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Short stories (Early works 1837-1852)
Read by Phil Benson
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
A collection of Elizabeth Gaskell's early short stories. Following the publication of Mary Barton in 1848, Gaskell published many of her sho…
Around The Yule Log
Read by David Wales
Willis Boyd Allen
Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)
Rookwood
Read by Paul Curran
William Harrison Ainsworth
A rich and complex Gothic-Romance centring on the murky deeds of an ancient family. It is a wonderfully atmospheric piece that combines narr…
The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2)
Read by Steve Gough
Anthony Trollope
LibriVox reader Nicholas Clifford calls this Trollope's best novel in his introduction to the collaborative version of this fine novel - and…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 21)
Read by Brendan Stallard
Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is volume 4 chapter 21 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 03)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is the third chapter in Macaulay’s great History of England from the Accession of James II. In this chapter Macaulay looks at the state…
New Adventures of Alice (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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John Rae
After reading and re-reading the book many time as a boy and wishing that Lewis Carroll would have written another Alice In Wonderland Book,…
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 16)
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Thomas Babington Macaulay
This is volume 3 chapter 16 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resum…
The Westminster Alice
Read by Ruth Golding
Saki
Published five years before John Kendrick Bangs had the same idea with Alice in Blunderland, Saki, in his 1902 series of satirical articles,…
First Chapter Collection 005
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Various
LibriVox First Chapter Collection 005 - a collection of the first chapters of 15 different books, fiction and nonfiction, mostly English but…
Mary Anerley
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Richard Doddridge Blackmore
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume III
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
Rob Gittins Investigating Mr. Thomas
Afternoon Play: Investigating Mr Thomas First broadcast: Wed 12th Mar 2008, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM When Time magaz…
Lancashire
Read by Phil Benson
Francis Archibald Bruton
The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…
A Coin Of Edward VII
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Fergus Hume
A family celebrates Christmas and its flaws are gently exposed by the house guest Mrs. Parry. Giles is engaged to the wealthy Daisy, yet is …
Nightmare
Read by Ben Tucker
Cornell Woolrich
Dark crime fiction author Cornell Woolrich (real name George Hopley) brings us this show-stopping collection of grim and twisted stories of …
La Lecture, tome 2
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Various
La Lecture était une revue littéraire bi-mensuelle française de la fin du 19e siècle, publiant surtout des nouve…
Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts
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David Alec Wilson
Although David Alec Wilson is best known for his writings about Thomas Carlyle, he was a Scottish civil servant who spent much time in India…