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The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
Snapdragon Alley
Read by Tom Lichtenberg
Tom Lichtenberg
Ten year old friends Alex and Sapphire discover something strange on the city bus map – a street that existed for only one year. As they set…
Stupidity
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Amy Lowell
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Stupidity by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31st, 2010.
Reading: An Essay
Read by David Wales
Hugh Walpole
A famous English author's thoughts on the power of reading. - Summary by David Wales
A Pickle For the Knowing Ones
Read by MelissaMarie
Timothy Dexter
Timothy Dexter, a business man in the late 1700's, writes about his thoughts and his life. He is an unconventional man who follows his own …
The Re-creation of Brian Kent
Read by Warren Kati
Harold Bell Wright
Brian Kent is a bank clerk who is driven by a variety of circumstances to commit a series of thefts from his employer. Remorseful, drunk, s…
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, has…
A Spoiler of Men
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Richard Marsh
Cyril Wentworth is a thoroughly nasty man, who has an effective means of controlling people and just wants to live a life of luxury. Unfortu…
Sesame and Lilies
Read by Oxenhandler
John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies proposes and answers the questions, how, what and why to read in the context of how and why to live.About earlier and late…
Pagan Papers
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Kenneth Grahame
We join our thoughtful author on a dreamy stroll at dusk through the English countryside, and listen to his nonchalant, slightly scattered m…
The Grey Moon
Read by Timothy P. Callahan
Timothy P. Callahan
Hello, my name is Alex Johnson, AJ to my friends, and this is a story on how I ruined my life and my marriage.
Liz and I thought we’d have…
Fables
Read by Ben Tucker
Robert Louis Stevenson
Master storyteller Robert Louis Stevenson (Treasure Island, Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped) brings us an entrancing and at times quite…
Praying John Hyde - 2 books - Praying Hyde, and A Present Day Challenge in Pray…
Praying John Hyde
Praying John Hyde - 2 books - Praying Hyde, and A Present Day Challenge in Prayer
Never: A Handbook For The Uninitiated And Inexperienced Aspirants To Refined So…
Read by David Wales
Nathan Dane Urner
An 1883 tongue-in-cheek spoof of manners and mannerisms of “society”. ‘the “Open Sesame” to that jealously-guarded realm,—good society,—in …
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
"It is difficult for the human mind to take a comprehensive view of a subject." This is how librarian Arthur Bostwick begins his e…
The Silk Code
Read by Paul Levinson
Paul Levinson
Phil D'Amato, New York City forensic detective, is caught in an ongoing struggle that dates all the way back to the dawn of humanity on eart…
Winnowed Wisdom
Read by David Wales
Stephen Leacock
This 1926 volume comprises thirty-five essays by the masterful Canadian humorist. - Summary by david wales
The Purple Sapphire, and Other Posthumous Papers: Complete Edition
Read by Ben Tucker
Christopher Blayre
This collection features a creepy and mysterious array of weird fiction, compiled under the fictional guise of being collegiate papers depos…