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Simple Simon
Read by Jared Scott
A. E. Coppard
In The Black Dog and Other Stories
Coppard was renowned for his influence on the English short story and here we present a collection, first published in 1923, featuring 18 of…
Ruth Oliver
Read by Dawn Larsen
Anna K. Green and Anna Katharine Green
In That Affair Next Door
The dead body of a woman was found under a large cabinet. But she had been dead four hours before the cabinet fell upon her. The owners of t…
Daily Life in a Castle
Read by Anna Roberts
Eva March Tappan
In When Knights Were Bold
This book is in no degree an attempt to relate the involved and intricate history of the Middle Ages. Its plan is, rather, to present pictur…
Chapter 3 - Lucy's Troubles
Read by tabithat
Anthony Trollope
In Ayala's Angel
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
The Two Questions
Read by Sonia
Alice Meynell
In A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
Idee 8
Read by Anna Simon
Multatuli
In LibriVox 8th Anniversary Collection
For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year…
The Phial
Read by Laura Victoria
Anna Katharine Green
In One of My Sons
A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry …
Chapter XI In which Bertha starts for New York, and makes the Acquaintance of …
Read by Scarlett Martin
William Taylor Adams and Oliver Optic
In Rich and Humble; The Mission of Bertha Grant
This is the first story in the Woodville collection of tales about the interesting people in Woodville. As the characters grow, they learn …
09 - Eerste deel, hoofdstuk IX
Read by Anna Simon
Louis Couperus
In Zielenschemering
Zielenschemering, het derde boek uit de romancyclus De Boeken der Kleine Zielen van Louis Couperus, beschrijft een volgende periode uit het …
Chapter XIX
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
In The Witness
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
To Lucy
Read by Anya
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
chapter XIX
Read by April6090
Gertrude Atherton
In The Crystal Cup
The story begins with ... “Old age will be served,” said Mrs. Carteret grimly. “But I suppose you think I am a long time dying.” This author…
Recompence
Read by Simon Evers
Robert Keable
The book is a sequel to ‘Simon called Peter’ by the same author. It picks up the separate stories of Peter and Julie, at first in South Afri…
II: Ære Perennius
Read by Ellies
Geoffrey Bache Smith
In A Spring Harvest
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He w…
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
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…
The Novelette Reader
Read by Newgatenovelist
Tom Maguire
In Machine-Room Chants
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was publish…
Part II - Chapter XI
Read by Emma Charlotte
Wilkie Collins
In My Lady's Money
Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about t…
Chapter XIX - The Cats
Read by Julia Niedermaier
Wilkie Collins
In The Two Destinies
Mary Dermody is destined to be together with George Germaine one day, or so at least her grandmother prophesies. Destiny at first doesn't se…
X. Lucy
Read by Nicole J. LeBoeuf
E. Nesbit
In These Little Ones
A collection of short stories for adults, mainly about children in hard times. The title references Matthew 18:6, which verse Nesbit include…
Chapter 5
Read by Simon Evers
Mary Cholmondeley
In Sir Charles Danvers
The book is a romance with intrigue that involves secret identity and a a bigamous marriage, which centres around the romance between the ro…