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Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus

Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral …

Mice & Other Poems

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Gerald Bullett

Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote bot…

How the Old Horse Won the Bet

In Long Poems Collection 008

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

LibriVox’s Long Poems Collection 008: a collection of 14 public-domain poems longer than 10 minutes in length.

Vol. 3 - Chapter 3

In Helen

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children…

THE BACKGROUND

In The Chronicles of Clovis

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Saki

This is the third collection of short stories by Saki, following on from “Reginald” and “Reginald in Russia”. Although some of the stories h…

Selected poems

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Gottfried August Bürger

The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

Psalm 50 (4 versions)

In Psalms of David

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the Wo…

The Two Songs

In Short Poetry Collection 150

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

William Blake

This is a collection of 24 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2015.

Letter 13 Belford

In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 6

Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)

Samuel Richardson

It tells the tragic story of a heroine whose quest for virtue is continually thwarted by her family, It is generally regarded as Richardson'…