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In Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse

Read by Liza R. Fox


David Cory


David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This is one in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss in…

A Lament

In Poems

Read by Liza R. Fox


Lady Jane Francesca Wilde


Jane Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza. She was politically active as an Irish natio…

The Mouse, The Bird, and The Sausage

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 034

Read by Liza R. Fox


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 034: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Read by Reynard T. Fox


Edgar Allan Poe


The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1841. Poe referred to it as a "tale of ratiocination…

Just So Stories

Read by Reynard T. Fox


Rudyard Kipling


The Just So Stories for Little Children, first published in 1902, were written by British author Rudyard Kipling. They are a collection of f…

The Return

Read by Reynard T. Fox


H. Beam Piper


Two-hundred years after a global nuclear war, two explorers from a research outpost, that largely survived the cataclysm, discover a settlem…

The U.P. Trail

Read by Bob R


Zane Grey


Grey's story of the struggles to build the Union Pacific Railroad in the late 1860's. Typical western characters, but placed in a factual se…

Whispering Smith

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


Whispering Smith, like most of Frank Spearman's western novels (and some non-fiction as well) are set in the world of railroads, in the late…

Demon Draw

Read by R. Moses


R. Moses


A city old in prestige and hate... A woman torn between duty and love... And a plague of demons with no end to the horror in sight... Valena…

The Crossing

Read by Bob R


Winston Churchill


This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the p…

Laramie Holds The Range

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


As with most of Frank Spearman's novels (and non-fiction), "Laramie Holds the Range" is set in the West during our early railroad …

The Country House

Read by Bob R


John Galsworthy


In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth…

The Painted Veil

Read by Bob R


W. Somerset Maugham


This Maugham classic is set in England and Hong Kong and in a cholera --ridden Chinese village in the 1920's. A committed, principled, epide…

The Winning of Barbara Worth

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


This is a fairly substantial western, written in 1911 by Harold Bell Wright, then a major bestselling author. (His best-known novel is “The …

The Conquest of Canaan

Read by Bob R


Booth Tarkington


Small town middle America in early 1900's---Ne'er-do-well Joe Louden loves daughter of wealthy judge, from afar---leaves town, goes to law s…

Robert Kimberly

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society …

The Daughter of a Magnate

Read by Bob R


Frank H. Spearman


This is an American Western without any bad guys. The main characters are trains, and the elements---snow, terrain, weather and water. Fra…

The Rising of the Tide

Read by Bob R


Ida M. Tarbell


The subtitle is "the story of Sabinsport", and the town is the major character. It is a small, Midwestern town in the USA, in 1914…

Poor White: a Novel

Read by Bob R


Sherwood Anderson


This is a story of the effect of industrialization on a small town and its people, around the beginning of the 20th Century. The lead charac…

Helen of the Old House

Read by Bob R


Harold Bell Wright


Helen is not the main character; it is the mill, in this small town in the first half of the 20th century. This is a story of labor strife, …

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