Philippa
84 books
Poetry
492
Titus Lucretius Carus - On the Nature of Things (Watson translation)
Written in the first century b.C., On the Nature of Things (in Latin, De Rerum Natura ) is a poem in six books that aims at explaining the Epicurean philosophy to the Roman audience. Among digressions about the...
9 hours 20 minutes
Antiquity
467
John Bagnell Bury - Students’ Roman Empire part 1, A History of the Roman Empire from Its Foundation to the Death of Marcus Aurelius (27 B.C.-180 A.D.)
The writings of J. B. Bury, on subjects ranging from ancient Greece to the 19th-century papacy, are at once scholarly and accessible to the layman. This work covers the period from the beginning of the Roman Empire...
13 hours 42 minutes
General Fiction
527
James Boswell - Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical...
14 hours 6 minutes
*Non-fiction
467
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 2
This is the second LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 14 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1766 and...
4 hours 32 minutes
