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True Stories from History and Biography
Read by Susan Morin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…
Pilgrims' Project
Read by Roger Melin
Robert F. Young
Robert F. Young works in a machine shop by day, and at night goes home and writes anti-machine stories! Pilgrims' Project is different: not …
Trolley Folly
Read by Tom Penn
Henry Wallace Phillips
This collection of eleven short stories is packed with Henry Wallace Phillips' offbeat humor. You will find a trolley car driver, bored with…
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
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Read by Nicholas Taylor
Nicholas Taylor
Join Bill Morison on his journey through corporate America, as he learns about auditing insurance and just how irritating people can be. Thi…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 048
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include philosophy and thought--Phtah-Hotep…
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…
Nonsense Novels
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Ten silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)
Tom and Some Other Girls: A Public School Story
Read by Judi Mason
Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Impetuous, self-centered Rhoda goes to boarding school and learns hard lessons. This is a story of recklessness and forgiveness. (Summary b…
Society as I Have Found It
Read by John Greenman
Ward Mcallister
Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…
Literary Lapses
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…
Books Fatal to Their Authors
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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…
Further Foolishness
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the writte…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046
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Various
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation…
Four Hundred Years of Freethought, Part 1
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Samuel Porter Putnam
This is Samuel Putnam's tour of European literature which began to appear once the globe was circumnavigated and the printing press made boo…
Letters to the Joneses
Read by Keith Salis
Josiah Gilbert Holland
We watch our news and live our lives and see many things wrong with society today. It is easy for us to claim that things were better in &qu…
Cato
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Joseph Addison
Joseph Addison is known mostly for his periodical, "The Spectator", written with his friend Richard Steele. But he found time to w…
Robert Browning (Version 2)
Read by Owlivia
G. K. Chesterton
This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…
The Nature of a Crime
Read by Mark Leder
Joseph Conrad
The first of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. On the verge of being found out in a matter of breach of fiduciary trust and fina…
Phineas Redux (Version 2)
Read by Deon Gines
Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn (hero from an earlier novel in this series) returns to London from Scotland and reenters the political scene. After some hurdl…