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The Wise Spendthrift
Read by tovarisch
John Kendrick Bangs
In The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - September
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was pub…
From the Bazaars
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Mary Hastings Bradley
In The Fortieth Door
A young American archeologist, a masked ball in Cairo, an illusive young woman and the unexplained disappearance of a Frenchman fifteen year…
Here's Luck!
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Henry Lawson
In Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2)
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It features some of the poet's earli…
High Finance
Read by Kirsten Wever
A. A. Milne
In If I May (Version 2)
A. A. Milne, best known as the creator of Winnie the Pooh, was a prolific author of books, plays, essays and articles. He also spent a numbe…
The Watch-Tower
Read by Sandra Cullum
Lord Dunsany
In Tales of Wonder
The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fanta…
The stock-broker's clerk
Read by Kristine Bekere
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devise…
"Showin' Off"
Read by Lisa Reichert
Stephen Crane
In Whilomville Stories
This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his …
Dawn by Richard Watson Gilder
Read by Leanne Yau
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 1)
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, inclu…
Lord Hatfield Refuses a Fortune
Read by Mary Herndon Bell
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In Phantom Fortune, A Novel
Lady Maulevrier was once a beautiful socialite, beloved and welcomed in London high society. But her life took a turn for the worse when her…
Fortune-Telling
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
In Bracebridge Hall
Famed American humorist and essayist Washington Irving published a series of short pieces entitled "The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon,…
Pansy's Fortune
Read by Alicia S.
Rosamund Edith Nesbit Bland
In Moo Cow Tales (Version 2)
Four short children's stories regarding a family's barnyard cows and their comical adventures. - Summary by Alicia S
The Wings of Fortune
Read by Nemo
Olive Custance
In The Inn of Dreams
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle
Read by Evangeline Wells
Beatrix Potter
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 051
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 051: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
On a Picture of Leander
Read by Bruce Kachuk
John Keats
In The Sonnets of John Keats
The superb poetic skill and exquisite sensitivity of John Keats is brilliantly illustrated in this collection of meticulously selected sonne…
Homesick
Read by Rohan31
Lyn Venable and Lynn Venable
In Short Science Fiction Collection 079
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 compass of Fortune, by Eugene Shade Bisbee
Read by NarratorJ
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 07 April 1896
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
The Fortune Teller
Read by Leni
Machado de Assis / Isaac Goldberg and Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
In Brazilian Tales
"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literatu…
Fortune and Wisdom
Read by Kerry Adams
Friedrich Schiller
In Poems of Schiller - 1st Period
Poems by the German Classical poet Friedrich von Schiller from his first period (until 1785) in English translations by Edgar A. Bowring et …
The Lottery Ticket
Read by Phil Griffiths
O. Henry and Anton Chekhov
In Short Story Collection Vol. 041
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 041: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Pt. III Ch. VI Soames Breaks The News
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
John Galsworthy
In The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…