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Book 26

In Leaves of Grass

Read by Hugh McGuire


Walt Whitman


American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a t…

THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH, PART I

In Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

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Thomas de Quincey and Thomas De Quincey


The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his…

Struggle for Existence

In The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection

Read by Hugh McGuire


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…

Nisus and Scylla--Echo and Narcissus--Clytie--Hero and Leander

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch


Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

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In The Voice of the Ancient Bard

Read by Hugh McGuire


William Blake


LibriVox volunteers bring you six different readings of The Voice of the Ancient Bard, by William Blake. This is a weekly poetry project. (…

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In Sonnet 023

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shakespeare and William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 23, a weekly poetry project.(Summary by Annie Coleman…

09 -Chapter XIX, Section 09

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 19)

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Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 4 chapter 19 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

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In The Cow

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Louis Stevenson


LibriVox volunteers bring you fourteen different readings of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Cow, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Co…

Of A Particular Providence and of a Future State

In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Read by Hugh McGuire


David Hume


The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sough…

The Tale of Two Bad Mice

In The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Read by Hugh McGuire


Beatrix Potter


Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

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In In Flanders Fields

Read by Hugh McGuire


mccrae_j and John Mccrae


LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Colem…

15 - The Dead, part 1

In Dubliners

Read by Hugh McGuire


James Joyce


Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)

Lecture I: Outline

In Lectures on Landscape

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John Ruskin


A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin.

10 - Chapter XX, Part 10

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 20)

Read by Hugh Gillis


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 4 chapter 20 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

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In The Road

Read by Hugh McGuire


sassoon_s and Siegfried Sassoon


LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different readings of Siegfried Sassoon's The Road, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

IV - Of Speech

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

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Thomas Hobbes


Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651…

Last night we had a thunderstorm in style...

In Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Louis Stevenson


Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture…

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