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The Bark of Old Hungry-Wolf

In The Hollow Tree Snowed In Book

Read by Amelia Brennan


Albert Bigelow Paine


Once upon a time, in the Big Deep Woods, there was a big hollow tree with three hollow branches. The tree animals living in each of these …

THE PHILANTHROPIST'S CHRISTMAS

In The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (Version 2)

Read by Amelia Brennan


Asa Don Dickinson and Variousandasa Don Dickinson


This books is a select collection of Christmas Stories in one volume. It is just that and nothing more.Each of the stories has already won …

In Which Dan Meets the Pretty Lady with the Blue-Blue Eyes

In The Adventures of Diggeldy Dan

Read by Amelia Brennan


Edwin P. Norwood


Diggeldy Dan (rhymes with Wiggildy Wan) is a most ingenious fellow who lives in a circus called Spangleland. He looks like a clown because …

On the Sublime

Read by Amelia Chesley


Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell and Translated Byherbert Lord Havell


This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…

The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

Read by Amelia Chesley


Leonard Cox


This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of t…

The City of Din

Read by Amelia Chesley


Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie


A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

Read by Amelia Chesley


Angelina Emily Grimké


This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.

Little Miss Muffet

In Mother Goose in Prose

Read by Brennan Holtzclaw


L. Frank Baum


Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…

Dulce et Decorum est

In Short Poetry Collection 011

Read by Brennan Holtzclaw


Wilfred Owen


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 011: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Hunter and the Horseman

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284)

Read by Brennan Holtzclaw


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Blessings for Chanukah - Read by BKB

In Blessings for Chanukah

Read by Brennan K. Brown


Jessie E. Sampter


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Blessings for Chanukah by Jessie E. Sampter.This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9…

Ralph Brings His Father and Mother to Upmeads

In The Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

Read by Amelia Chesley


William Morris


In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) wit…

The First Part. Chapter III

In The Natural History of Chocolate

Read by Amelia Chesley


D. de Quelus, D. De Quelus and D. De Quelustranslated Byrichard Brookes


The Natural History of Chocolate being a Distinct and Particular Account of the Cocoa-tree, its Growth and Culture, and the Preparation, Exc…

Preface to the Second Edition and Introduction

In The Art of Bookbinding

Read by Amelia Chesley


Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf


This handbook explains the art of bookbinding and simultaneously reminds us what a complex technology is to make books! Zaehnsdorf, bookbind…