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The Cat who Walked by Himself

In Just So Stories (version 2)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Rudyard Kipling


The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So S…

The Danish Oligarchy: Disaffections Attending Chronic Usurpation Proclivities

In Comic History of England

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Bill Nye


Edgar Wilson “Bill” Nye (1850 – 1896) was a distinguished American journalist, who later became widely known as a humorist. Jim “jimmowatt” …

To Wegeler (14,18)

In Selected Letters of Ludwig van Beethoven

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Beethoven, Ludwig van and Ludwig Van Beethoven


A selection of Beethoven's letters from the compilation by Ludwig Ritter von Köchel (1800-1877) and Ludwig Nohl (1831-1885), and transl…

The Finding of the Princess

In The Golden Age

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Kenneth Grahame


The Golden Age is a collection of reminiscences of childhood, written by Kenneth Grahame and originally published in book form in 1895, in L…

096 - Domestic Servants. Chapter 41. Part 4.

In The Book of Household Management

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Isabella Beeton and Mrs. Isabella Beeton


"Mrs. Beeton's" is a guide to all aspects of running a household in Victorian Britain. Published in 1861, it was an immediate best…

Chapter XII, Part 1

In The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 12)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Thomas Babington Macaulay


Much of this chapter is taken up with the affairs of Ireland during the reign of James II. The Protestants and Catholics are having their us…

Prologue to the Canterbury Tales - Read by KS

In Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Geoffrey Chaucer


LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales, Lines 1-18 by Geoffrey Chaucer. This was the w…

Version 24

In Art and Heart

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Ella Wheeler Wilcox


This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 3…

Chapter 02

In Beowulf

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Tr. Francis Barton Gummere, Unknowntranslated Byfrancis Barton Gummere and Translated Byfrancis Barton Gummere


This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a my…

We Scholars

In Beyond Good and Evil

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Friedrich Nietzsche


First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he cons…

Chapter 01 – My Early Home

In Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse)

Read by Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023)


Anna Sewell


Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir o…

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