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Chapter 101

In Varney, the Vampyre Vol. 2

Read by Jason Oakley


Thomas Preskett Prest and Thomas Peckett Prest


Originally published as a penny dreadful from 1845 until 1847, when it first appeared in book form, Varney the Vampyre is a forerunner to va…

Chapter 16

In The Getting of Wisdom

Read by Jason Oakley


Henry Handel Richardson


The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on H…

Smoking Spiritualized

In Folk Ballad Collection 001

Read by Jason Oakley


Ralph Erskine


LibriVox’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection).

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In The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing

Read by Jason Oakley


Joseph Trienens and Joseph Triemens


Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is mo…

Version 14

In Sonnet 43

Read by Jason Oakley


Elizabeth Barrett Browning


LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 different recordings of Sonnet 43 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This was the weekly poetry project for the…

Ode to a Nightingale

In Short Poetry Collection 023

Read by Jason Oakley


John Keats


LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 023: a collection of 20 public-domain poems.

The Reaper And The Flowers - Read by JJO

In The Reaper And The Flowers

Read by Jason Oakley


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Reaper And The Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry pro…

What think you I take my pen in hand? read by

In What Think You I Take my Pen in Hand?

Read by Jason Oakley


Walt Whitman


LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of What think you I take my pen in hand? by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry p…

Chapter 12

In Little Lord Fauntleroy

Read by Jason Oakley


Frances Hodgson Burnett


Little Lord Fauntleroy is a sentimental children's novel by American (English-born) author Frances Hodgson Burnett, serialized in St. Nichol…

IN THE EAST CORRIDOR

In The Circular Staircase

Read by Jason Oakley


Mary Roberts Rinehart


Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958) was a prolific American writer of popular mysteries. The Circular Staircase was originally published in 19…

From the Shore

In Short Poetry Collection 022

Read by Jason Oakley


Carl Sandburg


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

Chapter V

In The Clue of the Twisted Candle

Read by Jason Oakley


Edgar Wallace


Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scot…

Philosophy and Fun of Algebra

Read by Patricia Oakley


Mary Everest Boole


Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was born Mary Everest in England and spent her early years in France. She married mathematician George Boole.…

Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin’s Boarding School

Read by Patricia Oakley


Frances Hodgson Burnett


The story told in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s classic novel, A Little Princess, was first written as a serialized novella, Sara Crewe, or What…

The Worm Ouroboros

Read by Jason Mills


E. R. Eddison


This classic 1922 fantasy novel brings you to a strange and lovely world where a young lord wrestles King Gorice for his land's freedom, whe…