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Chapter 12

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

Read by Justine Young


C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi


The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

Chapter 03

In Candide

Read by Justine Young


Voltaire


Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never ope…

The Precipitate Cock and the Unappreciated Pearl

In Fables for the Frivolous

Read by Justine Young


Guy Wetmore Carryl


One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

Sonnet 73 - read by JY

In Sonnet 073

Read by Justine Young


William Shakespeare


To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project…

Yellow Wallpaper, The

In Short Story Collection Vol. 004

Read by Justine Young


Charlotte Perkins Gilman


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

The Squire's Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

Read by Joshua Young


Geoffrey Chaucer


The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Deacon Taylor

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by Joshua Young


Edgar Lee Masters


This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

In the Cellars of the Opera

In The Phantom of the Opera

Read by Justine Young


Gaston Leroux


An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doe…

A Siege in the Earliest Times

In The Book of Famous Sieges

Read by Liam Young


Tudor Jenks


History is dominated by war, battles, and sieges. Our history books are full of these. But history books usually don't explain sieges in suc…

The People in the Lord's Land

In Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old

Read by Cy Young


Jesse Lyman Hurlbut


Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old is a detailed, chronological presentation of the life of Christ, relying heavily on quoted portio…

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