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Read by Bruce Pirie
Charles Blanc
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
An Undergraduate's Aunt by F. Anstey
Read by Gilles G. Le Blanc
F. Anstey
In International Short Stories Volume 2: English Stories
The second volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on 'English' short stories, although it includes writers from other parts of th…
Chapter III - Early Adventures On Mont Blanc
Read by Steve C
Frank Mundell
In Stories Of Alpine Adventure
Mont Blanc is the Monarch of the Mountains: They crown'd him long ago On a throne of rocks, in a robe of clouds, With a diadem of snow. (Byr…
1945-04-29 - 549) First Performance of Professor La Blanc
1 OTR
In The Jack Benny Program
The Jack Benny Program, which starred no less than Jack Benny himself, was a comedy series than went on-air for more than 30 years in both r…
Introduction
Read by Gilles G. Le Blanc
Sarojini Naidu
In The Golden Threshold
Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life…
Mont Blanc
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In Shelley: Selected Poems and Prose
The English Romantic Period in literature featured a towering group of excellent poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. If …
Part 01
Read by Ellis Christoff
Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint Pierre and Jacques-Henri Bernardin De Saint-Pierre
In Paul and Virginia
Paul and Virginia was first published in 1787. The novel's title characters are very good friends since birth who fall in love, but sadly di…
Blanchelys
Read by Larry Wilson
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
Louis XI of France by E Spencer Biesly
Read by dmcgott
Charles F. Horne
In Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 3
A collection of writings about a variety of men and women from history who were some of the most prominent people around at the time. Alfred…
From 'Mont Blanc' by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Read by Sonia
Percy Bysshe Shelley
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Madame Baptiste
Read by James K. White
Guy de Maupassant
In The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
Chapter VI
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Louis Antoine Fauvelet De Bourrienne
In Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 05
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - S…
Madame Baptiste
Read by Peter Thomlinson (1940-2022)
Guy de Maupassant
In Short Story Collection Vol. 097
We return with the 97th Librivox Short Story Collection, with twenty chosen and recorded by Librivox volunteers. This collection features s…
Section 8
Read by Carol Pelster
Francis Norbert Blanchet and François Norbert Blanchet
In Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Years
This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830’s and 1840’s.…
Chapter XII. France by Stanley Leathes (part 3)
Read by Linda Johnson
Various
In The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 01, The Renaissance
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1…
The Coming of Blanche
Read by Andy Sames
H. Rider Haggard
In The Virgin of the Sun
A great adventure following the exploits of a hero who's blood runs red, and Viking in nature. A mysterious chest with faded parchments prov…
France
Read by dc
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
Ch. 6: The Bavarian Dauphiness
Read by Pamela Nagami
Arthur-Léon Imbert De Saint-Amand
In Women of Versailles: the Court of Louis XIV
Jean de La Bruyère famously characterized Versailles as "that region where joys were visible but false, and vexations hidden but…
Father Le Blanc Makes a Call, from But Yet a Woman by Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Read by Bill Mosley
Arthur S. Hardy
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 17
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Jules Breton
Read by czandra
George Iles
In Little Masterpieces of Autobiography - Artists and Composers
Artists and Composers is Volume 5 of Library of Little Masterpieces of Autobiography in Six Volumes published in 1913, and includes autobiog…