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In The Fir-Tree Fairy Book

Read by Matt Bounds


Clifton Johnson


In this volume, Clifton Johnson has compiled his favourite fairy tales. We hear a lot of animals, because fairy tales with animals in them a…

Beyond the Door by Philip K Dick

In Short Story Collection Vol. 074

Read by Matt Bounds


Philip K. Dick


A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of Arthur Conan D…

The Boy and the Treasures of the Old Witch

In Swanhilde, and other Fairy Tales

Read by Matt Bounds


Wilhelm Hauff


Wilhelm Hauff was a German poet and novelist, perhaps best known for his fairy tales (Märchen). Some of his stories, such as the Caliph…

The Win-and-Lose Problem

In The Problem Club

Read by Matt Bounds


Barry Pain


The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathem…

"My Love that was so True" Part 2

In The Haunted Hour; an anthology

Read by Matt Bounds


Margaret Widdemer


I have not considered as ghost-poems anything but poems which related to the return of spirits to earth. They "The Blessed Damozel,&quo…

The Lousiana Water-Thrush

In Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 3, October 1902

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Various


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

The Bears Make a Visit

In Fairy Stories my Children Love Best of All

Read by Matt Bounds


Edgar Dubs Shimer


In this collection, we get to know which fairy tales Mr Shimer loved to tell his kids. Some of the stories may be familiar, but most of them…

The Poet and The Baby - Read by MTB

In The Poet and The Baby

Read by Matt Bounds


Paul Laurence Dunbar


What struck me in reading Mr. Dunbar's poetry was what had already struck his friends in Ohio and Indiana, in Kentucky and Illinois. They ha…

Why Autumn Leaves are Red

In The Topaz Story Book: Stories and Legends of Autumn, Hallowe'en, and Thanksgivi…

Read by Matt Bounds


Ada M. Skinner


From the Introduction: "Nature stories, legends, and poems appeal to the young reader’s interest in various ways. Some of them suggest …

The Eyes Have It

In Short Science Fiction Collection 063

Read by Matt Bounds


Philip K. Dick


Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…

An Experience of Jabez Batterpole

In Earth's Enigmas

Read by Matt Bounds


Sir Charles G. D. Roberts


Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many…

The Iron Heel

Read by Matt Soar


Jack London


A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a …

The Failed Cities Monologues

Read by Matt Wallace


Matt Wallace


In a hardboiled dystopian future, one major American city has been divided in two. Separated by much more than a river, one side is an unfi…