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Three Wise Men of Gotham

In Mother Goose in Prose

Read by David Barnes

L. Frank Baum

Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…

Bk 2, Purgatory: Canto XXII - Canto XXVII

In The Divine Comedy

Read by David Barnes

Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Book 14

In The Odyssey

Read by David Barnes

Homer, transl. Samuel Butler and Homer

The Odyssey is one of the two major ancient Greek epic poems (the other being the Iliad), attributed to the poet Homer. The poem is commonly…

bk4_08 - Book the Fourth - Chapter 08 A FEW GRAINS OF PEPPER

In Our Mutual Friend

Read by David Barnes

Charles Dickens

Dickens' last complete novel was published serially 1864-5. It begins with an intriguing fortune offered to John Harmon by his late father, …

Romeo and Juliet [Essay]

In Short Story Collection Vol. 007

Read by David Barnes

William Hazlitt

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 007: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

The Pardoner's Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

Read by David Barnes

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Hercules and Minerva

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275)

Read by David Barnes

Aesop

Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Judge Somers

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by David Barnes

Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

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