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Sir Edmund Orme

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…

The Birthplace

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James


Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …

Frederic the Great

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Macaulay's review essay on Frederick the Great of Prussia is found in vol. iii of his Critical and Historical Essays, and concentrates prima…

Coningsby, or The New Generation

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Benjamin Disraeli


Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the polit…

Lord Clive

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India…

Seven Men

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Max Beerbohm


In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively…

Warren Hastings

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh …

La Grande Bretèche

Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Honoré de Balzac


La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table…

My Uncle Toby Puzzled

In Pastiche and Prejudice

Read by Annyiee Hill


Arthur Bingham Walkley


Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writin…

A Lost Opportunity

In Imaginotions - Truthless Tales

Read by Mike Hill


Tudor Jenks


This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are no…

The Forest Reverie - Read by JH

In The Forest Reverie

Read by Jack Hill


Edgar Allan Poe


LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Forest Reverie by Edgar Allan Poe.This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 2, 2022.…

The Song of the Waters - read by JH

In The Song of the Waters

Read by Jack Hill


William Murray Graydon


LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Song of the Waters by William Murray Graydon.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for …

Part 8

In Lives of Two Cats

Read by Jack Hill


Pierre Loti


An English translation of Pierre Loti's charming 19th century memoir of his cats. - Summary by S Caulkins

CHAPTER I.— The Universal Belief in Them

In Invisible Helpers

Read by Connor Hill


C. W. Leadbeater


Even in this incredulous age, and amidst the full whirl of our nineteenth-century civilization, in spite of the dogmatism of our science and…

Saturn, the Ringed World

In The Romance of Modern Astronomy

Read by Jack Hill


Hector Macpherson


From the series, The Library of Romance, the reader is introduced in this book to the modern astronomy of 1911. The author discusses our sol…

Selling Extracted Honey at Retail

In The American Bee Journal, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Jan 1894

Read by Jack Hill


Various


The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sa…

The Nothing Equation

In Short Science Fiction Collection 084

Read by Alasdair Hill


Tom Godwin


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

When You Are Old - Read by MJH

In When You Are Old

Read by Matthew Hill


W. B. Yeats and William Butler Yeats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3rd,…

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