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Brain Twister

Read by Catharine Eastman


Laurence M. Janifer


"Mark Phillips" is, or are, two writers: Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer. Their joint pen-name, derived from their middle …

The Shadows

Read by Catharine Eastman


George MacDonald


"Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen…

Two Poe Tales

Read by Catharine Eastman


Edgar Allan Poe


Edgar Allan Poe is best known for his famous short horror stories; however, horror is not the only genre in which he wrote. How To Write a B…

The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2)

Read by Catharine Eastman


H. G. Wells


Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow! As their experiment…

Dream Days

Read by Catharine Eastman


Kenneth Grahame


Dream Days is a collection of children's fiction and reminiscences of childhood written by Kenneth Grahame. A sequel to Grahame's 1895 colle…

Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Read by Catharine Eastman


Lewis Carroll


Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvi…

Struwwelpeter

Read by Catharine Eastman


Heinrich Hoffmann


Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishment…

Bk 2, Purgatory: Canto I - Canto V

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Catharine Eastman


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Letter K and L

In The Foolish Dictionary

Read by Catharine Eastman


Gideon Wurdz and Charles Wayland Towne


"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 190…

Version 2

In If

Read by Catharine Eastman


Rudyard Kipling


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of January 29, 2006: This popular piece was voted Britain’s favourite poem in a BBC opinion po…

The Ransom of Red Chief

In Short Story Collection Vol. 006

Read by Catharine Eastman


O. Henry


LibriVox's Short Story Collection 006: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox member…

Dover Beach

In Short Poetry Collection 001

Read by Catharine Eastman


Matthew Arnold


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 001: a collection of 29 public-domain poems.

Psalm 096

In Bible (WEB) 19: Psalms - Selections

Read by Catharine Eastman


World English Bible


To celebrate Easter, LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of various psalms from the World English Bible. This was the w…

Sonnet 130 - read by CE

In Sonnet 130

Read by Catharine Eastman


William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal…

The Children of the Zodiac

In Short Story Collection Vol. 001

Read by Catharine Eastman


Rudyard Kipling


LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.

Version 2

In Song (Donne version)

Read by Catharine Eastman


John Donne


LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of the short poem Song by John Donne, a weekly poetry project. Song is a bitter littl…

The Return of Ulysses

In The Wind in the Willows

Read by Catharine Eastman


Kenneth Grahame


This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure … and as adventure pursues them!…

Version 6

In Art and Heart

Read by Catharine Eastman


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 3…

Chapter 33

In Jane Eyre

Read by Catharine Eastman


Charlotte Brontë


Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished wit…