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12 - Victory

In Ten Days that Shook the World

Read by Richard Beck


John Reed


Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917…

Chapter XVIII, Section 01

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 18)

Read by Richard Carpenter


Thomas Babington Macaulay


This is volume 4 chapter 18 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…

How Pantagruel became sick, and the manner how he was recovered

In Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book II

Read by Richard Carpenter


François Rabelais


The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in th…

01 - Part 1, Section 1

In The Good Soldier

Read by Richard Grove


Ford Madox Ford


The Good Soldier (1915) "... is set just before World War I and chronicles the tragedies of the lives of two seemingly perfect couples.…

ON THE KNOCKING AT THE GATE IN MACBETH

In Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

Read by Richard Grove


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…

CHAPTER 46

In The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Read by Richard Wallis


Charles Dickens


The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…

Chapter 6

In Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth

Read by Richard Grove


Rene Descartes and René Descartes


The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method …

Chapter 09

In War and Peace, Book 01: 1805

Read by Richard Grove


Leo Tolstoy


War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…

01 - The Sisters

In Dubliners

Read by Richard Wallis


James Joyce


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

Main Street

In Short Poetry Collection 025

Read by Richard Gaudet


Joyce Kilmer


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 025: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

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