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The Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths - Various
The Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Sagas
Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales from the Hudson River, and animal stories. - Summary by DrPGould...
Lucinda - Friedrich von SCHLEGEL
Lucinda - Friedrich von SCHLEGEL
- Author: Friedrich von SCHLEGEL
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Erotica / Romance
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel was born in 1772 at Hannover, Holy Roman Empire, to Johann Adolf Schlegel and Johanna Christiane Erdmuthe Hübsch. He attended Jena University and made friends with many of the writers known by his brother August...
Main Street (Version 2) - Sinclair Lewis
Main Street (Version 2) - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to the rural Minnesota town of...
The Marrow of Tradition - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation,...
Iolanthe - W. S. Gilbert
Iolanthe - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are human. He loves Phyllis, but she is courted by the whole House of Lords and the...
Oldtown Folks - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oldtown Folks - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
1870's rural Massachusetts communities became famous as “Oldtown” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 7th novel and national bestseller. Based partially on her husband Rev. Calvin Stowe's childhood memories and other old timers' recollections, this story of...
A Family of Noblemen - Mikhail SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
A Family of Noblemen - Mikhail SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
- Author: Mikhail SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Satire
Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs, the Golovliovs are a gentry family ill-equipped to face the adaptations necessary in the new social order....
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1 - Songling Pu
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio, volume 1 - Songling Pu
- Author: Songling Pu
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular...
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert TRESSELL
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert TRESSELL
- Author: Robert TRESSELL
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think...
The Crown Of Life - George Gissing
The Crown Of Life - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance
So what is the crown of life? Follow the journey of Piers and Irene as they attempt to discover. It is both a coming of age novel and love story at the same time, one which would bring delight to philosophers with many conversations for and against...
Violet Osborne - Trilogy - Emily PONSONBY
Violet Osborne - Trilogy - Emily PONSONBY
- Author: Emily PONSONBY
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
"This book is in turns funny and sad. Violet Osborne is a very beloved child with no financial problems. She is both beautiful and good, and of course she must be happy. Yet, as we learn, she is a manipulative and overbearing woman who would do...
Moving the Mountain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Moving the Mountain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian...
Stories from the Adirondacks - Albert A. YOUNG
Stories from the Adirondacks - Albert A. YOUNG
- Author: Albert A. YOUNG
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of five stories all of which take place in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and most which contain elements of some mystery hidden deep within the forests. - Summary by Roger Melin...
Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures - Montague GLASS
Potash and Perlmutter: Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures - Montague GLASS
- Author: Montague GLASS
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Montague Glass was a lawyer who eventually abandoned the practice of law to write full time. He wrote a series of stories in the New York Post about a pair of popular characters in the predominantly Jewish garment trade. Many of the plots were...
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions - Wirt SIKES
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions - Wirt SIKES
- Author: Wirt SIKES
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appointed Consul to Wales and thus began his fascination with Welsh folklore. He became a renowned authority and...
The Age of the Motored Things - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Age of the Motored Things - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Age of the Motored Things by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 6, 2013. Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of...
The Outcry - Henry James
The Outcry - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy American art collector who is bent on buying up treasured masterpieces from the Old World, and the patriotic outcry...
The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk - Mary Grant BRUCE
The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk - Mary Grant BRUCE
- Author: Mary Grant BRUCE
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria which it is thought had a dense population of the early Australians. Sadly, now there are no tribal people...
The Descent of Man and Other Stories - Edith Wharton
The Descent of Man and Other Stories - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Short Stories
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York society at the turn of the...
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting admittance into the US (Texas, Oklahoma,...
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
Old Christmas: From the Sketch Book of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
Washington Irving's Old Christmas tells of an American's travels through England during the Christmas season. Through a chance meeting with an old friend he is able to experience Christmas in a stately manor house. Through his eyes as a houseguest...
Tales from Jókai - Mór JÓKAI
Tales from Jókai - Mór JÓKAI
- Author: Mór JÓKAI
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Móric Jókay de Ásva, known as Mór Jókai or Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He was a very prolific writer from an early age and wrote hundreds of novels, novellas, and short stories in his lifetime. The nine stories in this...
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln - Charles Watts WHISTLER
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln - Charles Watts WHISTLER
- Author: Charles Watts WHISTLER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world. Havelok the Dane probably derives from a folk-tale, orally passed down before assuming written form - first...
Wives and Daughters (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and Daughters (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the daughter of a widowed doctor growing...
Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams - Annie DENTON CRIDGE
Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams - Annie DENTON CRIDGE
- Author: Annie DENTON CRIDGE
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
"Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?: Comprising Dreams" is the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. The text features nine dreams experienced by a first-person female narrator. In the first seven dreams, she visits the planet...
The Citizen's Almanac - Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Citizen's Almanac - Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Author: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Political Science / Modern (20th C)
New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the history, people, and events that have brought us where we are today as a beacon of hope and freedom to the world....
Stories of the Scottish Border - William PLATT
Stories of the Scottish Border - William PLATT
- Author: William PLATT
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Poetry
Nothing seems to be known about Mr and Mrs William Platt, the writers of Stories of the Scottish Border. What they produced is an eccentric guidebook and history, seen partly through the ballads of the region. The book recounts the military...
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 - only a few months after the Communist Manifesto co-authored by her fellow...
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories - Giovanni VERGA
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories - Giovanni VERGA
- Author: Giovanni VERGA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, "Rustic Chivalry," or "Cavalleria rusticana," was the basis...
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisite in color, poetical in feeling, these legends of sun, moon, and stars, of snow, ice, lightning, thunders,...
The Seven Poor Travellers - Charles Dickens
The Seven Poor Travellers - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter relates Dickens' visit to the ancient Richard Watts's Charity at Rochester. The second chapter is the touching...
Peasant Tales of Russia - Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
Peasant Tales of Russia - Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
- Author: Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
Collection of Russian peasant tales: "The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. "Mahmoud's Family" - Escaping prisoners of war should be shot, but Mahmoud has a family. "A...
With Her in Ourland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
With Her in Ourland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner. In Herland, three American young men discover a country inhabited solely by women, who...
Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Nature & Animal Fiction
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written by the protagonist Elizabeth...
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2) - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2) - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains Indians. Standing in the midst of this vast green plain on a soft May morning, after the Thunder Gods have...
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni VERGA
The House by the Medlar Tree - Giovanni VERGA
- Author: Giovanni VERGA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Travel Fiction / Family Life
In a nineteenth century Sicilian fishing village, the Malavoglia family gambles everything on being able to profit from a cargo of lupin nuts. The cargo is lost at sea and a succession of misfortunes and tragedies assails the family. A masterpiece...
Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's coarseness. Relatively speaking, only a few myths could be selected. These were the creation myths, the...
Java Head - Joseph HERGESHEIMER
Java Head - Joseph HERGESHEIMER
- Author: Joseph HERGESHEIMER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric ship masters, charming girls, and...
The Crossing - Winston CHURCHILL
The Crossing - Winston CHURCHILL
- Author: Winston CHURCHILL
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction
This is an historical fiction novel. Many real characters of history are included, as well as fictitious ones. The saga takes place in the period slightly before the American Revolution, and extends for some years after that war. It covers the first...
Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas - Anonymous
Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2018. ------ This poem was published in booklet form with illustrations in 1897. -...
