General Fiction
The Hidden Places
Read by Roger Melin
Bertrand W. Sinclair
Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so choos…
Rappaccini's Daughter
Read by Brett W. Downey
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The story is set in Padua in a distant, but unspecified past. From his quarters, Giovanni, a young student of letters, observes Beatrice, th…
The Rose Garden Husband
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Margaret Widdemer
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old chi…
The Child's Book of American Biography
Read by Laura Victoria
Mary Stoyell Stimpson
In every country there have been certain men and women whose busy lives have made the world better or wiser. The names of such are heard so …
Die Hochzeit des Mönchs
Read by Eva K.
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer
Kein geringerer als Dante Alighieri wird hier zum Erzähler. Am Fürstenhof in Verona gibt er seine Geschichte über den Mö…
Vera
Read by Greg W.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Vera (1921) by Elizabeth von Arnim is a black comedy based on her disastrous second marriage to Earl Russell: a mordant analysis of the roma…
Tono-Bungay
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
H. G. Wells
Tono-Bungay is a realist semi-autobiographical novel. It is narrated by George Ponderevo, a science student who is drafted in to help with t…
The Life of George Washington
Read by ACBowgus
Josephine Pollard
The Life story of a public man cannot help being to some extent the same thing as a history of the times in which he lived, and to the case …
Vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón
Read by Tux
Vicente Espinel
Las «Relaciones de la vida del escudero Marcos de Obregón» (1618) son una novela picaresca, provista de muchos elementos …
Hilda Lessways
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story …
Just Patty
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Jean Webster
Patty, Conny, and Priscilla are the best of friends, and roommates at boarding school. While the teachers might say they are mischievous, ev…
The Golden Web
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the …
Murder in the Sacristy
Read by Maria Therese
Daniel A. Lord
A sacristan is found murdered in the sacristy and the safe robbed of valuable jewels. All clues seem to point to the priest as the murderer.…
Myths That Every Child Should Know
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
A selection of famous and timeless myths, adapted for a junior audience. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)
Little Bear
Read by Carolyn Frances
Laura Rountree Smith
A story for children about a little bear with no name, “there were not enough names to go round,” and his adventures in finding one. (Summar…
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
Read by Bridget Gaige
Harriet E. Wilson
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Be…
The Pastor's Wife
Read by James E. Carson
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England, married in Germany, and then flew to the United States. A tale about a young wom…
Ocherki proshlago
Read by Maya S
Lev Osipovich Levanda
A collection of six short stories about life of a Jewish community in Poland. (Summary by MayaS)
Iphigenie auf Tauris
Read by redaer
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Iphigenie auf Tauris ist insofern ein klassisches Drama, als es sowohl einen antiken Stoff behandelt als auch das Menschenideal der Klassik …
The Red and the Black
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Stendhal
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Ba…