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The Comic English Grammar
Read by Ruth Golding
Percival Leigh
This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that…
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
The Curse of the Reckaviles
Read by Yoganandh T
Walter S. Masterman
An English peer is found stabbed in his room with more than a hint of the supernatural playing a hand. This is only reinforced by the curse …
De Kinderen van Kapitein Grant
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Jules Verne
Een fles spoelt aan bij Schotland met daarin een zwaar gehavend bericht van Kapitein Grant die schipbreuk heeft geleden. Een Schotse Lord en…
Stories by English Authors: London
Read by Kirsten Wever
F. Anstey, J. M. Barrie, Marie Corelli, Beatrice Harraden, Arthur Morrison, Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch and Israel Zangwill
This book collects seven short stories by some of England's best turn-of-the-(last)-century's writers. The collection begins with the humor …
The Heirloom - Complete
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
T. Duthie-Lisle
It is not the pleasing office of the writer of fiction to unfold for the delectation of his readers the pages and pictures of the volume of …
Eliza
Read by Nigel Boydell
Barry Pain
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of brief anecdotes, that follow the mundane, though surprisingly hazard strewn lives of our rathe…
An Interpretation
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Ambrose Bierce
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of An Interpretation by Ambrose Bierce. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 22, 2013…
Through Magic Glasses and Other Lectures
Read by J. M. Smallheer
Arabella B. Buckley
"The present volume is chiefly intended for those of my young friends who have read, and been interested in, The Fairyland of Science. …
The Abominations of Modern Society
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Thomas De Witt Talmage
The title gives an accurate description of the book! It is full of old and forgotten words and phrases, Amusing at times, but addressing the…
Cornelli
Read by Jael Baldwin
Johanna Spyri
Cornelli lives in Iller-Stream with her widowed father, who calls on two Ladies of Culture to come spend time with Cornelli during one of hi…
The Gentle Grafter
Read by Leslie Walden
O. Henry
If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" i…
My First Book
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
This is not a children's book, as may be supposed from the title, but a collection of essays first published in The Idler magazine, in which…
Biographia Literaria
Read by Nicole Lee
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nominally an autobiography, Biographia Literaria ranges widely across the realms of philosophy, poetry and memoir, in Coleridge's trademark …
De Drie Musketiers
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Alexandre Dumas
De avonturen van een jonge man d'Artagnan, die nadat hij huis en haard verlaten heeft zich aansluit bij de garde van de koning: de Musketier…
An Amiable Charlatan
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Englishman is enjoying his dinner at Stephano's, at which he is a regular diner. A man enters quickly, sits at his table, starts eating h…
De Kleine Johannes
Read by Bart de Leeuw
Frederik Van Eeden
De Kleine Johannes is een sprookje, waarin de ontwikkeling van kind tot volwassene en de worsteling met de levensraadsels centraal staan. We…
Essays and Literary Studies
Read by TriciaG
Stephen Leacock
A collection of wry looks at literature, education, and other social phenomena by Canadian humourist and economics professor, Stephen Leacoc…