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In 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…

A Predicament

In 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…

Bk 08 Ch 20 part 3

In Les Misérables, Volume 3

Read by Catharine Eastman


Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo


This is book 3 of 5.An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the wa…

Bk 03 Ch 08: The Unpleasantness of Receiving Into One's House....

In Les Misérables, Volume 2

Read by Catharine Eastman


Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo


This is book 2 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

The dismal Transmigration of Master Tommy Filch into the Body of a Wolf

In Vice in its Proper Shape

Read by Catharine Eastman


Anonymous


Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemb…

Chapter 33

In The Humbugs of the World

Read by Catharine Eastman


P. T. Barnum


P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

10 - Chapter 9 - They are Afraid of Udo

In Once on a Time

Read by Catharine Eastman


A. A. Milne


When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle …

Darwin on the Origin of Species - A Book Review from The Atlantic, July 1860

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012

Read by Catharine Eastman


Asa Grey and Asa Gray


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

Sawdust and Sin

In The Golden Age

Read by Catharine Eastman


Kenneth Grahame


The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in L…

04 - The Pie-shop in Bell Yard

In The String of Pearls

Read by Catharine Eastman


Author Unknown


The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 184…

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…

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 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…

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