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The Assault on the Mountain by C. G. Bruce, Part 2

In The Assault on Mount Everest, 1922

Read by Richard Potenza


George Mallory


Personal narratives of climbing Mount Everest in 1922-1923. The expeditions did not reach the summit. The northern approach to the mountain…

Sir Ernest Shackleton's Text

In A Casket of Cameos

Read by Richard Potenza


Frank W. Boreham


Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of edi…

One Stone

In Stories without Tears

Read by Richard Potenza


Barry Pain


This is a collection of short stories by Barry Pain, first published in 1914. While generally best-known for his horror and supernatural fic…

How the Monkey escaped being eaten

In Fairy Tales from Brazil (Version 2)

Read by Richard Potenza


Elsie Spicer Eells


A collection of short, sweet fairy tales from Brazil, including How the Tiger Got His Stripes, and Why The Bananas Belong to the Monkey. - S…

Golightly Highballs Part 1

In Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 13, October, 1920

Read by Richard Potenza


W. H. Fawcett


"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue …

Danger from Macedonia (348 B.C.) by Demosthenes

In The World’s Story Volume IV: Greece and Rome

Read by Richard Potenza


Eva March Tappan


This is the fourth volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March T…

The Bee - Read by RVP

In The Bee

Read by Richard Potenza


H. P. Nichols


LibriVox volunteers bring you 28 recordings of The Bee by H. P. Nichols.This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 21, 2020.-----Some pract…

The Amber Treasure

Read by Richard Denning


Richard Denning


Cerdic is the nephew of a great warrior who died a hero of the Anglo-Saxon country of Deira. Growing up in a quiet village, he dreams of the…

A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5)

Read by Richard Reiman


Charles Dickens


Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century…

Laddie's Magical Glowing Balls Of Colored Gas

Read by Richard Stephenson


Richard Stephenson


Laddie is a schizophrenic inmate who lives in the violent, obscene environment of a maximum security prison. Delusions swirl in his mind li…

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Version 6)

Read by Richard Reiman


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


The baronet of Baskerville Hall is found dead, possibly a victim of a supernatural hound, the fulfillment of an old family legend. Holmes an…

William Penn

Read by Richard Vogel


George Hodges


Biography of William Penn - Summary by Richard Vogel

The Story of George Fox

Read by Richard Vogel


Rufus Jones


A biography of George Fox, founder of The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). - Summary by Richard Vogel

The Phoenix Conspiracy

Read by Richard L Sanders


Richard L Sanders


Calvin, an intelligence operative, is sent to eliminate a dangerous traitor. But as he chases his prey across the stars, he realizes they ar…