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In Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 08

Read by Julie Johnson


Jean Lang


This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…

The Snow Queen

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 049

Read by Julie Johnson


Hans Christian Andersen


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 049: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

Chapter One

In Raggedy Ann and Andy and the Camel with the Wrinkled Knees

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Johnny Gruelle


Raggedy Ann, you remember, always thought lovely kindly thoughts because there was a little candy heart with the words "I love you"…

Benjamin Franklin, by John Bigelow

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 15

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Various


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

In Which the Heroine Hears Some Startling News

In The Fairy Latchkey

Read by Julie Johnson


Magdalene Horsfall


Philomene Isolde is a good little girl, but has been very lonely since the death of her mother. Playing make-believe in the garden, Philomen…

The Stroke of the Lash

In The House of Love

Read by Julie Johnson


Elizabeth Cheney


“‘Little gal,’ he repeated, ‘air ye all alone in the world?’This time the sound resolved itself into an unmistakable sob.”With these words w…

Where Angels Fear to Tread

Read by Julie Pandya


E. M. Forster


On a journey to Tuscany with her young friend and traveling companion Caroline Abbott, widowed Lilia Herriton falls in love with both Italy …

The Art of Fiction

Read by Julie VW


Henry James


A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology

Read by Julie Yu


Mary H. Fostertranslated Bymabel H. Cummings and Mary H. Fosterandmabel H. Cummings


Asgard Stories - Tales from Norse Mythology. To all our Children who have loved the hearing of these Asgard Stories. This little volume is t…

Gorgias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time …

Critias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous …

Protagoras

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets wi…

Troilus and Criseyde

Read by Kevin Johnson


Geoffrey Chaucer


Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set …

Alcibiades I

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


As Jowett relates in his brilliant introduction, 95% of Plato's writing is certain and his reputation rests soundly on this foundation. The …

Lesser Hippias

Read by Kevin Johnson


Plato


This work may not be by Plato, or his entirely, but Jowett has offered his sublime translation, and seems to lean towards including it in th…

The Vikings

Read by Kevin Johnson


Allen Mawer


This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University o…

The Son of Man

Read by CW Johnson


CW Johnson


Imagine they set out to clone the Son of God. Imagine they succeed... The Holy Blood Altar, an elaborate shrine whose centerpiece is said to…