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Rack and thumbscrew
Read by Peter Yearsley
E. Nesbit
In Man and Maid
A collection of the author's short stories for adults, with some supernatural ones. - Summary by Peter Yearsley
The Age of Ink
Read by czandra
Edgar A. Guest
In When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional …
The Question
Read by Inkell
Stephen Phillips
In Poems
A short collection of poems by the Oxford-born poet and playwright Stephen Phillips including his two major works Marpessa and Christ In Had…
The Mark of the Betrayer, by James O. Fagan
Read by Greg Giordano
Various
In The Black Cat Vol. 05 No. 01 October 1899
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
De Markensche Visscher
Read by Branko Collin
Hildebrand and Nicolaas Beets
In Camera Obscura
De Camera Obscura is een verzameling verhalen en beschouwingen van Hildebrand, pseudoniem voor Nicolaas Beets. "De Camera", zoals …
Our Post-Office Box
Read by Inkell
Various
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 33, June 15, 1880
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, po…
09 - The Art of Book-making
Read by elfpen
Washington Irving
In The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
Apart from "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" - the pieces which made both Irving and The Sketch Book fa…
‘Perchè pensa? Pensando s’ invecchia’
Read by Newgatenovelist
Arthur Hugh Clough
In Selected Poems
During his short but eventful life, Arthur Hugh Clough wrote poems on subjects as varied as religious doubt, European politics and social in…
A Curious Incident; Our Post Office Box
Read by Rachel
Various
In Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 03, Nov. 18, 1879
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
On a Pen
Read by Arthur Krolman
Jonathan Swift
In The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume Two
He lived simply, loved his walks and craved the company of fellow poetical wits as they craved his company in return. With his pal Dr. Sheri…
The Reading Man
Read by Sonia
Thomas Frederick Young
In Canada and Other Poems
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
The Touchstone by William Allingham
Read by Slyma12
Varioustranslated Byalfred Perceval Graves and Varioustranslated By Alfred Perceval Graves
In The Book of Irish Poetry, part II
A collection of Irish poetry, edited and largely translated by Alfred Perceval Graves. This is the second and final part of the book. - Sum…
Inscription
Read by Newgatenovelist
Donald Jeffery Hayes
In Selected Poems (Hayes)
Donald Jeffery Hayes was a poet who was born in North Carolina. These poems were published between 1927 and 1929. - Summary by Newgatenoveli…
The Contents of an Ink-Bottle
Read by Newgatenovelist
Mary Coleridge
In Poems
Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously me…
A Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury
Read by TriciaG
Mark Twain
In The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories
A book of short stories and humorous anecdotes by Mark Twain, published together in 1906. (Summary by Tricia G)
Digital Sketchbooks: Using tablets to support a museum art visit
Various
University of Oxford Podcasts
Crepuscule du Matin
Read by Corinne Sampson
Amy Lowell
In A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
This is a collection of lyrical poems, sonnets and verses for children by Amy Lowell."For quaint pictorial exactitude and bizarrerie of…
Paste
Read by Alice Dodd
Henry James
In The Soft Side
Lauded author Henry James, best known for his seminal and highly influential novella The Turn of the Screw and his highly literate trans-con…
Der listige Steiermarker
Read by Hans Otto Kroeger
Johann Peter Hebel
In Schatzkästlein des Rheinischen Hausfreundes (Auswahl)
Der Kalender "Rheinländischer Hausfreund" erschien erstmals 1807, in dem „lehrreiche Nachrichten und lustige Geschichten“ ve…
Verses on a Glass Pen Presented by a Gentleman of Sixty to a Lady of Fourteen
Read by TriciaG
Unknown
In LibriVox 14th Anniversary Collection
Works in the Public Domain that have in their titles (or subtitles) the numeral 14 or the words fourteen or fourteenth. This collection is b…