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Hilda Lessways
Read by Simon Evers
Arnold Bennett
This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story …
Benighted
Read by Ben Tucker
John Boynton Priestley
Phillip and Margaret Waverton, along with a cheerful young acquaintance Roger Penderel, finds themselves driving through a terrible storm wi…
Literary Taste: How to Form It
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 descri…
Electricity
Read by Myke Bartlett
Myke Bartlett
1999 - Aston Somerfield, casual smoker and part-time alcoholic, has come to London to find himself. He knows who he's looking for, he's seen…
The Regent
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Arnold Bennett
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…
Intercast Season One
Read by Edward G. Talbot
Edward G. Talbot
In this collection of short stories, Edward G. Talbot provides thrills, chills, laughs, and drama in abbreviated form. If you like bite-siz…
Sense and Sensibility (version 4)
Read by Karen Savage
Jane Austen
When Mr Henry Dashwood dies, with his estate entailed to his son and grandson, his wife and three daughters are left in reduced circumstance…
Jimbo
Read by Adrian Praetzellis
Algernon Blackwood
Fantasy novel about the mystical adventures of a lonely English boy, Jimbo. It’s really quite beautiful and can be enjoyed by both older kid…
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow
Read by Dawn Larsen
Grace Isabel Colbron and Auguste Groner
The account of some adventures in the professional experience of a member of the Imperial Austrian Police. (from the text)
Rudder Grange
Read by Sibella Denton
Frank R. Stockton
This book presents a number of short, comedic sketches of a country life in middle America in the late 1800s. The hilarious twists and turns…
The Gamekeeper at Home
Read by Andy Minter (1934-2017)
Richard Jefferies
Richard Jefferies (1848 – 1887) was born and spent his childhood on a farm at Coate,Wiltshire. He joined the ‘Wiltshire and Gloucestershire …
Thirty Years a Detective: A Thorough and Comprehensive Exposé of Criminal Pract…
Read by Mark Harrington
Allan Pinkerton
Detective Allan Pinkerton, creator of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, shares in this book the methods that criminals use to exploit…
Story Hour Readers: Third Year
Read by Sibella Denton
Ida Coe and Ida Coeandalice Christie Dillon
Short and sweet stories for children from the 19th century. The stories were compiled by two New York City teachers and were thought appropr…
Sir Gibbie
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George MacDonald
These are the adventures of Sir Gibbie through the Scotland moors. Not being able to read or speak, Gibbie survives on the streets without a…
Modern Essays
Read by David Wales
Christopher Morley
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered d…
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)
Sense and Sensibility (version 3)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…
Selected Short Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ranging in tone from humor to sentimentality, these stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald are set against a backdrop of jazz, flappers, and the cha…
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…