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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 083
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
“Oh, mother, I would like to know everything.” “You can never know everything, my child, but you can learn many things from books.” Accordin…
CHAPTER V: BILL JUSTIFIES HIS CREATION
Read by Mark Nelson
Clarence Edward Mulford
In The Orphan
Many men swore that The Orphan was bad, and many swore profanely and with wonderful command of epithets because he was bad, but for obvious …
David's Lament for Jonathan
Read by Jay Wright
Mary Hannay Foott
In Morna Lee, and Other Poems
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, &…
Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne
Read by Cliff Stone
H. G. Wells
In The First Men in the Moon (Version 2)
The novel tells the story of a journey to the Moon undertaken by the two protagonists: a businessman narrator, Mr. Bedford; and an eccentric…
For Joseph Conrad
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
David and the Phoenix
Read by Greg Weeks
Edward Ormondroyd
David knew that one should be prepared for anything when one climbs a mountain, but he never dreamed what he would find that June morning on…
The Love Story of David and Jonathan
Read by Kevin Waters
Louis Albert Banks
In David and His Friends: A Series of Revival Sermons
This is a collection of thirty-one revival sermons, all of which were preached in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, Ohio, dur…
St. David of Wales
Read by Kerry Adams
G. K. Chesterton
In The Queen of the Seven Swords
A collection of poems by G.K. Chesterton, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary. The title is in reference to the seven sorrows of Mary. “…
Bill, the Lizard
Read by Scotty Smith
Lewis Carroll
In The Nursery ''Alice''
A shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . . . adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". . …
From a Letter
Read by Jacquelyn Bengfort
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Acknowledgments
Read by David Lawrence
Various
In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
The Meeting of David and Jonathan
Read by MoonLylith
John Addington Symonds
In Short Poetry Collection 221
This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2021.
Joel 1-3
Read by Ron Altman
Douay-Rheims Version (DRV) and Douay-Rheims Version
In Bible (DRA), Complete 1899 American Edition
The Douay–Rheims Bible is a translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate into English made by members of the Catholic seminary English Co…
Notice
Read by Joel Kindrick
Thomas Jefferson
In Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I
This is the first volume of Thomas Jefferson's public and private writings edited and compiled by his oldest grandson Thomas Jefferson Rando…
A Stroll in Baldwin's Gardens
Read by Peter Yearsley
William James Mcglothlin and William James McGlothlin
In Wonderful London
"Wonderful London, its lights and shadows of humour and sadness". (That's the full title of the book.) A collection of short essay…
Part 24
Read by David Wales
Alexander K. Mcclure
In Lincoln's Yarns and Stories
“A Complete Collection of the Funny and Witty Anecdotes that made Abraham Lincoln Famous as America’s Greatest Story Teller With Introductio…
Doctor
Read by David Loving
Murray Leinster
In Short Science Fiction Collection 055
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…
To my readers in America
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In The Nigger of the "Narcissus" (Version 2)
Today, we're likely to react to the title of this novella, on whose 'sincerity of expression' Conrad was willing to stake his artisitic repu…
Peter Klaus the Goatherd
Read by Kalynda
James Baldwin
In Young Adults Short Works Collection Vol. 001
LibriVox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a grou…
Reading
Read by Paul Lawley-Jones
Walter Higgins
In Father Thames
Originally published in 1922, this work details the history and importance of one of Great Britain's grandest rivers, the River Thames. It i…