General Fiction
Elves and Heroes
Read by Matthew Reece
Donald Alexander Mackenzie
This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the c…
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06
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Various
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…
The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
Peggy Raymond and her friends, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth, encounter a new neighbour, Elaine, and her family. While Peggy, in her usual cheerfu…
When William Came
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Saki
We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is anothe…
Pocket Island
Read by Roger Melin
Charles Clark Munn
Along the coast of Maine are littered thousands of small islands. One such, named 'Pocket Island' by the locals was so called because of a p…
Der Maigraf
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Otto Roquette
Rambert hat sich bei der ersten Gelegenheit der Armee angeschlossen und ist einige Jahre durch das Land gezogen. Als der Krieg aber vorbei i…
A Sweet Little Maid
Read by Diana Majlinger
Amy Ella Blanchard
Dimple, the nine-year-old little girl is accustomed to being always the first. She has Bubbles, a little coloured girl as playmate and serva…
Neighbors - Life Stories of the Other Half
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Jacob A. Riis
These stories have come to me from many sources—some from my own experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records o…
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2)
Read by Phil Chenevert
L. Frank Baum
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he ex…
Ramona (version 2)
Read by Jacquerie
Helen Hunt Jackson
Set in Old California in the wake of the Mexican-American War, Ramona is two stories at once. It is the story of the love between a part-Nat…
The Figure in the Carpet
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…
An Old Man's Thought of School
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for F…
Members of the Family
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Members of the Family is a collection of eight short stories about people in the Wyoming Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries…
The Fatal Three
Read by Celine Major
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Written by one of the most prolific authors of the 19th century The Fatal Three although not as sensational as some of her other novels serv…
The Octopus
Read by Delmar H Dolbier
Frank Norris
Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…
Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
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Charles Dickens
Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It c…
Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School; or, The Parting of the Ways
Read by ashleighjane
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…
Better Angel
Read by Greg W.
Richard Meeker
In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to term…
The Titan
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Theodore Dreiser
Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with…
Facing the Flag
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Jules Verne
Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what…