General Fiction
The Strength of Gideon
One of four books of short stories written in his brief career. These stories are written using African-American dialect which provides dee…
History of England
A simple history of England written principally with words of one syllable. Books of these kind, I understand, are helpful for both beginnin…
The Garden God
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reid’s tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoeroti…
Impartiality
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Impartiality by James Russell Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 16, 2011…
Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels
A collection of short and humorous one-act "sequels" to 14 major plays (many already in the Librivox catalog).Plays end too soon. …
A Girl Among the Anarchists
Helen and Olivia Rossetti were rather precocious girls in Victorian London. While still extremely young, they published a renowned anarchist…
The Plastic Age
The Plastic Age by Percy Marks explores the vibrant and tumultuous lives of co-eds at the fictional Sanford College during the Roaring Twent…
Marjorie Dean, High School Junior
In her Junior year at high school, Marjorie faces a new foe. Rowena Farnham is clever and calculating and her antics threaten Sanford High's…
The Secrets of Dr. Taverner
Dion Fortune (born Violet Mary Firth), was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, novelist and author. She founded The Society of The Inn…
The Man Who Knew Too Much
A collection of short adventure stories following Horne and his friend. - Summary by Victoria Bell
That Affair Next Door
One evening, New York society doyenne looks out her window and sees a man and woman entering the mansion opposite hers. Ten minutes later, o…
Harper's Young People
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, sho…
Transition
Honora Klaper is beautiful, distinguished, smart, and charming. A woman who turns heads. She is on an errand. No, it is not an errand to get…
Life and Gabriella
Set in Richmond, Virginia and New York City at the end of the 19th century, this is the story of Gabriella Carr, a young woman who demonstra…
Strange Peoples
Starr presents a compendium of descriptions from several peoples (races) around the world as it was in the late XIX century. - Summary by Ma…
The Well Of Loneliness
The story of Stephen Gordon, a girl born in the late 19th century into a privileged English family. She knows from an early age that she is …
Petticoat Government
The lives and intrigues of the Jenkyns family and their neighbors, in the cathedral town of Westhampton, 1825. - Summary by Mark Leder
Short Stories for Colored People
Several short stories relating to young African Americans. Summary by kirk202
The Dolliver Romance
This post-humous collection of stories, sketches and essays by celebrated quintessential New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne gives us gli…
The Desert
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Desert by Mathilde Blind. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 10th, 2010.