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The Uncalled
Read by Jim Locke
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Orphaned Freddie Brent ends up adopted by an old local Christian lady who knows nothing about raising a child. And matters are worsened by h…
Short Poetry Collection 102
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2011.
Shape Shifters
Read by S. Lawrence Parrish
S. Lawrence Parrish
The sun sets. The moon rises. And the night howls...
The people in the foothills town of Black Diamond are thrilled to hear of government pl…
One of Ours
Read by Tom Weiss
Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather's wartime …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 089
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
"From vocalists you may learn much, but do not believe all that they say." Robert Schumann's Advice to Young Musicians is replete …
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
In the Wilderness (Version 2)
Read by Jessica Zdanowicz
Charles Dudley Warner
Warner’s main theme is how small and often-ridiculous the human being is when exploring in the wilderness. Warner’s love of nature and his c…
Riceyman Steps
Read by Anthony Ogus
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…
Oomphel in the Sky
Read by Mark Nelson
H. Beam Piper
Natives of the distant planet of Kwannon believe that their world is about to end, and in preparing for the apocalypse, may be unnecessarily…
Serve It Cold
Read by Ronnie Blackwell
Ronnie Blackwell
Detective Jonny C. Speed’s life can’t get much better. He’s booked into the French Quarter’s most luxurious guesthouse, and his day job as …
Skiddoo!
Read by Laurie Banza
Hugh Mchugh
John Henry is quite a character! King of the "Beloved of the Short Arm Jab". John Henry has his own unique perspective on the even…
David Ransom's Watch
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
A tale of human choices and lost opportunities, and how one's choices affect so many other lives, for good or ill.A borrowed watch. A selfis…
Beyond the Stars
Read by Nemo
Charles Hanson Towne
Charles Hanson Towne was a well known editor, author and poet. He was a popular New York celebrity who was considered by many as being the q…
Lin McLean
Read by David Wales
Owen Wister
Lin McLean is an unaffected, attractive young cowboy in the Wyoming territory before statehood. This book is various stories in his life. (S…
The Stark Munro Letters
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"The letters of my friend Mr. Stark Munro appear to me to form so connected a whole, and to give so plain an account of some of the tro…
Somehow Good
Read by Helen Taylor
William Frend De Morgan
A mysterious man arrives in London and, in a freak accident, gets electrocuted on an underground train and loses his memory. A young lady ca…
The Fisher's Boy
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry David Thoreau
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of the Fisher’s Boy by Henry David Thoreau. This was the weekly poetry project for the…
Twenty Years' Experience as a Ghost Hunter
Read by Mark F. Smith
Elliott O'Donnell
After having a difficult time establishing a career as a novelist, O’Donnell discovered to his happy surprise that the reading public was ve…
An Amiable Charlatan
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
Bob Bowen Comes To Town
Read by Howard Skyman
Henry James O'Brien Bedford-Jones and H. Bedford-Jones
Bob Bowen is a free spirited young man who likes to take chances. However after a chance meeting on a train with a high stakes mining stock …