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Read by Mike Harris


P. G. Wodehouse


A miscellaneous collection of short stories, not featuring any of Wodehouse's regular characters, most concern love and romance and, being W…

The Dragon and the Raven: Or The Days of King Alfred

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


During the reign of King Alfred, Danish forces have invaded the English countryside. Although the English try to repulse these attacks, they…

One of the 28th - a Tale of Waterloo

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


A tale of Victorian-style romance, maritime battles and even the penultimate Napoleonic battle - Waterloo. (Introduction by Mike Harris)

The Tiger of Mysore

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrec…

At Agincourt - White Hoods of Paris

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


The story begins in a grim feudal castle in Normandie. The times were troublous, and soon the king compelled Lady Margaret de Villeroy, with…

On the Irrawaddy, A Story of the First Burmese War

Read by Mike Harris


G. A. Henty


With the exception of the terrible retreat from Afghanistan, none of England's many little wars have been so fatal--in proportion to the num…

Plain Tales from the Hills

Read by Mike Harris


Rudyard Kipling


Named a "prophet of British imperialism" by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the cl…

23 - Episode 2-09

In Tartarin of Tarascon

Read by Mike Harris


Alphonse Daudet


The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures a…

09 - Chapter 4, Part 1

In The General History of the Pyrates

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Charles Johnson and Captain Charles Johnson


A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates is a 1724 book containing biographies of contemporary pirates. …

My New Year's Eve among the Mummies

In Short Story Collection Vol. 045

Read by Mike Harris


Grant Allen (writing as J. Arbuthnot Wilson) and Grant Allen


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 045: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.

08 - Soria Moria Castle

In East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Read by Mike Harris


Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe and Peter Christen Asbjørnsen


Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either food or clothing to give them. Pretty chil…

Hell's Dimension by Tom Curry

In Astounding Stories 16, April 1931

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various and Ray Cummings


Contents of this issue :-MONSTERS OF MARS EDMOND HAMILTON - Three Martian-Duped Earth-Men Swing Open the Gates of Space That for So Long…