Fantasy
The Coming Race
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) was an English novelist, poet, playright, and politician. Lord Lytton…
News From Nowhere
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialis…
Days
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 10, 2012.As a lectur…
Fifty-One Tales
Fifty-One Tales by Lord Dunsany invites listeners into a world where the boundaries of reality blur and the extraordinary becomes commonplac…
Time and the Gods
Time and the Gods is a captivating collection of short stories by Lord Dunsany, a pioneer of modern fantasy literature. First published in 1…
The World Beyond
The World Beyond invites listeners on an extraordinary journey as Lee Anthony and his two friends are unexpectedly kidnapped and thrust into…
The World Set Free
Radioactive decay is a major theme in the novel The World Set Free, published in 1914. Wells explores what might happen if the rate of decay…
The New Swiss Family Robinson
The New Swiss Family Robinson is a humorous take on the classic adventure story, crafted by Owen Wister for the Harvard Lampoon. This parody…
A House-Boat on the Styx
The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of …
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
Join Nils Holgersson on a remarkable journey across Sweden in Selma Lagerlöf's enchanting tale, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils. Origi…
Gulliver's Travels
This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The chi…
Orlando Furioso
Charlemagne's nephew Orlando (AKA Roland) is driven insane by the infidelity of his beloved Angelica. Angelica's relationship with him and o…
The Shadows
"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…
The Royal Book of Oz
The Royal Book of Oz (1921) is the fifteenth in the series of Oz books, and the first to be written by Ruth Plumly Thompson after L. Frank B…
Herland
Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society comprised entirel…
The Book of Wonder
In The Book of Wonder, Lord Dunsany invites listeners to escape the mundane and embark on a journey through realms of imagination and enchan…
The House of the Wolfings
William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time suc…
Undine
Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …
The Marble Faun
The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical …
The Thing in the Attic
Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesn’t believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants created his tree-dwelling race. H…