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Chapter 28 - Miss Docimer
Read by tabithat
Anthony Trollope
In Ayala's Angel
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their …
Quilt, Book and Bard
Read by Bryna Chalmer
Bryna Chalmer
For years the picture of the man with the oxcart has hung on the wall of her Aunt and Uncle's house. It never occurred to Tory that one day …
XXXIX. The Labyrinth
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Sax Rohmer
In The Yellow Claw
When a woman is murdered at mystery writer Henry Loureoux's apartment, Scotland Yard inspector Dunbar begins his investigation with a note t…
The Fairies of Pesth
Read by Diana Schmidt
Eugene Field
In A Little Book of Profitable Tales
An anthology of charming short stories, written by the poet for his only daughter Mary. The style is simple and conversational, sometimes de…
The Fairies by W. Allingham
Read by Patrick Saville
Kenneth Grahame
In The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children
A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too…
6 - The Dragon Tamers
Read by Laurie Anne Walden
E. Nesbit
In The Book of Dragons
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses…
For a Comforter
Read by Kathy Jacobs
Cornelia Mee
In Exercises in Knitting
Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain prac…
Chapters 24 through 28
Read by Tom Weiss
W. Somerset Maugham
In Of Human Bondage
Of Human Bondage, published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s li…
Chapter IV. Her Majesty's throne-room
Read by Gail Timmerman Vaughan
Katharine Carl
In With the Empress Dowager of China
Through the eyes of an artist, With the Empress Dowager of China provides a glimpse of life in the Chinese Imperial Court, unseen by any oth…
Chapter 8
Read by Kirsten Wever
Anthony Trollope
In The Belton Estate
Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other th…
Flowers
Read by Ben Tucker
G. Ranger Wormser
In The Scarecrow and Other Stories
G. Ranger Wormser was a forgotten master of horror fiction, specializing in a kind of creeping dread and subtle psychological horror that wo…
The Bathers
Read by Winston Tharp
Hart Crane
In The Early Poems of Hart Crane
A collection of Hart Crane poems published before 1923.These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (The Pagan, The Double Deal…
Winter Beauty
Read by Alan Mapstone
Ivor Gurney
In Severn and Somme
The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area…
The Mallows
Read by BettyB
Various
In Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief …
The Haunter
Read by Sonia
Thomas Hardy
In Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous…
Black Oxen
Read by Lynne T
Gertrude Atherton
Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet…
Hope
Read by Ellies
Alfred Castner King
In Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…
For a Cynic
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
The Marshes of Glynn
Read by SilverG
Sidney Lanier
In Short Poetry Collection 080
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of June 2009.
Between 13 and 14, Rosemary Street
Read by Sonia
Richard Marsh
In The Joss: a Reversion
Mary Blyth, a sales clerk who is robbed, nearly murdered and then fired from her job, thinks her luck has changed when she inherits an old h…