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The Gamekeeper at Home

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Richard Jefferies


Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …

Bladys of the Stewponey

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Sabine Baring-Gould


The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other wel…

When William Came

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Saki


We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is anothe…

George and Robert Stephenson

Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)


Samuel Smiles


George Stephenson did not invent the steam engine, that was due to Newcomen and later to James Watt. He did not invent the steam locomotive,…

Music, when soft voices die - read by PC

In Music, when soft voices die

Read by Andy


Percy Bysshe Shelley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Music, when soft voices die by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the weekly poetry pro…

The Tarquins

In Famous Men of Rome

Read by Andy


John H. Haaren and A. B. Poland and John Henry Haaren


Biographical sketches of the men of Rome, written for children. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)

Chapter 40

In Middlemarch

Read by Andy


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…

331 - The Fox Appointed Paymaster.

In The Lincoln Story Book

Read by Andy


Henry L. Williams


Subtitle: A Judicious Collection of the Best Stories and Anecdotes of the Great President, Many Appearing Here for the First Time in Book Fo…

Bk 06 Ch 06: The Little Convent

In Les Misérables, Volume 2

Read by Andy


Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo


This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

Address to a Haggis

In Robert Burns 250th Anniversary

Read by Andy


Robert Burns


Robert Burns, the national bard (poet) of Scotland was born on the 25th January, 1759. Scotland and all Burns fans the world over, including…

Go From Me (Sonnet VI)

In Short Poetry Collection 075

Read by Andy


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


This a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers during the month of January 2009.

Ch 9: The New Government

In Phineas Finn the Irish Member

Read by Andy


Anthony Trollope


Phineas Finn is the sequel to “Can you Forgive Her?” and the second novel in Trollope’s Palliser series. The eponymous hero is a young Irish…

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