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R D. Wingfield Adequate Reasons



A young child has gone missing. There is a complex interplay between police, parents and kidnapper ... and a most surprising resolution. 'As…

Phantasmagoria and other poems

Read by Rosslyn Carlyle


Lewis Carroll


This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual appro…

The House with the Twisting Passage

Read by Xenutia


Marion St. John Webb


When Jenny goes to stay with her Aunt Abby, a caretaker in a grand old manor-house, she discovers a wonderful twisting passage on the second…

Lady Into Fox (Version 2)

Read by Tony Addison


David Garnett


An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly …

The Red Room

Read by William Peck


August Strindberg


A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…

The Golden Bough

Read by Tony Oliva


George Gibbs


The eyes of the Légionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of…

Modern Monologues

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Marjorie Benton Cooke


The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…

Knight - Errant

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Madison Cawein


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Knight - Errant by Madison Cawein.This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. …

A Valentine

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Lewis Carroll


This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)

Robert Browning (Version 2)

Read by Owlivia


G. K. Chesterton


This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…

The Powder of Sympathy

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Christopher Morley


Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…

Oak and Ivy

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Paul Laurence Dunbar


"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062

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Various


Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…

Cock-House at Fellsgarth

Read by Jim Locke


Talbot Baines Reed


A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von

Patrick Hamilton Hangover Square


SANWAL


Hangover Square Dramatised by Sam Boardman-Jacobs Patrick Hamilton's novel is set in pre-war Earls Court. Everyone is frantically pursuing a…

Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl

Read by Paul Henry Tremblay


John Greenleaf Whittier


A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator's childhood. (Summary by Paul Tremblay)

The Temptation Of St. Anthony

Read by Tony Addison


Gustave Flaubert


An extraordinary work of the aesthetic imagination, cast in the form of a psycho-drama detailing the events of one night in the life of the …

The Fountain

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James Russell Lowell


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Fountain by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for December 14th, 2…

Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102

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Various


"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…

Retort

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Paul Laurence Dunbar


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Retort by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for August 23rd, 2009.

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