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Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 001

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Various


LibriVox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life wit…

The Barnaby's in America: Final sequel to The Widow Barnaby

Read by Celine Major


Frances Milton Trollope


I scruple not to confess that with all her faults, and she has some, I love her dearly : I owe her many mirthful moments, and the deeper ple…

His First and Last Appearance

Read by Maria Therese


Francis J. Finn and Francis J. Finn, S.J.


The scene of the story is laid partly in Milwaukee, partly in New York. It describes the trials of the orphaned Lachance children. The boy h…

Shelagh Stephenson Darling Peidi


SANWAL


Saturday-Night Theatre Sat 20th Feb 1993, 19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM Darling Peidi by Shelagh Stepenson.   The true st…

The Widow Barnaby

Read by Celine Major


Frances Milton Trollope


The vain, flirtatious and presumptuous husband hunting Mrs. Barnaby delves into high-class society of which she knows very little leading to…

Taken at the Flood

Read by Celine Major


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Brought up by a parish schoolmaster with a hidden past, Sylvia Carew dreams of a future devoid of poverty. Will she be faithful to the man s…

Geraldine Jewsbury in Jerrold's Shilling Magazine, 1846-47

Read by Phil Benson


Geraldine Jewsbury


'The most striking feature in the present day, far more than that of railways even, is the utter chaos into which all previously received pr…

Shelley's Ghost: Reshaping the Image of a Literary Family


Various


University of Oxford Podcasts

Little Eve Edgarton

Read by Nathalie J.


Eleanor Hallowell Abbott


Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative o…

Main Street (Version 2)

Read by Mark Nelson


Sinclair Lewis


Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets…

Find the Woman

Read by Grant Hurlock


Frank Gelett Burgess


Who was Belle Charmion? If you really care to know, as John Fenton did, you must go with him on his quest, hither and yon over New York, int…

Concerning Cats: My Own and Some Others

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Helen M. Winslow


"I have known, and loved, and studied many cats, but my knowledge of her (Pretty Lady, a cat) alone would convince me that cats love pe…

Irene Iddesleigh

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Amanda Mckittrick Ros


Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the…

Miss Lulu Bett

Read by Jacquerie


Zona Gale


Lulu Bett is a spinster, living at the turn of the 20th century essentially as a servant with her sister Ina and brother-in-law Dwight. She …

Heartbreak House

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George Bernard Shaw


On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. U…

A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter

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Alice Turner Curtis


Sylvia Fulton is a ten-years-old girl from Boston who stayed in Charleston, South Carolina, before the opening of the Civil War. She loves h…

Love Stories Volume 2

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Archibald Alexander, Caroline Lee Hentz, Grace Sartwell Mason, Florence Guertin Tuttle and Various,Caroline Lee Hentz


Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, covering all kinds of experiences involving romantic or other kinds of love resulting in h…

Mary Broome

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Allan Monkhouse


Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid…

Joanna Traill, Spinster

Read by Ashley Sue Murphy


Annie E. Holdsworth


Timid Joanna Traill’s every move is dictated by her overbearing sisters. Then she meets Mr. Boas, a man who works to give “fallen” women a …

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