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Speculative Insurance, Part 5: The Blackburn Gamblers

In Stratagems and Conspiracies to Defraud Life Insurance Companies: An Authentic R…

Read by Doyle Sanders


John B. Lewis


A thorough treatise on different ways people have tried to defraud life insurance companies, with many entertaining examples. The present . …

“I Am Here To-Day”: Charlie Chaplin

In The Seven Lively Arts

Read by Doyle Sanders


Gilbert Seldes


“... But, beside those great men, there is a certain number of artists who have a distinct faculty of their own by which they convey to us a…

The Phoenix Conspiracy

Read by Richard L Sanders


Richard L Sanders


Calvin, an intelligence operative, is sent to eliminate a dangerous traitor. But as he chases his prey across the stars, he realizes they ar…

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 3)

Read by Dick Bourgeois-Doyle


Stephen Leacock


Widely considered a classic of Canadian humorous literature, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town tells stories set in the fictional town of M…

A Parting Guest - Read by JSS

In A Parting Guest

Read by Jinny Sanders


James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.…

Peppino

In The Count of Monte Cristo

Read by Tammy Sanders


Alexandre Dumas


The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le Comte de Monte-Cristo) is an adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. It is often considered, …

04 - A Glimpse of Jupiter

In Life in a Thousand Worlds

Read by Tammy Sanders


William Shuler Harris


A jolly romp, which could be perhaps be described as Gulliver’s Travels Through Our Solar System and Beyond, as written by a great admirer o…

A White Rose

In Short Poetry Collection 029

Read by Jim Sanders


John Boyle O'Reilly


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 029: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Three Little Ragamuffins

In Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise

Read by Tammy Sanders


Lucy Lane Clifford and Lucy Clifford


A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her l…

UNC' BILLY AND OLD MRS. POSSUM -- The Virginia Opossum, which is the only Ameri…

In The Burgess Animal Book for Children

Read by Tammy Sanders


Thornton W. Burgess


Peter Rabbit goes to school, with Mother Nature as his teacher. In this zoology book for children, Thornton W. Burgess describes the mammals…

Recantation

In Short Poetry Collection 248

Read by Tressa Sanders


Muriel Stuart


This is a collection of 52 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers during January 2024.

Hyperbola or Parabola (p. 188)

In Round the Moon

Read by Tammy Sanders


Jules Verne


Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left t…

The Terrible Old Man

In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 014

Read by Jinny Sanders


H. P. Lovecraft


A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up …

To an Old Friend

In When Day is Done

Read by Kendra Sanders


Edgar A. Guest


Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …

A Mixed Proposal

In The Lady of the Barge

Read by Liz Sanders


W. W. Jacobs


Another collection of short stories, a mixture of the humorous and the horrifying all with unexpected twists - Summary by Inkell

THE TRANCE (2000 words)

In The Sleeper Awakes

Read by Tammy Sanders


H. G. Wells


The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, b…