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Speculative Insurance, Part 4: The Belfast Scandal

In Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic R…

Read by Anna Goss


John B. Lewis


A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . …

The Lover in Hell - Read by AJG

In The Lover in Hell

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Stephen Vincent Benét


LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Lover in Hell by Stephen Vincent Benét.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for…

Hallowe'en - Read by AJG

In Hallowe'en

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John Kendrick Bangs


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Hallowe'en by John Kendrick Bangs.This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 24, 2021. …

Wind Of The Sea - Read by AJG

In Wind Of The Sea

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James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Wind Of The Sea by James Whitcomb Riley.This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31, 20…

Eight Hours - Read by AJG

In Eight Hours

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George A. Baker, Jr.


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Eight Hours by George A. Baker Jr.This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 21, 2021. …

Chapter 10

In Ellen Middleton

Read by Anna Goss


Georgiana Fullerton


Ellen Middleton had a happy childhood with her uncle and aunt. She grew up alongside her cousin Julia. Suddenly, something happened. Her lif…

Bash-Chalek; or True Steel

In Serbian Fairy Tales

Read by Anna Goss


Unknowntranslated Byelodie Lawton Mijatović


Collection of traditional Serbian fairy tales as translated by Elodie Mijatovich, a British author living in Belgrade. Although different, p…

Nefertiti

In Predecessors of Cleopatra

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Leigh North


This book provides such information as was known at the onset of the 20th Century about Egyptian queens in antiquity. Much has been learned …

A Silent Witness

Read by Anna Simon


R. Austin Freeman


In this detective novel, the young doctor Humphrey Jardine stumbles upon a corpse during a walk near Hampstead Heath in the middle of the ni…

The Grand Babylon Hotel

Read by Anna Simon


Arnold Bennett


Theodore Racksole, a rich American multi-millionaire, buys the Grand Babylon Hotel, a luxurious hotel in London, as a whim - and then finds …

Patricia Brent, spinster

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because s…

Malcolm Sage, Detective

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau.Sequel or companion story of John Dene of …

The Praise of Folly

Read by Anna Simon


Desiderius Erasmus


The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dut…

The Return of Alfred

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Herbert George Jenkins


The hero of the book is at a loose end, weary and bored of his old life after returning from the Great War. After an argument with his uncle…

Anarchy

Read by Anna Simon


Errico Malatesta


Anarchy explained by the anarchist Errico Malatesta. (Summary by Vineshen Pillay)

The Rain-Girl

Read by Anna Simon


Herbert George Jenkins


Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

Anthony Trent, Master Criminal

Read by Anna Simon


Wyndham Martyn


In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes…