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Chapter 18

In Sense and Sensibility

Read by Heather Barnett


Jane Austen


The two eldest Dashwood sisters, Elinor and Marianne, one of whom (Elinor) embraces practicality and restraint while the other (Marianne) gi…

The Quality of Mercy

In Short Poetry Collection 008

Read by Heather Barnett


William Shakespeare


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 008: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Chapter 3 – The Playmates

In Villette

Read by Heather Barnett


Charlotte Brontë


After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against …

We Visit Cousin Mattie’s

In The Golden Road

Read by Heather Barnett


L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery


In the sequel to The Story Girl, Sara Stanley returns to join the King children in publishing their own local magazine to entertain the town…

Around the Bend

In Anne of Avonlea

Read by Heather Barnett


L.M. Montgomery and Lucy Maud Montgomery


Following Anne of Green Gables, the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. Anne of Avonlea follows Anne from the age of…

Chapter 06

In A Girl of the Limberlost

Read by Heather Barnett


Gene Stratton-Porter


A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. T…

Chapter 04

In The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006)

Read by Heather Barnett


Written by Heather Barnett, recorded by Heather Barnett and Librivox Volunteers


The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that…

Bk 01, ch. 03: A Hard Bishopric for a Good Bishop

In Les Misérables, Volume 1

Read by Heather Barnett


Victor Hugo


This is book 1 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

The Sound of the Trees

In Short Poetry Collection 004

Read by Heather Barnett


Robert Frost


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 004: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

13 - An Old Proverb With a New Meaning

In The Story Girl

Read by Heather Barnett


Lucy Maud Montgomery


The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise…

Chapter 23

In Mansfield Park

Read by Heather Barnett


Jane Austen


Mansfield Park features Austen’s frailest and perhaps most scrupulous heroine, Fannie Price. As the eldest daughter in a poor family, Fannie…

Chapter 12

In Northanger Abbey

Read by Heather Barnett


Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many “hor…

Move Eastward, Happy Earth

In Short Poetry Collection 003

Read by Heather Barnett


Witter Bynner and Alfred, Lord Tennyson


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 003: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

False Alarm

Read by Heather Stallings


Heather Stallings


False Alarm is a wry, fish-out-of-water story about Kate McCabe, a dedicated but somewhat neurotic woman trying to juggle her career at a sp…