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Clever Gretel

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Betsie Bush


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

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In Fire and Ice

Read by Betsie Bush


Robert Frost


LibriVox volunteers bring you twenty-three different recordings of Fire and Ice, by Robert Frost. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Fishing with a Worm

In Fishing with a Worm

Read by Betsie Bush


Bliss Perry


Fishing with a Worm by Bliss Perry includes the poignant and philosophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm. Bliss Perry wa…

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In The Owl and the Pussycat

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Edward Lear


LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first…

A College Vagabond

In Short Story Collection Vol. 007

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Andy Adams


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 007: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Chapter 03

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

Read by Betsie Bush


C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi


The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

Russell Kincaid

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by Betsie Bush


Edgar Lee Masters


This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

The Story of Miss Moppet

In The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Read by Betsie Bush


Beatrix Potter


Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

03 - Looking-Glass Insects

In Through the Looking-Glass

Read by Betsie Bush


Lewis Carroll


Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land …

Chapter 32

In The Spy

Read by Betsie Bush


cooper_jf and James Fenimore Cooper


James Fenimore Cooper's second novel, The Spy (1821), is based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series, and tells an adventure tale about the A…

03 - Legends of the Old Orchard

In The Story Girl

Read by Betsie Bush


Lucy Maud Montgomery


The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise…

The Last Chapter - Home Again

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Read by Betsie Bush


Hugh Lofting


In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up…

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In The Song My Paddle Sings

Read by Betsie Bush


E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of "The Song My Paddle Sings" from the …

The Gift of the Magi

In The Gift of the Magi

Read by Betsie Bush


henry_o and O. Henry


The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their on…

Book 1 – 07

In The Return of the Native

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Thomas Hardy


Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Vic…

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