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Foundling on Venus

In Short Science Fiction Collection 038

Read by Melissa Strube

John & Dorothy de Courcy and John de Courcy

Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…

Canoeing in the Wilderness

Read by Melissa Green

Henry David Thoreau

A highly descriptive and engaging narrative from one of America's beloved nature writers, this short piece shows well Thoreau's great love o…

Stories from the History of Rome

Read by Melissa Jane

Emily Beesly

Mrs. Emily Beesly, the writer of this brilliant narrative, lived in an era of nothing but fairy tales and "the stories of nursery life&…

The Peterkins' Christmas-Tree

In The Peterkin Papers (version 2)

Read by Melissa

Lucretia P. Hale

The Peterkin Papers is a book-length collection of humorous stories by Lucretia Peabody Hale, and is her best-known work. The Peterkins are …

Against Indifference - Read by MLM

In Against Indifference

Read by Melissa

Charles Webbe

LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Against Indifference by Charles Webbe. This was the weekly poetry project for the w…

09 - Wherein the Limberlost Falls upon Mrs. Duncan

In Freckles

Read by Melissa

Gene Stratton Porter and Gene Stratton-Porter

Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and peop…

The Second Epoch:I (Marian Halcombe)

In The Woman in White

Read by Melissa

Wilkie Collins

The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 18…

Chapter 01 - The Parsonage

In Agnes Grey

Read by Melissa

Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë

The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to ca…