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05 - Confessions of a Humorist
Read by Leslie Walden
O. Henry
In Waifs and Strays
These 12 O. Henry stories all deal with waifs and strays in one way or another; people who have somehow become adrift in the current of life…
Thoreau’s Walden
Read by czandra
Winthrop Packard
In Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist
Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…
Section 1
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Ambrose Bierce
In Write it Right
Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…
Stanzas Written at Walden
Read by Larry Wilson
Henry David Thoreau
In Poems of Nature
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…
Excerpt from Spring in Walden
Read by 4Laurie4
Henry David Thoreau
In Coffee Break Collection 031 - Springtime
This is the 31st Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read 20 stories or poems of their choice, fiction or non-fict…
1-5 Our Advertisement Brings a Visitor
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In A Study in Scarlet
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book…
Benediction, part 2
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
F. Scott Fitzgerald
In Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the cha…
Walden
Read by Gord Mackenzie
Henry David Thoreau
Walden by Henry David Thoreau is one of the best-known non-fiction books written by an American. Published in 1854, it details Thoreau’s lif…
Chapter V
Read by Leslie Howard
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
In The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
2-07 Volume 2, Chapter 7
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Jane Austen
In Emma (version 4)
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the c…
Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised
Read by Annie Coleman Rothenberg
L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery
In Anne of Green Gables
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can…
Chapter V. Mrs. Peabody Writes
Read by Marie Christian
Alice B. Emerson
In Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm
Betty Gordon found herself an orphan at age twelve. She became the ward of her uncle, Richard Gordon. She immediately came to love her uncle…
Excerpt from Walden
Read by TriciaG
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) and Henry David Thoreau
In Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals
This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in len…
American accent, South Carolina
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
read by LAW and Aesop
In Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1 (The North Wind and the Sun)
A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the LibriVox community!The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevan…
Chapter LXI: Defoe - The First Newspaers
Read by Traceyann
Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
In English Literature for Boys and Girls
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …
Speech: February 1842, Boston
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Charles Dickens
In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…
Tom Thumb
Read by Amber Hamilton
L. Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) and L. Leslie Brooke
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 012
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 012: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Walden, Version 2
Read by Nick Bulka
Henry David Thoreau
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a refl…
Beauty and the Beast
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
Unknown
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 001
Librivox’s Children's Short Works Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Monica
Read by Dawn Sutton
Evelyn Everett-Green
In Monica - Complete
Monica was happy at Trevlyn, with her father and step-brother. But what would happen to them when the estate passed to a distant cousin, ent…