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A Scientist Rises
Read by David Adamson
D. W. Hall and Desmond Winter Hall
In Short Science Fiction Collection 012
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
King Richard and Salidin
Read by Neeru Iyer
Sir Walter Scott
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…
Spoken For
Read by Dale Grothmann
William Morrison and Joseph Samachson
In Short Science Fiction Collection 064
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
To Dr. James Newton Matthews
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
Publisher's Note
Read by David Wales
Richard Harding Davis
In The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote …
The Philosopher
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Barry Pain
In Stories without Tears
This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain, first published in 1914. While generally best-known for his horror and supernatural fic…
Introduction by Lincoln Newton Kinnicutt
Read by mleigh
Various
In To Your Dog and To My Dog
A collection of verse dedicated to dogs. (Summary by mleigh)
Jefferson's Message
Read by Availle
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and Meriwether Lewis
In The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840)
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocea…
Rewards
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
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 …
Mr. Crow's News
Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Arthur Scott Bailey
In The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot (version 2)
Another Slumbertown and Tuck-Me In Tale book by Arthur Scott Bailey, this time we meet Turkey Proudfoot at Farmer Greens farm in Pleasant Va…
Iceland
Read by nbvoices
Laura Goodman Salverson
In Wayside Gleams
Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings li…
THE LONG WAY ’ROUND
Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Owen Davis
In Sketches of Gotham
If you're the sort that gets a thrill from rubbing elbows with shady characters you best leave the introductions to the streetwise Ike Swift…
Acme
Read by Lee Smalley
John Galsworthy
In Captures
Brief plot lines of these 16 stories by Nobel Prize winning author John Galsworthy: 01, 02, 03 "A Feud" The breaking of an engagem…
American Liberty - Hampton L. Carson
Read by Gloria Loughry
Various
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 3
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
Another
Read by Dean Leggiero
Richard Lovelace
In Lucasta
"Lucasta" is of Latin origin meaning "Pure Light". Besides the dedication of the first poem to his wife, Anne Lovelace, …
Chapter 16: Henry More and Richard Baxter
Read by KHand
George MacDonald
In England's Antiphon
"In this book I have sought to trace the course of our religious poetry from an early period of our literary history. ... [I]f its poet…
Pleasures of Analogy — Ambition — Extensions of Sympathy — Philosophy of Taste — Clearness and Strength in Style
Read by Ariphron
Edmund Burke
In Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke
There can be no hesitation in according to him a station among the most extraordinary men that ever appeared; and we think there is now but …
Uncle Richard's New Year Dinner
Read by Tom Merritt
Lucy Maud Montgomery
In Short Story Collection Vol. 104
Old favorites, such as Charles Dickens, Ernest Hemingway and O. Henry make appearances in this 104th edition of the Librivox Short Story Col…
Lincoln by Wendell Phillips Stafford
Read by Cassie Davidson
William Stanley Braithwaite
In Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1915
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collect…
Excerpts from the Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
Read by Rosemary McDonald (1938-2025)
Various
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 16
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…