Martin Clifton

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Detective Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Wisdom of Father Brown

This is the second of five books of short stories about G. K. Chesterton’s fictional detective, first published in 1914. Father Brown is a short, nondescript Catholic Priest with shapeless clothes and a large...

Martin Clifton 7 hours 17 minutes

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Published before 1800

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Oliver Goldsmith - Vicar of Wakefield

Published in 1766 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £60 on Oliver Goldsmith's behalf by Dr Johnson to enable Goldsmith to pay off...

Martin Clifton 6 hours 23 minutes

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Poetry

819

William Topaz McGonagall - Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay

LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay , by William McGonagall, to celebrate April Fool's Day. Scottish poet William McGonagall is widely considered to be one...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 7 more 26 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm - Grimms' Fairy Tales

A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of fairy tales includes many of the world’s best known stories. In these dark...

Chris Vee and 31 more 10 hours 32 minutes

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Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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Edward Lear - Owl and the Pussycat

Librivox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1871. Its most notable feature is the introduction of the...

Amy Boatman and 18 more 37 minutes

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Detective Fiction

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G. K. Chesterton - Man Who Knew Too Much

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short stories in addition to his...

Martin Clifton 5 hours 49 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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George Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

The Diary of a Nobody is the fictitious record of fifteen months in the life of Charles Pooter, his family, friends and small circle of acquaintances. It first appeared, serialised in Punch magazine and might be...

Martin Clifton 4 hours 22 minutes

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Poetry

875

John Donne - Song (Donne version)

Librivox volunteers bring you seven different readings of the short poem Song by John Donne, a weekly poetry project. Song is a bitter little poem on the falsity of women: search the world for ages, see mythical...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 6 more 10 minutes

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Poetry

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Short Poetry Collection 014

Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 014: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Martin Clifton and 4 more 35 minutes

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Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)

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D. H. Lawrence - Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts

This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 4 more 26 minutes

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Edwin Arlington Robinson - Richard Cory

This was the weekly poetry project for 3 June 2006. Many “character” poems cut straight to the inmost psychology of their subjects, but here, the eponymous Richard Cory with all his wealth and charm is viewed...

Annie Coleman Rothenberg and 11 more 14 minutes

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Poetry

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World English Bible - Bible (WEB) 19: Psalms - Selections

To celebrate Easter, LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of various psalms from the World English Bible . This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 9th, 2006. (Summary by Annie...

Mark F. Smith and 8 more 14 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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