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Read by Frank Malanga
John Michael Sharkey
In Short Science Fiction Collection 043
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
An Amiable Charlatan
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
The Week
Read by SilasF
Charles Knight
In The penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, issue 7
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
A Lickpenny Lover
Read by Michael Thomas Robinson
O. Henry
In Short Story Collection Vol. 035
A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members.
The Contact Point
Read by Colleen McMahon
John Michael Sharkey
In Short Science Fiction Collection 079
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…
A Practical Joke
Read by Michael Thomas Robinson
Guy de Maupassant
In Short Story Collection Vol. 024
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 024: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Suzy
Read by Roger Melin
Watson Parker
In Short Science Fiction Collection 044
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
The Super Opener
Read by James Jenkins
Michael Zuroy
In Short Science Fiction Collection 075
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…
AN APPRECIATION BY BRANDER MATTHEWS & INTRODUCTION BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
In Europe and Elsewhere
This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were…
The Business, As Usual
Read by Sean'O
John Michael Sharkey
In Short Science Fiction Collection 070
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…
Boy or Girl?
Read by Jenn Broda
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 …
The Midnight Messenger
Read by Josh Kibbey
Various
In Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern na…
Eight Brand New Bits of Christmas Cheer
Read by Charlotte Duckett
John Kendrick Bangs
In LibriVox 8th Anniversary Collection
For the past few years we have celebrated the anniversary of LibriVox with a collection loosely themed on the number of the anniversary year…
Steam Packet
Read by MichaelMaggs
William James McGlothlin
In Coffee Break Collection 034 - Vacations
This is the 34th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read Public Domain stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction p…
Joe, the Jam-Eater
Read by Don W. Jenkins
F. Anstey
In Mr. Punch's Model Music-hall Songs & Dramas
F. Anstey was the nom de plume of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, a Londoner who was trained for the bar but found success as a writer of humorous pi…
Day 8, The Seventh Story
Read by miette
Giovanni Boccaccio
In The Decameron
The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and…
The Messenger: Part I
Read by WaterBaron
Robert W. Chambers
In The Mystery Of Choice
The Mystery of Choice is a collection of short horror stories written by Robert W. Chambers. The stories, set in France, are known for their…
The Week
Read by SilasF
Charles Knight
In The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Issue 1
The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was published in competition to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, which …
A Cosmopolite In A Café
Read by Bellona Times
O. Henry
In Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor
This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis f…
26 - Society Chit-Chat
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
In Literary Lapses
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than an…