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Edward, Edward

In Short Poetry Collection 003

Read by Marlo Dianne


Ben Jonson


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

Chapter 10 - Pioneer Labor Legislation in Illinois

In Twenty Years at Hull House

Read by Dianne Lanning


Jane Addams


Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker…

Recurrence

In Short Poetry Collection 231

Read by Dianne Erdmann


Dorothy Parker


This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2022.

Snow-White and Rose-Red

In Children's Short Works, Vol. 051

Read by Dianne Erdmann


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 051: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Libr…

09 - Queen Alice and 10 - Shaking

In Through the Looking-Glass

Read by Marlo Dianne


Lewis Carroll


Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land …

Version 6

In The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay

Read by Marlo Dianne


William McGonagall and William Topaz Mcgonagall


LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall, to celebrate April Fo…

Preface

In The Return of the Native

Read by Marlo Dianne


Thomas Hardy


Like all of Hardy's work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Vic…

Version 08

In The Song My Paddle Sings

Read by Marlo Dianne


E. Pauline Johnson


LibriVox’s weekly poetry project for the week of February 5, 2006 offers fourteen versions of "The Song My Paddle Sings" from the …

Lily and The Lion

In Grimms' Fairy Tales

Read by Marlo Dianne


Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm


A classic collection of oral German folklore, brought together for posterity by the scholarly brothers Grimm in the 1800s, this epitome of f…

The Tale of Pigling Bland

In The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter

Read by Marlo Dianne


Beatrix Potter


Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Pet…

The Velveteen Rabbit

In The Velveteen Rabbit

Read by Marlo Dianne


Margery Williams


"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day...Written in 1922, The Velveteen Rabbit, or, How Toys Become Real is the tale of a sweet …

The Ninth Chapter - The Monkeys' Council

In The Story of Doctor Dolittle

Read by Marlo Dianne


Hugh Lofting


In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up…

Bk 1, Inferno: Canto XXXI - Canto XXXIV

In The Divine Comedy

Read by Marlo Dianne


Dante Alighieri, transl. Longfellow and Dante Alighieri


The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 an…

Version 15

In The Owl and the Pussycat

Read by Marlo Dianne


Edward Lear


LibriVox's weekly poetry project for the week of January 22, 2006: The Owl and the Pussycat is a famous nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first…

Chapter 05

In The Adventures of Pinocchio

Read by Marlo Dianne


C. Collodi and Carlo Collodi


The Adventures of Pinocchio is a novel for children by Italian author Carlo Collodi (here transl. by Carol della Chiesa). The first half was…

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