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William's Burglar
Read by Tim Bulkeley (1948-2019)
Richmal Crompton
In More William (version 2)
More William is the second William collection in the much acclaimed Just William series by Richmal Crompton. It is a sequel to the book Just…
A Deed of Mercy
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
Lord Dunsany
In Short Story Collection Vol. 063
This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Authors include Saki, Lord Dunsany, Rudyard Kipling, Re…
Alexander and Bucephalus
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…
Denny, by Landis Mills
Read by Julie Burks
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 04 January 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
The Letter
Read by LikeManyWaters
Grace Livingston Hill
In The Man of the Desert
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …
John Buchan - Mr Standfast
SW
Mr. Standfast John Buchan's First World War thriller, dramatised by Bert Coules. 1/2. Richard Hannay is ordered to pose as a pacifist and se…
Canto 3
Read by czandra
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In The Prophecy of Dante
Byron wrote this tribute to the great 14th-century Italian poet Dante Alighieri after visiting his tomb in Ravenna in 1819. It envisages Dan…
Greville Fane
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
Henry James
In Short Story Collection Vol. 062
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, includi…
John Dryden by Thomas R. Lounsbury
Read by Chris Pyle
Various
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 12
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
To John Keats, Poet. At Springtime
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…
Canto VI
Read by Peter Tucker
Sir Walter Scott
In The Lay of the Last Minstrel
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…
Christopherson
Read by Kirsten Wever
George Gissing
In The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced…
16 – Tommy Becomes Boastful
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…
The Medal
Read by Peter Tucker
John Dryden
In The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1
The first of two volumes of collected poetry by this revered and highly influential English restoration poet and playwright. The poems, many…
Book 1, Chapter 10, A Heroine of Bulwer's
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…
Stanzas To Rhubarb
Read by John Burlinson (1950-2024)
William James McGlothlin
In Short Poetry Collection 158
This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for July 2016.
Epistle to the Reader
Read by InTheDesert
John Flavel
In Preparations for Sufferings
That sufferings, both bodily and mental, are the lot of humanity, the testimony of scripture and reason abundantly confirm. But whatever may…
Section 2
Read by Russ Hobbs
John Henry Newman
In The Dream of Gerontius
As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kind…
Blumen
Read by Caroline Sophie
Arthur Schnitzler
In Sammlung kurzer deutscher Prosa 028
Diese Sammlung umfasst 15 deutschsprachige Prosa-Texte verschiedener Genres."Giftmischer" übersetzt von Margarete JacobiDie &…
Chapter 10. "But, after John, came Sergius, reaffirmed"
Read by Tony Oliva
Robert Browning
In The Ring and the Book
"Better translate--"A Roman murder-case:"Position of the entire criminal cause"Of Guido Franceschini, nobleman,"Wit…