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The Science of Sociology (1882)

In The Forgotten Man and Other Essays

Read by Leslie Frank


William Graham Sumner


Sumner's popular essays were to give him a wider audience to distribute his anti-imperialism, his advocacy of free markets and the gold stan…

Dr. Koch on the Cholera

In Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884

Read by Leslie Frank


Various


The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…

The Gentle Grafter

Read by Leslie Walden


O. Henry


If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" i…

A Phantom Lover

Read by Anthony Leslie


Vernon Lee


A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, t…

On an Irish Jaunting-Car through Donegal and Connemara

Read by Frank Lennon


Samuel Gamble Bayne


This book gives a brief glimpse into the social history of Ireland in the early part of the 20th Century. During his 1902 tour through the n…

Griffin's Daughter

Read by Leslie Ann Moore


Leslie Ann Moore


The humans of Soldara generally view the elves of Alasiri through a prism of superstition and hate; nevertheless, in the borderlands, both r…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Read by L. Frank Baum


L. Frank Baum


The Wonderful Wizard of Oz has been called "the first true American fairy tale" and it richly deserves the title. The story of Do…

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Read by L. Frank Baum


L. Frank Baum


First issued in 1904, L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz is the story of the wonderful adventures of the young boy named Tip as he tra…

The Dragon of Wantley

Read by D. A. Frank


Owen Wister


The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, a…

Chapter 06

In Virginia's Adventure Club

Read by Leslie


Grace May North


Following the adventures of a girls school as they form their adventure club. - Summary by Michele Eaton

The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes

In The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Read by Frank


Beatrix Potter


Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

The Waiting Place

In The Country of the Pointed Firs

Read by Frank


Sarah Orne Jewett


The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) is considered Jewett’s finest work, described by Henry James as her “beautiful little quantum of achi…

Version 5

In I Do Not Love Thee

Read by Frank


norton_c and Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton


LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty different readings of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton’s I Do Not Love Thee, a weekly poetry project. (S…

Auf der Galerie

In Ein Landarzt. Kleine Erzählungen

Read by Frank


Franz Kafka


Die Erzählung Ein Landarzt von Franz Kafka entstand im Jahr 1917 und wurde 1918 veröffentlicht. Im Jahre 1919 erschien das Buch Ei…

Taming of the Shrew - Fie Fie Unknit that Threatening Unkind Brow (Act V, Scene

In Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 08

Read by Leslie Koons


William Shakespeare


LibriVox readers present the eighth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1…