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Chapter 7, Part 2
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Joseph Hergesheimer
In Java Head
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was…
17 - Enver
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Henry Morgenthau
In Ambassador Morgenthau's Story
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important prima…
Chapter 2
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Thomas Mann
In Royal Highness
Royal Highness is the story of Prince Klaus Heinrich, a member of a struggling German duchy and an exotic American heiress who comes to live…
Section 8, Recollections of a Gifted Woman
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In Our Old Home
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a …
The Lady Cornelia, Part 1
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Walter K. Kelly, Translator) and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
In The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings …
Chapter XII. Return to the Summer Palace
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…
The Countess Of Escarbagnas
Read by Bellona Times
Moliere - Translation by Charles H Wall and Molière
In Short Story Collection Vol. 038
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 038: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Chapter 10 - Ayala and her Aunt Margaret
Read by tabithat
Anthony Trollope
In Ayala's Angel
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
Journals and Letters, Part 3
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Margaret Fuller
In Woman in the Nineteenth Century
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nin…
Two Letters
Read by czandra
Nina Rhoades
In The Little Girl Next Door
A delightful story of true and genuine friendship between an impulsive little girl in a fine New York home and a little blind girl in an apa…
Esoteria
Read by Newgatenovelist
Donald Jeffery Hayes
In Selected Poems (Hayes)
Donald Jeffery Hayes was a poet who was born in North Carolina. These poems were published between 1927 and 1929. - Summary by Newgatenoveli…
Chapter XIV
Read by Helen Taylor
E. M. Delafield
In Tension
When the role of ‘Lady Superintendent’ becomes available at the Commercial and Technical College for South West England, the calm and capabl…
Selected works
Read by Kalynda
Louisa May Alcott
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
25 - Character Building: Education and Character
Read by Ramon Escamilla
Ellen G. White
In Education
Ellen White said that one of the most delicate tasks in life was working with youthful minds. Teaching should be varied which can make it po…
The Rembrandt
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Edith Wharton
In Crucial Instances
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is w…
Forward
Read by mleigh
Margaret Widdemer
In A Tree with a Bird in it
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…
To Authors
Read by jenno
Mary Elizabeth Brown
In Dedications
Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following antholo…
Chapter 6: A Circulating Library
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Louisa May Alcott
In Under the Lilacs (version 3, dramatic reading)
When a raggedy boy from the circus limps into the lives of the Moss family, he is unlike any child they have ever met. With his devoted and …
Conclusion
Read by Mary Escano
Edith Lavell
In The Mystery of the Fires (version 2)
Mary Louise Gay decided to spend the summer holiday in her family's cottage at Shady Nook. But an unknown arsonist has been setting the cot…
The Third Reading
Read by Linda Johnson
Alphonse Daudet
In Monday Tales
This is a collection of short stories by Alphonse Daudet. The stories paint an incredibly vivid picture of life in continental Europe before…