Fiction
Mother
Read by Megan Kunkel
Kathleen Norris
With seven children and a home to take care of, Margaret wondered how her Mother could be so happy living a life that seemed all drudgery. A…
Finn, Again, The Later Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
Read by Doug Hundley
Doug Hundley
Still a rascal and a wanderer, Huck Finn, now nearing thirty, narrowly escapes a shotgun wedding, outwits a crafty Treasury Agent bent on co…
New Grub Street
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
George Gissing
"The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, whic…
Olive
Read by Arielle Lipshaw
Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Inspired by Jane Eyre, Dinah Maria Craik's 1850 novel, Olive, was one of the first to feature a disabled central character. 'Slightly deform…
Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
Read by ashleighjane
Jessie Graham Flower and Josephine Chase
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around Ameri…
Cousin Henry
Read by Jean Bascom
Anthony Trollope
Indefer Jones struggles to name an heir to his estate. Will he choose his favorite niece, Isabel, or a male heir? The story turns on the tro…
Pirate Jack
Read by Alessandro Cima
Alessandro Cima
Young Jack Spencer sees his father's boat-building business destroyed by a powerful land developer. In desperation, he sets out on a dangero…
Abandoned
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
William Clark Russell
We meet Miss Lucretia Lane as she is dressing for her marriage to Captain Francis Reynolds of the British Merchant Service. Though he loves …
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading)
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Henry Fielding
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fiel…
The Antiquary
Read by skoval
Andrew Lang
Illegitimacy, false identity, and bankruptcy are the major elements of Sir Walter Scott's 1816 novel, The Antiquary. Set in the period of th…
Glengarry School Days
Read by Bruce Pirie
Ralph Connor
With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth C…
The Purple Cloud
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Matthew Phipps Shiel and M. P. Shiel
The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator's (Adam Jeffson's) expedition to t…
And So They Were Married
Read by Michele Eaton
Florence Morse Kingsley
This is the story of Elizabeth North, a young woman who becomes engaged and with the aid of a social climbing friend begins to plan her wedd…
Red Diamonds
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Justin Mccarthy
In the South African wilderness, six men got together to mine for diamonds and become very rich. They agree that the wealth is to be split e…
The Outspan: Tales of South Africa
Read by SallyMc
Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
Six poignant short stories reminiscent of life as a transport rider in the Transvaal veld in the days of the gold rush in South Africa at th…
Snow-Blind
Read by Roger Melin
Katharine Newlin Burt
A bit of a menage-a-quatre in a remote cabin in the wilderness as fugitive Hugh, his younger brother Pete, nursemaid and cook Bella, and now…
Short Story Collection Vol. 026
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Various
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 026: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Bungay Castle: A Novel
Read by Patti Cunningham
Elizabeth Bonhôte
Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family …
A Crown for Joanna
Read by Maria Therese
Sister Mary Jean Dorcy
She was born a princess, heir to her father’s kingdom of Portugal, and she might at will have reigned from almost any throne in Europe. But …
The Reverberator
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a …