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Railhead
In Two Supernatural Stories
Perceval Landon was a journalist and short story author, and in these two tales he explored the supernatural. In ‘Railhead’, a man receives …
The Power of Words
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L.
The Elk
In Beasts and Super-Beasts
Beasts and Super-Beasts is a collection of short stories by Saki, a master of wit and irony. Set against the backdrop of Edwardian England, …
In the North Woods of Maine
Two fifteen-year-old boys---the younger of whom may have been fourteen---decide to hunt and trap away from home in the north woods of Maine.…
The County Regiment
The County Regiment offers a detailed account of the Second Regiment of Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery, tracing its origins as the Ni…
The Crucifixion of Gavins - Marcus Tullius Cicero
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 3
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
Sap’s A-bilin’
In Muse and Mint
Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…
In Memoriam: Francis Archibald Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
The Female Convict by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 1)
The third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection includes a range of famous poe…
The Aurora of Guido
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…
Vaunting Oak
In Chills and Fever
This is the second poetry collection of the poet-critic John Crowe Ransom, who was a member of the Fugitives and the Agrarians.
"Rogers of Eaglehawk"
In Not Understood and Other Poems
A posthumous collection of the more famous poems by the author of the New Zealand National Anthem. - Summary by Beeswaxcandle
James Polk, December 7, 1847, part 3
In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1845 - 1848)
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
Hélas
In The Book of Jade
The Book of Jade is a collection of poems published anonymously in 1901 and dedicated "To the Memory of Charles Baudelaire". Its a…
The Monterey Cypress
In By Scarlet Torch and Blade
Anthony Euwer, often appearing in anthologies of American poetry is also author of "Christopher Cricket on Cats" and "The Lim…
Wilderness - read by AT
In Wilderness
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Wilderness by Carl Sandburg.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 11, 2021. ----…
XII. My Rococo Watch
In Silver Pitchers: and Independence, A Centennial Love Story
Here are 9 engaging short stories from Louisa May Alcott (of Little Women fame), all period pieces, some of them somewhat autobiographical, …
THE GUARDIAN OF THE ACCOLADE
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
Cicero Viewed as a Collector
In Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
This is the second volume of the collected Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli. As in volume one, D'Isreali again takes us on a tou…
White Feather and the Six Giants
In LibriVox 6th Anniversary Collection
What do you do for a sixth anniversary? We challenged our readers to find any short works which had 'six' in the title - in any language. Th…