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Imprisoned
In Just Sixteen
A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children - and enjo…
Borrowed Scenes
In Danger! and Other Stories
Danger! and Other Stories is a captivating collection of short tales by the renowned author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, best known for his creat…
The Guilty Man: A Study in Tragedy
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…
An Epitaph on Herself
In Poems (1686)
These are the original, tender and thoughtful poems of a young female artist who lived and died in seventeenth century London -- only 70 yea…
Envoi
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…
Ask a Foolish Question
In Great Explorers in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. I)
‘The Pioneer’ by Irving E. Cox The greatest explorer of them all returns to Earth and finds the world upside down!‘Flight Perilous’ by Ray C…
The Favourite Plot
In The Man who Understood Women, and Other Stories
This is a collection of 20 short stories by English novelist and playwright Leonard Merrick. The stories concern varied topics, and succeed …
Epitaph on a Sailor
In Short Story Collection Vol. 106
This collection is for any short story in the English Language in the public domain, selected and read by Librivox volunteers. This collecti…
Selected excerpts
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
VI. The Criminal
In These Little Ones
A collection of short stories for adults, mainly about children in hard times. The title references Matthew 18:6, which verse Nesbit include…
Ideal
In Forty-Two Poems
Forty-Two Poems is a captivating collection by James Elroy Flecker, showcasing the poet's unique voice and rich imagery. Through a diverse a…
To J. B. Y.
In Summer of Love
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
Preface to a Cookbook
In Short Story Collection Vol. 101
[quote]Here we present another diverse collection of short stories. We bring you classics such as Romeo and Juliet and Volodya, a little bit…
Psyche and the Pskyscraper
In Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characte…
Bourgonef, part 2
In The Lock and Key Library: Old Time English
The Lock and Key Library is a curated anthology of classic mystery and detective stories, skillfully assembled by Julian Hawthorne. This col…
'Conspiracy on Callisto' by Frederik Pohl
In Dastardly Criminals in Space (Ed Reads Short Sci-fi, vol. IV)
Conspiracy on Callisto - Frederik PohlRevolt was flaring on Callisto, and Peter Duane held the secret that would make the uprising a success…
Moment of Truth
In Short Science Fiction Collection 013
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological an…
Phases
In The Horses of the Hills and other Verses
Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, onc…
Introductory Note
In Something Childish and Other Stories
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
Epigrams by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 9: Tragedy and Humor (Part 2)
The ninth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…