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The Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading) - Charles GODDARD
The Perils of Pauline (dramatic reading) - Charles GODDARD
- Author: Charles GODDARD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The Perils of Pauline is one of the first damsel in distress serials. The story is complete with undaunted hero, courageous damsel, unscrupulous villains galore, and other worldly interest. Before getting married, Pauline wants to experience the...
Dracula (version 2 dramatic reading) - Bram Stoker
Dracula (version 2 dramatic reading) - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Bram Stoker did not invent the vampire story, but he popularized it with his classic 1897 novel. In form Dracula is an epistolary novel, told through a series of journal entries, letters, newspaper articles, and telegrams. It begins with lawyer...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading) - Hugh Lofting
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 4 Dramatic Reading) - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
John Dolittle, M. D., was once a famous doctor. But then he learned to talk Animal-Language, picked up several interesting pets, and gradually began to lose his patients. Finally the only patient who remains, the Cat's-Meat-Man, makes a suggestion -...
Little Dramas for Primary Grades - Ada M. Skinner
Little Dramas for Primary Grades - Ada M. Skinner
- Author: Ada M. Skinner
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Short works
37 short and very short plays for young children - David OReaders: Linette Geisel: Camel(1), Big Black Dog(2), First Child(4), Camel(5), Grandma(6), Red Fox(11), Child(12), First Pig(13), Mrs. Dove(14), Third Chick(15), Littlest Fir Tree(16), French...
Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - A. A. MILNE
Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle...
Kilmeny of the Orchard (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Kilmeny of the Orchard (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
A short and sweet romance by the author of "Anne of Green Gables", Kilmeny of the Orchard is a story about a schoolteacher (Eric) who goes to Prince Edward Island and meets a beautiful but mysterious girl. Who is she? Why doesn't she speak? Why...
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading) - Frances BROWNE
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading) - Frances BROWNE
- Author: Frances BROWNE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book of fairy stories and has been translated into many languages. This work, read as a child by Frances Hodgson...
Mansfield Park (dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her aunt and uncle Bertram's family on their estate at the age of ten. Surrounded by her wealthy and privileged...
Headlong Hall (dramatic reading) - Thomas Love Peacock
Headlong Hall (dramatic reading) - Thomas Love Peacock
- Author: Thomas Love Peacock
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Satire
Headlong Hall is the first novel by Thomas Love Peacock, published in 1815 (dated 1816). As in his later novel Crotchet Castle, Peacock assembles a group of eccentrics, each with a single monomaniacal obsession, and derives humor and social satire...
Wuthering Heights (version 3 dramatic reading) - Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights (version 3 dramatic reading) - Emily Brontë
- Author: Emily Brontë
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
The story centers on the all-encompassing, passionate, but ultimately doomed love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and the people around them. There are differing opinions on whether...
The Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading) - Plato
The Symposium (version 2) (dramatic reading) - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Dramatic Readings / Philosophy
In one of Plato's more accessible works, Apollodorus tells a friend about a drinking party (or symposium) attended by many of intellectuals of late 5th century Athens. The men are one their second night of celebration for Agathon's victory at the...
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice (version 6, dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1813. The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of...
Iolanthe - W. S. Gilbert
Iolanthe - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are human. He loves Phyllis, but she is courted by the whole House of Lords and the...
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading) - Baroness Orczy
The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel (Dramatic Reading) - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The last of the famous "Scarlet Pimpernel" books, the "Triumph" tells the story of the final confrontation between the Scarlet Pimpernel and his nemesis, Chauvelin. Set at the end of the Reign of Terror, the fortunes of all rise and fall along with...
Catherine Howard (Dramatic Reading) - Alexandre Dumas
Catherine Howard (Dramatic Reading) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction
Subtitled "The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold - An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dumas" - How can you resist a play about English history - the doomed fifth wife of Henry the 8th - by the celebrated...
The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival (Dramatic Reading) - Kate PERCIVAL
The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival (Dramatic Reading) - Kate PERCIVAL
- Author: Kate PERCIVAL
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Erotica
This surprisingly explicit sample of Victorian erotica follows the sexual awakening and subsequent adventures of its author, Kate Percival, the "belle of the Delaware." Content warning: this one is definitely NC-17 rated. (Summary by wildemoose)...
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving (Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Family
When a neighbor brings word that Grandma is sick, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett hurry off to tend to her, leaving their seven children to prepare for Thanksgiving on their own. The story of the adventures of Eph, Tilly, Prue, Seth, Sol, Roxy, and Rhody...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 5 Dramatic Reading) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction
In order to escape his cruel father, and led by a thirst for adventure, Huck Finn sets off down the Mississippi River with Jim, an escaped slave. But trouble is never far behind them, and their adventures are only beginning when they meet up with...
Hard Times (version 2 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
Hard Times (version 2 dramatic reading) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Charles Dickens' 1854 novel opens with the philosophy of education espoused by the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, who prizes "facts and calculations." He raises his children, most prominently Louisa and Tom, to eschew imagination and emotion and...
Michael Strogoff (Dramatic Reading) - Jules Verne
Michael Strogoff (Dramatic Reading) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
At a fete in the New Palace, the court seems to be in perfect order. Only two people know the truth: the telegraph wire beyond Tomsk, connecting Western Russia with Siberia, has been cut! The Czar and General Kissoff can tell that it is the work of...
The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat (dramatic reading) - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat (dramatic reading) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Animals & Nature
Join us as we follow Jerry Muskrat and his friends on an adventure to discover what is threatening their homeland, Laughing Brook and Smiling Pool. (Summary by Linette Geisel) Cast: Narration: Marty Kris Jerry Muskrat: Phil Chenevert Peter Rabbit:...
The Adventures of Mr. Mocker (dramatic reading) - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Mr. Mocker (dramatic reading) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Animals & Nature
When an innocent blue jay starts talking in his sleep, it's up to him to find out what's going on in this fun, naturalistic, Southern-style children's story. (Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman) Cast: Narration: Marty Kris Mr. Mocker: Gargoyle Unc’...
Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside (version 3 Dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Anne of Green Gables is all grown up and married, and this is the story of her daughter “Rilla”, named for the indomitable Marilla Cuthbert of Anne’s childhood. The young Rilla will need all her strength for the dark days ahead, as her coming of age...
The Divine Comedy (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Dante ALIGHIERI
The Divine Comedy (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Narratives
The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of...
In His Steps (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Charles Monroe SHELDON
In His Steps (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Author: Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Christian Fiction
After a strange event at the Raymond First Church, Reverend Henry Maxwell asks his congregation a startling question: Will they pledge to try and do only what Jesus would for an entire year? Even more important, however is the question: Who will...
Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Charlotte Brontë
Villette (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
After an unspecified family disaster, protagonist Lucy Snowe travels to the fictional city of Villette to teach at an all-girls school where she is unwillingly pulled into both adventure and romance. Summary by Wikipedia Cast list: Narrator: Mary J...
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 001 - Various
Dramatic Reading Scene and Story Collection, Volume 001 - 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...
A Room with a View (version 3 dramatic reading) - E. M. Forster
A Room with a View (version 3 dramatic reading) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of...
If I Had a Father - George MacDonald
If I Had a Father - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
Arthur Gervaise, a London sculptor, learns too late of his love for a woman, while his absentee father secretly tries to serve and help him. Meanwhile, an old country man searches frantically for his daughter, whose disappearance he suspects Arthur...
Through the Looking-Glass (version 5 dramatic reading) - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass (version 5 dramatic reading) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Sequel to Alice in Wonderland, this volume sees Alice travel through a mirror to a dream-world where she meets chess pieces and other curious characters. (Summary by David Goldfarb) Cast Narrator: David Goldfarb Alice: Miss Avarice The White...
A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story (Dramatic Reading) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
A Summer in a Canyon: A California Story (Dramatic Reading) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Family
A group of friends spend a summer camping in a canyon in Southern California. Fun camp adventures, breath-taking scenery, and a little state history and legends too. - Summary by LikeManyWaters Cast List: Narrator: LikeManyWaters Dr. Paul Winship:...
Imaginary Conversations (Dramatic Reading) - Walter Savage Landor
Imaginary Conversations (Dramatic Reading) - Walter Savage Landor
- Author: Walter Savage Landor
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction
This is a group of Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor. It is a series of dialogues of historical and mythical characters. Marcellus and Hannibal, Queen Elizabeth and Cecil, Peter the Great and Alexis, Louis XIV and Father La Chaise,...
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (version 2 dramatic reading) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (version 2 dramatic reading) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results. The novel is constructed as a series of first-person narratives, delivered by Captain Robert Walton, Victor...
Little Men (Version 3, Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Men (Version 3, Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical
Jo March's dreams of opening a home for boys comes true as she finds herself the mistress of Plumfield, a boarding school for children -- who have all stumbled in from various backgrounds. When new students arrive at her doorstep, they bring their...
Rainy Week (Dramatic Reading) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Rainy Week (Dramatic Reading) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
Join this couple in their annual house party where the “guests” becoming unknowing “actors” in their beach house play “Rainy Week” (Linette Geisel). “To be indeed absolutely explicit experience has proved, with an almost chemical accuracy, that,...
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Historical Fiction
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers...
Sense and Sensibility (version 5 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 5 dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies, the family estate passes to John, and the Dashwood women are...
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (version 3, dramatic reading) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Nautical & Marine Fiction
When a rough old seaman calling himself "the Captain" appears at the inn owned by Jim Hawkins' father, young Jim little dreams what adventures will follow in the man's wake. Soon, the once-peaceful inn is threatened by pirates, Jim's father is laid...
Anne's House of Dreams (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
In the next installment of the Anne series, newlyweds Anne and Gilbert move to the harbor town of Four Winds. There they meet new friends and experience joy as well as heartbreak. (Summary by wildemoose) Cast: Anne/Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw Diana...
Five Children and It (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - E. Nesbit
Five Children and It (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Finding a Psammead (sand-fairy) to grant any wish your heart desires seems like the beginning of endless delights, but as Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane soon discover, being beautiful, wealthy and popular can have surprising pitfalls! When it comes...
