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A Child’s Lifted Cross

In Muse and Mint

Read by Kaye Burke


Walter Seymour Percy


Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…

A Strange Tow

In The Outdoor Girls in Florida

Read by Kaye Burke


Laura Lee Hope


In "The Outdoor Girls in Florida, Or Wintering in the Sunny South", the parents of one of the girls have bought an orange grove in…

IV. My Experience with Reporters and Newspapers

In My Larger Education

Read by Kaye Burke


Booker T. Washington


This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contai…

Dining Under Difficulties

In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture

Read by Kaye Burke


Palmer Cox


Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…

A Trip to Plutopia

In Short Science Fiction Collection 063

Read by Jeff Burke


Emanuel Haldeman-Julius


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

Animal Life in the Sea

In The Book of the Ocean

Read by Jeff Burke


Ernest Ingersoll


The Book of the Ocean is precisely what its title promises. It contains a rather broad overview of all topics connected to the ocean, such a…

Pork

In Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery

Read by Linda Burke


Marion Harland


This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how …

010 - Part I, Book the First, Chapter VII - The North Point of Portland

In The Man Who Laughs

Read by Emily Burke


Victor Hugo


The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published unde…

Say "Hello" For Me

In Short Science Fiction Collection 043

Read by Emily Burke


Frank W Coggins and Frank W. Coggins


Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Past Days - Read by EB

In Past Days

Read by Emily Burke


Anne Brontë


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Past Days by Emily Brontë . This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 28th, 2010An…

33 - The Slaughter of the Niflungs

In Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson

Read by Jeff Burke


Sæmund Sigfusson and Snorri Sturleson


The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this …

12 - Part II, Homes in Iceland

In Viking Tales

Read by Chuck Burke


Jennie Hall


Viking tales are tales from Iceland, featuring the king Halfdan and his son Harald. (Summary by Nadine)

Social Condition - A - Al-Islam

In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10

Read by Jeff Burke


Anonymoustranslated Byrichard Francis Burton


This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…

Explanatory

In Nequa or The Problem of the Ages

Read by Jeff Burke


Jack Adams


Nequa or The Problem of the Ages is one of the first feminist science fiction books published in the United States. It was first serialized …

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