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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 051
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy--Bertrand Russell, Spi…
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Henry Fielding
"I do not pretend to say the young man is without faults; but they are all the faults of wildness and of youth; faults which he may, na…
Arthur Mervyn
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Charles Brockden Brown
Arthur Mervyn is the story of a young man from the country who arrives in a city stricken with Yellow Fever. He soon comes down with the ill…
Stanton White: A Romance of the New South
Read by James K. White
Asa Zadel Hall
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 100
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Various
Volume 100 of the Short Nonfiction Collection celebrates 16 years (2007-2023) of volunteer readings which reflect the wide range of nonficti…
Society as I Have Found It
Read by John Greenman
Ward Mcallister
Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…
The Meredith Mystery
Read by James R. Hedrick
Natalie Sumner Lincoln
While spending a weekend at Ten Acres, David Curtis, a blind physician, in grouping (sic) his way along the passage to his room stumbles upo…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 074
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Various
Twenty-one short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "We must learn to dignify common labor." Booker T. Washington spoke plain…
Nameless
Read by D.C. Wood
D.C. Wood
“Nameless.”
So what do you call DEATH?
Modern society is plagued by crime and despair. And the solution to the problem…is even worse.
A myst…
Longshanks
Read by Warren Bergmann
Stephen W. Meader
In 1828, young Tad Hopkins takes an adventure-filled trip down the Mississippi River to meet his father in New Orleans. Along the way he bef…
The Northern Spy
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J. Thomas Warren
The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in …
Kleine Dorrit
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De familie Dorrit verblijft door schulden belast meer dan 20 jaar in de schuldengevangenis de Marshalsea in Londen. Zullen zij ontlast worde…
Number Six
Read by Ben Tucker
Edgar Wallace
The master criminal Caesar Valentine is rich, suave and seemingly untouchable. He has confounded Scotland Yard time and time again, stealin…
A Student's History of American Literature
Read by Bellona Times
William Simonds
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a …
The Servant and the Soothsayer
Read by Eugene Fairfield
Eugene Fairfield
Paulo, a domestic servant with a reputation for back-talk, is witness to a political murder. When a soothsayer is brought in to solve the cr…
The Beckoning Fair One
Read by MorganScorpion
Oliver Onions
A classic ghost story of a haunted house, and the haunted man who lives in it.
From the Easy Chair Vol. 3
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George William Curtis
The third volume of essays and observations From the Easy Chair of William Curtis, editor of Harper's Weekly and one of the founders of the …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086
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Various
"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043
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Various
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color&…