Fiction
Short Story Collection Vol. 055
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Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, i…
Indiana
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
George Sand
This is George Sand's first novel. Her real name was Amantine (or Amandine) Lucile Dupin, and she later became baroness Dudevant. As an aris…
Toppleton's Client
Read by Cate Barratt
John Kendrick Bangs
A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simpl…
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today
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Mark Twain
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in po…
The Last Day of a Condemned
Read by Alisson Veldhuis
Victor Hugo
A man who has been condemned to death writes down his cogitations, feelings and fears while he is waiting for his execution. He does not bet…
The Unbearable Bassington
Read by NoelBadrian
Saki
The Unbearable Bassington was the first novel written by Saki (H. H. Munro). It also contains much of the elegant wit found in his short sto…
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain
Read by Ric F
Charles Dickens
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain) is a novella …
The Hall in the Grove
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
Fearing that her son, Robert, will grow too intellectual to relate to his parents, Mrs. Fenton starts a "Chautauqua Literary & Scie…
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, …
The Green Rust (Version 2)
Read by Kirsten Wever
Edgar Wallace
Edgar Wallace, perhaps best known for creating King Kong, wrote dozens of novels. The Green Rust, his twelfth crime novel, is one of three b…
Aunt Jane's Nieces And Uncle John
Read by Lynne T
L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John picks up the continuing story of the three cousins Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, and thei…
Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2
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Thomas Peckett Prest
Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to va…
Divers Women
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
A collection of short stories, highlighting some of the best and worst characteristics we women are capable of in our Christianity and in ou…
Waverley, Volume 2
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Sir Walter Scott
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or…
Phantoms of Reality
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Ray Cummings
Red Sensua's knife came up dripping—and the two adventurers knew that chaos and bloody revolution had been unleashed in that shadowy kingdom…
Seventeen
Read by Jonathan Burchard
Booth Tarkington
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William is a humorous novel by Booth Tarkington that gently sat…
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World
Read by JaySands
Willis George Emerson
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the stor…
Flower Fables
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Louisa May Alcott
Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)
The Three Impostors
Read by Tony Oliva
Arthur Machen
Three friends in a large old dilapidated house are laughing. They seem as giddy as an acting troupe at closing night. But their laughter is …
Sybil, or the Two Nations
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Benjamin Disraeli
Sybil is one of the most prominent political novels of the mid-nineteenth century, taking as its subject the "condition of England"…