In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays

by Augustine Birrell

EN·~5 hours·28 chapters

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28 total

IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN - AND OTHER ESSAYS

0:33

'IN THE NAME OF THE BODLEIAN'

40:51

BOOKWORMS

10:53

CONFIRMED READERS

8:26

FIRST EDITIONS

7:26

GOSSIP IN A LIBRARY

11:05

LIBRARIANS AT PLAY

11:02

LAWYERS AT PLAY

15:36

THE NON-JURORS

16:30

LORD CHESTERFIELD

10:55

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~5 hours (326K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Janet Kegg and PG Distributed Proofreaders

Release date

2004-05-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12244

Subjects

Books and reading -- Great Britain Bodleian Library PR

About the author

Augustine Birrell

1850–1933

Best remembered as a witty essayist and a Liberal statesman, he moved with ease between literature, law, and public life. His career reached from the success of Obiter Dicta to the difficult politics of Ireland in the years before the Easter Rising.

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