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Scenes 18: A Parliamentary Sketch
In Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People
Sketches by Boz is a captivating collection of short pieces by Charles Dickens, first published in 1836. This work offers a vivid glimpse in…
The Coin of Dionysius
In Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifet…
Mimi
In The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories
The Matador of the Five Towns is a collection of twenty-two short stories by Arnold Bennett, offering a vivid portrayal of life in the ficti…
Selected excerpts
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 04
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…
Barbox Brothers & Co. from 'Mugby Junction'
In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters…
Day 5, Conclusion
In The Decameron
The Decameron is a rich tapestry of 100 novellas woven by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, crafted during the mid-14th century. Set ag…
The Game Played In The Dark
In Short Mystery Story Collection 001
Delve into the intriguing world of mystery with this collection of ten short stories, expertly curated to showcase the art of suspense and d…
Man-size in Marble
In Ghost Story Collection 001
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyo…
The Regent
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel.Denry Machin is now forty-th…
When William Came
We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is anothe…
Vera's First Christmas Adventure
In Christmas Short Works Collection 2007
Celebrate the spirit of the season with the Christmas Short Works Collection, a delightful anthology of public domain stories, essays, poems…
Bladys of the Stewponey
The setting, geography and history of this story by Rev'd Sabine Baring-Gould, author of Onward Christian Soldiers and a number of other wel…
No 2 Branch Line - The Engine Driver from Mugby Junction
In Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 3
2012 is the 200th anniversary of Dickens' birth. This is the third volume of this collection, which aimed to catalogue as many as possible o…
Yet Again
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard …
Muse and Mint
Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…
The Need
In All That Matters
A collection of poems about life. Written in an easy and interesting style this book includes poems about many parts of family life, motherh…
The Stockbroker's Clerk
In The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Version 4)
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 History of Mr. Polly
A funny and touching account of the imaginative Mr. Polly who, bored and trapped in his conventional life, makes a U-turn –- and changes eve…
Invocation
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
The Squealer
In 1920s London, a mysterious informant - known only as the Squealer - is systematically betraying London's criminal class to the authoritie…