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Best Way to Read a Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Edgar A. Guest
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…
An Essay on Man
Read by Martin Geeson
Alexander Pope
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in th…
John Gutenberg, First Master Printer: His Acts and Most Remarkable Discourses a…
Read by Claudia Salto
Franz Von Dingelstedt
This is a brief sketch of the last years of the life of Johannes (John) Gutenberg, the man who invented the movable letter press. We join hi…
Coleshanger
Read by Norman E Williams
Norman E Williams
“Coleshanger people are pretty bad,” said Uncle Edward. “They won’t cross water after sunset. And they have to be in bed by midnight, otherw…
Writing Wrongly
Read by Thomas Corfield
Thomas Corfield
When the worst writer in history self-publishes his books, the world of literature is decimated overnight. Illiteracy becomes something to a…
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes
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Leroy F. Jackson
This is a Nursery Rhyme Book with lots of delightful short, rhyming stories that are meant to be read aloud to small children. They are vint…
The Red Room
Read by William Peck
August Strindberg
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various s…
The Prairie - A Tale
Read by William Peck
James Fenimore Cooper
The story opens with Ishmael, his family, Ellen and Abiram slowly making their way across the virgin prairies of the Midwest looking for a h…
Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens
Read by Ray Clare
G. K. Chesterton
“These papers were originally published as prefaces to the separate books of Dickens in one of the most extensive of those cheap libraries o…
The Raven and Other Poems
Read by Phil Chenevert
Edgar Allan Poe
"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—While I nodded,…
Black Oxen
Read by Lynne T
Gertrude Atherton
Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet…
The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter
Read by Phil Chenevert
Ambrose Bierce
A tragic but very captivating tale of a monk in the 17th century.
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes (Version 2)
Read by LittlePeanut
Leroy F. Jackson
PETER PATTER told them to me,All the little rimes,Whispered them among the bushesHalf a hundred times.Peter lives upon a mountainPretty near…
Poems & Parodies
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Tom Kettle
Tom Kettle was an Irish economist, journalist, barrister, writer, poet, soldier and Home Rule politician. All these varied interests helped …
Ravensdene Court
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
J. S. Fletcher
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court…
The Dawn of a To-morrow
Read by Linda Andrus
Frances Hodgson Burnett
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day…
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Read by Peter Tucker
Sir Walter Scott
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…
An Essay Upon Wind, with Curious Anecdotes of Eminent Peuters
Read by Ben Tucker
Charles James Fox
Purported to be written by noted British Parliamentarian Charles James Fox as a result of a wager, this important and engaging essay is a me…