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Read by Thomas A. Copeland


George Herbert


These poems, from Herbert’s book The Temple, show the evolution of a soul’s relationship with God. Sudden reversals of mood are common, for …

Four Hymns

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edmund Spenser


Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…

Back to Methuselah

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


George Bernard Shaw


In this late work, Shaw examines many contemporary issues under the broad rubric of evolution and then illustrates his opinions in five brie…

The Age of Reason (version 3)

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Thomas Paine


In these volumes, Paine demonstrates the anonymity of the books contained in both the Old and the New Testaments, the only certainties being…

The Defense of Poesy

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Sir Philip Sidney


Sidney envisions the world as an ideally ordered structure that rewards good and punishes evil, but this order, vitiated by sin, has fallen …

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book IV

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


François Rabelais


This fourth in the five novels about the giants Pantagruel and his father Gargantua is the last novel indusputably attributed to Franç…

Amoretti and Epithalamion

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edmund Spenser


"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…

Sonnets

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Edna St. Vincent Millay


It has been observed that within the narrow confines of a sonnet the mind can turn around but cannot take flight. Some of Millay’s sonnets, …

Astrophel and Stella

Read by Thomas A. Copeland


Sir Philip Sidney


Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…

War Letters From A Young Queenslander

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Robert Marshall Allen


Letters from a Brisbane doctor posted to the Western Front from 1914 to December 1915. He tells anecdotes of World War I including stories o…

The Wishing Horse of Oz

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


Ruth Plumly Thompson


Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to bec…

Bible (WEB) NT 11: Philippians

Read by Beth Thomas (1974-2020)


World English Bible


Paul's letter to the Philippians contains some of the most quoted passages of the pastoral letters, including "to live is Christ and to…

A Mathematician's Holiday

Read by Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


Thomas Woolley and William Binzi


University of Oxford Podcasts

Verses on a Young Lady - Read by DSD

In Verses on a Young Lady

Read by Dick Summerfield


Tobias Smollett


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsicord and Singing by Tobias Smollett. This was the W…

Chapter LXI: Partition Of The Empire By The French And Venetians Part I

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. VI

Read by Dick Durette


Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

Chapter XLIX: Conquest of Italy by the Franks Pt. II

In The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. V

Read by Dick Durette


Edward Gibbon


The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was writ…

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