Hugh McGuire

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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’,...

Graham Redman and 5 more 16 minutes

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Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

Action & Adventure Fiction

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LibriVox volunteers - Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007)

An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Elizabeth the same woman, is she married with children, is her husband a spy?...

Alan Davis Drake and 11 more 4 hours 26 minutes

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Ancient

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Epictetus - Golden Sayings of Epictetus

Aphorisms from the Stoic Greek.

Hugh McGuire and 5 more 2 hours 40 minutes

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Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

Political Science

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John Ruskin - Unto this Last: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy

John Ruskin (1819 – 1900) is best known for his work as an art critic and social critic, but is remembered as an author, poet and artist as well. Unto This Last is an important work of political economic though that...

Hugh McGuire and 3 more 3 hours 16 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

545

Bill Nye - Comic History of England

Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” Mowatt is a distinguished LibriVox volunteer, widely known for his continued...

Ezwa and 15 more 2 hours 54 minutes

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Nature & Animal Fiction

551

Joseph Conrad - Typhoon

Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a...

Russ Maxwell and 5 more 3 hours 3 minutes

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Single Author Collections

632

James Joyce - Dubliners

Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)

Richard Wallis and 9 more 6 hours 57 minutes

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*Non-fiction

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David Hume - Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

The Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a shortened and simplified version of Hume's masterpiece A Treatise of Human Nature. It sought to reach a wider audience, and to dispel some of the virulent criticism...

Carl Manchester and 10 more 5 hours 54 minutes

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Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

Essays & Short Works

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Thomas de Quincey - Miscellaneous Essays of Thomas de Quincey

The Hunter Thompson of the 19th Century, de Quincey is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium Eater (an activity shared with his hero, Samuel Coleridge, much to Wordsworth’s dismay). However, de Quincey’s...

Richard Grove and 6 more 8 hours 12 minutes

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Poetry

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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

American poet Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass, is a collection of poems notable for its frank delight in and praise of the senses, during a time when such candid displays were considered immoral. Where much previous...

Gord Mackenzie and 11 more 19 hours 16 minutes

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Art, Design & Architecture

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John Ruskin - Lectures on Landscape

A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin.

Hugh McGuire and 2 more 1 hour 45 minutes

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Detective Fiction

533

J. S. Fletcher - Paradise Mystery

A quiet cathedral town in England, full of gossips and people who are not quite who they seem to be, is the setting for this murder mystery. (Summary by Gesine)

JimmyLogan and 12 more 8 hours 39 minutes

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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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