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The Comedian as the Letter C …
Read by KevinS
Wallace Stevens
In Harmonium
This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion…
Appendix
Read by MelissaMarie
Timothy Dexter
In A Pickle For the Knowing Ones
Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …
Mr. Lowell's Discoveries and Theories
Read by Caliban
Alfred Russel Wallace
In Is Mars Habitable?
In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built…
George Meredith
Read by Alan Mapstone
Joyce Kilmer
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
A warning to the curious
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
In A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (Version 2)
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
NEXT TO READING MATTER
Read by Scott Foster
O. Henry
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
Inscription and foreword
Read by Peter Tucker
Sir Walter Scott
In The Lay of the Last Minstrel
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…
Warm Honey
Read by Steve McAlpine
Steve McAlpine
Do you parents fill you up with their faults and add a few extra ones as a special bonus? Rob meets Charis at the same time as he is making …
To Dr. James Newton Matthews
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
The Grocery
Read by nbvoices
Amy Lowell
In Men, Women and Ghosts
This is a collection of long poems and short stories by Amy Lowell. - Summary by Carolin
The Sandy Cat
Read by SilentCipher
Lucy Clifford
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 055
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 055: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Dr. Johnson
Read by David Wales
Charles Maclaurin
In Post Mortems Two: Mere Mortals: Medico-Historical Essays
This 1925 collection of extensive essays (a second book following the first of similar title) comprises well written biographies of a few fa…
Pepsin
Read by Christine Rottger
Various
In Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22, 1888
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…
From Maine By Robert McAlmon
Read by KevinS
Robert Menzies McAlmon
In Short Story Collection Vol. 081
Librivox readers have come together to bring you another diverse collection of short stories. This anthology brings you selections from Thom…
06 - Learning to Read
Read by Sibella Denton
William James Mcglothlin
In Tiny Story Book
Short and sweet stories for children. (Summary by Dr. Heather A. D. Mbaye)
Familiar Letters
Read by Steve C
Various
In The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 2
This is the second issue of a monthly agricultural magazine for the year 1820. From the introduction: "A leading object of the Rural Ma…
16 - A Discovery
Read by Mike Pelton
Christopher Morley
In Pipefuls
A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course a…
IV; V; VI
Read by Scotty Smith
Irving E. Cox, Jr.
In The Cartels Jungle
In most ideally conceived Utopias the world as it exists is depicted as a mushrooming horror of maladjustment, cruelty and crime. In this st…
Anne
Read by Bruce Kachuk
James Russell Lowell
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
11 - A New Pathology
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
In Literary Lapses
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…