Historical Fiction
The Street Called Straight
Read by Simon Evers
Basil King
Henry Guion, a rich and successful American businessman, faces complete ruin and jail as he has embezzled all his client’s money. He tells h…
St. Elmo
Read by Jim Locke
Augusta Jane Evans
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical a…
Garthowen: A Story of a Welsh Homestead
Read by Craig Franklin
Allen Raine
The story centers around the Owens' family and young ‘Morva of the Moor’, the prettiest girl in the world.The Owens of Garthowen, once a pre…
I Worked for Lucky Luciano
Read by Michele Fry
Anonymous
A few years after the fall of Chicago’s Al Capone in 1931, Italian born gangster Charles “Lucky” Luciano took the throne as the American Maf…
The Red Flower
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry van Dyke
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Red Flower by Henry van Dyke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 11, 2012.Dr. H…
The Blind Brother (Version 2 Dramatic Reading)
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Homer Greene
A story of repentance and forgiveness set in the times of the the coal mines. Follow a blind boy and his brother determined to get him cure…
The Coryston Family
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Augusta Ward
Lady Coryston has inherited her husband’s estate but surprisingly has not left it on her death to Coryston (known as Corry) her oldest son. …
The Australaise
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
C. J. Dennis
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of The Austra--laise by C.J.Dennis. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 13, 2013.…
How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar
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Guy Wetmore Carryl
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How a Fisherman Corked up His Foe in a Jar by Guy Wetmore Carryl. This was the Fortnightly Po…
The Story of Ab
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Stanley Waterloo
This is the story of Ab, a man of the Age of Stone, who lived so long ago that we cannot closely fix the date, and who loved and fought well…
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Robert Henry Newell
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. The…
Welcome to Spring
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Ring Lardner
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about…
Catherine: A Story
Read by Mark Leder
William Makepeace Thackeray
The wild and raw adventures of Catherine Hayes, who was burned for murder at Tyburn in 1742 - Summary by Mark Leder
The Cliff-Dwellers
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Henry Blake Fuller
Between the former site of old Fort Dearborn and the present site of our newest Board of Trade there lies a restricted yet tumultuous territ…
Tales of a Vanishing River
Read by Tom Hirsch (1947-2022)
Earl Reed
The background of this collection of sketches and stories is the country through which flowed one of the most interesting of our western riv…
The Garies and their Friends
Read by Jim Locke
Frank Webb
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery…
Short Stories in Prose and Verse
Read by Chris Greaves
Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
The Wounded Name
Read by Elin
D. K. Broster
Laurent de Courtomer, the son of a French aristocratic emigré and an Englishwoman, returns to France upon the Bourbon restoration fol…
Men of Iron (Version 3)
Read by Annie C.
Howard Pyle
Myles Falworth, son of a wrongfully outlawed lord, grows up amid the rough life of the dark ages. This book tells how he grows from an impul…
Cup of Gold
Read by Kurt
John Steinbeck
Steinbeck's first novel, a historical fiction account of Henry (Captain) Morgan. The title comes from his sacking of Panama City which was …