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Fortunio
Read by Linda Johnson
Laura Valentine
In The Old Old Fairy Tales
"Once upon a time a king had an extreme passion for silkworms..." So begins one story in this unusual collection. Here you may als…
Nettie's Visit
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
In Sidney Martin's Christmas (and Other Stories)
Sixty-two short pieces, many/most of them originally published in The Pansy, a magazine for children. The topics are many and varied, but mo…
Selected works
Read by Linda Dodge
Charles Grant Allen and Grant Allen
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
Laura
Read by Tim Casey
Saki
In Short Humor Collection 001
This is a collection of short humorous works first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
From the North
Read by Diana Majlinger
Sara Teasdale
In Rivers to the Sea
This is Sara Teasdale's third published collection of poetry. The collection was published in 1915, and contains the famous poem "I Sha…
Chapter 30
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
In Tremendous Trifles
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us ex…
On Common Sense
Read by Annyiee Hill
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…
Tessa
Read by John Biebel
Margaret Winslow
In Katie Robertson
Katie Robertson is a tale of a girl who takes on factory work as a means of assisting her widowed mother. The novel introduces the reader to…
Introducing the Churchwarden
Read by Nancy Gorgen
William Bowen
In The Old Tobacco Shop
A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure. Life is hard for a little boy who can't even say his own name, so he has …
Darby and Joan
Read by Phil Chenevert
St. John Honeywood
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 01
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the first volume, 53 short stories and poems have been gathered from 44 authors…
Her First Ball
Read by Linda McDaniel
Katherine Mansfield
In Short Story Collection Vol. 031
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.
Preface
Read by MelissaMarie
Timothy Dexter
In A Pickle For the Knowing Ones
Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …
Cora Lee
Read by Alan Mapstone
Palmer Cox
In Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…
Humoresque
Read by Bellona Times
Fannie Hurst
In American Women's Literature, 1847 to 1922
This is a collection of 20 short stories and long-form poetry by American women writers. (Summary by BellonaTimes)
Nettie's Trial
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
In Little Minnie, and Other Stories
This is a little book of very short stories or vignettes, about children and intended for children. Many of the stories reference the includ…
Up in a Balloon
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Laura Lee Hope
In The Bobbsey Twins at the County Fair
The Bobbsey Twins go on more exciting adventures, including Freddie and Flossie floating away in a run-away hot air balloon!This is the 15th…
Trix Severn in Peril
Read by Nancy Gorgen
Grace Brooks Hill
In The Corner House Girls at School
The adventures of the Corner House girls continue as they head off to school. - Summary by Lia LalloGrace Brooks Hill was a house pseudonym…
Consider the Sun
Read by Tricia Wheeler
Laura Goodman Salverson
In Wayside Gleams
Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings li…
To the Sun
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Clark Ashton Smith
In The Star-Treader and Other Poems
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…
The Scarlet Tanager by Joel Benton
Read by Sonia
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…