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Mr. Downey Sits Down
Read by Jacquerie
L. H. Robbins
In O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
In 1918 the Society of Arts and Sciences established the O. Henry Memorial Awards to reward the very best short stories published during the…
To Nobility- Part One
Read by KHand
Mary Elizabeth Brown
In Dedications
Dedications is an anthology of the forms used from the earliest days of book-making to the present time. My purpose in the following antholo…
Eminent Victorians
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Giles Lytton Strachey
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also help…
A-Coming Down The Street
Read by Sue Gill
Lucy Clifford
In Very Short Stories And Verses For Children
Very Short Stories And Verses For Children is a children's book by Lucy Clifford compiling stories and poems informing the little ones about…
November Twilight
Read by Amy Gramour
Clark Ashton Smith
In Ebony and Crystal
As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…
Preface
Read by Anne Fletcher
Mary Russell Mitford
In Our Village, Volume 1
This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about…
Author's Preface
Read by mleigh
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
In Memoriam: W. M. Thackeray from Miscellaneous Papers
Read by Kristin G.
Charles Dickens
In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 2
This year is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the second volume; the first volume of short works - fiction, essays, poetry a…
Going to Shrewsbury
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Various
In Short Story Collection Vol. 109
Here we have the 109th edition of the LibriVox Short Story Collections. Here we have frequent contributors, Mark Twain, Edgar Allen Poe and …
Dickey Downy: The Autobiography of a Bird
Read by Louise Jaeschke
Virginia Sharpe Patterson
Every one will see at once that we have here a new member of the family of Black Beauty and Beautiful Joe, only this time it is a bird that …
Little Prudy
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Rebecca Sophia Clarke
I am going to tell you something about a little girl who was always saying and doing funny things, and very often getting into trouble. He…
A Bit of Wilfulness
Read by Bridget Gaige
Susan Coolidge
In Not Quite Eighteen
Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and dayd…
July
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Madison Cawein
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 3
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sectio…
Dame the Tenth: The Honourable Laura
Read by Libby Gohn
Thomas Hardy
In A Group of Noble Dames
The pedigrees of our county families, arranged in diagrams on the pages of county histories, mostly appear at first sight to be as barren of…
The Poor Clare Part 2
Read by NoelBadrian
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
In Round the Sofa
Round the Sofa (1859), is a book of stories by the lady that Charles Dickens called his “dear Scheherazade” due to her skill as a story tell…
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II
Read by Gillian Hendrie
Henry Mayhew
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.&…
King John and the Abbot
Read by Laura Caldwell
James Baldwin
In Fifty Famous Stories Retold
Fifty Famous Stories Retold by James Baldwin is a collection of short stories that give a snapshot into the life of a legendary hero or an e…
The Familie
Read by Sheridan Alistair
George Herbert
In The Temple
George Herbert was one of the so-called Metaphysical Poets, along with John Donne and Andrew Marvel, and The Temple: Sacred Poems and Privat…
Lilian, the Governess
Read by Elsie Selwyn
Lucy Randall Comfort
In Hearth and Home: Collected Poems and Stories
Hearth and Home was a monthly story paper that ran from 1884 to 1933. It consisted of serials, short stories, poems, Q&A and corresponde…
Part 2
Read by Elizabeth Klett
James Joyce
In The Dead (version 2)
This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly …