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Dressed to Dissent: 'Catch-22' Clothing

In Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference

Read by Marilyn Cohen


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

In Defense of Women

Read by ML Cohen


H. L. Mencken


In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while ot…

Erosion

Read by Lon S. Cohen


Lon S. Cohen


Canyon Park is bowed down under a relentless torrent of rain. The fields are flooded, the bridges crumble and the increasingly isolated town…

05 - Partition 3, Section 1, Member 3

In The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3

Read by Marilyn Mack


Robert Burton


The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burto…

Matthew Locke

In Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell

Read by Marilyn Rakes


Frederick Bridge


Brief sketches of the lives and music of 12 well-known musicians. - Summary by KevinS

The Story of Fido by Miss A. M. Alleyne

In The Animal Story Book

Read by Marilyn Rakes


Various


Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous s…

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

In Short Poetry Collection 053

Read by Marilyn Saklatvala


William Wordworth and William Wordsworth


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 053: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

33 - Of Large Acquaintance; Or, an Essay to Prove the Folly of Seeking Many Fri…

In The Morals (Moralia), Book 1

Read by Marilyn Mack


Plutarch and Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus


The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is…

The Tailor of Gloucester

In The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Read by Marilyn Saklatvala


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…

The Storm

In The Frozen Pirate (version 2)

Read by Marilyn Rakes


William Clark Russell


Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound v…

A Tragic Tale

In Short Poetry Collection 082

Read by Marilyn Saklatvala


William Makepeace Thackeray


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of August 2009.

Daniel Boone, The Great Indian Fighter of Kentucky

In Hero Tales from History

Read by Marilyn Rakes


Smith Burnham


This volume celebrates stories of great heroes from the pages of history from Moses and David through Clara Barton and Henry Longfellow. It…

The Trinkets

In The Queen of the Seven Swords

Read by Marilyn Rakes


G. K. Chesterton


A collection of poems by G.K. Chesterton, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary. The title is in reference to the seven sorrows of Mary. “…

Sherwood

In Short Poetry Collection 004

Read by Marilyn Saklatvala


Alfred Noyes


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 004: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

04 - Chapter 3: Rival Pantheons and Representative Deities

In Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

Read by Marilyn Mack


Donald Alexander Mackenzie


Donald Alexander Mackenzie (1873 – March 2, 1936) was a Scottish journalist and prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in t…

A Serenade - Read by MBS

In A Serenade

Read by Marilyn Brown-Safford


Thomas Hood


LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Serenade, by Thomas Hood.This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2024. ------The…