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Brain Twister

Read by Catharine Eastman


Laurence M. Janifer


"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle …

The Shadows

Read by Catharine Eastman


George MacDonald


"Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen…

Two Poe Tales

Read by Catharine Eastman


Edgar Allan Poe


Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a B…

The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2)

Read by Catharine Eastman


H. G. Wells


Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow! As their experiment…

Dream Days

Read by Catharine Eastman


Kenneth Grahame


Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 colle…

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Read by Catharine Eastman


Lewis Carroll


Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvi…

Struwwelpeter

Read by Catharine Eastman


Heinrich Hoffmann


Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishment…

The dismal Transmigration of Master Tommy Filch into the Body of a Wolf

In Vice in its Proper Shape

Read by Catharine Eastman


Anonymous


Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemb…

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In The Owl and the Pussycat

Read by Catharine Eastman


Edward Lear


LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first…

Chapter 26

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by Catharine Eastman


Written by Catharine Eastman, recorded by Catharine Eastman and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

Chapter 33

In The Humbugs of the World

Read by Catharine Eastman


P. T. Barnum


P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witc…

The Advent of the Angles: Causes Which Led to the Rehabilitation of Britain on …

In Comic History of England

Read by Catharine Eastman


Bill Nye


Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” …

Christmas Bells - Read by CE

In Christmas Bells

Read by Catharine Eastman


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Christmas Bells, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the weekly poetry projec…

Darwin on the Origin of Species - A Book Review from The Atlantic, July 1860

In Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 012

Read by Catharine Eastman


Asa Grey and Asa Gray


A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

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In If

Read by Catharine Eastman


Rudyard Kipling


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion po…

Chapter 15

In The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Read by Catharine Eastman


Rudolf Erich Raspe


The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in Lo…