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In Short Poetry Collection 022

Read by Jan Bear


Robert Frost


Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 022: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Christmas Angel

Read by Jan MacGillivray


Abbie Farwell Brown


Disagreeable old Miss Terry spends her Christmas Eve getting rid of toys from her childhood toy box. One by one she tosses them onto the sid…

The House of Mirth (Version 3)

Read by Jan Moorehouse


Edith Wharton


The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mut…

Mary Cary, Frequently Martha

Read by Jan MacGillivray


Kate Langley Bosher


"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orp…

The Spirit of Christmas

Read by Jan MacGillivray


Henry van Dyke


A short Christmas book by American author, educator, and clergyman Henry Van Dyke, including a short story, two essays, and two prayers for …

Recollections of Imperial Russia

Read by Jan Moorehouse


Meriel Buchanan


In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there…

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Read by Jan Moorehouse


Various


This book is a compilation of scholarly lectures by distinguished experts delivered at Cambridge in August 1916. The titles of the lectures…

15 -- Bk First, Ch Fifth, Sec 1-2

In In the Days of the Comet

Read by Bear Schacht


H. G. Wells


William ("Willie") is a student living in the British town of Clayton. As a Socialist, he tries to move power from the upper class…

The Velveteen Rabbit Duet

In The Velveteen Rabbit (version 2)

Read by Barbara Bear


Margery Williams


This classic story by Margery Williams, published in 1922, imparts the timeless message that toys need not be expensive or modern to be appr…

Chapter XXVIII

In A Mayfair Magician; a Romance of Criminal Science

Read by David Bear


George Griffith


Our narrator, a researcher, finds himself snowed in at a Scottish prison. The resident doctor, an observer of criminal psychology, offers hi…

The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway

In The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 2

Read by Bear Schacht


Baroness Emma Orczy


The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock…

More about the Wild Winds

In The Ocean of Air - Meteorology for Beginners

Read by David Bear


Agnes Giberne


This is an immensely readable book explaining anything to do with air - the atmosphere, wind and clouds, and life. This 1896 explanation has…

27 - The Salad

In Snowdrop and Other Tales

Read by Bear Schacht


Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm and Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm


Many of these tales were published in English in 1909, the Brothers Grimm tales in this book were published separately in 1920 with illustra…

September 22-November 12, 1780

In Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I

Read by David Bear


Francis Asbury


As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Method…

The Lives of WILLIAM MARPLE and TIMOTHY COTTON, Highwaymen

In Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for…

Read by David Bear


Arthur L. Hayward


This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled b…

Die neue Herrschaft - Die kommunistische Partei

In Sowjet-Rußland im Umbau

Read by JaN


Fritz Schotthöfer


Sammlung von Aufsätzen über die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse im jungen Sowjet-Rußland. Der Autor bereiste als Journa…

Es ist gefährlich im Bette zu liegen

In Mark Twain's ausgewählte humoristische Schriften

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Mark Twain


Eine Sammlung von kurzen, humorvollen Geschichten Mark Twains.Zusammenfassung von Katharina21

Mare nostrum

In Die Onyxschale

Read by JaN


Victor Auburtin


Kurze Geschichten deren Leichtigkeit meist mystischen, religiösen oder philosophischen Inhalt haben. Mit stellenweise hintergründi…

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