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Thor and the Utgard-King

In Legends of Norseland

Read by Ryan Williams


Mara L. Pratt


Collection of tales from the Norse legends, from the beginning of the golden kingdom of the Aesir, to it's end within the flames of Ragnarok…

Chapter 31. The Shirt of Nessus

In The Wing of Azrael, Volume 3

Read by Alyssa Williams


Mona Caird


Mona Caird, a British writer and feminist, criticized in numerous non-fiction writings the state of marriage as it existed in her time. Her …

Chapter 12

In Original Stories from Real Life

Read by Cate Williams


Mary Wollstonecraft


Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best kno…

Section 4

In Write it Right

Read by Paul Williams


Ambrose Bierce


Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, though…

Oh Captain! My Captain!

In Short Poetry Collection 082

Read by Melinda Williams


Walt Whitman


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers during the month of August 2009.

Chapter 2

In Consuelo

Read by Ryan Williams


George Sand


This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. Afte…

The Ladies

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086

Read by Ryan Williams


Mark Twain


"The democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom," was Aldous Huxley's prophecy for the United States in 1…

Chapter 27

In Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England

Read by Ryan Williams


Robert Smith Surtees


Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitati…

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

In The Canterbury Tales

Read by Graham Williams


Geoffrey Chaucer


The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the…

Sonnet 130 - read by GW

In Sonnet 130

Read by Graham Williams


William Shakespeare


LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal…

Chapter 10

In The Green Millennium

Read by Mira Williams


Fritz Leiber


From the classic science-fiction and fantasy author Fritz Leiber comes this intriguing tale of a green cat. From the author's introduction:…

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