Booker T. Washington was one of the first nationally recognized African American leaders after the Civil War. He was born to a slave woman …
A collection of early writings of Charles Dickens under his early pseudonym, "Boz." They first appeared in various publications f…
A travel journal to the Scilly Islands written in the Nineteenth Century. It records Scillonian legends and folklore. There are brief divers…
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Negro's Complaint by William Cowper.
This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February …
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of At the Closed Gate of Justice by James David Corrothers.
This was the Weekly Poetry project fo…
James P. Beckworth, born in Virginia at the dawn of our Nation, moved with his family to eastern Missouri settling a few miles below what is…
Eminent British botanist Agnes Arber provides an authoritative history of printed Herbals -- books widely used in early modern Europe to cat…
Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized as one of the very greatest masterpieces of world lit…
The background of this collection of sketches and stories is the country through which flowed one of the most interesting of our western riv…
Published in 1908, this is the story of two small families and the agreeable couple who help them. The heartfelt Norths, though clouded by d…
