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16 - The Dead, part 2

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)

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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…

IV - Of Speech

In Leviathan (Books I and II)

Read by hugh mac


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…

Essay I: The Roots of Honour

In Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

Read by Hugh McGuire


John Ruskin


John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as …

stately, plump Buck ...

In Ulysses

Read by Hugh McGuire


James Joyce


NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as…

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In Fire and Ice

Read by Hugh McGuire


Robert Frost


LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Golden Guineas

In Five Children and It

Read by Hugh McGuire


nesbit_e and E. Nesbit


This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon…

20 - Chapter 23

In Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

Read by Hugh McGuire


Mary Shelley


Victor Frankenstein discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster who has no name in …

Mr Pitkin’s Refutation

In Essays in Radical Empiricism

Read by Hugh McGuire


William James


William James (1842 – 1910) was a pioneering American psychologist and philosopher. He wrote influential books on the young science of psych…

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…

Stave 4

In A Christmas Carol

Read by Hugh McGuire


Charles Dickens


A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard. In a series of ghostly visits, Scrooge visits his happy past, sees the difficul…

Chapter 15

In Treasure Island

Read by Hugh McGuire


stevenson_rl and Robert Louis Stevenson


Treasure Island is an adventure novel, a thrilling tale of "buccaneers and buried gold." Traditionally considered a coming of age …

Love is Enough

In Wedding Poems

Read by Hugh McGuire


William Morris


In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems. Congratulations, you two!

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