Graham Redman

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Antiquity

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Publius Cornelius Tacitus - Annals Vol 2

The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with...

Graham Redman and 5 more 3 hours 49 minutes

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Rupert Brooke - Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke

Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), as well as for his poetry written outside of war, especially The Old...

Graham Redman 3 hours 36 minutes

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Early Modern

Arthur G. Doughty - Chronicles of Canada Volume 09 - The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline

The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or maritime part of New France from the western part, which began with the St...

J. M. Smallheer and 5 more 3 hours 36 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac

Early Modern

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Charles W. Colby - Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac

The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the...

Sarah Jennings and 5 more 3 hours 24 minutes Chronicles of Canada Series

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Animals & Nature

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories (version 3)

These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite «why» and «how» questions. With their generous sprinkling of nonsense words as well as a delightfully rhythmic storytelling...

rachelellen and 4 more 3 hours 14 minutes

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Ancient

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Ancient Greek Philosopher-Scientists

The Pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, that is, the philosopher-scientists who lived before or contemporaneously to Socrates, were the first men in the Western world to establish a line of inquiry regarding the natural...

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Humorous Fiction

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W. S. Gilbert - Bab Ballads

The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In...

Graham Redman 3 hours 1 minute

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Early Modern

Thomas Guthrie Marquis - Chronicles of Canada Volume 15 - The War Chief of the Ottawas: A Chronicle of the Pontiac War

This is the history of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765. It includes the siege of Detroit and his ultimate defeat. Summary by Esther.

Esther and 6 more 3 hours Chronicles of Canada Series

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Humorous Fiction

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Saki - Reginald

Saki (December 18, 1870 — November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of...

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Ballads

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W. S. Gilbert - More Bab Ballads

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’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria...

Graham Redman 1 hour 14 minutes

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Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

Poetry

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Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich

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 some wonderful poems ‘on location’ — in the churchyard of St Nicholas’,...

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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