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The Red Shoes

In Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection 003

Read by Elizabeth Barr


Hans Christian Andersen


In LibriVox’s Multilingual Fairy Tale Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain fairy tales. This is a collection o…

A Bronte Legend

In Short Poetry Collection 088

Read by Elizabeth Barr


Lesbia Harford (1891-1927) and Lesbia Harford


This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the months of April, May, and June 2010.

This Enlightened Age

In International Women's Literature Collection

Read by Elizabeth Barr


Ada Cambridge


This is a collection of works -- short stories or poetry -- by women writers in English from around the world and first published before 192…

Richard III, Act 1 Scene 2

In Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 001

Read by Elizabeth Barr


William Shakespeare


This is a collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for this collection i…

Bk 1 Ch 23-24

In Les Misérables, Volume 5

Read by Elizabeth Barr


Victor Hugo, transl. Hapgood and Victor Hugo


This is book 5 of 5. An ex-convict breaks parole and starts a new life as a righteous man, but is pursued by a police inspector. Along the w…

09 - How the Monkey and the Goat Earned Their Reputations

In Fairy Tales from Brazil

Read by Elizabeth Barr


Elsie Spicer Eells


This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths…

Chapter 10

In Agnes Grey (Dramatic Reading)

Read by Elizabeth Barr


Anne Bronte and Anne Brontë


Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one o…

Emma (version 3)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much li…

The Children of Odin

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Pádraic Colum


Master storyteller Padraic Colum's rich, musical voice captures all the magic and majesty of the Norse sagas in his retellings of the advent…

Lady Audley's Secret

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Mary Elizabeth Braddon


Mary Elizabeth Braddon's first novel, Lady Audley's Secret, was one of the most popular English novels of its day. Published serially in 186…

Northanger Abbey (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Northanger Abbey follows Catherine Morland and family friends Mr. and Mrs. Allen as they visit Bath, England. Seventeen year-old Catherine s…

Jane Eyre (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Charlotte Brontë


Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre is narrated by the title character, an orphan who survives neglect and abuse to become a governes…

Pride and Prejudice (version 4)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen's classic comic romance, in which the five Bennett sisters try to find that most elusive creature: a sing…

Persuasion (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Eight years ago, Anne Elliot fell in love with a poor but ambitious young naval officer, Frederick Wentworth. The Elliots were dissatisfied …

Sense and Sensibility (version 3)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Jane Austen


Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's first published novel, focuses on the lives and loves of two sisters, Elinor and Marianne Dashwood. The…

Wives and Daughters (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at …

The Turn of the Screw (version 2)

Read by Elizabeth Klett


Henry James


Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an i…