General Fiction
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School
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Annie Fellows Johnston
Because of the illness of her grandfather, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home …
The Life and Adventures of Michael Armstrong, the Factory Boy
Read by Celine Major
Frances Milton Trollope
The industrial revolution led to the rise of manufacture and, thus, the cotton mill factories. This important novel tells about the plight o…
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
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John Donne
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as …
Deerbrook
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Harriet Martineau
A three volume novel, Deerbrook (1839) is a story of middle class country life with a surgeon hero.Like the later and more famous novel Midd…
Marge Askinforit
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfu…
Toni, the Little Woodcarver
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Johanna Spyri
Toni is a little boy who discovers a love for woodcarving. When tragedy strikes and his father dies, Toni does all he can to help his mother…
Aucassin and Nicolette
Read by Leonard Wilson (1930-2024)
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Aucassin and Nicolette is a medieval romance written in a combination of prose and verse called a “song-story.” Created probably in the earl…
In the Sweet Dry and Dry
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Christopher Morley
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the cas…
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography
Read by Margaret Espaillat
Walt Whitman
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the worl…
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series
Read by Grant Hurlock
Richard Harris Barham
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
The Dream
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John Donne
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Dream by John Donne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 17, 2011.John Donne…
Miss Grantley's Girls, and the Stories She Told Them
Read by Lars Rolander (1942-2016)
Thomas Archer
The author Thomas Archer lived 1830 – 1893; he wrote several juvenile stories, and this book: Miss Grantley’s Girls – And the Stories She To…
The Siege of Corinth
Read by Nathan
George Gordon, Lord Byron
In this moving poem, Byron recounts the final, desperate resistance of the Venetians on the day the Ottoman army stormed Acrocorinth: reveal…
Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint
Read by Kirsty Leishman
Maud Jean Franc
'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free …
His First and Last Appearance
Read by Maria Therese
Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.
The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy h…
Historic Girlhoods Volume 1
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Rupert S. Holland
Biographical sketches of ten girls who became famous before becoming women - some not even making it to womanhood. From Joan of Arc to Cathe…
Everybody's Lonesome
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Clara E. Laughlin
Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mothe…
The Brass Bottle
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F. Anstey
What happens when a not-so-lucky man happens upon a brass bottle releases the djinni caught within? Misunderstanding, culture shock, hilari…
Henrietta Temple
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Benjamin Disraeli
The Armine family, in particular the young Ferdinand Armine, is in great financial difficulties. Ferdinand's grandfather has burdened the fa…
The Little Colonel in Arizona
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Annie Fellows Johnston
In The Little Colonel in Arizona the story is centered around the Ware family, who, after their husband and father has died, and due to the …