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Jack the Giant-Killer

In The Junior Classics Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales

Read by Andrew Lebrun


William Patten


The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, sto…

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

Read by Andrew Lebrun


Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

Luck

In Current Superstitions

Read by Andrew Lebrun


Fanny Dickerson Bergen


No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one o…

Introduction

In How to Speak and Write Correctly

Read by Andrew Lebrun


Joseph Devlin


This is a 1910 guide for those who wish to learn how to correctly (though maybe not "properly") create sentences, use figures of s…

Luck

In Short Story Collection Vol. 008

Read by Andrew Lebrun


Mark Twain


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 008: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members.

The Wondrous Wise Man

In Mother Goose in Prose

Read by Andrew Lebrun


L. Frank Baum


Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…

Version 2

In Anthem for Doomed Youth

Read by Andrew Lebrun


Wilfred Owen


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen, in honor of Veteran’s Day, Remembrance Da…

Version 2

In The Magi

Read by Andrew Lebrun


William Butler Yeats


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of The Magi, by William Butler Yeats to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany. This was …

Euthyphro

Read by Andrew Miller


Plato


Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the …

Letters of Pliny

Read by Andrew Coleman


Pliny The Younger


The largest surviving body of Pliny's work is his Epistulae (Letters), a series of personal missives directed to his friends, associates and…

Up from Slavery: An Autobiography (version 3)

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


Up from Slavery is the autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington, describing his personal path up from the position of a slave…

The Invisible Man (Version 3)

Read by Andrew Gaunce


H. G. Wells


A mysterious, bandaged stranger arrives in the small English village of Iping - and chaos follows close behind. H.G. Wells' classic story of…

Recruit for Andromeda

Read by Andrew Huguelet


Stephen Marlowe


No one comes back from the Nowhere Journey, whatever they say about some “rotation.” When Kit Temple's drafted, he figures he's leaving his …

Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories

Read by Andrew Gaunce


Ralph Adams Cram


A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphe…

White Trash Land

Read by Andrew Beatty


Andrew Beatty


Chuck Mitchell thought he had everything –a high powered job, a beautiful girlfriend, an exclusive condo on the Toronto waterfront, but the …

Putting the Most Into Life

Read by Andrew Kennedy


Booker T. Washington


The chapters in this little book were originally part of a series of Sunday Evening Talks given by the Principal to the students of the Tusk…