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Ch.26 “The Complicity of the Doctors”

In The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times

Read by Mairi Patterson


George Macgregor


From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an…

Part I Chapter 6

In The Christian Nurse and Her Mission in the Sick Room

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François-Xavier Gautrelet


François-Xavier Gautrelet was a French Jesuit priest whose legacy survives as being the inspiration and originator of the Apostleshi…

THE CONFESSIONS OF A LUNATIC Part 1

In The Mysteries of London Vol. IV

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George W. M. Reynolds


The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the fourth and final volume. I…

CRIME

In Catherine's Coquetries: A Tale of French Country Life

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Camille Debans


Catherine is a beautiful woman, and despite being a respectable married woman, enjoys matchmaking, flirting and mischief. The tale is set in…

BOOK I. Electoral Princess of Hanover.:Ansbach and its Margraves

In Caroline the Illustrious, Vol. 1

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William Henry Wilkins


Caroline moved to England from Hanover when her father-in-law became George I and her husband Prince of Wales. She had a tumultuous relation…

Chapter 32. Daughter of the Endless Night

In The Wing of Azrael, Volume 3

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Mona Caird


Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …

CHAPTER XII - 1900-1901

In Seen and Unseen

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Emily Katharine Bates and E. Katharine Bates


Novelist. Psychic investigator. Globe trotter. The multi-plane traveler, E. Katharine Bates, shares her phenomenal adventures on the cusp of…

The Violinist - Read by MAM

In The Violinist

Read by Mairi MacLean


Margaret Steele Anderson


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Violinist by Margaret Steele Anderson.This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 1, 2…

Uncle Wiggily and the Tarts

In Uncle Wiggily and Mother Goose

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Howard R. Garis


Uncle Wiggly, that irrepressible rabbit, meets characters from Mother Goose in these stories. The Cow that Jumped Over the Moon; the 3 Litt…

Chapter 19 - Krasnoyarsk; Russian Pronunciation; The "Oukhaba”; Road-fever; Wol…

In The Boy Travellers in the Russian Empire

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Thomas Wallace Knox


An engaging travelogue first published in 1886, written conversationally among two youths and their guide and mentor. Subtitle: Adventures o…

The Career of "Camille"

In Seen on the Stage

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Clayton Hamilton


A fourth collection of essays on theatre by American critic Clayton Hamilton, intended as a suffix to his earlier works, The Theory of the T…

Chapter 25

In Emily's Quest

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Lucy Maud Montgomery


This is the third and final book in the "Emily of New Moon" trilogy.This is the story of Emily Starr's uneven climb from success i…

Chapter VI. The Literature of the English Restoration, Including Milton by Haro…

In The Cambridge Modern History. Volume 05, The Age of Louis XIV

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Various


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…

October

In Short Poetry Collection 185

Read by Mari Patterson


Paul Laurence Dunbar


This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2018.

Bk1: Song I: Boethius' Complaint, and section I

In The Consolation of Philosophy

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Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (transl. James) and Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius


Consolation of Philosophy (Latin: Consolatio Philosophiae) is a philosophical work by Boethius written in about the year 524 AD. It has been…

Pussy's Kitten

In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 14, Feb. 3, 1880

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Various


Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfictio…

The Cripple at the Bath

In Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old

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Jesse Lyman Hurlbut


Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old is a detailed, chronological presentation of the life of Christ, relying heavily on quoted portio…