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Read by Phil Benson
Geraldine Jewsbury
In Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47
'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…
Cape Cod
Read by Guest
George Santayana
In Poems
George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his…
Angela by William Schwenck Gilbert
Read by Richa Jain
W. S. Gilbert
In Love Stories Volume 5
Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, offered by LibriVox volunteers, covering all kinds of experiences involving romance or oth…
The Quest
Read by Clara Snyder
Eudora S. Bumstead
In The Ontario Readers: Third Book
The Ontario Readers is a school book first published in 1919, by the Ontario Ministry of Education, containing short excerpts of literary wo…
Queen Hortense
Read by Tatiana Chichilla
Guy de Maupassant
In Complete Original Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant
Guy de Maupassant was, and is to this day, one of the world's most celebrated short story writers. He famously tackled topics like the Franc…
Study
Read by Tomas Peter
D. H. Lawrence
In Amores: Poems
Amores is one of D. H. Lawrence's earliest works of poetry, published in 1916, was a precursor to his delving in free verse in later collect…
Chapter VII. The Adventure in the Lane
Read by Rachel Tevis
Jane Helen Findlater
In All That Happened in a Week
Precocious eight-year-old Peggy Roberts has many misadventures over the span of a week while visiting her Aunt Euphemia. - Summary by Rachel…
A Fragment of Lives
Read by Kate Follis
Gilbert Parker
In The Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting i…
From A to Z
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Susan Glaspell
In Lifted Masks
In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)
Vanitie
Read by Suzanne Carol
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…
LUI ET ELLE
Read by Eva Davis (d. 2025)
D. H. Lawrence
In Tortoises
Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the la…
Maud and Madge
Read by Andrei Borissenko
Julia Caroline Dorr
In Earlier Poems
This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin
Questions
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Lois House
Read by Algy Pug
Julia A. Moore
In The Sentimental Song Book
Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its …
"Posson Jone" from Old Creole Days
Read by Dorothy Godfrey-Smith
George Washington Cable
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
05 - Mr 'Possum
Read by KarlHenning
Abbie Phillips Walker
In The Sandman's Hour
Reading bedtime stories to children can be a wonderful way to relax and at the same time act out the exciting things happening in the story …
Cape of Good Hope
Read by TrudiBvoice
Alexander Wilmot
In The Poetry of South Africa
Alexander Wilmot was a Cape Town politician and Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the author of the History of the Zulu War 1…
Selected excerpts from "The Home"
Read by MaryAnn
Fredrika Bremer
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 06
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Perkin Warbeck
Read by Connie Bettison
Lord Alfred Douglas
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
The Biography of a Superman
Read by Michael Fassio
Richard Middleton
In The Ghost Ship & Other Stories
Richard Middleton is one of the many authors who, despite great merit, have been almost entirely forgotten today. This English author was an…