Single Author Collections

A Few Figs from Thistles

Read by Kristin Hughes (1974-2021)


Edna St. Vincent Millay



A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

A Thief in the Night - Version 2

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E. W. Hornung



A Thief in the Night is a 1905 collection of short stories by Ernest William Hornung, featuring his popular character A. J. Raffles. It was …

Sun and Saddle Leather

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Charles Badger Clark



Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost …

And Thus He Came

Read by David Wales


Cyrus Townsend Brady



These short stories, perhaps we might call them modern parables, are not the usual fare of warm and fuzzy Christmas stories (pleasing as tho…

The Ships that Won't Go Down

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Henry Lawson



Henry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets …

The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon

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Siegfried Sassoon



Siegfried Sassoon was one of the first to write poetry about the brutal reality of war, based on his real-life experiences in the trenches. …

The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories

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Charles Weathers Bump



A collection of offbeat stories. Some are a bit out of the ordinary as suggested by the title story about a freshwater mermaid; some are not…

A Valentine

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Lewis Carroll



This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)

Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos

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Sargent Kayme



"No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the…

Selected Works: Poems

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Voltairine De Cleyre



Voltairine de Cleyre (November 17, 1866 – June 20, 1912)was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems,…

The Spirit of Christmas (version 2)

Read by David Leeson


Henry van Dyke



A collection of short Christmas works by the author of The Story of the Fourth Wise Man (Summary by D. Leeson).

The Star-Treader and Other Poems

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Clark Ashton Smith



Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literar…

Ellis Parker Butler Short Story Collection, Vol 1

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Ellis Parker Butler



Ellis Parker Butler was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. These are eight…

The Red Inn

Read by pmstrahm


Honoré de Balzac



Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. - Summary by pmstrahm

The House of Dust: A Symphony

Read by Expatriate


Conrad Aiken



The House of Dust is a poem written in the four-movement format of a classical symphony. Hauntingly beautiful despite its bleak post-World …

The Hotel D'Angleterre And Other Stories

Read by David Wales


Mary Elizabeth Hawker



Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though f…

Europe and Elsewhere

Read by John Greenman


Mark Twain



This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were…

To Sleep

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Sir Philip Sidney



LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of To Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23, 2014.Sir Ph…

Orientations

Read by OCTL7


W. Somerset Maugham



This is a collection showing W. Somerset Maugham's early attempt in the short story genre, which he comes to master as one of 20th century's…

The Human Boy

Read by David Wales


Eden Phillpotts



This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…

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