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R D. Wingfield Adequate Reasons
A young child has gone missing. There is a complex interplay between police, parents and kidnapper ... and a most surprising resolution. 'As…
Phantasmagoria and other poems
Read by Rosslyn Carlyle
Lewis Carroll
This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual appro…
The House with the Twisting Passage
Read by Xenutia
Marion St. John Webb
When Jenny goes to stay with her Aunt Abby, a caretaker in a grand old manor-house, she discovers a wonderful twisting passage on the second…
Lady Into Fox (Version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
David Garnett
An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly …
The Red Room
Read by William Peck
August Strindberg
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…
The Golden Bough
Read by Tony Oliva
George Gibbs
The eyes of the Légionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of…
Modern Monologues
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Marjorie Benton Cooke
The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the t…
Knight - Errant
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Madison Cawein
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Knight - Errant by Madison Cawein.This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. …
A Valentine
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Lewis Carroll
This poem is taken from Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll. (Summary by David Lawrence)
Robert Browning (Version 2)
Read by Owlivia
G. K. Chesterton
This mystery of the unconscious man, far deeper than any mystery of the conscious one, existing as it does in all men, existed peculiarly in…
The Powder of Sympathy
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Christopher Morley
Another collection of mostly short “soliloquys” from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: “… these p…
Oak and Ivy
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062
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Various
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…
Cock-House at Fellsgarth
Read by Jim Locke
Talbot Baines Reed
A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von
Patrick Hamilton Hangover Square
SANWAL
Hangover Square Dramatised by Sam Boardman-Jacobs Patrick Hamilton's novel is set in pre-war Earls Court. Everyone is frantically pursuing a…
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl
Read by Paul Henry Tremblay
John Greenleaf Whittier
A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator's childhood. (Summary by Paul Tremblay)
The Temptation Of St. Anthony
Read by Tony Addison
Gustave Flaubert
An extraordinary work of the aesthetic imagination, cast in the form of a psycho-drama detailing the events of one night in the life of the …
The Fountain
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James Russell Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Fountain by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for December 14th, 2…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
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Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
Retort
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Retort by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for August 23rd, 2009.