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"Toussaint L'Ouverture," Wendell Phillips
Read by Jim Locke
Alice Dunbar Nelson
In The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer
Ms. Pinckney says in her "Forward" to this book the following: "It is against this background of the world need that Mrs. Ali…
Leo Tolstoy
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
G. K. Chesterton
Three men of letters give insightful essays on the work of Leo Tolstoy. (Summary by Larry Wilson)
An Audience With Abraham Lincoln
Read by Utek
T. B. Bancroft
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 066
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Why Women Should Vote" (Jane Addams, 1910) is one of several selections devo…
The Structure
Read by Foon
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
In Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a singl…
Chapter Three
Read by Tony Addison
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In The Crocodile
Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the be…
Part 1 Sevastopol in December 1854
Read by David Wales
Leo Tolstoy
In Sevastopol
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Севастопольские рассказы, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and publish…
What's He Doing in There?
Read by Thomas Ermon
Fritz Leiber
In Short Science Fiction Collection 063
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is p…
Theo and his Horses; Jane, Betsy, and Blanche by Théophile Gautier
Read by Winnifred Assmann
Théophile Gautier
In Coffee Break Collection 038 - Horses
This is the 38th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifte…
Prologue
Read by Phil Chenevert
E. E. “Doc” Smith
In Gray Lensman
Kimball Kinnison becomes a Gray Lensman. This name comes from the simple gray leathers these superior lensmen wear that has no insignia of…
Exerpt from The Genius by Theodore Dreiser
Read by ChadH94
Theodore Dreiser
In Short Story Collection Vol. 082
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan D…
Answer Me
Read by Newgatenovelist
Adah Isaacs Menken
In Infelicia
Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous a…
Three Questions by Leo Tolstoy
Read by ChadH94
Leo Tolstoy
In Short Story Collection Vol. 084
And so we present the 84th Librivox Short Story Collection! Each tale is selected and read by a Librivox volunteer. Once again, we have a wi…
To Roosevelt
Read by Newgatenovelist
Rubén Darío
In Selected Poems
Rubén Darío was a Nicaraguan poet and the founder of the modernismo literary movement. These English-language translations are…
The Corpus Delicti
Read by Dale Grothmann
Eli Colter
In Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 016
We are back with the 16th Librivox Short Mystery and Suspense Collection! Readers are invited to select and submit mystery or suspense stori…
The Ermine
Read by Larry Wilson
Various
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 30, May 25, 1880
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
To a Pianist
Read by Newgatenovelist
Theodore Wratislaw
In Orchids
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Paulus Epigram and The Answer
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One
Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is…
Written on a Fly-Leaf of Theocritus by Maurice Thompson
Read by Craig Franklin
Maurice Thompson
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 2)
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, incl…
The Great Bear
Read by Alan Davis Drake (1945-2010)
Leo Tolstoy
In Short Story Collection Vol. 030
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.
The Earth-Errand
Read by Bruce Kachuk
Arthur Upson
In Sonnets and Songs
Arthur Upson's insightful and sensitive poetic art is grandly displayed in this selection of some of his best work. As a tribute to Upson, R…