LibriVox Audio Books
The World's Best Orations, Volume 3
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Various
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…
An Englishwoman in the Philippines
Read by Ted Lienhart
Enid Dauncey
Enid Gambier Dauncey was a travel writer who, with her businessman husband, lived in a provincial city in the Philippines for nine months fr…
Pictures and Problems from London Police Courts
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Thomas Holmes
Thomas Holmes served for 20 years as a police court missionary for the London courts. Police court missionaries, often sponsored by temperan…
Cape Gloucester: The Green Inferno
Read by Aaron Bennett
Bernard C. Nalty
On the early morning of 26 December 1943, Marines poised off the coast of Japanese-held New Britain could barely make out the mile-high bulk…
Hardcase
Read by Ben Tucker
Luke Short
Meet HARDCASE-DAVE COYLE! When you meet up with Dave Coyle-outlaw-you'll know why no jail can hold him, no sheriff outsmart him. You'll see …
The Golden Bough. Part VII. Balder The Beautiful. Volume I
Read by Leon Harvey
James Frazer
The tenth volume in The Golden Bough series. Frazer discusses the problem which gives its title to the whole work. If right, the Golden Boug…
Glaucia the Greek Slave
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Emma Leslie
Glaucia and her brother Laon have been sold into slavery to pay their father's debts. Set in 1st Century Rome and Athens, this story follows…
Short Story Classics (American) Volume One
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Various
A 1905 collection of ten short stories by American authors, including Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. (Summary by Verla Viera)
Love Poems
Read by Alan Mapstone
D. H. Lawrence
"Love Poems and Others" was D. H. Lawrence's first book of poetry published in 1913.(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
A Song of Autumn
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Arthur Hugh Clough
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Song of Autumn by Arthur Hugh Clough.This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 8, 202…
Grace Holbrook, and Other Stories of Endeavor and Experience
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Pansy
Ten short stories of girls, each one relating a little lesson in doing one's duty, being a person of integrity, or other character lessons. …
Against Celsus Book 7
Read by David Ronald
Origen Of Alexandria
Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD…
In the Days of Queen Elizabeth
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Eva March Tappan
Of all the sovereigns who have worn the crown of England, Queen Elizabeth is the most puzzling, the most fascinating, the most blindly prais…
Abbe Mouret's Transgression, Book Five of Rougon-Macquart Cycle
Read by Mark Leder
Émile Zola
This, the fifth novel in Zola's Rougon-Macquart Cycle, serves effectively as a sequel to "The Conquest of Plassans". Serge Mouret…
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the …
Read by Carol Pelster
Washington Irving
Benjamin Bonneville spent the years 1832 to 1835 on the adventure of a lifetime, leading an expedition of trapping, trading, and exploring i…
Fine Clothes to the Jew
Read by Dar'Keith Lofton
Langston Hughes
Fine Clothes to the Jew is a 1927 poetry collection by Langston Hughes. The collection was widely criticized, especially in the Black press,…
My Father's Dragon (Version 2)
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Ruth Stiles Gannett
Have you ever wanted to fly on the back of a dragon? Well, so did a little boy whose name was Elmer. This the story of how this little boy w…
Love's Contrivance
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Susanna Centlivre
The usual: One Woman with two suitors for her hand. One preferred by the woman, another preferred for her by her father. How might she get h…
Medieval Contributions to Modern Civilisation
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Various
The mediaeval contributions to modern civilisation, which are the theme of this book, are twofold.There is the contribution of the idealised…
The Black Cat Vol. 04 No. 07 April 1899
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Various
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…