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The Bab Ballads

Read by Graham Redman

W. S. Gilbert

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before …

The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke

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Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), …

More Bab Ballads

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W. S. Gilbert

This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert…

First Period: Chapter 11

In The Moonstone

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Wilkie Collins

The story concerns a young woman called Rachel Verinder who inherits a large Indian diamond, the Moonstone, on her eighteenth birthday.The b…

The Graeae and Gorgons--Perseus and Medusa--Atlas--Andromed

In Bulfinch’s Mythology: The Age of Fable

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Thomas Bulfinch

Bulfinch’s Mythology, first published in 1855, is one of the most popular collections of mythology of all time. It consists of three volumes…

Aristides

In Famous Men of Greece

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

Famous Men of Greece is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by g…

Doctor Faustus (closing lines)

In Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

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Christopher Marlowe

Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture…

Book 1, part 1

In Herodotus' Histories Vol 1

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Herodotus of Halicarnassus and Herodotus

The Histories of Herodotus of Halicarnassus is considered the first work of history in Western literature. Written about 440 BC, the Histori…