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Jonah
Read by Larry Wilson
Aldous Huxley
In Jonah
Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of…
The Passing of Marcus O’Brien
Read by docdlmartin
Jack London
In Lost Face (and Other Stories)
Seven stories by Jack London, set in the Yukon and other northwestern localities. The most well-known story in this collection is probably T…
The Miniature - Read by DL
Read by David Lawrence
George Pope Morris
In The Miniature
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a p…
Harold
Read by DrPGould
Richard Middleton
In The Day Before Yesterday
This is a volume of short stories and essays by Richard Middleton. The British poet and author wrote a large number of short pieces during h…
Profiteer Williamson Pursues Culture by John J. Adams
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Aldous Huxley, Alan Porter, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell and Sherard Vines
In Wheels - The Fifth Cycle
The Fifth Cycle of the Wheels poetry anthology was published in 1920 and contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Alan Porter, Leah McTavish Coehn, …
Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects
Read by InTheDesert
John Newton
Among the excellences which appear in all the published letters of Newton, we may mention:In the first place, the grand design — the high an…
Return from Business
Read by Arthur Krolman
Aldous Huxley
In The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems
Though later known for his essays and novels, Aldous Huxley started his writing career as a poet. Published in 1918, The Defeat of Youth and…
Conclusion
Read by Diana Schmidt
Harold Fielding and Harold Fielding Hall
In The Soul of a People
In The Soul of a People, Englishman H. Fielding explores the beliefs of the Burmese people. He offers an understandable, and yet thorough, e…
Seed Thoughts
Read by InTheDesert
Joseph Caryl
There is a work which few men possess, and which we are assured that no man alive ever ventured to read through. It is in two mighty folios,…
In Old Concord
Read by Alayna Kennedy
Winthrop Packard
In Literary Pilgrimages of a Naturalist
Noted American Naturalist, Winthrop Packard, who gave us such titles as “Woodland Pastures,” “Wood Wanderings,” and “Wildwood Ways,” now tak…
An Agreement
Read by Kerry Adams
G. K. Chesterton
In The Queen of the Seven Swords
A collection of poems by G.K. Chesterton, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary. The title is in reference to the seven sorrows of Mary. “…
TWO VIEWS OF TOM CALDER
Read by Ed Humpal
Horatio Alger, Jr.
In Helping Himself; or Grant Thornton's Ambition (version 2)
“wish we were not so terribly poor, Grant," said Mrs. Thornton, in a discouraged tone. "Is there anything new that makes you say s…
Harold Arnett
Read by David Barnes
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
03 - Henry the Third
Read by Cori Samuel
E. Nesbit
In Royal Children of English History
From the first chapter: "History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the thin…
Chapter VIII The Mind Reader Strikesr
Read by cyndajm
Harold L. Goodwin
In The Electronic Mind Reader: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
Rick, Scotty and Barby concoct a plan to use hidden technology in a quiz show. In the background, the Coast Guard contacts Spindrift Scient…
The Wooden Tablet
Read by jcacciavillani
Norman Hinsdale Pitman
In A Chinese Wonder Book
The Chinese Wonder Book is a compilation of Chinese folk tales for children full of moral values and insightful stories of China's culture a…
Invocation
Read by Andree-Ann Granger
E. Nesbit
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham
Read by David Sweeney-Bear
H. G. Wells
In Short Science Fiction Collection 084
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Richard and His Family
Read by jenno
George MacDonald
In There and Back
An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in …
02 - Chapters 3 through 6
Read by Tom Weiss
Gilbert Parker
In The Right of Way
Charley Steele is a successful and brilliant Canadian lawyer. He has a nagging wife, Kathleen, and a lazy brother-in-law, Billy. In spite of…