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Pentecost
Read by Larry Wilson
Charles Williams
In Poems of Conformity
Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …
The Printer to the Reader (Q1)
Read by Grant Hurlock
George Gascoigne
In The Adventures of Master F.J.
This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married…
05 - Book 6, Chapters 24-26: Taprobane; the Ariani and adjoining nations; voyages to India
Read by Leni
Pliny the Elder
In The Natural History Volume 2
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
Book I. Chapter 7. Periander
Read by Sonia
Diogenes Laertius
In Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Volume 1
Diogenes Laertius' Lives of Eminent Philosophers provides a wealth information about the lives and teachings of ancient Greek thinkers. Desp…
Chapter 10
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
H. G. Wells
In The History of Mr. Polly
A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes eve…
05 - Mr 'Possum
Read by KarlHenning
Abbie Phillips Walker
In The Sandman's Hour
Reading bedtime stories to children can be a wonderful way to relax and at the same time act out the exciting things happening in the story …
Pythias
Read by Ron Altman
Frederik Pohl
In Short Science Fiction Collection 098
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
The Emerald Tablet
Read by Ben Tucker
Manly P. Hall
In Shadow Forms: A Collection of Occult Stories
This collection of strange and exotic stories offers adaptations and modern updates of folk tales and legends as well as original horror sto…
Pomes Penyeach ready by Cyril Cusack
In James Joyce Readings
James Joyce Readings 01 James Joyce Ulysses, passage from Aeolus Paris, 1924 02 James Joyce Finnegans Wake, Anna Livia Plurabelle, 1924 03 C…
The Steed Lazoed
Read by sanjayparikh
Thomas Mayne Reid
In The War Trail
"Land of the nopal and maguey—home of Moctezuma and Malinché!—I cannot wring thy memories from my heart! Years may roll on, hand…
On the Holy Day of Pentecost
Read by M.S.C. Lambert, LC
Ælfric Of Eynsham
In The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
Ælfric's 40 homilies follow the church and are the "most ancient sermons in any of the Germanic tongues". - Summary by InThe…
The Pen
Read by Barry Eads
Jack London
In The Road
Jack London credited his skill of story-telling to the days he spent as a hobo learning to fabricate tales to get meals from sympathetic str…
Chapter V
Read by ToddHW
Bolesław Prus
In The Pharaoh and the Priest
The Pharaoh and the Priest (Polish: Faraon) is the fourth and last major novel by the Polish writer Bolesław Prus. It was the sole historica…
System in the Library, Part 2
Read by gbperez
Arthur Elmore Bostwick
In Library Essays; Papers Related to the Work of Public Libraries
This 1920 collection of essays gathers together 25 years of papers, articles, and presentations given by Arthur E. Bostwick. The ideas in ma…
A Fragment on the Reception of the Lapsed to Penitence
Read by InTheDesert
Dionysius the Great
In The Early Church Collection Volume 3
This collection begins with Augustine's exposition of the Apostles' Creed, a confession of faith (particularly addressing the Trinity) attri…
Chapter XXII. Who Is Portunus?
Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
Hope Mirrlees
In Lud-in-the-Mist
Nathaniel Chanticleer, staid and respectable mayor of Lud-in-the-Mist, wants nothing more than to preserve the traditions of his city and th…
The Tale of the Pointer Tray
Read by ef50
Laure Claire Foucher - editor and William James McGlothlin
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 005
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 005: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Typewriter from the Future
Read by Ben Tucker
Rog Phillips
In The Mind-Bending World of Rog Phillips, Volume 1
Welcome to the maddeningly strange and inventive mind of prolific pulp genre author Rog Phillips (real name Roger Phillip Graham)! Having wr…
The pier by Mori Ōgai
Read by Availle
Ōgai Mori
In Paulownia: Seven Stories from Contemporary Japanese Writers
Paulownia is a collection of seven stories by three Japanese authors from the late 19th and early 20th century. Mori Ōgai was an army surgeo…