by Foon
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson
To those unacquainted with Tennyson's conscientious methods, it may seem strange that a volume of 160 pages is necessary to contain those po…
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect
Read by Phil Benson
Various
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of …
Langemarc
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Duncan M. Matheson
In Poems
Poet Duncan M. Matheson lived in troubled times. These were times of World War I and its accompanying carnage, privation and pervasive adver…
Appendix I
Read by Belinda Mc
George MacDonald and Sir Philip Sidney
In A Cabinet of Gems
A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.&q…
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill, Read by BK
Read by Bruce Kachuk
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …
Nativity
Read by Larry Wilson
Henry Vaughan
In Short Poetry Collection 259
This is a collection of 43 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during December 2024.