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Perfect Love, part 1

In Four and Twenty Fairy Tales

Read by Pete Darby


Varioustranslated Byjames Planché


This is a collection of French fairy tales by different famous authors. Included in this collection are such famous tales as Sleeping Beauty…

05 - May

In A Chesterton Calendar

Read by Pete Darby


G. K. Chesterton


Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in pro…

Book XI: Agamemnon's day of glory

In The Iliad

Read by Pete Darby


Homer, trans. Butler and Homer


The Iliad, together with the Odyssey, is one of two ancient Greek epic poems traditionally attributed to Homer. The poem is commonly dated t…

Literary Expressions: Laden with the poignant scent of the garden honeysuckle -…

In Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

Read by Pete Darby


Grenville Kleiser


A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embelli…

Ashton-Kirk, Investigator

Read by Pete Milan


John Thomas Mcintyre


Ashton-Kirk, who has solved so many mysteries, is himself something of a problem even to those who know him best. Although young, wealthy, a…

Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent

Read by Pete Milan


John Thomas Mcintyre


Those who have read "Ashton-Kirk, Investigator" will recall references to several affairs in which the United States government fo…

The Necromancers

Read by Dustin Pete


Robert Hugh Benson


Following the death of his fiancée, Laurie Baxter becomes consumed by an obsession with the supernatural. Attempting to reach his dec…

Lilith

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


George MacDonald


Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its lat…

Undine

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Friedrich De La Motte Fouqué


Undine is a novel by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué concerning Undine, a water spirit who marries a Knight named Huldbrand in order to …

The Expressman and the Detective

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Allan Pinkerton


Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884), a Scotsman by birth and a barrel-maker by trade, settled in Chicago in its infancy and founded the Pinkertons, …

Hymns to the Night

Read by Pete Williams, Pittsburgh, PA


Novalis


"Hymns to the Night" is the last published work of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772-1801), the German philoso…

Grown-Up - Read by BSD

In Grown-Up

Read by Brian Darby


Edna St. Vincent Millay


LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Grown-Up by Edna St. Vincent Millay..This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3, 2021.…

The Retired Cat - Read by BSD

In The Retired Cat

Read by Brian Darby


William Cowper


William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century na…

New Year's Eve - Read by BSD

In New Year's Eve

Read by Brian Darby


Eugene Field


LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of New Year's Eve by Eugene Field.This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 27, 2020. -…

Comfort in the Night - Read by BSD

In Comfort in the Night

Read by Brian Darby


Jean Ingelow


Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. - Summary by Wikipedia

Campcraft, part 6

In Boy Scouts Handbook

Read by Brian Darby


Boy Scouts of America and Boy Scouts Of America


The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same…

Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth - Read by BSD

In Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Read by Brian Darby


Arthur Hugh Clough


Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. H…

Lights - Read by BSD

In Lights

Read by Brian Darby


Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. He…