E. F. Benson was born at Wellington College in Berkshire, where his father, who later went on to become the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the first He...
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, by William McGonagall, to celebrate April Fool's Day....
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime howeve...
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known today for the...
Qui n'a jamais entendu parler de Tartarin de Tarascon, le grand Tartarin, héros de Tarascon, chef des chasseurs de casquettes ?
Alphonse Daudet nous...
Once upon a time there lived in a small house built underneath the ground two curious little folk, with their father, their mother, their uncle and Ja...
Sara Burgerhart is een jong meisje dat correspondeert met haar vriendinnen, aanbidders en familie. Die mensen schrijven elkaar ook allemaal. Het boek...
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 readings of Nephelidia by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Note: "Nephelidia" means "Cloudlets"; the poem is Swinburne's p...
Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca is a novel sited in Tuscany (Italy). It was written by Vamba (Luigi Bertelli’s pseudonym) in 1907 and published in 1912...
The stories about Münchhausen were first collected and published by an anonymous author in 1781. An English version was published in London in 1785, b...
Jules Vernes Roman führt uns in das fiktive Städtchen Quiquendone. Hier ticken die Uhren besonders langsam und es bedarf schon mal Jahrzehnte, bevor d...
De retour de sa campagne, la Baronne de ... va voir la Marquise de ..., qui n'a plus fermé l'oeil depuis quinze jours. Qu'est-ce qui mieux qu'un disco...
Uneasy Money is a romantic comedy by P.G. Wodehouse, published during the First World War, it offers light escapism. More romantic but only a little l...
"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an 1865 short story by Mark Twain. It was also published as "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calave...
Danny is the proverbial basket-on-the-doorstep baby, found by Hank and Elmira Walters, a childless couple who welcome him into their home because they...
Barbara in Brittany is a delightful and heartwarming story about a young girl's adventures in France. Barbara is a kind and resourceful girl who is al...
In "Gossip in a Library," Edmund Gosse, a renowned literary figure of the Victorian era, invites readers into his personal collection of books. Throug...
A Tramp Abroad is a hilarious and insightful travelogue of Mark Twain's journey through Europe with his friend Harris. Twain's keen eye for detail and...
Prinzessin Brambilla is an allegorical-fantastic fairy tale set during a timeless Roman Carnival, as depicted in Jacques Callot's graphic series "Ball...
Tristram Shandy, a satirical novel by Laurence Sterne, is known for its unconventional and digressive narrative style. It follows the life and opinion...
Philip and Lucy are step-siblings who don't get along. One day, Philip's toy city comes to life, and they are transported to a magical land where they...
Samuel Foote's *The Great Panjandrum Himself* is a satirical and comedic work that parodies the grandiloquent style of writing prevalent in the 18th c...
Stephen Leacock's "Nonsense Novels" is a collection of ten short stories that playfully poke fun at various aspects of life. The stories are filled wi...
