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The Hill
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Rupert Brooke
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011.Rupert Chawner…
Pariah Planet
Read by Phil Chenevert
Murray Leinster
When the blue plague appeared on the planet of Dara, fear struck nearby worlds. The fear led to a hate that threatened the lives of million…
Joseph Andrews
Read by Denny Sayers (d. 2015)
Henry Fielding
"Joseph Andrews ... was the first published full-length novel of the English author and magistrate Henry Fielding, and indeed among the…
The Willows
Read by Michael Thomas Robinson
Algernon Blackwood
A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably we…
Walker's Appeal
Read by Jim Locke
David Walker
The Appeal grabbed readers’ attention in as dramatic a manner as Walker could have possibly imagined. In her book, Maria W. Stewart and the …
Under the Tiger's Claws; or, A Struggle for the Right (Version 2)
Read by Paul Hampton
Nicholas Carter
A prominent banker calls Nick Carter in to investigate $90,000 in missing funds—and a trusted clerk who has disappeared. [Summary by Paul H…
J. M. Synge and the Ireland of His Time
Read by Kyle James Maclean
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats recounts his experiences with friend and colleague, John Millington Synge. - Summary by Kyle James Maclean
Rufus and Rose, or the Fortunes of Rough and Ready (Version 2)
Read by Tori Faulder
Horatio Alger, Jr.
In this last book of the Ragged Dick series, Rufus and Rose seem to be on the best path forward following their adventures in our previous s…
Hawthorne
Read by James Hutchisson
Henry James
A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-centu…
A Chautauqua Idyl
Read by Scarlett Martin
Grace Livingston Hill
The trees, flowers, and animals of a peaceful pasture meet together to discuss and learn of theology. Summary by Scarlett Martin.
Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail
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Percy Keese Fitzhugh
In this, the second Pee-Wee Harris adventure, we follow young Walter, B.S.A (Boy of Superior Appetite or Boy Scout of America, take your pic…
Harry Heathcote of Gangoil
Read by Simon Evers
Anthony Trollope
Harry Heathcote is an English ‘squatter’ who runs a huge sheep station at Gangoil in Queensland, Australia. His wife Mary and her older sist…
Gulliver's Travels (Version 3)
Read by Peter Dann
Jonathan Swift
First published in 1726, Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" presents, as a mock travel tale, a series of thought experiments mi…
Pee-Wee Harris Adrift
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Percy Keese Fitzhugh
That lovable Boy Scout, Pee-Wee Harris, is back for another adventure, this time on the water. Somehow, he always manages to find the snacks…
Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
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Alfred Castner King
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…
Haunted London
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Walter Thornbury and George Walter Thornbury
London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of g…
Tim
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Howard Overing Sturgis
The first of only three novels by English author Howard Overing Sturgis, the son of wealthy American expatriates and a close friend of Henry…
Prelude
Read by iremonger
Katherine Mansfield
One of the first books to be published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press, Prelude is among Katherine Mansfield's most accompli…
A Book of Scoundrels
Read by Greg Lewin
Charles Whibley
An ironic history of British criminals, mostly pre-Victorian pickpockets, highwaymen and thieves. Here we meet Moll Cutpurse the Queen of th…
The Willow Walk
Read by VfkaBT
Sinclair Lewis
As featured in The Best Short Stories of 1918, The Willow Walk is a trenchant tale of an elaborate heist by a dissolute man who gradually lo…