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In Which Dan Meets the Pretty Lady with the Blue-Blue Eyes

In The Adventures of Diggeldy Dan

Read by Amelia Brennan


Edwin P. Norwood


Diggeldy Dan (rhymes with Wiggildy Wan) is a most ingenious fellow who lives in a circus called Spangleland. He looks like a clown because …

The Bark of Old Hungry-Wolf

In The Hollow Tree Snowed In Book

Read by Amelia Brennan


Albert Bigelow Paine


Once upon a time, in the Big Deep Woods, there was a big hollow tree with three hollow branches. The tree animals living in each of these …

THE PHILANTHROPIST'S CHRISTMAS

In The Children's Book of Christmas Stories (Version 2)

Read by Amelia Brennan


Asa Don Dickinson and Variousandasa Don Dickinson


This books is a select collection of Christmas Stories in one volume. It is just that and nothing more.Each of the stories has already won …

On the Sublime

Read by Amelia Chesley


Unknowntranslated Byherbert Lord Havell and Translated Byherbert Lord Havell


This is a classical text on aesthetics and proper style in writing and rhetoric, including commentary on various ancient Greek works such as…

The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke

Read by Amelia Chesley


Leonard Cox


This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of t…

The City of Din

Read by Amelia Chesley


Dan McKenzie and Dan Mckenzie


A treatise on the increasing loudness of modern life, including philosophical and scientific discussion of what noise is, how effects us phy…

Letters to Catherine E. Beecher in Reply to an Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism

Read by Amelia Chesley


Angelina Emily Grimké


This is a collection of thirteen letters from Angelina Grimké on the subjects of abolitionism and human rights in the United States.

The Hunter and the Horseman

In Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284)

Read by Brennan Holtzclaw


Aesop


Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Tho…

Dulce et Decorum est

In Short Poetry Collection 011

Read by Brennan Holtzclaw


Wilfred Owen


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 011: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

Little Miss Muffet

In Mother Goose in Prose

Read by Brennan Holtzclaw


L. Frank Baum


Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of…

Blessings for Chanukah - Read by BKB

In Blessings for Chanukah

Read by Brennan K. Brown


Jessie E. Sampter


LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Blessings for Chanukah by Jessie E. Sampter.This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 9…

The Two Fundamentals, by Mary Salome Cutler

In Why do we need a public library?

Read by Amelia Chesley


Various


Internet Archive, which hosts our audio books, is in the midst of their annual fund-raising. They have also begun a drive to provide a mirr…

Electricity - Chapter 11 - Wireless Telegraphy, Part 1

In The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 3: Physics & Electricity

Read by Amelia Chesley


Francis Rolt-Wheeler


Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The third volume is on physics written by George Matthew and on electricity wri…

Section 49: Veto Messages

In A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Ulysses S. Grant

Read by Amelia Chesley


James D. Richardson and Ulysses S. Grant


The Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents is an eleven-volume series of tomes comprising of proclamations, special messag…