Fiction
Short Story Collection Vol. 033
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Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 033: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Deerbrook
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Harriet Martineau
A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.Like the later and more famous novel Midd…
Marge Askinforit
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
Read by Daryl Wor
Christopher Morley
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…
Aucassin and Nicolette
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
Andrew Lang, Unknowntranslated Byandrew Lang, Translated Byandrew Lang and Unknowntranslated By Andrew Lang
Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series
Read by Grant Hurlock
Richard Harris Barham
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
The Wife of the Secretary of State
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Ella Middleton Tybout
In this political thriller set at the turn of the 20th century, several lives, both of Washington insiders and those on the periphery, inter…
Aunt Mary 17 Eps
Various
(17 Episodes) "Aunt Mary," aka "The Story of Aunt Mary, was a 1942 - 1952, 15 minute per week-day, continuing serial/soap ope…
Short Story Collection Vol. 031
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 031: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
His First and Last Appearance
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy h…
Dreaming of Deliverance
Read by R.E. Chambliss
R.E. Chambliss
Five years ago when Lindsay Paulson, a naive college student and talented distance runner, was 18, she was convicted of drug smuggling. Now,…
Hijacked: The Creation Story
Read by Mike Hartman
Mike Hartman
What if we had the technology to tap into a person’s central nervous system? What if we could see what they see; hear what they hear? What…
Everybody's Lonesome
Read by Bridget Gaige
Clara E. Laughlin
Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mothe…
The Brass Bottle
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F. Anstey
What happens when a not-so-lucky man happens upon a brass bottle releases the djinni caught within? Misunderstanding, culture shock, hilari…
Henrietta Temple
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Benjamin Disraeli
The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the fa…
Born Again
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Alfred Lawson
"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long indigestible rants against the e…
The Little Colonel in Arizona
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Annie Fellows Johnston
In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the …
People Like That
Read by Neeru Iyer
Kate Langley Bosher
A single woman from a family that is well-off, buys a house at a place that is looked down upon and disapproved by her family and friends al…
The Ninth vibration and other stories
Read by Linda Andrus
L. Adams Beck
This is a collection of the following short stories: The Ninth Vibration -- The Interpreter : A Romance of the East -- The Incomparable Lady…
Celibates
Read by James E. Carson
George Moore and George Logan Moore
The author is considered the first great Irish writer of realist fiction and is said to have been an inspiration for James Joyce. Celibates …