General Fiction
An Old Man's Thought of School
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Walt Whitman
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of An Old Man's Thought of School by Walt Whitman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for F…
The Octopus
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Frank Norris
Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranche…
Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
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Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…
Better Angel
Read by Greg W.
Richard Meeker
In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to term…
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is a groundbreaking novel that defies conventional storytelling. Through the eyes of its…
Penelope's English Experiences
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
Penelope's English Experiences is a fictional travelogue, which documents the experiences of three American ladies on a visit to England. In…
The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse
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Variousandolive Beaupre Miller and Various And Olive Beaupre Miller
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fourth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for li…
The Titan
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Theodore Dreiser
Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with…
The Torrents of Spring
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Ivan Turgenev
The Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды), is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when …
English Literature for Boys and Girls
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Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
"Has there ever been a time when no stories were told? Has there ever been a people who did not care to listen? I think not."Thus …
Ball-of-Fat
Read by Michael Thomas Robinson
Guy de Maupassant
The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, "Ball-…
A Romance of Two Worlds
Read by Amy Gramour
Marie Corelli
The book starts with a young heroine telling her story of coping with a debilitating illness that includes depression and thoughts of suicid…
Chance
Read by James E. Carson
Joseph Conrad
Apparently a two part story about a Damsel and a Knight, perhaps a damsel who depends upon the kindness of strangers. It was originally enti…
Historical Tales
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Charles Morris and Charles Mclean Andrews
Volume II of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This second volume supplem…
Tom Ossington's Ghost
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Richard Marsh
Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for…
McTeague
Read by Jeff Robinson
Frank Norris
McTeague is a simple dentist who becomes infatuated with Trina, the cousin of his friend Marcus. Trina then buys a winning lottery ticket wo…
The Melting of Molly
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Maria Thompson Daviess
Meet Molly: a quirky, spirited twenty-five-year old, widowed for 6 years, living in picturesque Hillsboro with her aunt amidst gossipy neigh…
Miss Ashton's New Pupil
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Sarah Stuart Robbins
Marion Park, the daughter of missionaries, is sent to Miss Ashton's boarding school. There she meets with many young girls and together they…
Victory
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Joseph Conrad
Recollections of the life of Axel Heyst, one-time manager of the liquidated Tropical Belt Coal Company in a fictitious island in the Pacific…
Roderick Hudson
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of J…