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Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 003 - Various
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
Librivox readers present a collection of their favorite chapters and short stories, with the original author’s words all brought to life with different reader voices for each character in our popular Dramatic Reading style. This volume includes...
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
1601: Conversation, as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Please note: this recording contains strong language. "1601," wrote Mark Twain, "is a supposititious conversation which takes place in Queen Elizabeth's closet in that year, between the Queen, Ben Jonson, Beaumont, Sir Walter Raleigh, the Duchess of...
Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance / Single Author Collections
In this first collection of stories following the characters from the "Anne of Green Gables" series, we see 12 vignettes into the lives of the other inhabitants of Avonlea. The case of Ludovic Speed as mentioned in "Anne of the Island" is finally...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Return of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction
The Return of Sherlock Holmes is set three years after the detective fell to his death in the Reichenbach Falls in his final struggle with Moriarty. Or did he? In the first story of the series Holmes explains to Watson what really happened that day,...
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 08 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the...
Jessica's First Prayer and Jessica's Mother (Dramatic reading) - Hesba Stretton
Jessica's First Prayer and Jessica's Mother (Dramatic reading) - Hesba Stretton
- Author: Hesba Stretton
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Religion
Jessica is a little girl who used to be an actress till she grew too big. Now she lives on the streets, mostly starving until she meets Mr. Dan'el. Mr. Dan'el gives Jessica his cast-off crusts and warmed-over coffee. Jessica follows Mr. Dan'el to a...
The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God and Alyosha is a novice monk. The...
The Teacup Club (Dramatic Reading) - Eliza Armstrong
The Teacup Club (Dramatic Reading) - Eliza Armstrong
- Author: Eliza Armstrong
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Humorous Fiction
The Teacup Club (For the Advancement of Woman) is formed when Dorothy decides to found an intellectual club of her own - to teach her fiance a lesson! The club’s discussion topics (official) includes Theosophy, Politics and Women in Legislature. The...
Rainbow Valley (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rainbow Valley (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Published 1900 onward
Anne Shirley is grown up and married, and her six children are off having their own adventures with the Merediths - the four children of a widowed, absent-minded minister. Whether they're hiding a runaway home girl and plotting to save her from the...
Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction
When orphaned Oliver Twist asks for more food, the workhouse board are horrified and immediately pack him off to work for an undertaker, who treats him badly. Oliver runs away and finds himself in the streets of London, where he meets the Artful...
Heidi (version 2 dramatic reading) - Johanna Spyri
Heidi (version 2 dramatic reading) - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
"Heidi" takes us on a journey to the eventful childhood of a good-hearted girl from the Swiss Alps. A warm and loving story, full of touching moments, it reaches children and adults alike. It was written in 1880 and published in two parts:1. Heidi's...
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading) - Myrtle Reed
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading) - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Romance
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet...
Bible (KJV) 17: Esther (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 17: Esther (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / King James Version
The seventeenth book of the King James Bible, Esther recounts a tale of two queens. Queen Vashti is the loveliest woman in the land, but when she refuses to come to her husband's banquet, she is banished from the kingdom. Hadassah is called to take...
The Orange-Yellow Diamond - J. S. Fletcher
The Orange-Yellow Diamond - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction
A novelist finds himself struggling to make ends meet. In his effort to raise a bit of money to get him by, he finds himself in the middle of a mystery. Murder, theft, and love, all the ingredients for a wonderful reading. Please note: There is some...
The Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading) - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Heart's Kingdom (version 2 dramatic reading) - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Charlotte Powers is a woman who loves life, and is set to marry Nickols just as soon as she can figure herself out. However, coming home and meeting the charismatic pastor that seems to have influenced all her friends, tips her worldview, and she...
The Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Alessandro Manzoni
The Betrothed (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Alessandro Manzoni
- Author: Alessandro Manzoni
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Published 1800 -1900
One of the most famous Italian books in history, The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni in 1827. The two main characters, Renzo and Lucy, are engaged to be married when Lucy tragically disappears. Little does Renzo know that Lucy has been...
The Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading) - George Gissing
The Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading) - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Clarence and Emmeline Mumford are in for a real treat when they take in the young, outspoken Miss Louise Derrick as their guest. Shedding a light on class struggles in the Victorian era, The Paying Guest offers a look at just what "proper society"...
Anne of Avonlea (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Romance
Following Anne of Green Gables (1908), the book covers the second chapter in the life of Anne Shirley. This book follows Anne from the age of 16 to 18, during the two years that she teaches at Avonlea school. It includes many of the characters from...
Highacres (Dramatic Reading) - Jane D. Abbott
Highacres (Dramatic Reading) - Jane D. Abbott
- Author: Jane D. Abbott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / School
The story of a young mountain girl and her first year of city living and going to a high school. She knows nothing of town life, but she had dreams and longs to learn more and discover what the world is like outside of her mountain home. Go with her...
The Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading) - Thomas Hardy
The Return of the Native (version 2 dramatic reading) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Clym Yeobright returns home to Egdon Heath, a scattered collection of houses on the isolated Wessex moors, and is caught up in a "love pentagon" which includes: his cousin, Thomasin Yeobright; the shadowy inn-keeper, Damon Wildeve; the controversial...
The Secret Garden (version 4 dramatic reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden (version 4 dramatic reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's novel is about orphaned Mary Lennox, who is sent to live with her uncle at Misslethwaite Manor in Yorkshire. Initially a sour, bad-tempered child, Mary begins to bloom under the influence of nature when...
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Hugh Lofting
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
Doctor John Dolittle is an animal doctor and famous naturalist whose success hinges on his ability to speak the languages of many different kinds of animals. This book, the second Dr. Dolittle adventure, is narrated by Tommy Stubbins, who meets the...
Dear Brutus (dramatic reading) - J. M. Barrie
Dear Brutus (dramatic reading) - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
At a house in the country 8 guests are invited to enter a magical wood to see what might have happened had they made a different choice in life. Even though they are warned away from the wood, they take a chance and enter. The title comes from...
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray (version 2 dramatic reading) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets...
Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
Anne of the Island is the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series, written by Lucy Maud Montgomery about Anne Shirley. Anne of the Island was published in 1915, seven years after the bestselling Anne of Green Gables. In the continuing story of...
The Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four (version 2 dramatic reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The Sign of the Four, the second of four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes, has a complex plot involving India, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts and two corrupt prison guards. Some of Holmes's less savory habits are revealed,...
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Persuasion (version 6 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne Elliot, then a lovely, thoughtful, warm-hearted 19 year old, accepted a proposal of marriage from the handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. He was clever, confident, and ambitious, but...
The Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading) - Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel (version 3 dramatic reading) - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Baroness Emma ("Emmuska") Orczy (September 23, 1865 – November 12, 1947) was a British novelist, playwright and artist of Hungarian origin. She was most notable for her series of novels featuring the Scarlet Pimpernel. Some of her paintings were...
Jo's Boys (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
Jo's Boys (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance / Family
Jo’s little men and women are grown up and entering new stages of life. Along with discovering their individual niches, there are lots of lessons to study, plays to perform, and parties to attend… and love is undeniably in the air. When three of...
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Further Chronicles of Avonlea (version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family
After her famed book "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery continued her stories in "Chronicles of Avonlea" followed by "Further Chronicles of Avonlea." The book includes fifteen short and entertaining, funny, and romantic stories. She brings...
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
Lucian's Dialogues Volume 1: The Dialogues of the Gods - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Author: LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Dramatic Readings / Satire
The Dialogues of the Gods are 26 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. Almost 1900 years old, these dialogues still retain a lot of their original humor and...
A Little Princess (version 4 dramatic reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Little Princess (version 4 dramatic reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Sara Crewe is a very intelligent, polite, and creative young girl. Born to a wealthy soldier in India, Sara was brought all the way to London in Victorian-era England for a formal education. At the upscale boarding school, Sara is forced to tolerate...
Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Anna Sewell
Black Beauty (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Anna Sewell
- Author: Anna Sewell
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Animals & Nature
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was "Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell." After its...
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (version 2 dramatic reading) - Anne Brontë
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (version 2 dramatic reading) - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing...
The Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
The Inventions of the Idiot (dramatic reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction
"It was before the Idiot's marriage, and in the days when he was nothing more than a plain boarder in Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog's High-class Home for Single Gentlemen, that he put what the School-master termed his "alleged mind" on plans for the...
Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - L. Frank Baum
Ozma of Oz (Version 2) (Dramatic Reading) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Ozma of Oz was the third title in the Oz series by L. Frank Baum. In this book Dorothy is shipwrecked and lands on the shores of a fairy country that adjoins Oz, the land of Ev. There she meets Tiktok, a wind-up mechanical man; a talking chicken,...
Anne of Green Gables (version 7) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables (version 7) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life
Red-haired Anne Shirley, the orphan girl mistakenly sent to live with Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, has been one of the world's most beloved characters since the publication of Anne of Green Gables in 1908. In this dramatic reading, Librivox readers...
The String of Pearls (dramatic reading) - Unknown
The String of Pearls (dramatic reading) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies, sold at the pie shop of his partner in crime: Mrs. Lovett; Todd's barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to...
Ben Hur (Dramatic Reading) - Lew Wallace
Ben Hur (Dramatic Reading) - Lew Wallace
- Author: Lew Wallace
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
In this dramatic reading of the classic epic Ben Hur, rediscover the wonder of three wise men who travel through the wilderness together. Thirty years later, Judah ben Hur accidentally looses a tile upon the head of the Roman governor and is...
The Film of Fear (Dramatic Reading) - Frederick Arnold KUMMER
The Film of Fear (Dramatic Reading) - Frederick Arnold KUMMER
- Author: Frederick Arnold KUMMER
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Dramatic Readings
(Written under the pseudonym, Arnold Fredericks.) Ruth Morton is a world-renowned film actress who seems to have it all: youth, beauty, wealth, and a viable career. But she soon becomes the target of a malicious stalker who begins sending her a...
