Fiction
The Tale of Grandfather Mole
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950-2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children's books.Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newar…
Short Story Collection Vol. 030
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 030: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Monsieur Beaucaire
Read by Thomas A. Copeland
Booth Tarkington
A madcap Frenchman posing as an ambassador's barber blackmails a dishonest duke to introduce him as a nobleman to a wealthy belle of Bath. S…
Checkwolf - Book 1
Read by Remy Gibson
Remy Gibson
Checkwolf is a crimefighting organization, a group of talented vigilantes who have come together to battle corruption in their own way. Led …
Peggy Raymond's School Days (or Old Girls And New)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Harriet Lummis Smith
Published in 1916, this third installment with The Friendly Terrace girls places them in The Girl’s High School, with an array of new charac…
The Copper Princess
Read by Betsie Bush
Kirk Munroe
The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines is an adventure set in the beautiful Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The delightful story …
The Chronicles of Count Antonio
Read by Brett W. Downey
Anthony Hope
How it fell out that Count Antonio, a man of high lineage, forsook the service of his Prince, disdained the obligation of his rank, set law …
The Light That Failed
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Rudyard Kipling
This novel, first published in 1890, follows the life of Dick Heldar, a painter. Most of the novel is set in London, but many important even…
The Calico Cat
Read by Allyson Hester
Charles Miner Thompson
This is a cute story of a mysterious feline annoyance and the result of a man acting upon his annoyance. The cat begins a vicious spiral of …
The United States of Air: a Satire
Read by J.M. Porup
J.M. Porup
The National Sewer Agency is spying on people's toilets, looking for food terrorists... Food Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in Ame…
Modeste Mignon
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Honoré de Balzac
Modeste Mignon, a young provincial woman of romantic temperament, imagines herself to be in love with the famous Parisian poet Melchior de C…
The Moon and Sixpence (version 2)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
W. Somerset Maugham
The Moon and Sixpence is a 1919 short novel by William Somerset Maugham based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin. The story is told in …
Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness!
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Selma Lagerlöf
“Thy Soul shall bear Witness” (Körkarlen) by the Swedish Nobel Laureate Selma Lagerlöf is a kind of spooky Novel. It was first pub…
Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace)
Read by Daryl Wor
Harriet Lummis Smith
In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from…
A Journey from This World to the Next
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry Fielding
The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andre…
That Mother-in-Law of Mine
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
William James Mcglothlin
Here we were, only a month married, and spending our honeymoon at a most charming summer resort, where there was no excuse for getting out o…
Clouds Cover the Campus
Read by Maria Therese
Daniel A. Lord
On an American college campus, in the early years of World War II, a professor from Germany is murdered and the plans for a new bomb sight h…
A Dancing Bear
Read by David Free
David Free
What if getting the girl meant becoming a terrorist wet boy? On an unnamed university campus late in the 20th century, a young man named Fen…
Weapons of Mystery
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Joseph Hocking
Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire…
The Rebel Rose
Read by Deanna Bovee
Justin Mccarthy
The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her fami…