Recitations

Free to read here, from Project Gutenberg.

Standard Selections

Robert I. Fulton

The speaker's ideal entertainments

George M. Vickers

New Century Speaker and Writer: Being a Standard Work on Composition and Oratory

Henry Davenport Northrop

The Ontario High School Reader

Aletta E. Marty

Delight and power in speech

Leonard G. Nattkemper and George Wharton James

The Universal Reciter

Various

Parker's Second Reader

Richard Green Parker

The Illustrated London Reading Book

Various

Successful Recitations

Alfred H. Miles, also an audiobook

Evolution of Expression, Volume 2—Revised

Charles Wesley Emerson

Practice Book, Leland Powers School

Leland Todd Powers

Medley Dialect Recitations, Comprising a Series of the Most Popular Selections in German, French, and Scotch

George M. Baker

Dramatized Readings: Recitations in Poetry and Prose, Illustrated with Tableaux

Lucy A. Yendes

Story-Telling Ballads

Frances Jenkins Olcott

The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1

Various

The American Union Speaker

John D. Philbrick

Recitations for the Social Circle. Selected and Original

James Clarence Harvey

"Smiles": A Book of Recitations for Girls

Alice Lewis Richards

Beadle's Dime National Speaker, Embodying Gems of Oratory and Wit, Particularly Adapted to American Schools and Firesides

Orville J. Victor

The Coo-ee Reciter: Humorous, Pathetic, Dramatic, Dialect, Recitations & Readings

Various, also an audiobook

Evolution of Expression — Volume 1

Charles Wesley Emerson

Yuletide entertainments

Ellen M. Willard

Practical recitations

Caroline B. Le Row

Pieces People Ask For

George M. Baker

How Salvator Won, and Other Recitations

Ella Wheeler Wilcox, also an audiobook