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Uncle Jim
In The Lane that had no Turning, and Other Tales concerning the People of Pontiac
This is a collection of short stories by Gilbert Parker. Parker was a Canadian writer who wrote a number of bestsellers that had a lasting i…
Browne, Bradwell, And Me
In The Human Boy
This collection of eleven short stories, both humorous and touching, about English school boys was published in 1900. The book was quite pop…
One Step, and Then Another: Chapter 8
In The Best Foot Forward and Other Stories
A collection of 5 short stories for children, from the author of "Tom Playfair", "Claude Lightfoot", etc.. (Summary by M…
The Brothers, by Luisa May Alcott
In Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 005
LibriVox readers bring you 10 full-cast productions: from stories and fables for children, to a comical, self-satirizing play; from short my…
Alphabet of Birds
In Soup of Alphabets, Volume 003
This third "stove-top" full of Alphabet Soups --again-- runs the fullest gamut! It ranges from country scenes (Alphabets of Fruits…
Author's Note
In A Set of Six
Each of the stories in this collection is spun from a simple, if typically wry and bleak, idea. In "Gaspar Ruiz", a South American…
Story 6 - The Brother who Failed
In Further Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2) (Dramatic Reading)
After her famed book "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery continued her stories in "Chronicles of Avonlea" foll…
23 - The Brothers
In From a Swedish Homestead
”From a Swedish Homestead” by the Swedish author Selma Lagerloef (translated by Jessie Brochner) is a varied collection of stories, mostly s…
Martin's Close
In Short Ghost and Horror Collection 022
A collection of nineteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers u…
Brother Wolf and the Rock
In Children's Short Works, Vol. 054
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 054: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…
The Novelette Reader
In Machine-Room Chants
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was publish…
Minor Detail
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…
Selected works
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
To My Brother
In Poems of Nature
The fifty poems here brought together under the title ‘Poems of Nature’ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of the…
05 - Cymbeline
In The Children's Shakespeare
This children's book retells twelve of Shakespeare's most popular plays as stories for children. Each of the plays are rewritten as short st…
Jonathan to John, by James Russell Lowell
In Poems of American Patriotism
This book is a collection of patriotic poems by many authors. - Summary by Hannah Shaver
Sisters by Eric Earnshaw Smith
In Oxford Poetry 1915
The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell SchelpPoets include: Gerald H. CrowEric DickinsonEsther Lilian…
27 - Advice to a Son
In A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories
Bill Nye was a respected journalist who also became known as a humorist. His short pieces range from a description of a visit to a friend re…
Preface, by Charles Wells Moulton
In The Doctor's Red Lamp
A fictional series of short stories from various authors, each containing stories of doctors. The compiled set of stories has various ranges…
The Slant Book
In The Slant Book
This recording of Peter Newell’s The Slant Book (1910) kicks off voiced renderings by LibriVox of public domain books in the International C…