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Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Type-Writer Girl
Read by Grant Hurlock
Grant Allen
(under the pseudonym Olive Pratt Rayner)"There is no more pathetic figure in our world to-day than the common figure of the poor young …
The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
These stories focus on the Creole society of New Orleans and in the process reveals issues facing black Americans at the end of the nineteen…
Pagan Papers
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Kenneth Grahame
We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered m…
The Future of the American Negro
Read by KirksVoice
Booker T. Washington
The history of African American enslavement, freedom from slavery, and the need for education as a prerequisite for success. - Summary by ki…
Douglas Livingstone Road To Lisdoonvarna
SANWAL
Road to Lisdoonvarna By Douglas Livingstone Most people who go to the match-making fair in County Clare protest that they're just …
Society as I Have Found It
Read by John Greenman
Ward Mcallister
Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…
Poems
Read by Newgatenovelist
Mary Coleridge
Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously me…
A Rambler's Lease
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Bradford Torrey
The writer of this little book has found so much pleasure in other men's woods and fields that he has come to look upon himself as in some s…
He
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Andrew Lang
This book is a parody of the famous swashbuckling novel, She, by H. Rider Haggard. (summary by Neeru Iyer)You will not think, therefore, tha…
The Lost Art of Reading
Read by Joseph Tabler
Gerald Stanley Lee
Gerald Stanley Lee speaks here-in of books and self in the time of factories, tall buildings and industry and big city making, the effects o…
Tobogganing
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Hattie Howard
"This author's verse shows a hearty, wholesome, human spirit, sometimes overflowing into downright fun, and a straightforward directnes…
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time
Read by Kyle James Maclean
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean
Romance
Read by Mark Leder
Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford
Second of three collaborations between Conrad and Ford. The hero and narrator, John Kemp, gets involved with smugglers, Caribbean pirates, …
Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Ere Sleep Comes Down to Soothe the Weary Eyes by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the fortnight…
Märchen
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Friedrich Wilhelm Hackländer
Sieben lange Märchen in einer schönen Sprache - Summary by seito
At Loafing-Holt
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of At Loafing-Holt by Paul Laurence Dunbar.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18…
Inspirational Reading: My Guide to Success
Amy Dong
Inspirational reading by Allia Vaez at Model's Baccalaureate service on Sunday, May 20th, 2012 at First Christian Church (Disciples of Chris…
Christmas in the Heart
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Christmas in the Heart by Paul Laurence Dunbar.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for De…