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Arthur Gray Butler
In The Three Friends; A Story of Rugby in the Forties
This is a novel that describes the life of three friends while they are attending Rugby School. The work illustrates for the reader many of …
Chapter 13
Read by DaleBarkley
Ellis Parker Butler
In In Pawn
Inspired by "Lives of the Saints", fat, lazy, good-for-nothing Harvey Redding decides to give up the junk-collecting business, and…
That Pup, Part 2
Read by KirksVoice
Ellis Parker Butler
In Ellis Parker Butler Short Story Collection, Vol 1
Ellis Parker Butler was an American author. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. These are eight…
III
Read by Scotty Smith
Ellis Parker Butler
In The Incubator Baby
Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewin…
Apparitions
Read by nbvoices
Robert Browning
In Robert Browning 200th Anniversary Collection
For this collection, LibriVox volunteers made their own selections from Robert Browning's poetry and prose to celebrate the 200th anniversar…
NEXT TO READING MATTER
Read by Scott Foster
O. Henry
In Roads of Destiny
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid
The Ingrate
Read by KirksVoice
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
Chapter 48a - Bears Tidings Of Martin And Of Mark, As Well As Of A Third Person…
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
In Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word…
Light
Read by Alan Mapstone
James Hebblethwaite
In The Poems of James Hebblethwaite
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a …
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler and Henry Festing Jones
Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he …
Roy Butler
Read by David Barnes
Edgar Lee Masters
In Spoon River Anthology
This is a collection of poems, in the form of an entire community speaking from beyond the grave about their lives, and, in some cases, goss…
For Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Read by Michael MacTaggert
Countee Cullen
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
26 - Ben Butler's Money
Read by William A Crenshaw
Cole Younger
In The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself
Autobiography of Cole Younger, American Civil War veteran and member of the Jesse James gang. Cole Younger was a member of Quantrill's Raide…
Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward
Read by Tori Faulder
Horatio Alger, Jr.
In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets y…
06 The Mark On The Door
Read by David Wales
Joseph C. Lincoln and Joseph Crosby Lincoln
In Cape Cod Stories
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an Amer…
"The Fugitive Slave's Apostrophe to the North Star," John Pierpont
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…
Abou Ben Butler
Read by sid
John Paul
In The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 06
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the sixth volume, 55 short stories and poems have been gathered from 42 authors…
Rondeau
Read by Shawn Craig Smith
Paul Laurence Dunbar and Leigh Hunt
In Short Poetry Collection 080
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of June 2009.
Whittier
Read by Andrew Kennedy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
My Late Senatorial Secretaryship
Read by Ben Tucker
Mark Twain
In A Curious Dream and Other Sketches
Celebrated American humorist Mark Twain delivers a delightful collection of the witty stories for which he is so well known. From the stran…