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Norman Macleod
In Good Words: 1870
Good Words was an English monthly magazine directed at evangelicals and nonconformists, particularly of the lower middle classes. It contain…
The Critical Author Caper
The Adventures of Sam Spade
In Hot August Nights 2
Hot August Nights 2 An OTR Weekend Special Ten old-time radio shows, each originally aired in Augusts of those years, every weekend through …
Version 3
Read by wedschild
Henry Vaughan
In The World
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 recordings of The World by Henry Vaughan. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 26th, 2009.
A Scamp's History
Read by redabrus
Fergus Hume
In The Secret Passage
Excellent murder mystery. On September 9, 1905, the NY Times Saturday Review of Books described this book as follows: "That painstaking…
The Readers Corner
Read by Bill Boerst
Captain S. P. Meek
In Astounding Stories 12, December 1930
This issue includes "Slaves of the Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, &qu…
Chapter VII, "THE HOME OF SCHILDER-DAVID"
Read by Doreen Marcotte
Berthold Auerbach
In Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker. Vol. I
Nearly Christmas and the precocious and rambunctious Joseph is excited at the prospect of meeting his father (Adam) on the morrow (Christmas…
Arthur Schopenhauer
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…
A Disappointing Appointment
Read by Cleon Cumberbatch
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
In Mary Anerley
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…
A Wanderer Returns
Read by Dawn Larsen
Roy J. Snell
In A Ticket to Adventure
Starting a new homestead in Alaska is filled with adventures. A stolen herd of Reindeer, a great dogsled race, a strange phantom dog, fun ai…
Riddle
Read by Craig Campbell
Friedrich Schiller
In Short Poetry Collection 178
This is a collection of 44 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2018
15 - The Mutability of Literature
Read by Grant Hurlock
Washington Irving
In The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book fa…
EDGAR ALLAN POE
Read by Victoria Scrimer
D. H. Lawrence
In Studies in Classic American Literature
The staid academic title belies the freewheeling prose of D.H. Lawrence's essays, which are as contrarian, penetrating, and sometimes unpala…
Essay on Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Read by Bruce Pirie
Charles Dudley Warner
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
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…
An Elegy
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One
Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is…
12 - THE LOVE-PHILTRE OF IKEY SCHOENSTEIN
Read by rdmagpie
O. Henry
In The Four Million (Version 2)
The man with the surprise endings: that was O. Henry's trademark. This is the second published collection of short stories by O. Henry origi…
Roy Butler
Read by David Barnes
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
The Value of Reading, to the Public and to the Individual
Read by jenno
Henry Lyman Koopman
In The Booklover and His Books
This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930. Published…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
To Pfrimmer
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 Watcher
Read by Campbell Schelp
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 4
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. …