General Fiction
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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John Donne
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as …
Deerbrook
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Harriet Martineau
A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.Like the later and more famous novel Midd…
Marge Askinforit
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Read by Daryl Wor
Christopher Morley
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…
Toni, the Little Woodcarver
Read by Rainee
Johanna Spyri
Toni is a little boy who discovers a love for woodcarving. When tragedy strikes and his father dies, Toni does all he can to help his mother…
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Walt Whitman
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…
Miss Grantley's Girls
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Thomas Archer
The author Thomas Archer lived 1830 – 1893; he wrote several juvenile stories, and this book: Miss Grantley’s Girls – And the Stories She To…
The Ingoldsby Legends
Read by Grant Hurlock
Richard Harris Barham
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
The Dream
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John Donne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne…
His First and Last Appearance
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy h…
The Siege of Corinth
Read by Nathan
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: reveal…
Two Sides To Every Question
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Maud Jean Franc
'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free …
Historic Girlhoods
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Rupert S. Holland
Biographical sketches of ten girls who became famous before becoming women - some not even making it to womanhood. From Joan of Arc to Cathe…
Henrietta Temple
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Benjamin Disraeli
The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the fa…
Born Again
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Alfred Lawson
"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long indigestible rants against the e…
People Like That
Read by Neeru Iyer
Kate Langley Bosher
A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends al…
Everybody's Lonesome
Read by Bridget Gaige
Clara E. Laughlin
Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mothe…
The Brass Bottle
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F. Anstey
What happens when a not-so-lucky man happens upon a brass bottle releases the djinni caught within? Misunderstanding, culture shock, hilari…
The Little Colonel in Arizona
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Annie Fellows Johnston
In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the …
The Ninth vibration
Read by Linda Andrus
L. Adams Beck
This is a collection of the following short stories: The Ninth Vibration -- The Interpreter : A Romance of the East -- The Incomparable Lady…