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Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
Best Way to Read a Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Edgar A. Guest
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…
The Cat
Read by Stefan Von Blon
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox readers bring you 10 full-cast productions: from stories and fables for children, to a comical, self-satirizing play; from short my…
Short Nonfiction Collection
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
The Perfect Reader
Read by Carol Box
Christopher Morley
In Christmas Short Works Collection 2013
A selection of poems, short stories and other prose for the Christmas season in English, Finnish and German.
The Catspaw
Read by Dale Grothmann
Ward Sterling and Harold Ward
In Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 008
This is the eighth Librivox Mystery and Suspense Collection, and the first in eight years. Similar to our Short Story Collections, this anth…
The Book of Cats
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charles Henry Ross
One day, ever so long ago, it struck me that I should like to try and write a book about Cats. I mentioned the idea to some of my friends: t…
The Clever Cat
Read by mleigh
Mary Hannay Foott
In Morna Lee, and Other Poems
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, &…
Teasing the Cat
Read by Foon
Arthur Scott Bailey
In The Tale of Old Dog Spot
Another book in the Sleepy Time series of Tuck Me In tales, this time we meet Old Dog Spot, who lives with Johnnie Green on his parents farm…
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…
Imitated from Catullus
Read by czandra
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In Hours of Idleness
Hours of Idleness was Byron's first book of poems published when he was only 19. In it he experiments with various poetic styles and provid…
Lines to the Stormy Petrel by Anonymous
Read by Sonia
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2)
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
The New Catacomb
Read by Dominic Moore
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Tales of Terror and Mystery
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery a…
The Brazilian Cat
Read by David Wales
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Round The Fire Stories
In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—suc…
The Sandy Cat
Read by ConnorE53
Lucy Clifford
In Very Short Stories And Verses For Children
Very Short Stories And Verses For Children is a children's book by Lucy Clifford compiling stories and poems informing the little ones about…
Kitty of Coleraine by Charles Dawson Shanly
Read by Sonia
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)
The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…
The Sandy Cat
Read by SilentCipher
Lucy Clifford
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 055
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 055: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Cat Show
Read by Lynne T
Various
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 06, Dec. 9, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
London by John Davidson
Read by Sonia
Various
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 2)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, co…