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The Future of Astronomy

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 001

Read by Meredith Hughes

Edward C. Pickering

A collection of ten short essays or other short nonfiction works in the public domain read by LibriVox volunteers.

Chapter 34 – An Old War Horse

In Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Read by Meredith Hughes

Anna Sewell

Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…

The Knife and the Naked Chalk

In Rewards and Fairies

Read by Meredith Hughes

Rudyard Kipling

Joseph Rudyard Kipling (December 30, 1865 – January 18, 1936) was an English author and poet, born in India, and best known today for his ch…

Chapter 51

In Middlemarch

Read by Jennie Hughes

George Eliot

The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamon…

Peter Breaks Through

In Peter Pan

Read by Meredith Hughes

J. M. Barrie

Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fa…

24. Euclidean and non-Euclidean Continuum25. Gaussian Co-ordinates26. The Space…

In Relativity: The Special and General Theory

Read by Meredith Hughes

Albert Einstein

This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and Genera…

Chapter 01

In At the Back of the North Wind

Read by Meredith Hughes

George MacDonald

Diamond the little boy sleeps in the hayloft above the stall of Diamond the horse. The loft is snug but drafty, and after plugging a hole in…

Sonnets 41-50

In Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 2)

Read by Chris Hughes

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal wit…

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