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Society as I Have Found It
Read by John Greenman
Ward Mcallister
Mark Twain illustrator Dan Beard recalled discussing McAllister’s book with Twain. “It was before Webster & Company failed that Ward McA…
Modern Essays
Read by David Wales
Christopher Morley
Thirty three essays by more or less well-known authors of Britain, the United States, and Canada, each fronted by an introductory paragraph.…
Essays on Paul Bourget
Read by John Greenman
Mark Twain
Collection of short essays concerning French novelist and critic Paul Bourget. Included: "What Paul Bourget Thinks of Us" and &quo…
Sterben
Read by Ramona Deininger-Schnabel
Arthur Schnitzler
Felix, Hypochonder und Patient bei seinem Freund, dem Arzt Alfred, hält sich für todsterbenskrank. Also will er Gewissheit und hol…
J. Poindexter, Colored
Read by Grant Hurlock
Irvin S. Cobb
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Pri…
The Moon
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
James Russell Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Moon by James Russell Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009.
How We Think
Read by Linda Andrus
John Dewey
A book written by an American education philosopher in which he proposed “This scientific attitude of mind might, conceivably, be quite irr…
Ribbon in the Sky
Read by Phil Chenevert
Murray Leinster
Med Service man Calhoun and his little sidekick Murgatroid run into another sizeable speed bump on their assigned visits to the planets of t…
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
Read by Debra Lynn
Charles Dickens
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word…
Selections from Harris's Cabinet
Read by Phil Benson
William Roscoe
In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to enterta…
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 Tale of Peter Mink
Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)
Arthur Scott Bailey
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark E…
Companionable Books
Read by MaryAnn
Henry van Dyke
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed o…
The Go-Getter
Read by Scott Dahlem
Peter B. Kyne
A disabled veteran succeeds as a civilian with persistence and military focus. (Summary by Scott Dahlem)
Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a singl…
Revolt of the Birds
Read by Ben Tucker
Melville Davisson Post
As the butterfly is drawn by instinct over thousands of miles to its mate, so the man Hudson is drawn to a deadly island of terrors to the w…
Short Science Fiction Collection 032
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
H. G. Wells
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and sci…
Astounding Stories 04, April 1930
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Ray Cummings
The fourth issue of Astounding Stories continues Ray Cummings serial "Brigands of the Moon", along with pulp sci-fi stories by Cap…
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 2)
Read by Gregg Margarite (1957-2012)
Mark Twain
In the afterlife grizzled sea captain Eli Stormfield finds himself piloting a ship to heaven. Despite a detour and some navigation errors he…
