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Millie
Read by Kathleen Moore
Katherine Mansfield
In Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
Arnold Winklereid
Read by Laura Caldwell
James Baldwin
In Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an e…
Kate Atkinson Little Lives
SANWAL
A funny and moving monologue, written by the Whitbread Prize-winning novelist Kate Atkinson, in which Alannah McKay from Edinburgh is retiri…
Dotage
Read by Suzanne Carol
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
Chapter 01
Read by iremonger
Katherine Mansfield
In Prelude
One of the first books to be published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, Prelude is among Katherine Mansfield's most accompli…
0 - Preface
Read by Laura Atkinson
Emily Dickinson
In Poems: Series Two
"The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern arti…
24 - Chapter 24
Read by Laura Victoria
Edward S. Ellis
In The Life of Kit Carson
Christopher Carson, or as he was familiarly called, Kit Carson, was a man whose real worth was understood only by those with whom he was ass…
Laura's Lesson
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Amanda Minnie Douglas
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 052
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 052: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Millie Markham
Read by czandra
Various
In Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interview…
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project A…
Aunt Eliza
Read by Adrian Stephens
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
Chapter 19 - Isadore Hamel is asked to lunch
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 …
The Two Questions
Read by Sonia
Alice Meynell
In A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Old Abe
Read by KevinS
Various
In Birds, Vol. II, No 1, July 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
Honesty
Read by Sonia
Katherine Mansfield
In The Doves' Nest and Other Stories
The Doves' Nest and Other Stories is a collection of complete stories and fragments by the writer Katherine Mansfield. The book was publishe…
CHAPTER 13. MRS. WALKER'S VISIT
Read by Courtney Miller
Fergus Hume
In The Amethyst Cross
Things look bleak for Lesbia Hales. Her father does not let her marry the man she loves. Her mother is dead. She has to keep secrets in orde…
Pictures
Read by Stephanie Kydd
Katherine Mansfield
In Movies and Hollywood Short Story Collection, Volume 1
Fiction about (or involving) motion pictures started appearing in the late nineteenth-century, when writers first became aware of early kine…
Do It Now
Read by hassanSunni
William Walker Atkinson
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 107
"Editors of some of the most sensational newspapers say they make a newspaper to suit the public... it must startle with incident and s…
Laura
Read by Tim Casey
Saki
In Short Humor Collection 001
This is a collection of short humorous works first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Elaine Finds More than she Expected
Read by KHand
Emily Sarah Holt
In Lady Sybil's Choice
This historical novel is set in the 1100s in France and Jerusalem, following the First Crusade. Part of the story of Guy of Lusignan (a real…
Book 2, Chapter 4, Part 1
Read by Kathleen Moore
Catherine Carswell
In Open The Door
This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her…