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Two Poe Tales

Read by Catharine Eastman


Edgar Allan Poe


Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a B…

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Read by Catharine Eastman


Lewis Carroll


Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvi…

The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2)

Read by Catharine Eastman


H. G. Wells


Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow! As their experiment…

Brain Twister

Read by Catharine Eastman


Laurence M. Janifer


"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle …

The Shadows

Read by Catharine Eastman


George MacDonald


"Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen…

Dirge for Two Veterans read by Catharine Eastman

In Dirge for Two Veterans

Read by Catharine Eastman


Walt Whitman


In celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of Dirge for Two Vetera…

Dream Days

Read by Catharine Eastman


Kenneth Grahame


Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 colle…

Struwwelpeter

Read by Catharine Eastman


Heinrich Hoffmann


Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishment…

Chapter 26

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by Catharine Eastman


Written by Catharine Eastman, recorded by Catharine Eastman and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

Bk 2, Purgatory: Canto I - Canto V

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Catharine Eastman


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

CAPTIVITY: THE FIRST DAY

In The Three Musketeers

Read by Catharine Eastman


Alexandre Dumas


The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

Version 6

In Art and Heart

Read by Catharine Eastman


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 3…

Chapter 33

In Jane Eyre

Read by Catharine Eastman


Charlotte Brontë


Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished wit…

Version 2

In Song (Donne version)

Read by Catharine Eastman


John Donne


LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of the short poem Song by John Donne, a weekly poetry project. Song is a bitter littl…

The Children of the Zodiac

In Short Story Collection Vol. 001

Read by Catharine Eastman


Rudyard Kipling


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Version 05

In The Owl and the Pussycat

Read by Catharine Eastman


Edward Lear


LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first…

I.IV The Bishop's Chaplain

In Barchester Towers

Read by Catharine Eastman


Anthony Trollope


This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels. The later novels in the series move away from Barchester itself but 'Barche…

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

In Wedding Poems

Read by Catharine Eastman


Christopher Marlowe


In honor of Kristin and Corey’s wedding (April 2006) we’ve recorded a selection of wedding-themed poems. Congratulations, you two!

Book Four, Part 1

In Paradise Lost

Read by Catharine Eastman


John Milton


Paradise Lost is the first epic of English literature written in the classical style. John Milton saw himself as the intellectual heir of Ho…