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Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Dog, And A Country Town - Hugh Walpole
Jeremy And Hamlet: A Chronicle Of Certain Incidents In The Lives Of A Boy, A Dog, And A Country Town - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Hamlet is Jeremyβs dog. This 1923 book is Hugh Walpoleβs second volume in his Jeremy semi-autobiographical trilogy (Jeremy (1919 available at librivox.org), Jeremy at Crale (1927, available at fadedpage.org)), about a ten-year-old English boy. One...
Scots Of The Riverina - Henry Lawson
Scots Of The Riverina - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This poem tells the story of a boy in Australia who leaves the farm at harvest time. "and to run from home was a crime." The story is set in the Riverina, New South Wales in the town of Gundagai. ( David Lawrence)...
Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Sons of Fire - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
"He was a stranger in Matcham, a 'foreigner' as the villagers called such alien visitors. He had never been in the village before, knew nothing of its inhabitants or its surroundings, its customs, ways, local prejudices, produce, trade, scandals,...
A Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland - William Wordsworth
A Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This poem is part of the "Ecclesiastical Sonnets," writen by Wordsworth between 1821 - 22. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Balloons - Elizabeth BIBESCO
Balloons - Elizabeth BIBESCO
- Author: Elizabeth BIBESCO
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single Author Collections
Elizabeth, Princess Bibesco, was an English writer and socialite. The daughter of a British Prime Minister and the wife of a Romanian aristocrat, she drew on her experience in British high society in her work. Her talent is the compression into a...
Fire - Flowers - E. Pauline Johnson
Fire - Flowers - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fire - Flowers by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 18, 2013. Fire-Flowers is taken from the book, Flint and Feather: Collected Verse by E. Pauline Johnson. (Summary...
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises - Edmund Spenser
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Erotica / Humorous Fiction
While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud father of Aeneas, the hero of Vergil's Aeneid. The poem is an epyllion like Marlowe's "Hero and Leander" and...
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2) - Louis HΓ©mon
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2) - Louis HΓ©mon
- Author: Louis HΓ©mon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a famous example of the genre known as "novels of the land" ("romans du terroir"). These stories sought to...
Kipps - H. G. Wells
Kipps - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draperβs assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. Wanting to marry above his social class, he has to learn how to lead a genteel life, but that is too...
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children - William Dean Howells
Christmas Every Day and Other Stories Told for Children - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Short works
Five short delightful stories for children, told in the voice of "the papa" to "the girl" and "the boy" William Dean Howells (March 1, 1837 β May 11, 1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters",...
The Indian Story Book - Richard WILSON
The Indian Story Book - Richard WILSON
- Author: Richard WILSON
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Richard Wilson has taken tales from the two great Indian epics, the RΔmΔyaαΉa and the MahΔbhΔrata, as well as other early sources, and has retold them in English, in an effort to showcase to young English-speaking readers that 'oriental' stories...
By What Authority? - Robert Hugh Benson
By What Authority? - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
Two wealthy families are neighbors in Elizabethan England; one is staunchly Catholic and the other is devoutly Protestant. The attractive young scions of the families are drawn to each other in friendship and love, but are kept apart by their...
The Golden Calf - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Golden Calf - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Class. Victorian sensation books were often set in ordinary, familiar setting, undermining the perceived...
The Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
The Mikado, Or The Town of Titipu (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Comedy
In the town of Titipu, flirting is punishable by death on the command of the Mikado himself! But what happens when the Lord High Executioner is himself condemned to die? And what secret does the wandering minstrel Nanki-Poo hide, that the Mikado and...
The Golden Book of Springfield - Vachel Lindsay
The Golden Book of Springfield - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
The Golden Book of Springfield is American poet Vachel Lindsay's strange and mystical odyssey through the Springfield, Illinois of 2018, where the residents of that city strive to turn their home into a democratic utopia. It is a "Springfield a...
Porgy - DuBose Heyward
Porgy - DuBose Heyward
- Author: DuBose Heyward
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction
Story about Southern African American man with disabilities and the life he leads in the 1900's. - Summary by Denise Ray...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 10 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 10 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...
Siddhartha (Version 2) - Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha (Version 2) - Hermann Hesse
- Author: Hermann Hesse
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
A major preoccupation of Hesse in writing Siddhartha was to cure his "sickness with life" (Lebenskrankheit) by immersing himself in Indian philosophy such as that expounded in the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita. The reason the second half of the...
Cane - Jean Toomer
Cane - Jean Toomer
- Author: Jean Toomer
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
Reading this book, I had a vision of a land, heretofore sunk in the mists of muteness, suddenly rising up into the eminence of song. Innumerable books have been written about the South; some good books have been written in the South. This book is...
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Friedrich Nietzsche
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the United States, it published...
Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
Picture a tranquil English village, with an inn on the green. A lone patron enjoys his wine and teasing the landlord's pretty daughter, when suddenly they are rudely interrupted by a local aristocrat and his two henchmen. These same three reappear...
The Heart of Mid-Lothian - Sir Walter Scott
The Heart of Mid-Lothian - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
An historical novel set in Scotland in 1736, involving a riot and surrounding drama. - Summary by Deon Gines...
After the Divorce - Grazia Deledda
After the Divorce - Grazia Deledda
- Author: Grazia Deledda
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
Giovanna and Costantino Ledda are a happily married couple living with their young child in a Sardinian country village close to their extended family. Costantino is wrongly convicted of murdering his wicked uncle and with no way of supporting...
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji, Version 2) - Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Author: Murasaki SHIKIBU
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
Genji Monogatari, or The Tale of Genji, is a Japanese classic novel from the eleventh century. Supposedly commissioned by members of the Imperial Family, it tells the story of the son of the Emperor's favorite concubine and his role as a privileged...
Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan - William Elliot Griffis
Japanese Fairy World: Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan - William Elliot Griffis
- Author: William Elliot Griffis
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
William Elliot Griffis born in Philadelphia in 1843, was an educator, author and Congregational minister. In 1870 he was invited to go to Japan in order to modernize the school system and became the Superintendent of Education in the Province of...
The Village in the Jungle - Leonard Woolf
The Village in the Jungle - Leonard Woolf
- Author: Leonard Woolf
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twentieth-century. He focuses his story on one poor family in a jungle village as they struggle to survive, not...
Innocencia: a story of the prairie regions of Brazil - Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
Innocencia: a story of the prairie regions of Brazil - Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
- Author: Alfredo d'Escragnolle Taunay
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance
The story of Innocencia, an 18-year-old girl who lives in the prairies of Brazil, is a twist on the traditional love triangle. The plot has been compared to the more famous "Paul and Virginie" and "Romeo and Juliet", but it takes place on the...
The Norwegian Fairy Book - Klara Stroebe
The Norwegian Fairy Book - Klara Stroebe
- Author: Klara Stroebe
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher folk. They are men who led a hard and lonely life amid primitive surroundings. The Norwegian Fairy Book has an...
The Inheritance - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
The Inheritance - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Author: Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the honorable Thomas St. Clair, the...
In Old Plantation Days - Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Old Plantation Days - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern plantation during slavery. The stories focus on the stereotypical portrait of slaves as obedient workers happy...
A Christmas Miscellany 2020 - Various
A Christmas Miscellany 2020 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Anthologies
Nine stories, chapters, or essays about Christmas or around Christmas. - Summary by David Wales...
Tales of Daring and Danger - G. A. Henty
Tales of Daring and Danger - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
G A Henty takes us on a variety of adventures in this collection: A daring rescue on rough seas, a military action against Chinese pirates, hunting down a tiger in India, and even a calamity in a camp of gold miners in California! With each new...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 07 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 07 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...
The Garies and their Friends - Frank Webb
The Garies and their Friends - Frank Webb
- Author: Frank Webb
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
The book which now appears before the public may be of interest in relation to a question which the late agitation of the subject of slavery has raised in many thoughtful minds, viz. β Are the race at present held as slaves capable of freedom,...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 08 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 08 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...
Will Warburton - George Gissing
Will Warburton - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Published two years after Gissing's death, this novel tells the story of Will Warburton. Will loses his money in a failed business venture and has to come to terms with his new job as a grocer. This is a book about acceptance, love, and, of course,...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 06 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 06 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction
You get to choose what you want to read! (All recordings in English]) So long as the source is Public Domain for you, any short story or chapter that tells of legends, heroes, myths, or ancient lore, is welcome. We are looking for representations of...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 04 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 04 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Lynette Caulkins)...
The Golem: A legend of old Prague - Rudolf Lothar
The Golem: A legend of old Prague - Rudolf Lothar
- Author: Rudolf Lothar
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
Rabbi Loeb creates a clay man to house a perfect soul that he hopes will not be blighted by human prejudices. The plan does not go as he hoped... This is one of many stories about the golem, all of which involve Rabbi Loeb (Judah Loew ben Bezalel),...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 11 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 11 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. (Summary by Lynette Caulkins)...