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Letters 29-38 - Barrington

In The Natural History of Selborne

Read by Peter Yearsley

Gilbert White

The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of…

The Escape of Arsene Lupin

In The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar

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Maurice Leblanc

A contemporary of Arthur Conan Doyle, Maurice Leblanc (1864-1941) was the creator of the character of gentleman thief Arsène Lupin wh…

Mutual Affinities of Organic beings – Part 1

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

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Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. and Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species (publ. 1859) is a pivotal work in scientific literature and arguably the pivotal work in evolutionary…

In The Penal Colony

In Short Story Collection Vol. 008

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Franz Kafka

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Chapter 13

In Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

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Jerome K. Jerome

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Th…

The Dead Mother

In Short Story Collection Vol. 016

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Unknown

Librivox’s Short Story Collection 016: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

Should Women Be Beautiful?

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002

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Jerome K. Jerome

A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independ…

On a Midsummer Eve

In Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses (Selection)

Read by Peter Yearsley

Thomas Hardy

Hardy claimed poetry as his first love, and published collections until his death in 1928. Although not as well received by his contemporari…

Section One

In The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 01

Read by Peter Yearsley

Translated by Richard Burton, Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton and William James Mcglothlin

This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythol…

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