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The People in the Lord's Land

In Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old

Read by Cy Young

Jesse Lyman Hurlbut

Hurlbut's Life of Christ For Young and Old is a detailed, chronological presentation of the life of Christ, relying heavily on quoted portio…

Two Thanksgiving Day Gentlemen by O. Henry

In Short Story Collection Vol. 079

Read by Cy Young

O. Henry

A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan D…

Pan Michael: An Historical Novel of Poland, the Ukraine, and Turkey

Read by David Granville Young

Henryk Sienkiewicz

This is the third part of the Sienkiewicz trilogy. It is loosely based on the politics of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.It is better kn…

Yellow Wallpaper, The

In Short Story Collection Vol. 004

Read by Justine Young

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 004: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

The Squire's Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

Read by Joshua Young

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Robert Fulton Tanner

In Spoon River Anthology

Read by Joshua Young

Edgar Lee Masters

This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…

Chapter 12

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

Read by Justine Young

C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi

The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

In the Cellars of the Opera

In The Phantom of the Opera

Read by Justine Young

Gaston Leroux

An old theatre under new management; a diva who thinks she can sing; a young ingenue who really can; a masked man who wreaks havoc if he doe…

The Precipitate Cock and the Unappreciated Pearl

In Fables for the Frivolous

Read by Justine Young

Guy Wetmore Carryl

One of the earliest works by the American parodist, Guy Wetmore Carryl, these fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine’s original writing…

Chapter 03

In Candide

Read by Justine Young

Voltaire

Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never ope…