General Fiction
The Firm of Nucingen
Read by James E. Carson
Honoré de Balzac
Part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck. Nucingen is the married family name of…
Charles Dickens' Children Stories - Retold by His Grandaughter
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Charles Dickens
These re-tellings of well known stories originally written by Charles Dickens are all focused on the children in them. Their humor and path…
Miss Lulu Bett
Read by Jacquerie
Zona Gale
Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight. She …
A Deal With The Devil
Read by Angelique G. Campbell
Eden Phillpotts
A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantanke…
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
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Annie Fellows Johnston
Because of the illness of her grandfather, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home …
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
Read by Celine Major
Frances Milton Trollope
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight o…
Marge Askinforit
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
Deerbrook
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Harriet Martineau
A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.Like the later and more famous novel Midd…
Theros
Read by EmilioHerrero
Benito Pérez Galdós
Otra de las escasas incursiones de Galdós en el género de la ficción. Theros representa el verano dentro del almanaque …
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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John Donne
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as …
Toni, the Little Woodcarver
Read by Rainee
Johanna Spyri
Toni is a little boy who discovers a love for woodcarving. When tragedy strikes and his father dies, Toni does all he can to help his mother…
Aucassin and Nicolette
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang and Translated Byandrew Lang
Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…
The Dream
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John Donne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne…
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Read by Daryl Wor
Christopher Morley
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Walt Whitman
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series
Read by Grant Hurlock
Richard Harris Barham
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Maud Jean Franc
'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free …
Miss Grantley's Girls, and the Stories She Told Them
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Thomas Archer
The author Thomas Archer lived 1830 – 1893; he wrote several juvenile stories, and this book: Miss Grantley’s Girls – And the Stories She To…
בעמק הבכא The Wishing-Ring
Read by Omri Lernau
מנדלה מוכר ספרים Mendele Mocher Sforim
Mendele Mocher Sforim (Mendele Book seller, literary name for Shalom Jacob Abramovitsch) (1835 - 1917, b. Kapulye, Belorussia), one of the f…
The Siege of Corinth
Read by Nathan
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: reveal…