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Alexander's Bridge (version 2)
Read by E. Tavano
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a m…
Captain Ted
Read by Maria Therese
Mary T. Waggaman
When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to…
A Tale of a Tub
Read by Edmund Bloxam
Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. I…
Flood Tide
Read by Roger Melin
Sara Ware Bassett
Willie Spence may have been a bit eccentric by most standards, but he had a knack for creating gadgets in his small workshop at his home on …
Tom Swift and His War Tank
Read by Mark F. Smith
Victor Appleton
Tom Swift, that prolific youthful inventor, is engaged in trying to help the Allies win WWI. After reading newspaper accounts of the British…
Sir Dominick Ferrand
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of…
Books Fatal to Their Authors
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Peter Hempson Ditchfield
This is a collection of stories of authors who have lost their fortunes and sometimes their lives after writing a book. The liberty of a per…
Selected Public Domain Poems
Read by Liam Neely
John Masefield
Maritime and metaphysical verse by John Masefield, English poet and author, Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death. (…
Books and Reading
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Noah Porter
[The author] hopes that the effect of these discussions may lead to more comprehensive and elevated estimates of authors and of literature o…
Harrigan
Read by Sissyneck
Max Brand
A gripping nautical tale set in Hawaii and upon the open sea. What starts out as a chance meeting between two men turns into a heated race f…
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
A collection of Twain short stories including:The Loves Of Alonzo FitzClarence And Rosannah EtheltonOn The Decay Of The Art Of LyingAbout Ma…
The Devil's Bridge
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Summary…
Nicholas Nickelby Band 4
Read by josvanaken
Charles Dickens
Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefä…
Petticoat Government, Volume 3
Read by Mark Leder
Frances Milton Trollope
The adventures--in society, in love--of Judith Maitland conclude.
The Mirror of the Sea (Version 2)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
"Here speaks the man of masts and sails, to whom the sea is not a navigable element, but an intimate companion. The length of passages,…
Orientations
Read by OCTL7
W. Somerset Maugham
This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…
Groote Verwachtingen
Read by Marcel Coenders
Charles Dickens
De arme wees Pip komt in goede doen, wordt een vreselijke snob, maar na financiële tegenslagen komt hij toch weer op het rechte pad. Sa…
Longshanks
Read by Warren Bergmann
Stephen W. Meader
In 1828, young Tad Hopkins takes an adventure-filled trip down the Mississippi River to meet his father in New Orleans. Along the way he bef…
Nicholas Nickelby Band 1
Read by josvanaken
Charles Dickens
Der junge Nikolas Nickleby muss sich Anfang des 19. Jahrhundert in England durch den Verlust seines Vaters plötzlich in einer gefä…
Consequences
Read by Caroline Driggs
E. M. Delafield
Set in late Victorian England, “Consequences” follows the life of Alexandra Clare, a girl born into an upper class Catholic London family. R…