Search Results

The Silver Wedding

In Short Poetry Collection 090

Read by J. Lytle


John Godfrey Saxe (1816-1887) and John Godfrey Saxe


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of August 2010.

Life's Harmonies

In Short Poetry Collection 091

Read by J. Lytle


Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 - 1919) and Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of September and October 2010.

Chapter 41 - Psalm 119

In Bible (KJV) 19: Psalms (version 2)

Read by J. Lytle


King James Version


The book of Psalms is a collection of the works of at least six authors.The book of Psalms has been a source of inspiration to all those bel…

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Read by J. Hall


L. Frank Baum


The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful peopl…

The Haunted Hotel, A Mystery of Modern Venice

Read by Nathalie J.


Wilkie Collins


A kind, good-hearted, genteel young woman jilted, a suspicious death or two that only a few think could be murder, strange apparitions appea…

The Middle of Things

Read by Nathalie J.


J. S. Fletcher


A habitual late night stroll down Markendale Square plunges Viner into the middle of things most mysterious and most perplexing. A murder, a…

Cattle Brands

Read by Nathalie J.


Andy Adams


Cattle Brands is a collection of 14 entertaining short stories depicting not only the life of cowboys in the wild, wild West, but also the h…

The New Life (La vita nuova)

Read by Mary J


Dante Alighieri


One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

Travels in West Africa

Read by Nathalie J.


Mary H. Kingsley


Mary Henrietta Kingsley (13 October 1862 – 3 June 1900) was an British explorer and writer who greatly influenced European ideas about Afric…

The Theory of Social Revolutions

Read by Nathalie J.


Brooks Adams


Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in p…

La Vita Nuova

Read by Mary J


Dante Alighieri


In quella parte del libro della mia memoria dinanzi alla quale poco si potrebbe leggere, si trova una rubrica la quale dice Incipit Vita Nov…

The Lost City

Read by Nathalie J.


Joseph E. Badger and Harry Hazelton


Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in on…

The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella

Read by Mary J


Michelangelo Buonarroti


Michael Angelo and Campanella represent widely sundered, though almost contemporaneous, moments in the evolution of the Italian genius. Mich…

The White Linen Nurse

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


The White Linen Nurse is a hysterical story of an exhausted nurse who comes to regret her profession and then somehow finds herself caring f…

Life In Mexico

Read by Nathalie J.


Frances Calderón De La Barca


FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, wher…

Molly Make-Believe

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancee is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write …

Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper

Read by Nathalie J.


T. S. Arthur


Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by …

Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories

Read by Mary J


Giovanni Verga


The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in r…

The Indiscreet Letter

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Three fellow travelers on a train enter into a discussion concerning what they would call an 'indiscreet letter.' The discussion, albeit sho…