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08 - The Old Song

In The Ballad of St. Barbara and Other Verses

Read by Amanda Potter


G. K. Chesterton


This book of poetry by G. K. Chesterton, originally published in 1922, contain 35 poems on a variety of subjects. (Summary by Maria Theres…

Screen Acting

Read by Amanda Friday


Mae Marsh


Silent film star, Mae Marsh, recounts her life as an actress in this publication, what she deems as being the answer to thousands of letters…

Danger at the Drawbridge

Read by Amanda Leung


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


The groom fails to show up for his wedding at a mysterious old estate, and Penny Parker is there to solve the mystery! (Summary by Amanda Le…

The Cry at Midnight

Read by Amanda Leung


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Late one night, amateur sleuth Peggy Parker and her friend see an unexplained light and hear a terrifying scream from an abandoned old monas…

Voice From the Cave

Read by Amanda Leung


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Penny Parker and her father go on vacation accompanied by a mysterious woman and end up engrossed in a hunt for foreign spies! (Summary by A…

Mollie of the Movies

Read by Amanda Friday


Kenneth Mcgaffey


This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He w…

Signal in the Dark

Read by Amanda Leung


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


During a school break, Penny convinces her father to give her a job as a reporter at the Riverview Star. She deals with a jealous co-worker …

Saboteurs on the River

Read by Amanda Leung


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


A bridge is blown up and Burt Ottman is accused, but Penny Parker is not convinced he is guilty. Penny works with her friends and an old man…

Guilt of the Brass Thieves

Read by Amanda Leung


Mildred A. Wirt Benson


Brass is being rationed for the war effort when someone begins stealing it from a factory. Through a series of her typical adventures Penny …

Adrift in the Unknown; or Queer Adventures in a Queer Realm

Read by Amanda Rumbaugh


William Wallace Cook


A delightful, imaginative, and sometimes silly adventure in early science fiction. Join a noble scientist and some of his less noble associa…

It's Like This, Cat (Version 3)

Read by Amanda Rumbaugh


Emily Neville


The Newbery-winning novel about 14-year-old Dave Mitchell, coming of age in New York City in the 1960s. A first-person narrative of everyday…

The Shoes of Fortune

In Andersen's Fairy Tales

Read by Amanda


Hans Christian Andersen


A collection of eighteen fairy tales - some popular, some lesser known - by famous Danish author H.C. Andersen.(Summary by Gesine)

The Purple Cow - read by AM

In The Purple Cow

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Gelett Burgess and Frank Gelett Burgess


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different versions of this famous nonsense rhyme, the weekly poem of April 2nd, 2006. The April Fool's Da…

Book 3, Chapter 30

In Anna Karenina, Book 3

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Leo Tolstoy


Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

Part 1, chapter 2

In Tolstoy on Shakespeare

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Leo Tolstoy


This book contains a critical essay on Shakespeare by Leo Tolstoy. It is followed by another essay named "Shakespeare's attitude to the…

Chapter 01

In Jacob's Room

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Virginia Woolf


The novel centres, in a very ambiguous way, around the life story of the protagonist Jacob Flanders, and is presented entirely by the impres…