Thomas Mayne Reid

The Headless Horseman - A Strange Tale of Texas


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The horse is perfect in all its parts—a splendid steed, saddled, bridled, and otherwise completely caparisoned. In it there appears nothing …

The Scalp Hunters


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"Unroll the world’s map, and look upon the great northern continent of America. Away to the wild west, away toward the setting sun, awa…

The Wild Huntress


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Marian and Lilian are two sisters living in the backwoods, somewhere in America, with their father as squatters. One May morning a man show…

Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 013


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A collection of sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were inde…

The Death Shot


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Long time since this hand hath penned a preface. Now only to say, that this romance, as originally published, was written when the author wa…

The Giraffe Hunters


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The Young Yägers, Hans and Hendrik Von Bloom, Groot Willem and Arend Van Wyk, are again on a hunting expedition. This time, the reader…

The Ocean Waifs


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"The “vulture of the sea,” borne upon broad wing, and wandering over the wide Atlantic, suddenly suspends his flight to look down upon …

The Cliff Climbers


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A plant hunter, Karl Linden, and his brother Caspar are on their way to the Himalayas to collect the plants of that region. Many adventures…

Love Stories Volume 4


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Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, offered by Librivox volunteers, covering all kinds of experiences involving romance or oth…

Gwen Wynn - A Romance of the Wye


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Gwendoline Wynn, our heroine, is an orphan-heiress who lives on the river Wye. She will live with aunt until she comes of age and her money.…

The Maroon


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Herbert Vaughan arrives at Mount Welcome, a sugar plantation on the island of Jamaica, after his father had passed away. His arrival is not…

The War Trail


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"Land of the nopal and maguey—home of Moctezuma and Malinché!—I cannot wring thy memories from my heart! Years may roll on, hand…

No Quarter!


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There is no page in England’s history so bright, nor of which Englishmen have such reason to be proud, as that covering the period between 1…

Ran Away to Sea


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"I was just sixteen when I ran away to sea." So begins the story of Will, a young man attracted to the romance of the sea. But t…

Osceola the Seminole


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The brief but heroic struggle of the celebrated Chief, Osceola, forms the groundwork of a narrative which is equal, if not superior, to any …