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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…

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