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06 - Chapter VI
Read by James K. White
William Wells Brown
In My Southern Home or, The South and Its People
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never ack…
The White Ship
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…
Near White
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
The White Evening
Read by Foon
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sectio…
A Night In Whitechapel
Read by James K. White
Guy de Maupassant
In The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3: The Viaticum and Other Stories
This is volume is a collection of 50 of de Maupassant's short stories. Summary by James K. White.
Letters
Read by James K. White
Ivor Gurney
In Severn and Somme
The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…
Introduction & Forward
Read by James K. White
William Pickens
In The Vengence of the Gods: And Three Other Stories of Real American Color Line L…
Although slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, its cancerous tendrils …
Postscript
Read by JoeD
William James
In Varieties of Religious Experience
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comp…
22 - The Low-Down White
Read by Becky Cook
Robert W. Service
In The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …
The Lady In White
Read by Scotty Smith
G. T. Fleming-Roberts
In The Whispering Eye, A Black Hood Novel
Hunted by the police ... framed for robbery and murder by the Eye, master fiend and vicious ruler of the underworld ... loathed by Barbara S…
Section 2
Read by Sam Stinson
King James Version
In Bible (KJV) 00: Preface
The preface to the KJV Bible is fitting to read, as it reminds contemporary readers of the transitory nature of all Bible translations. The …
Chapters 1-2
Read by Susan Denney
King James Version
In Bible (KJV) NT 03: Luke
The Gospel of Luke is the most literary of the four gospels which recount the life and work of Jesus Christ. Although anonymous, the book is…
The White Cat
Read by Scott Mather
Andrew Lang
In The Blue Fairy Book
Andrew Lang's Blue Fairy Book (1889) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was f…
King Kazimir Jagiello
Read by James K. White
Eric Philbrook Kelly
In The Trumpeter of Krakow
The Trumpeter of Krakow, set in 1461, chronicles a noble Polish family's wanderings after their home was burned down by Peter of the Button-…
Pt. I Ch. VI James At Large
Read by Justin Brett
John Galsworthy
In The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1)
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Pro…
The Inevitable White Man
Read by Warren Kati
Jack London
In South Sea Tales
The eight short stories that comprise South Sea Tales are powerful tales that vividly evoke the early 1900’s colonial South Pacific islands.…
The Low-Down White
Read by Gerald Moe
Robert W. Service
In The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (Version 2)
This collection deals with wanderlust in general but the bulk of the poems are based on Service’s time in the Yukon. He captures the excitem…
2 - Chapters 4-6
Read by Michael Packard
King James Version
In Bible (KJV) 16: Nehemiah
The Book of Nehemiah is a book of the Hebrew Bible. Told largely in the form of a first-person memoir, it concerns the rebuilding of the wal…
18 – The World Turns White
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
In The Tale Of Tommy Fox
Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: "Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insec…
Near White
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Short Poetry Collection 212
This is a collection of 56 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2021.