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05 - The Fall of the Provisional Gov't, Part 1

In Ten Days that Shook the World

Read by Ross Williamson


John Reed


Ten Days that Shook the World (1919) is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917…

The Sins of Hollywood

Read by Chuck Williamson


Ed Roberts


Exacerbated by several high-profile Hollywood scandals, a wave of anti-Hollywood rhetoric tried to paint the movie capital as a veritable ho…

Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners

Read by Chuck Williamson


Theodore Dreiser


Serialized in Shadowland from November 1921 to February 1922, Hollywood: Its Morals and Manners is Theodore Dreiser's shocking four part exp…

My Trip Abroad

Read by Chuck Williamson


Charlie Chaplin


"A steak and kidney pie, influenza and a cablegram. There is the triple alliance that is responsible for the whole thing."So begin…

The Eyes of the Movie

Read by Chuck Williamson


Harry Alan Potamkin


"The movie was born in the laboratory and reared in the counting-house. It is a benevolent monster of four I's: Inventor, Investor, Imp…

The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America

Read by Chuck Williamson


D. W. Griffith


The Rise and Fall of Free Speech in America was D.W. Griffith's first response to the attacks made on The Birth of a Nation. In it he played…

The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier

Read by Chuck Williamson


Walt Whitman


Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A…

Told Under a White Oak Tree

Read by Chuck Williamson


William S. Hart


An inside look into the wild world of silent movie cowboy William S. Hart... as narrated by his horse! This is a fascinating (if fictionaliz…

Ornaments in Jade

Read by Chuck Williamson


Arthur Machen


Ornaments in Jade is a collection of short narrative experiments from Arthur Machen, with ten dreamlike tales that are equal parts enigmatic…

Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole

Read by Chuck Williamson


Anna Adolph


Described by author Liza Daly as a "strange masterpiece of outsider art," Arqtiq is a bizarre, borderline hallucinatory work of fe…

Rondah, or Thirty-Three Years in a Star

Read by Chuck Williamson


Florence Carpenter Dieudonné


A bizarre and exuberant work of pure imagination, Rondah, or, Thirty-Three Years in a Star tells the story of a ragtag group of space explor…

The Intermediate Sex: A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women

Read by Chuck Williamson


Edward Carpenter


Written in 1908 by socialist critic and gay rights activist Edward Carpenter, The Intermediate Sex is a thoughtful, humanizing, and frequent…

The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys

Read by Chuck Williamson


Forrest Reid


The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reid’s tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoeroti…

The Golden Book of Springfield

Read by Chuck Williamson


Vachel Lindsay


The Golden Book of Springfield is American poet Vachel Lindsay's strange and mystical odyssey through the Springfield, Illinois of 2018, whe…

An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future

Read by Chuck Williamson


Gregory Casparian


Described by io9 as “the first lesbian science fiction novel,” An Anglo-American Alliance is a quasi-farcical tale of love, transformation, …

The Black Riders and Other Lines (Version 2)

Read by Chuck Williamson


Stephen Crane


Written in a purgative frenzy of pure imagination (“They came, and I wrote them, that’s all”), Stephen Crane’s The Black Riders and Other Li…

The Fan-Letter Bride

In Short Story Collection Vol. 051

Read by Chuck Williamson


Adela Rogers St. Johns


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

Introduction and Preface

In Day Dreams

Read by Chuck Williamson


Rudolph Valentino


Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…