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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 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 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…
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, …
The Baron
In In a German Pension, Version 2
Katherine Mansfield was only 22 years old when these stories were first published in book form. Mansfield was later reluctant to see them re…
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…
Tubemonkey
In Short Science Fiction Collection 093
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…
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…
Mary Bridges
In True Stories of Girl Heroines
Twenty short stories retelling the heroic deeds of teenaged girls and young women from history. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
In Short Science Fiction Collection 084
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…
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…
A Glass of Beer
In Short Story Collection Vol. 096
We are back with the 96th LibriVox Short Story Collection. All stories were selected and read by LibriVox volunteers. One of Sir Arthur Cona…
A Memorable Swim
In Stories in Black and White
Stories in Black and White is a captivating anthology that brings together a diverse array of short mystery tales, each penned by a differen…
Afternoon Tea
In Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. Hi…
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…