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The King of Schnorrers

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Israel Zangwill


Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of lat…

California Coast Trails

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Joseph Smeaton Chase


In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Me…

The Curious Quest

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


E. Phillips Oppenheim


A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in …

Reuben Sachs: A Sketch

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Amy Levy


Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but une…

Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Edward Lear


A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat&q…

Sons of the Covenant: A Tale of London Jewry

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Samuel Gordon


Born in London's poverty-stricken and heavily Jewish East End, the Lipcott boys create their own successes in life and love. The brothers' c…

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Memories and Adventures

Read by Adrian Wilson


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


Arthur Conan Doyle first published his memories of his many various adventures around the world and his relationships with such famous figur…

The Golem: A legend of old Prague

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Rudolf Lothar


Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hop…

The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


William Combe


“To bury these, to christen those,And marry such fond folks who choseTo change the tenor of their lifeAnd risk the matrimonial strife.” This…

The Man with the Black Feather

Read by Adrian Wilson


Gaston Leroux


Theophrastus Longuet is a retired manufacturer of rubber stamps in Paris. He now spends his days relaxing, safe from life’s vicissitudes. wi…

No Man's Land

Read by Adrian Wilson


Sapper


This book was written by a British Army officer and decorated Western Front veteran. Soldiers could not publish books using their real names…

The Dark Road: Further Adventures of Chéri-Bibi

Read by Adrian Wilson


Gaston Leroux


One of a series of exciting adventure stories featuring Leroux's criminal mastermind Chéri-Bibi. When the story starts the "asto…

The Wind Boy

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Ethel Cook Eliot


A gentle, otherworldly novel featuring the mysterious “girl from the mountains” who aides a refugee family in a most unexpected way. Mystica…

An Angler's Hours

Read by Adrian Praetzellis


Hugh Tempest Sheringham


One of the classic British books about angling. The author’s love was fly fishing—“…while there are trout, life is worth living…” but he was…

The Boy Travellers in Australasia

Read by Adrian Wilson


Thomas Wallace Knox


ADVENTURES OF TWO YOUTHS IN A JOURNEY TO THE SANDWICH, MARQUESAS, SOCIETY, SAMOAN, AND FEEJEE ISLANDS, AND THROUGH THE COLONIES OF NEW ZEALA…

When I Am Dead My Dearest

In Short Poetry Collection 014

Read by Mike Barlow


Christina Rossetti


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 014: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Chapter 41

In Tess of the d'Urbervilles

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Thomas Hardy


One of the greatest English tragic novels, TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES (1891) is the story of a “pure woman” who is victimized both by convent…

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