Search Results
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Episode of Nisus and Euryalus
Read by Inkell
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Favourite Chapters Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderf…
Dr. Siegfried Iseman
Read by Matthew Walton
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…
Nero
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Clark Ashton Smith
In The Star-Treader and Other Poems
The Star-Treader and Other Poems marks the debut collection of Clark Ashton Smith, a pivotal figure in the realm of weird fiction and poetry…
Message
Read by Deandra
Victor Daley
In Wine and Roses
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his…
A Chautauqua Idyl
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
The trees, flowers, and animals of a peaceful pasture meet together to discuss and learn of theology. Summary by Scarlett Martin.
Vanitie
Read by KevinS
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
09 Chapter 7 Where It Was Part 1
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
In Members of the Family
Members of the Family invites listeners into the rugged landscapes of the Wyoming Territory during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. T…
The Alarm
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
In Wessex Poems
Wessex Poems is a rich collection of poetry by renowned author Thomas Hardy, reflecting his deep connection to the English countryside and t…
00 To My Readers
Read by Phil Chenevert
George W. Bateman
In Zanzibar Tales
If you have read any accounts of adventure in Africa, you will know that travelers never mention animals of any kind that are gifted with th…
The Favourite Plot
Read by SK
Leonard Merrick
In The Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories
This is a collection of 20 short stories by English novelist and playwright Leonard Merrick. The stories concern varied topics, and succeed …
The Green Robe; The Watcher
Read by David Wales
Robert Hugh Benson
In The Light Invisible
Fifteen short ghost stories by the Anglican then Roman Catholic priest, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914). The form of the book is of an old En…
The Blood Of The Dragon
Read by David Wales
Thomas Grant Springer
In O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919
Fifteen short stories of 1919, winners of a rigorous competition. The extensive Introduction is omitted from this recording. ( david wales)
Idyll
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Siegfried Sassoon
In Selected Poems
Siegfried Sassoon, best known for his outspoken opinions on the futility of war, is portrayed in these poems as an observer, an observer of …
Perkin Warbeck
Read by Connie Bettison
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
To You Who Read My Book
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Picture-Show
Read by KevinS
Siegfried Sassoon
In Picture-Show
One of Sassoon's earlier collections of poems. This book is particularly interesting as Sassoon begins a transition toward poetry unrelated …
The Pirate Frog and Other Tales
Read by Lee Smalley
William Albert Frisbie
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 043
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 043: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
07 - VI. 'Enery
Read by Cynthia Moyer
Hugh Walpole
In The Golden Scarecrow
Toying with the distinctions between reader and narrator, author and character, imagination and perception, Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole's The G…