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Chapter 23

In Highways in Hiding

Read by Jessica Martin


George O. Smith


Mechanical engineer Steve Cornell lives in a world where ESP and telepathy are normal, and a spreading plague called Mekstrom’s Disease turn…

34 - The Messengers

In The Islands of Magic

Read by Jessica Louise


Elsie Spicer Eells


LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beauti…

VII

In The Blood of the Vampire

Read by Jessica Burns


Florence Marryat


The Blood of the Vampire is a Gothic novel, often compared to Bram Stoker's Dracula and Le Fanu's Camilla. Harriet is a vampire who kills ac…

His Kindness to others

In The Children's Book of Birds

Read by Jessica Burns


Olive Thorne Miller


The Children's Book of Birds combines under a single cover the First and Second Books of Birds, originally published in 1899 and 1901 respec…

The Mysterious Misapprehension Concerning a Man in Our Town

In Mother Goose for Grownups

Read by Jessica Louise


Guy Wetmore Carryl


Mother Goose for Grownups is a delightfully silly collection of parodies on well-known Mother Goose tales by Guy Wetmore Carryl. (Summary by…

Change

In Short Poetry Collection 105

Read by Jessica Louise


Nora Mary French (1881-1907) and Nora May French


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2012.

A Sea Story - Read by BL

In A Sea Story

Read by Jessica Martin


Emily Henrietta Hickey


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Sea Story, by Emily Henrietta Hickey.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 27th,…

The Fox as Herdsman

In A Selection from the Norse Tales for the Use of Children

Read by Jessica Romero


Sir George Webbe Dasent


This is a collection of Norse folktales selected as being appropriate for children. They range from short pieces such as, "How One Wen…

The Fable of The Two Mandolin Players and The Willing Performer by George Ade

In International Short Stories Volume 1: American Stories

Read by Jessica Atha


George Ade


The first volume of a 3 volume anthology, this work focuses on American short stories and draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anna Katherine Gre…

XXXVI

In Say and Seal, Volume 2

Read by Jessica Hendra


Anna Bartlett Warner


The arrival of a new schoolteacher causes quite a stir in the small New England town of Pattaquasset, not the least of it in the house of Mr…

Chapter IX. The Pursuit

In The Apartment Next Door

Read by Jessica Zdanowicz


William Johnston


Jane Strong witnessed two men chasing each other in the middle of the night; then heard a gunshot. The man who came back was none other but …

An Arrow in a Sunbeam

In Young Adults Short Works Collection Vol. 001

Read by Jessica Louise


Sarah Orne Jewett


LibriVox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a grou…

The Damp

In Short Poetry Collection 071

Read by Jessica Louise


John Donne


This is a collection of poems for the month of September 2008.

Chapter IIIa, Part 1

In An American Vendetta: A Story of Barbarism in the United States

Read by Jessica Hendra


Theron Clark Crawford


The phrase "The Hatfields and McCoys" conjures up images of feudal warfare and Appalachian backwardness even to this day. This is …

The Ice Maiden Part 1

In Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 5, 1860 to 1865

Read by Jessica Marie


Hans Christian Andersen


A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. - Summary by Kristi…

Chapter XLIII – Of What is Necessary for a Man's Redemption into the Kingdom of…

In Leviathan (Books III and IV)

Read by Jessica Louise


Thomas Hobbes


In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nat…

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