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Chapter XVI. The Great Audience Hall
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Katharine Carl
In With the Empress Dowager of China
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
Chapter 1
Read by PhyllisV
Dexter C. Bloomer
In Life and Writings of Amelia Bloomer
As Mrs. Bloomer was one of the pioneers in what is sometimes called the “Woman’s Movement,” it seems right that a record of her work should …
On the Way to New Bedford
Read by Warren Kati
Horatio Alger, Jr.
In In Search of Treasure
Guy Fenwick is a bright boy of 16 who lives with his clergyman father near New Bedford, Massachusetts. Guy receives permission from his fath…
Chapter V: Salads and Sandwiches
Read by SamW
Arthur Gay Payne
In Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery
This is a little cookbook of vegetarian recipes, which were only slowly gaining popularity in England at the time of its publication in 1891…
Miser
Read by Laurie Banza
Harold Vinal
In White April
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
CHARACTERS CHAPTER V—THE PARLOUR ORATOR
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
In Sketches by Boz, version 2
A collection of early writings of Charles Dickens under his early pseudonym, "Boz." They first appeared in various publications f…
Johnnie Sayre
Read by Aaron Decker
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
The Slant Book
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Peter Newell
This recording of Peter Newell’s The Slant Book (1910) kicks off voiced renderings by LibriVox of public domain books in the International C…
Book 23, Chapters 66-83: Plums; peaches; mulberries; cherries; pine-nuts; almon…
Read by Kristine Bekere
Pliny the Elder
In The Natural History Volume 5
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the …
Listening
Read by CJ Plogue
Amy Lowell
In A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of…
CHAPTER I - IN A BACK ROOM
Read by Maggie Mizzi
Sarah Doudney and Sarah Doudney
In A Vanished Hand
Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It …
Troy
Read by Newgatenovelist
Susan Boogher
In Selected Poems
Susan M. Boogher was twentieth-century poet. These poems were published in Poetry, The Century, Harper's Magazine and The Midland from 1918 …
'Goe, Little Booke!'
Read by heeheekitty
James Russell Lowell
In Early Poems
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
Goin' Back
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
The Name
Read by Ken Masters
Julia Caroline Dorr
In Earlier Poems
This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin
Silas Jackson
Read by KirksVoice
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
A Dialogue
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
Caroline King Duer and Alice Duer Miller
In Poems
Alice Duer was a successful American author who wrote poetry, novels and screenplays and campaigned tirelessly for women's suffrage. Her si…
The Two Years
Read by MaryAnn
Myrtle Reed
In Threads of Grey and Gold
This is a collection of short stories and poems by Myrtle Reed. Many of the stories are short romances, and they share the unique, nostalgic…
Perkin Warbeck
Read by Connie Bettison
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …