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Favourite Chapters Collection 002
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…
The House with the Twisting Passage
Read by Xenutia
Marion St. John Webb
When Jenny goes to stay with her Aunt Abby, a caretaker in a grand old manor-house, she discovers a wonderful twisting passage on the second…
Nicholas Nickelby Band 2
Read by josvanaken
Charles Dickens
Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefä…
Lost Leaders
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…
My First Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
Warm Honey
Read by Steve McAlpine
Steve McAlpine
Do you parents fill you up with their faults and add a few extra ones as a special bonus?
Rob meets Charis at the same time as he is making …
The History of Robinson Crusoe
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
William James Mcglothlin
A 6-page digest of Defoe's famous work for young readers (Summary by Dennis Sayers)
Heroines of Fiction
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Blue Jar Story Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Maria Edgeworth
This is a collection of 6 delightful stories about children by some of the best authors of the period: Charles Lamb, Mary Lamb, Maria Edgewo…
The Evacuation of England: The Twist in the Gulf Stream
Read by Judi Mason
Louis Pope Gratacap
This book is ostensibly about a theoretical catastrophic geologic event. It turns into a meditation on what it means to be an English person…
George Muller - Jehovah Magnified and several others audio readings of his
George Muller
George Muller - Jehovah Magnified and several others audio readings of his
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 …
The Ragamuffin Gospel
Andy Stoddard
This is one of the lessons in my continued series on the books that have influenced me. This is about The Ragamuffin Gospel by Brennan Manni…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
The Listener By Julian Simons
Psychological thriller about a man trying to uncover his true identity, set against the backdrop of a war on terror. If we don't remember ou…
The Bookman, March 1921
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
John Farrar
This precursor to The New Yorker magazine features several Algonquin Roundtable regulars, including Broun, Woolcott, and Morley. Editor is J…
Juffrouw Lirriper's Legaat
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De kerstverhalen van Charles Dickens uit het jaar 1864. Hoofdstuk 1 en 7 vormen een doorlopend verhaal dat het vervolg is van hoofdstuk 1 en…