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In Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories

Read by Jessica Atha


Ernest Starr


This book, published in 1918 by the Atlantic Monthly Press, is a collection of 23 "modern short stories", written by various autho…

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…

The Warden (version 2)

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged eccles…

Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Read by Jessica Louise


Anthony Trollope


Anthony Trollope's autobiography will delight you whether or not you've read (or listened to) any of his many works. His honest if self-depr…

Cats by the Way

Read by Jessica Louise


Sarah E. Trueblood


Between these pages you will find only the good, old-fashioned, every-day cat. No Angora or thoroughbred has been entered here, unless it be…

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…

In the Wilderness (Version 2)

Read by Jessica Zdanowicz


Charles Dudley Warner


Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…

Comme tous les soirs

In Poèmes

Read by Jessica


Emile Verhaeren


La poésie du poète flamand Émile Verhaeren (1855-1916) est inspirée par son observation critique de la vie des g…

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…

Trial of the Indians

In The History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier, Part 1

Read by Jessica Louise


Charles E. Flandrau


"It has been a little over fifty years since the organization of the Territory of Minnesota, which at its birth was a very small and un…

Of ideas of identity and diversity Part I

In An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I

Read by Jessica Louise


John Locke


John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes th…

Felix Mendelssohn, Part 1

In Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians

Read by Jessica Louise


Elbert Hubbard


Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings ma…

Little Busybodies

In Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 3, March 1899

Read by Jessica Louise


Various


"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…

Bird Raptures - Read by JCW

In Bird Raptures

Read by Jessica Way


Christina Georgina Rossetti and Christina Rossetti


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Bird Raptures by Christina Georgina Rossetti. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Septembe…

03 - THE REFUGEES

In The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2)

Read by Jessica Potter


Baroness Emma Orczy


In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republi…

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.