Culture & Heritage
Longshanks
Read by Warren Bergmann
Stephen W. Meader
In 1828, young Tad Hopkins takes an adventure-filled trip down the Mississippi River to meet his father in New Orleans. Along the way he bef…
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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Forrest Crissey
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
The Valley of the Squinting Windows
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Brinsley Macnamara
The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a sma…
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
Read by Jim Locke
Oscar Micheaux
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
The Wishing Bridge
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John Greenleaf Whittier
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wishing Bridge by John Greenleaf Whittier.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Jul…
The Literature of Arabia
Read by PaulW
Epiphanius Wilson
A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. It will remind the reader of the "Morte d'Arthur" of Sir Thomas Malor…
The Story of Gisli the Outlaw
Read by Alison Sawers
Unknowntranslated Bysir George Webbe Dasent and Unknowntranslated By Sir George Webbe Dasent
The Story of Gisli the Outlaw is a translation of the medieval Icelandic Gísla saga súrssonar, the tale of a family feud and o…
Porgy
Read by Denise Ray
DuBose Heyward and Dubose Heyward
Story about Southern African American man with disabilities and the life he leads in the 1900's. - Summary by Denise Ray
Stanton White: A Romance of the New South
Read by James K. White
Asa Zadel Hall
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …
Sowing Seeds in Danny
Read by Atul Sharma
Nellie Mcclung
Nellie L. McClung (1873-1951) is a Canadian icon - a feminist, social activist, author, and political leader. When she was a child, she move…
The Conquest of Plassans, Book Four of Rougon-Maquart Cycle
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
The placid Provencal lives of Francois Mouret and his wife Marthe are irreparably impacted by the arrival of a suspicious cleric, Abbe Fauja…
The Blacker the Berry
Read by James K. White
Wallace Thurman
An exploration into the life of young African American, Emma Lou, whose self-image is negatively impacted by the stigmas of colorism and int…
The Soldiers' Recessional
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John Huston Finley
Reprinted from Scribner’s Magazine for June, 1904, in an edition of forty copies for private distribution, by the courtesy of Charles Scribn…