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The Gallery
Read by Ted Ryan
Rog Phillips
In Short Science Fiction Collection 019
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Andrew Johnson, December 9, 1868, part 2
Read by Pete McElveen
Abraham Lincoln
In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1861 - 1868)
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…
XVIII. Unexpected Visitors
Read by VfkaBT
Arthur M. Winfield
In The Rover Boys on Land and Sea
The Boys are off on another series of adventures, beginning in San Francisco, where a run in with arch-enemy Dan Baxter leads them into the …
Part 3
Read by Ben Prince
Franz Kafka
In The Metamorphosis (version 5)
Inexplicably, young Gregor Samsa wakes up one morning having turned into a large bug. The story follows how him and his family deal with the…
4 - Section 4
Read by Roger Melin
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
In The Courage of the Commonplace
The short story of a young man who came to terms with himself and became a man on a day when he had proven to be a failure to his family, hi…
Andrew Jackson's Nick-Name
Read by Bill Boerst
Mara L. Pratt
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 010
LibriVox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 010: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
Reading for All
Read by Larry Wilson
Charles Knight
In The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 1
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
Book V, Chapter I
Read by Greg Giordano
Washington Irving
In Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 2
Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history an…
Chapter 1
Read by Ingrid Kennedy
Henry Cadwallader Adams
In Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story…
The Political Career of Andrew Jackson Part 2 - Thomas H. Benton
Read by Ted Lienhart
Various
In The World's Best Orations, Volume 2
Who does not delight in oratory? How we gather to hear even an ordinary speaker! How often is a jury swayed and controlled by the appeals of…
Chapter 4
Read by VfkaBT
Louis Joseph Vance
In Joan Thursday
Minor potboiler is a change of pace from the author of the Lone Wolf detective series. Tenement beauty (and wannabe stage-star) Joan Thursb…
The Question
Read by Inkell
Stephen Phillips
In Poems
A short collection of poems by the Oxford-born poet and playwright Stephen Phillips including his two major works Marpessa and Christ In Had…
Little Andrew
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Julia A. Moore
In The Sentimental Song Book
Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its …
Lost Leaders
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Andrew Lang
Andrew Lang, best beloved for his series of fairy books, has collected here essays on wide ranging topics from golf and shaving to Thackeray…
Thought of Stevenson
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Arthur Upson
In Sonnets and Songs
Arthur Upson's insightful and sensitive poetic art is grandly displayed in this selection of some of his best work. As a tribute to Upson, R…
To Andrew Lang
Read by K L Brooks
Robert Louis Stevenson
In Underwoods (Book 1)
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and poet best known for his children's adventure stories. Born in Edinburgh he travelled exte…
Book 2, Chapter 8, Anthony Trollope's Lucy Robarts and Griselda Grantly
Read by Jim Locke
William Dean Howells
In Heroines of Fiction
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bro…
The Meeting of the Columns by Don Marquis
Read by Tom Merritt
Margaret Widdemer
In A Tree with a Bird in it
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…