Dramatic Readings

Rose O' The River

by Kate Douglas Wiggin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from…

Pollyanna

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
The story begins when Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her Aunt Polly, a strict and dutiful middle aged woman. Pollyanna imme…

Hard Times

by Charles Dickens Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Charles Dickens' 1854 novel opens with the philosophy of education espoused by the eminently practical Mr. Gradgrind, who prizes "facts…

A Study in Scarlet

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, …

Further Chronicles of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
After her famed book "Anne of Green Gables," Lucy Maud Montgomery continued her stories in "Chronicles of Avonlea" foll…

An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
When a neighbor brings word that Grandma is sick, Mr. and Mrs. Bassett hurry off to tend to her, leaving their seven children to prepare for…

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
This classic tale by Lewis Carroll has delighted children for generations. Alice falls down a rabbit hole and encounters a wide variety of s…

A Room with a View

by E. M. Forster Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. S…

Pollyanna Grows Up

by Eleanor H. Porter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
Pollyanna visits Boston for the summer and stays with the grumpy, miserable, yet very wealthy Ruth Carew. Lonely in a big city away from her…

Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus

by Mary Shelley Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results. The novel i…

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

by Kate Douglas Wiggin Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would h…

Emma

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Emma is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance....As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and dif…

Chronicles of Avonlea

by Lucy Maud Montgomery Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4
In this first collection of stories following the characters from the "Anne of Green Gables" series, we see 12 vignettes into the …

A Little Girl in Old Boston

by Amanda Minnie Douglas Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Doris, an orphan from England, arrives in Boston and adapts to life in America. As she grows up, she undergoes many adventures and experienc…

A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories

by Beatrix Potter Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Beatrix Potter's delightful stories come to life in this LibriVox recording of some of her most famous tales. This collection is extra speci…

The Betrothed

by Alessandro Manzoni Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
One of the most famous Italian books in history, The Betrothed was written by Alessandro Manzoni in 1827. The two main characters, Renzo and…

Sense and Sensibility

by Jane Austen Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.2
The story is about Elinor and Marianne, two daughters of Mr Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister, Margaret, and an older …

The Marvelous Land of Oz

by L. Frank Baum Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
In this enchanting sequel to The Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum invites listeners back to the magical land of Oz, where adventure awaits at eve…

Jack and Jill

by Louisa May Alcott Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.6
When Jack and Jill tumble off their sled on the first good snow of the season, their injuries cause them to be bedridden for many months, pu…

The Art of Conversation

by Josephine Turck Baker Read by LibriVox Volunteers 4.3
Many of us find it challenging to speak to other people, for various reasons. Some of us are afraid of being called a bore. Others are worri…

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