General Fiction
Louis Lambert
Read by Don W. Jenkins
Honoré de Balzac
Louis Lambert is an 1832 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), included in the Études philosop…
Dodo Wonders
Read by CrowGirl
E. F. Benson
"Dodo Wonders" is the third and last of the "Dodo" novels by E.F. Benson, author of the "Mapp and Lucia" serie…
Song (Poe version)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Edgar Allan Poe
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Song by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 10, 2011.Edgar Allan Poe…
Betty Baird's Ventures
Read by Holly Jenson
Anna Hamlin Weikel
Betty has graduated from the Pines and is now with her parents at their new home on Long Island. When Betty finds out that her father is hav…
The Story of the Amulet (version 2)
Read by Padraig O'hIceadha
E. Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also include…
Michael Kohlhaas (English Translation)
Read by Greg W.
Heinrich von Kleist
Michael Kohlhaas is an 1811 novella by Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Both the theme (a fanatical ques…
Countdown
Read by Maria Therese
Kurt Becker. S. J.
The first flight to outer space became an actual fact – Mars would be the first stop. But before the spaceship took off, two insane enemies …
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 2)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Johnny Gruelle
This is the book that started it all. Johnny Gruelle gave his daughter Marcella a rag doll, on which he had drawn an eternally smiling face.…
This Is the End
Read by Peter Eastman
Stella Benson
Some books have plots that drive relentlessly toward a conclusion. Others, like "This Is The End", just meander. It is the story o…
The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings …
Coffee Break Collection 006 - Food and Drink
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is the sixth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in leng…
The Tale of Master Meadow Mouse
Read by Laura Caldwell
Arthur Scott Bailey
This volume in the series, Sleepy-Time Tales, follows the adventures of Master Meadow Mouse as he moves his home to various (safer) places, …
Cherry Ames, Island Nurse
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Helen Wells
A private duty nursing case takes Cherry Ames to a remote Canadian island, where a mystery surrounds a mining operation.The Cherry Ames seri…
From a Swedish Homestead
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
”From a Swedish Homestead” by the Swedish author Selma Lagerloef (translated by Jessie Brochner) is a varied collection of stories, mostly s…
Helping Himself; or Grant Thornton's Ambition (version 2)
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Horatio Alger, Jr.
“wish we were not so terribly poor, Grant," said Mrs. Thornton, in a discouraged tone. "Is there anything new that makes you say s…
His Family
Read by James E. Carson
Ernest Poole
The 1910s is historically considered the decade of greatest social change in history. It saw the advent and proliferation of the automobile,…
Short Story Collection Vol. 054
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 054: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Up the River
Read by Stevan Simmons
Oliver Optic and William Taylor Adams
Up the River is the sixth and last of "The Great Western Series." The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gu…
Anything Once
Read by Roger Melin
Isabel Ostrander
An unlikely pair of wanderers they were; the orphan girl Lou and her travelling partner Jim Botts. Jim appeared in need of following some ap…
A Phantom Lover
Read by Anthony Leslie
Vernon Lee
A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, t…