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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 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…

Sonnet 73 - read by JY

In Sonnet 073

Read by Justine Young


William Shakespeare


To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project…

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…

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…

Four Winds, part 1

In Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907-1908

Read by Kristin Young


Lucy Maud Montgomery


Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fa…

The Two Pilgrims

In From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse

Read by Valle & Young


Leo Tolstoy and Variousandolive Beaupre Miller


Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for lit…

The Mystery of the "Ocean Star"

In The Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches

Read by Lala Young


W. Clark Russell and William Clark Russell


This is a collection of short stories of mystery and romance, set at sea, in the times of the great sea voyages.

The Ripest Peach - Read by WY

In The Ripest Peach

Read by Wayne Young


James Whitcomb Riley


LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Ripest Peach by James Whitcomb Riley.This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 12, 2020…

A Siege in the Earliest Times

In The Book of Famous Sieges

Read by Liam Young


Tudor Jenks


History is dominated by war, battles, and sieges. Our history books are full of these. But history books usually don't explain sieges in suc…

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…