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Edith Cavell

In A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines

Read by Tamara R. Schwartz


Clayton Edwards


It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested…

The Schoolmaster's Progress

In Short Story Collection Vol. 008

Read by Tamara R. Schwartz


Caroline M.S. Kirkland and Caroline Mathilda Stansbury Kirkland


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

How Siegfried Fared To His Men-At-Arms

In Nibelungenlied

Read by Tamara R. Schwartz


translated by Daniel B. Shumway


The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German. The story tells of dragon-slayer Siegfri…

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In The Three Musketeers

Read by Tamara R. Schwartz


Alexandre Dumas


The Three Musketeers (Les Trois Mousquetaires) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It recounts the adventures of a young man named d…

13 The Lover, The Girl and The Onlooker

In The Literary Sense

Read by Tamara R. Schwartz


E. Nesbit


A collection of short stories written by the author of other literary greats such as The Railway Children, Five Children and It and The Phoe…

11 - Of the Plots of Sir Mordred; and How Sir Lancelot Saved the Queen

In King Arthur's Knights: The Tales Retold for Boys & Girls

Read by Tamara R. Schwartz


Henry Gilbert


This book is an attempt to tell some of the stories of King Arthur and his Knights in a way which will be interesting to every boy and girl …

The U.P. Trail

Read by Bob R


Zane Grey


Grey's story of the struggles to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860's. Typical western characters, but placed in a factual se…

Whispering Smith

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


Whispering Smith, like most of Frank Spearman's western novels (and some non-fiction as well) are set in the world of railroads, in the late…

Demon Draw

Read by R. Moses


R. Moses


A city old in prestige and hate... A woman torn between duty and love... And a plague of demons with no end to the horror in sight... Valena…

The Crossing

Read by Bob R


Winston Churchill


This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the p…

Laramie Holds The Range

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


As with most of Frank Spearman's novels (and non-fiction), "Laramie Holds the Range" is set in the West during our early railroad …

The Country House

Read by Bob R


John Galsworthy


In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…

The Painted Veil

Read by Bob R


W. Somerset Maugham


This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epide…

The Winning of Barbara Worth

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


This is a fairly substantial western, written in 1911 by Harold Bell Wright, then a major bestselling author. (His best-known novel is “The …

The Conquest of Canaan

Read by Bob R


Booth Tarkington


Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law s…

Robert Kimberly

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …

The Daughter of a Magnate

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…

The Rising of the Tide

Read by Bob R


Ida M. Tarbell


The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…

Poor White: a Novel

Read by Bob R


Sherwood Anderson


This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…