Author of Audiobooks - Various
Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 012 - Various
Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 012 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The 12th edition of the Librivox Mystery and Suspense Collection delivers such gems as Father Brown in the Donnington Affair, Edgar Allen Poe and Guy de Maupassant amongst others. Prepare to by mystified and entertained. Each piece has been selected...
Out of the Closet: A Collection of Early LGBTQ+ Fiction - Various
Out of the Closet: A Collection of Early LGBTQ+ Fiction - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This is a collection of 22 LGBTQ+ stories published between 1841-1923, covering a wide span of authors, genres, and literary traditions. Some stories are coded and euphemistic, often framing their central relationships as friendships or familial...
Coffee Break Collection 032 - Wilderness - Various
Coffee Break Collection 032 - Wilderness - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the 32nd Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection...
Insomnia Collection Vol. 005 - Various
Insomnia Collection Vol. 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented will lull the busy mind to a...
One-Act Play Collection 013 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 013 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Here, in our 13th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from tales of ancient Greek sailors to a story about early 1900 moonshiners; many short gems to make you laugh, cry, think, or all three. NOTE: Although the plays here...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 047 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 047 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection - Various
Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed in. The "Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal" is a fabricated anti-Catholic eye-witness...
LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection - Various
LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life..." Hugh McGuire, LibriVox's founder, August 9, 2005 In celebration of LibriVox's sixteenth anniversary, here...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 037 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder. You may also feel more jumpy tonight...
One-Act Play Collection 014 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 014 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Here, in our 14th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from the farm to the courtroom to the palace throne room; from the time of suffragettes to the (at the time) far distant future of 1999; and two of them have the word...
Short Poetry Collection 220 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 220 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2021....
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 10 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 10 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...
First Chapter Collection 009 - Various
First Chapter Collection 009 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The first chapter of a book is often the hook to draw a reader in. It could make you eager for more or realize it isn't for you. Here we offer the ninth "First Chapter Collection" in which readers share the first chapters of a variety of fiction and...
Short Science Fiction Collection 075 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 075 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Short Poetry Collection 210 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 210 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 46 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for November 2020....
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 076 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 076 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Our constitution is color-blind... the law regards man as man and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights...are involved." Justice Harlan's eloquent defense of...
Short Poetry Collection 214 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 214 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 59 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2021....
Short Story Collection Vol. 095 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 095 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. In this, the 95th volume of Short Stories, we delve into the works of Oscar Wilde, Bret Harte, Lafcadio Hearne and Mark Twain with a few Weird Tales thrown into...
Short Science Fiction Collection 072 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 072 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
A to Zed Collection Vol. 002 - Various
A to Zed Collection Vol. 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Undefined
This is a collection of 26 selections, both fiction and nonfiction, in which each topic begins with a different letter of the alphabet....
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 03 December 1895 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 03 December 1895 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. The...
Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 010 - Various
Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / Anthologies
There's nothing better than curling up with a good mystery and suspense story on a cold, dark night. Here we give you fifteen in the 10th Short Mystery and Suspense collection! Whether you are looking for an intricate and perplexing tale, such as...
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 04 January 1896 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 04 January 1896 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 073 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 073 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. "Salve! ye dumb hearts. Let us be still and wait by the roadside." With these words, Kate Chopin decries the "crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath” that...
Silly Verses: Selections From Shores, Carroll, Lear, and Gilbert - Various
Silly Verses: Selections From Shores, Carroll, Lear, and Gilbert - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Silly and fun verses beginning with the lesser known Robert J. Shores and going on to the more known Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and W.S. Gilbert. - Summary by David Wales...
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 01 October 1895 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 01 October 1895 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 082 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
"Is sin a necessary stage in the development of humanity, or a yawning chasm in the very structure of the universe?” Theologian J. Gresham Machen's exploration of "eternal ideas" is joined, in vol. 082, by readings in philosophy and psychology by...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 079 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
"It was about the month of May...that I received information ...that two photographs of fairies had been taken in the North of England under circumstances which seemed to put fraud out of the question." (Arthur Conan Doyle 1920). Differing...
Short Poetry Collection 221 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 221 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2021....
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 033 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 033 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 033: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Short Story Collection Vol. 100 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 100 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
A milestone in Librivox short story collection history! It is edition 100 and to celebrate, we have some wonderful stories. Old favorites, such as W. Somerset Maugham, P. G. Wodehouse and Ernest Hemingway are joined by less familiar authors, such as...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 077 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. President Theodore Roosevelt, in a 1903 speech, declared that "The future welfare of our nation depends upon the way in which we can combine...decency and strength," and opined that being "loose...
Short Poetry Collection 216 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 216 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2021....
The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 01, The Renaissance - Various
The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 01, The Renaissance - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Early Modern
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1912. The series was planned by Lord Acton, who intended it to be a monument of objective, collaborative...
Short Poetry Collection 223 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 223 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2021....
Short Poetry Collection 213 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 213 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 66 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2021....
Short Story Collection Vol. 090 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 090 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Here we present the 90th Collection of Short Stories selected and read by Librivox volunteers. For your enjoyment, we bring gems by Hemingway, Tolstoy, D.H. Lawrence and Alexander Pushkin, plus a lesser known work by Arthur Conan Doyle, so sit back...
17th- and 18th-Century Poems by Women - Various
17th- and 18th-Century Poems by Women - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This class project is a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century verse by women, focusing first on women as writers. It has been coordinated by the students' teacher, Tonya Howe....
The Age of the Puritans Volume 2 - Various
The Age of the Puritans Volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This volume of The Age of the Puritans (late 16th century and 17th century) begins with Theodore Beza's 1575 catechism, brief and simple enough to be learned by children. William Perkins preaches a sermon on a life centred on 'Christ crucified',...