Fiction
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)
Short Story Collection Vol. 027
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 027: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
The Altar of the Dead
Read by Dorlene Kaplan
Henry James
A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, …
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Variousandmarshall Pinckney Wilder, H. G. Wells and Various And Marshall Pinckney Wilder
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 author…
A Spinner in the Sun
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Myrtle Reed
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and enterta…
The Story of H.M.S. Pinafore
Read by NoelBadrian
W. S. Gilbert
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbe…
Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories
Read by Janice Green
Various
The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader’s grandchildren in mind. “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphant Annie,…
J. Poindexter, Colored
Read by Grant Hurlock
Irvin S. Cobb
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…
Next Christmas in Girouette
Read by Michael Welch
Michael Welch
Next Christmas in Girouette is a full-length novel for people of all ages—nine to ninety-nine—who want to share a heart-warming literary adv…
If Winter Comes
Read by KirksVoice
A. S. M. Hutchinson
If Winter Comes, was in many aspects ahead of its time, dealing with an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, and an unwed mother who commits …
Intercast Season One
Read by Edward G. Talbot
Edward G. Talbot
In this collection of short stories, Edward G. Talbot provides thrills, chills, laughs, and drama in abbreviated form. If you like bite-siz…
What Diantha Did
Read by Betsie Bush
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate …
The Death of the Lion
Read by Jacquerie
Henry James
This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journ…
The Red Room
Read by William Peck
August Strindberg
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…
False Alarm
Read by Heather Stallings
Heather Stallings
False Alarm is a wry, fish-out-of-water story about Kate McCabe, a dedicated but somewhat neurotic woman trying to juggle her career at a sp…
Other People's Heroes
Read by Blake M. Petit
Blake M. Petit
Josh Corwood has spent his life admiring the superheroes that protect Siegel City. He's wanted to join them, wanted to be like them... but e…
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
Molly Make-Believe (version 2)
Read by ashleighjane
Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to…
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
This novel is sometimes thought of as [Fielding's] first because he almost certainly began composing it before he wrote Shamela and Joseph A…
The Tale of Major Monkey
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey was the author of more than forty children's books.Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worl…