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Beside Still Waters
In Short Science Fiction Collection 062
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
A Visit from St. Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1)
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Where the Tides Ebb and Flow
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 026
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …
The Pool
In The Outspan: Tales of South Africa
Six poignant short stories reminiscent of life as a transport rider in the Transvaal veld in the days of the gold rush in South Africa at th…
Fetching Water from the Well by Anonymous
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 2)
The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, inc…
A Toast to our Native Land by Robert Bridges
In Poems of American Patriotism
This book is a collection of patriotic poems by many authors. - Summary by Hannah Shaver
In The Abyss
In The Plattner Story and Others
A collection of short science fiction stories, written by H.G. Wells. - Summary by Krista Zaleski
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
In Short Mystery Story Collection 001
Delve into the intriguing world of mystery with this collection of ten short stories, expertly curated to showcase the art of suspense and d…
The Reading Man
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
The Readers Corner part 2
In Astounding Stories 19, July 1931
THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 JACK WILLIAMSON A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an…
The Mutability of Literature
In Washington Irving's Visit to England
Famed American humorist Washington Irving published a series of short stories telling of his adventures traveling from America to England. T…
An eighteenth-century voyage down the Hudson river, by James K. Paulding
In The World’s Story Volume XII: The United States
This is the twelfth 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 …
The Readers Corner
In Astounding Stories 12, December 1930
This issue includes "Slaves of the Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, &qu…
The Brook and the Ocean
In Poems
George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montr…
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
In Short Story Collection Vol. 023
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 023: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Spring Pools
In West-Running Brook
A collection of 38 of Robert Frost's early poems apparently compiled in 1923 but not published until 1928. This was not Frost's most popular…
Annan Water
In A Collection of Ballads
This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic…
The Black Water: Chapter VI
In The Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories
An eclectic collection of 8 stories by one of the early masters of the weird tale, Robert W. Chambers. The stories include a range of topics…
11 - Young Waters
In A Book of Old English Ballads
A Book of Old English Ballads offers a curated selection of traditional English ballads that capture the essence of the people’s voice throu…
Bridge-Guard in the Karroo
In The Five Nations Vol II
Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His childre…