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Tom's Success
Read by TriciaG
Louisa May Alcott
In An Old-Fashioned Girl (version 2)
Country-girl Polly Milton visits her fashionable cousins in the city, who make fun of her old-fashioned values. Will Polly adapt to city lif…
A Spelling Lesson
Read by Jacqueline Burrell Walton
Silas X. Floyd
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 045
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 045: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Tom as a patrician.
Read by Wiebke
Mark Twain
In The Prince and the Pauper (version 2)
One day a poor boy, Tom, gets a little too near the gates of the palace. and the guards start to beat him. However the prince himself interv…
Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
Read by Christopher Fried
John Crowe Ransom
In Chills and Fever
This is the second poetry collection of the poet-critic John Crowe Ransom, who was a member of the Fugitives and the Agrarians.
Author's note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Victory (Version 2)
After spending some years wandering about the East and engaging in various adventures, Axel Heyst, a man of independent means who feels litt…
Chapter 6, Tom Clark Dreams Again
Read by KirksVoice
P. B. Randolph
In Tom Clark and His Wife, the Rosicrucian's Story
One day, during the progress of a long and interesting conversation on the nature of that mysterious thing called the human soul, and in whi…
The Machine of Tomfoolery
Read by Larry Wilson
G. K. Chesterton
In G.K. Chesterton in Vanity Fair Magazine
A collection of 12 articles/essays that G.K. Chesterton wrote for Vanity Fair magazine in 1920-1921, under the general title “The Next/New R…
January 13, 1877 - Unsigned book review for Tom Sawyer
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
In Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part One (1867-1879)
This collection of articles by and about Mark Twain and his family was compiled by Barbara Schmidt, publisher of twainquotes.com. Included i…
Author’s note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In The Rescue
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan arc…
Author's Note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In An Outcast of the Islands (Version 2)
This, Conrad's second, novel serves as an illuminating prequel of his first, 'Almayer's Folly', teasing out the origins of the factional ten…
Author's Note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In A Set of Six
Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…
Chapter 13
Read by jenno
Julian Corbett
In For God And Gold
Sir Julian Stafford Corbett was a prominent navy historian and geologist. This semi-autobiographical novel tells about the start: the person…
Chapter 1: David Speaks
Read by TheaDoro
Bertha Thomas
In The House on the Scar
A superior Victorian Romance. Full from bow to stern with secret romance, jealousies and confrontations of culture and cultures. This autho…
Chapter VIII The Mind Reader Strikesr
Read by cyndajm
Harold L. Goodwin
In The Electronic Mind Reader: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Rick, Scotty and Barby concoct a plan to use hidden technology in a quiz show. In the background, the Coast Guard contacts Spindrift Scient…
The Value of Reading, to the Public and to the Individual
Read by jenno
Henry Lyman Koopman
In The Booklover and His Books
This book about books was written by Harry Lyman Koopman, who served as the head librarian for Brown University from 1893 to 1930. Published…
Chapter 4
Read by KirksVoice
Joseph Conrad
In Gaspar Ruiz
This story takes place during the wars of South American independence against Spanish rule. Gaspar Ruiz, a former Spanish soldier thrust int…
Author's Note
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In Typhoon and Other Stories
An impossibly imperturbable old sea captain, with two hundred Chinese labourers aboard his steamship, faces a terrifying typhoon for the fir…
Chapter 02 Mr Pastern's Letter
Read by Bethany Megill
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In Aurora Floyd Volume 2
Aurora Floyd is the spoiled, impetuous, but kind hearted daughter of Archibald Floyd, a wealthy banker and his wife, an actress who died sho…
As Tom was a-Walking
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Various
In Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern na…
Troy
Read by Alan Mapstone
Charles Williams
In Poems of Conformity
Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …