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My Father's Dragon
Read by Gregory Holdsworth
Ruth Stiles Gannett
A short story about a boy who befriends a cat and then sets off on an adventure to rescue a dragon.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater 1975, page 1
CBS Radio Mystery Theater
CBS Radio Mystery Theater was a long-running series of radio dramas created by Himan Brown and hosted by E.G. Marshall. These programs were …
Nature (version 2)
Read by Jesse Zuba
Ralph Waldo Emerson
First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emerson’s literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking…
The Sayings of Lao Tzu
Read by Nemo
Lao Tzu
Lao-Tzu, also known as Laozi was a Chinese philosopher believed to have lived in the 6th century BCE and is credited with writing the Tao-Te…
Father Goriot (version 2)
Read by Bruce Pirie
Honoré de Balzac
Father Goriot (Le Père Goriot), published in 1835, is widely considered to be Balzac's finest and most popular novel. It is set in Pa…
Eight Cousins (Version 3)
Read by Marina
Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and…
In His Steps (version 2 Dramatic Reading)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Charles Monroe Sheldon
After a strange event at the Raymond First Church, Reverend Henry Maxwell asks his congregation a startling question: Will they pledge to tr…
Bethink Yourselves!
Read by David Barnes
Leo Tolstoy
As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider the…
The Mountebank
Read by Simon Evers
William John Locke
Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his …
The American Claimant
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
The American Claimant is an 1892 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The story focuses on the class differences and expectatio…
Emily's Quest (Version 2)
Read by Nancy Halper
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Her school years behind her, Emily is back home at her beloved New Moon. She continues to climb “the Alpine path” as she watches her deares…
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Version 4)
Read by Mark F. Smith
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Dr. Watson sits down again to ruminate over his notes of all the mysteries he has joined Sherlock Holmes in investigating. In the “Memoirs o…
The Law
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Frédéric Bastiat
"The law perverted! The law—and, in its wake, all the collective forces of the nation. The law, I say, not only diverted from its prope…
The Autobiography of a Thief
Read by Ben Adams
Hutchins Hapgood
I met the ex-pickpocket and burglar whose autobiography follows soon after his release from a third term in the penitentiary. For several we…
The Railway Children (version 3)
Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)
E. Nesbit
When their father mysteriously goes away, three children and their story-writing mother leave their comfortable life in London and move to a…
The Enchanted April
Read by Diana Kiesners
Elizabeth Von Arnim
It’s a dreary February in post-World War I London when Mrs. Wilkins spots an advertisement in The Times for a small Italian castle for rent …
When a Man's a Man
Read by KevinS
Harold Bell Wright
When a Man's a Man is a novel written by Harold Bell Wright, an author who was quite popular in the first decades of the 20th Century. This …
Judge Burnham's Daughters
Read by TriciaG
Pansy
>Fifth in the Chautauqua Girls series. Ruth Erskine Burnham has helped raise her husband's two daughters, but all have rejected her faith…
Maiwa's Revenge; Or, The War of the Little Hand
Read by Derek Trial
H. Rider Haggard
While hunting elephants in the country of Wambe, big game Hunter Allan Quartermain gets word that an old friend, John Every, is a captive of…
Old Granny Fox (Version 2)
Read by Jude Somers
Thornton W. Burgess
Old Granny Fox and grandson Reddy Fox must use all their cunning to hunt up enough food to survive the long winter. Food in the Green Meadow…