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The Lord of Falconbridge Part 3
In The Last Galley, Impressions and Tales
From the Preface:I HAVE written "Impressions and Tales" upon the title-page of this volume, because I have included within the sam…
By the North Sea
In Songs of the Road
Although best known for the creation of the detective Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle did not only write works of mystery and of adventu…
The Rivers and The Sea
In Aesop's Fables, Volume 09 (Fables 201-225)
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…
The Bridge Over The Stream; In The Convent Chapel
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…
St. Nicholas
In Grand'ther Baldwin's Thanksgiving, with Other Ballads and Poems
Horatio Alger, better known for his juvenile fiction, also penned some great poetry. His Ballads, including the 8 war poems and his odes, ar…
Sir Nicholas at Marston Moor (1644), by Winthrop Mackworth Praed
In The World’s Story Volume X: England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales
This is the tenth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Ta…
The River
In By Scarlet Torch and Blade
Anthony Euwer, often appearing in anthologies of American poetry is also author of "Christopher Cricket on Cats" and "The Lim…
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
In Short Story Collection Vol. 004
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.
The Eastern window
In The Stoneground Ghost Tales, Version 2
A collection of gentle ghost stories set around a church by the fens in East Anglia. The author was an associate of Montague Rhodes James, …
Underwater House, by Frank Bailey Millard
In The Black Cat Vol. 04 No. 06 March 1899
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Water of Life, The
In Grimms' Fairy Tales
A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…
The Rivermen
In The Calendar and Other Verses
Written by poet Irving Sydney Dix in 1913 for "evidence of my love for and interest in the greatest of all the arts," this little …
Drowne's Wooden Image
In Mosses From An Old Manse
"Mosses from an Old Manse" is a short story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne, first published in 1846. The collection includes se…
Of Water and the Spirit
In Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
Atlantic Narratives is a rich anthology of 23 modern short stories, curated by editor Charles Swain Thomas and published in 1918 by the Atla…
4 - Beside Still Waters
In Watchbird
3 Robert Sheckley short stories that demonstrate the breadth of his fantastic imagination. In Watchbird, the question "can machines so…
Red River Valley
In Folk Ballad Collection 001
Discover the rich tapestry of cultural storytelling in the Folk Ballad Collection, a curated anthology featuring both sung and spoken folk b…
Under the Waterfall
In Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
A Question of Time
In Short Story Collection Vol. 024
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 024: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
In Short Story Collection Vol. 102
Here we present the 102nd Short Story Collection, comprised of stories selected by Librivox readers. Algernon Blackwood, Saki and Anton Chek…
Sir Philip Sidney and the glass of water (1586), by John Lothrop Motley
In The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …