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X. Mrs. Windemere
Read by Christine Rottger
Elizabeth Bowen
In Encounters: Stories
Included in this first collection of stories by noted Irish-British author Elizabeth Bowen are tales of psychological unease, of pent-up emo…
Chapter 28
Read by Christine Rottger
George Sand
In Mauprat
Bernard Mauprat was raised by lawless brigands and knows no other way of life until age 17. Then everything changes for him when his cousin …
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 One
Read by Tony Addison
Henry James
In The Way It Came
Best known under the title "The Friends Of The Friends" and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology "Black …
Letter XXIII
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Richardson
In Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 5
Volume 5 continues the story in epistolary form of the despoliation of Clarissa, as all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness…
Miss Morganhurst
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
In The Thirteen Travelers
The year is 1919 and peace has sprung upon the world after the unspeakable carnage of World War I. The place is Hortons, a building of expen…
Chapter VI. Continuation of the portrait
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Katharine Carl
In With the Empress Dowager of China
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
Rheims
Read by Bruce Kachuk
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
Introduction
Read by Christine Rottger
Maria Edgeworth
In Murad the Unlucky and Other Tales
A collection of short stories by this famous Irish author who spent her life writing for the advancement of humanity and to alleviate the …
Six lectures on literature
Read by Phil Benson
Charles Harold Herford
C. H. Herford was Professor of English Literature at the Victoria University of Manchester in era when public lectures were published in pam…
Chapter 9. KNOWLEDGE
Read by Christine Rottger
Arthur Christopher Benson
In Joyous Gard
Joyous Gard was the castle of Sir Lancelot in the Morte D'Arthur, into which he retired, in the intervals of war and business, for rest and …
Pepsin
Read by Christine Rottger
Various
In Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22, 1888
The Scientific American may be the oldest continuously published periodical in the United States, having launched its first publication in 1…
To Stella the Transcriber
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume Two
He lived simply, loved his walks and craved the company of fellow poetical wits as they craved his company in return. With his pal Dr. Sheri…
Her Choice
Read by Thomhand
O. Henry
In O. Henry Encore
These 45 early stories, sketches and poems by the famed O. Henry, nearly all published under the pseudonym of the "Post Man", were…
Chapter 18
Read by Christine Rottger
Elizabeth Von Arnim
In The Caravaners
From the excellent and creative mind of Elizabeth von Arnim comes this humorous travelogue of parts of Great Britain and, if that were not e…
Scintilla
Read by Victoria Grace
William Stanley Braithwaite (1878-1962) and William Stanley Braithwaite
In Short Poetry Collection 099
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2011.
Book 2, Chapter 6, George Eliot's Gwendolen Harleth and Jane Dempster
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Australiad
Read by DanielT59
Mary Hannay Foott
In Morna Lee, and Other Poems
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, &…
Recollections of my Childhood
Read by Christine Rottger
Louisa May Alcott
In Lulu's Library, Volume 3
No handy foreword from Louisa this time! This is the third volume of short stories by Louisa May Alcott for children. This collection incl…
Uneasy Reflections
Read by Sarah Brown
Maxwell Bodenheim
In Introducing Irony (Version 2)
Maxwell Bodenheim was once known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians after moving to New York after being one of the founders of the …