Culture & Heritage
Our Little Russian Cousin
Read by Marie Christian
Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
This delightful little book is one of many titles in The Little Cousin Series. The author narrates details in the life of a fictional Russia…
Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales
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Robert Hamill Nassau
Robert Nassau spent four decades as a medical missionary in Africa, arriving at Corisco Island, now part of Equatorial Guinea, in 1861; he a…
The Improvement of Human Reason
Read by Peter Tucker
Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufail and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd Al-Malik Ibn Tufail
The story revolves around Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, a little boy who grew up on an island in the Indies under the equator, isolated from the people, …
The King of the Snakes and Other Folklore Stories from Uganda
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Rosetta Baskerville
Rosetta Baskerville was the wife of George Baskerville, a missionary in Uganda. Some of the folktales in this book, published in 1922, are s…
The Fortune of the Rougons, Book One of Rougon-Macquart Cycle (Version 2)
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
The first book in the 20-novel Rougon-Macquart Cycle. A monument of French naturalism. The sprawling tale of a family in Provence, during …
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 15
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Various
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…
Scots Of The Riverina
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Henry Lawson
This poem tells the story of a boy in Australia who leaves the farm at harvest time. "and to run from home was a crime." The story…
True Love: A Story of English Domestic Life
Read by Jim Locke
Sarah Farro
The author is aware that she is entering a field which has been diligently cultivated by the best minds in Europe and America. Her design in…
Tall Tales Of Cape Cod
Read by David Wales
Marillis Bittinger
“The title of this volume is perhaps misleading. Tall Tales of Cape Cod they are, yes, but in a broader sense that are the feel and the basi…
Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People
Read by KirksVoice
George Bird Grinnell
This work is a collection of tales told by Elders in a Blackfoot lodge centered around the tribe. In addition to the traditional stories and…
A Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland
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William Wordsworth
This poem is part of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," writen by Wordsworth between 1821 - 22. - Summary by David Lawrence
Any Woman To A Soldier
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Grace Ellery Channing
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Any Woman To A Soldier by Grace Ellery Channing.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Novem…
Tattlings of a Retired Politician
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Forrest Crissey
"The letters (non-partisan) of Hon. William Bradley, Ex-Governor and former veteran of practical politics, written to his friend and pr…
The Valley of the Squinting Windows
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Brinsley Macnamara
The Valley of the Squinting Shadows was the author's first novel and proved controversial. In it, he tells a realistic tale of life in a sma…
The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races
Read by Jim Locke
Oscar Micheaux
This novel investigates the black urban community of the early twentieth century, highlighting the base degradation and violence there. But …
The Wishing Bridge
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John Greenleaf Whittier
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Wishing Bridge by John Greenleaf Whittier.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Jul…
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
The Literature of Arabia
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Epiphanius Wilson
A collection of many romantic stories: it has no epic unity. It will remind the reader of the "Morte d'Arthur" of Sir Thomas Malor…
The Rush for the Spoil, Book Two of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
Book Two of Zola's 20-volume Rougon-Macquart Cycle. "The Rush for the Spoil" ("La Curee") concerns Aristide Siccard (on…
Stanton White: A Romance of the New South
Read by James K. White
Asa Zadel Hall
In this tome the Northern narrator, Harold Edson, visits the American South with his college friend, Stanton White, in order to study first …