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Read by Lynda Marie Neilson
Victor Daley
In At Dawn And Dusk
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocke…
Part 2
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Richard Harding Davis
In A Wasted Day
This is a delightful little story about the most successful banker on Wall Street, who finds his philanthropic side when one of his former e…
Mr. Ford and Other Political Self-Starters
Read by Anthony St. Pierre
Various
In Short Story Collection Vol. 113
Here we present the 113th edition of the Librivox Short Story Collection. Once again, readers selected their own texts, and, as always, have…
Essay on Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Read by Bruce Pirie
Charles Dudley Warner
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 05
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…
A Distinguished Guest
Read by Roman Noble
Richard Middleton
In The Day Before Yesterday
This is a volume of short stories and essays by Richard Middleton. The British poet and author wrote a large number of short pieces during h…
Luke's Suggestion
Read by Saethon
Richard Marsh
In The Joss: a Reversion
Mary Blyth, a sales clerk who is robbed, nearly murdered and then fired from her job, thinks her luck has changed when she inherits an old h…
The Crow
Read by Larry Wilson
Henry David Thoreau
In Poems of Nature
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…
Mary Lyth
Read by Lynne T
Richard Doddridge Blackmore
In Mary Anerley
It is 1801, in the wild and rugged country that is northern England. A local Squire has died but his manor, Scargate Hall, is left to two si…
CHAPTER V: BILL JUSTIFIES HIS CREATION
Read by Mark Nelson
Clarence Edward Mulford
In The Orphan
Many men swore that The Orphan was bad, and many swore profanely and with wonderful command of epithets because he was bad, but for obvious …
On Public Diversions
Read by AlvinJPrice
John Wesley
In Sermons on Several Occasions, Third-Fifth Series
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …
14 - Grace
Read by Richard Wallis
James Joyce
In Dubliners
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)
Dr. Armstrong, by D. L. B. S.
Read by Wayne Cooke
Charles Wells Moulton
In The Doctor's Red Lamp
A fictional series of short stories from various authors, each containing stories of doctors. The compiled set of stories has various ranges…
Pleasure's Signs
Read by Garfield Dsouza
Edgar A. Guest
In Rhymes of Childhood
Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …
Mr. Julius Rosenwald Interviewed
Read by KevinS
Carl Sandburg
In The Chicago Race Riots, July 1919
Carl Sandburg's succinct reporting on and reflections upon the race riots that broke out In Chicago in July 1919. - Summary by KevinS
To an Old Friend
Read by Kendra Sanders
Edgar A. Guest
In When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …
The Readers Corner
Read by Bill Boerst
Captain S. P. Meek
In Astounding Stories 12, December 1930
This issue includes "Slaves of the Dust" by Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Part B of "The Pirate Planet" by Charles W. Diffin, &qu…
Readers' Corner, Part 2
Read by Bill Boerst
various and Ray Cummings
In Astounding Stories 17, May 1931
This issue of the science-fiction magazine includes a novella by Charles W. Diffin titled "Dark Moon" and several short stories, i…
Bacon
Read by Ed Humpal
Charles Badger Clark
In Sun and Saddle Leather
Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost …
Iceland
Read by Kerry Adams
Harry Graham
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
The More Excellent Way
Read by MaryAnne
John Wesley
In Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the …