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1903 Collection - Various
1903 Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
This is what people were reading in 1903, short stories, poetry, and non-fiction articles. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
A Drama of Exile - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Drama of Exile - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
In writing her 'Drama of Exile', Barrett's subject was 'the new and strange experience of the fallen humanity, as it went forth from Paradise into the wilderness'. The bizarre, lyrical scenes that follow powerfully describe the grief and guilt of...
The Heart's Kingdom - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Heart's Kingdom - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: General Fiction
Nickols Powers is in love with the beautiful Charlotte and desperate to marry her. Charlotte however, is independent and reluctant to accept his religious views as a good wife should. However, she may still be convinced by the charismatic preacher...
Mind Amongst the Spindles - Charles Knight
Mind Amongst the Spindles - Charles Knight
- Author: Charles Knight
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United...
Sense and Sensibility (version 4) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
When Mr Henry Dashwood dies, with his estate entailed to his son and grandson, his wife and three daughters are left in reduced circumstances. In their new home at Barton Cottage, the two older sisters, Elinor and Marianne, experience both romance...
In a German Pension - Katherine Mansfield
In a German Pension - Katherine Mansfield
- Author: Katherine Mansfield
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the first world war. (Introduction by S....
The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / General Fiction
It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pack of children belonging to me, I would keep Christmas with the best — keep it as it ought to be kept." says Sir...
Sylvia's Lovers - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sylvia's Lovers - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction
The novel begins in the 1790s in the coastal town of Monkshaven. Sylvia Robson lives with her parents on a farm, and is loved by her rather dull Quaker cousin Philip. She, however, meets and falls in love with Charlie Kinraid, a sailor on a whaling...
Celestina - Charlotte Turner Smith
Celestina - Charlotte Turner Smith
- Author: Charlotte Turner Smith
- Genre: General Fiction
Celestina was adopted by Mrs. Willoughby from a convent in France. No one knows who her parents are. Her secret birth causes problems for her in the marriage market. But this novel is not only a courtship novel. It is about creating and keeping...
Vanity Fair (version 2) - William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair (version 2) - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: General Fiction
One of the great Victorian novels by an author at the height of his powers, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of the calculating, upwardly-mobile Becky Sharp and her gentle, good-hearted friend Amelia Sedley as they leave their boarding school and...
East Lynne - Mrs. Henry Wood
East Lynne - Mrs. Henry Wood
- Author: Mrs. Henry Wood
- Genre: General Fiction
Ellen Wood (1814-1887) was an English novelist, better known as Mrs. Henry Wood. She wrote over 30 novels, many of which (especially East Lynne which was a Victorian best seller and is still sometimes performed as a drama) enjoyed remarkable...
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: General Fiction
The Metamorphosis (in German, Die Verwandlung, "The Transformation") is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915, and arguably the most famous of his works along with the longer works The Trial and The Castle. The story begins with a...
The Sturdy Oak - Various
The Sturdy Oak - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction
At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel....Third, to have the novel finished and...
Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
- Author: Alexandre Exquemelin
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange...
The History of the Caliph Vathek - William Beckford
The History of the Caliph Vathek - William Beckford
- Author: William Beckford
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
This is one of the earliest Gothic novels. The Caliph Vathek is one of the wealthiest and most powerful men who ever lived. But this is not enough for him. He seeks also forbidden knowledge, and doesn't care who he has to hurt to get it. Aided by...
When William Came - Saki
When William Came - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
We have had many novels about alternate histories, often of the 'What would have happened if Hitler had won the war' type and this is another - except that this one is set in 1913 and the 'William' of the title is that old bogeyman 'Kaiser Bill'....
The Thing in the Attic - James B. Blish
The Thing in the Attic - James B. Blish
- Author: James B. Blish
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Honath the Pursemaker is a heretic. He doesn’t believe the stories in the Book of Laws which claims giants created his tree-dwelling race. He makes his opinion known and is banished with his infidel friends to the floor of the jungle where dangers...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - Charles Dickens
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time, (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens' Christmas novellas. The...
The Permanent Husband - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Permanent Husband - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: General Fiction
THE PERMANENT HUSBAND, also published as The Eternal Husband, is a psychological novella by the acclaimed Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The plot revolves around the intense and complex relationship between Velchaninov and Trusotsky....
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels - Stephen Leacock
Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Eight silly stories by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. (Summary by Tricia G)...
The Dawn of a To-morrow - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Dawn of a To-morrow - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
A wealthy London business man takes a room in a poor part of the city.He is depressed and has decided to take his life by going the next day to purchase a hand gun he had seen in a pawnshop window. The morning comes with one of those 'memorable...
Not Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge
Not Quite Eighteen - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Not Quite Eighteen is a delightful collection of children’s stories that range from moral to whimsical. From unfinished fairy tales and daydreams about a pony who kept shop to a lesson on presence of mind, these anecdotes will entertain as well as...
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1 - Robert Henry Newell
The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers Vol. 1 - Robert Henry Newell
- Author: Robert Henry Newell
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
These are a collection of humorous "letters" written by a fictional character to a relation in the north during the Civil War. They were published regularly in the New York Mercury Sunday newspaper for the four years of the war. In the letters,...
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Return of Tarzan - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The novel picks up where Tarzan of the Apes left off. The ape man, feeling rootless in the wake of his noble sacrifice of his prospects of wedding Jane Porter, leaves America for Europe to visit his friend Paul d'Arnot. On the ship he becomes...
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
The House of Mirth (1905), by Edith Wharton, is a novel about New York socialite Lily Bart attempting to secure a husband and a place in rich society. It is one of the first novels of manners in American literature, and one of the first to openly...
The Broken Vase and Other Stories - Anonymous
The Broken Vase and Other Stories - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Broken Vase and Other Stories; for Children and Youth, Compiled by a Teacher FITCHBURG: PUBLISHED BY S. & C. SHEPLEY. 1847. WM. J. MERRIAM, PRINTER, FITCHBURG. (Summary from the Frontspiece)...
The Lady from Nowhere - Fergus Hume
The Lady from Nowhere - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detective Absalom Gebb is on the case. (Introduction by MaryAnn)...
The Evil Genius - Wilkie Collins
The Evil Genius - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Evil Genius, one of Wilkie Collins' last works, is subtitled "A Domestic Scene". It is the intriguing tale of family Linley, including the "evil genius", and their governess Sydney Westerfield. In colorful pictures, Collins presents the story of...
The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Sport of the Gods - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: General Fiction
The Sport of the Gods is a novel by Paul Laurence Dunbar, first published in 1902, centered around urban black life. Forced to leave the South, a family falls apart amid the harsh realities of Northern inner city life in this 1902 examination of the...
Favourite Chapters Collection 001 - Various
Favourite Chapters Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction
A collection of LibriVox volunteers’ favourite chapters. Some were chosen for being the key chapter in a great novel, others for the wonderful clarity with which great ideas are expressed, and still others because the reader did a wonderful job....
Boyhood - Leo Tolstoy
Boyhood - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boyhood is the second in Tolstoy's trilogy of three autobiographical novels, including Childhood and Youth, published in a literary journal during the 1850s. (Introduction by Bill Boerst)...
Manalive - G. K. Chesterton
Manalive - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction
The flying blast struck London just where it scales the northern heights, terrace above terrace, as precipitous as Edinburgh. It was round about this place that some poet, probably drunk, looked up astonished at all those streets gone skywards, and...
Kilmeny of the Orchard - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Kilmeny of the Orchard - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Eric Marshall is all that a well brought-up young man should be. Handsome, steadfast, and full of ambition, he is expected to expand the Marshall & Company empire -- and to marry a woman suitable to replace his mother in Nova Scotia's finest...
Little Women (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This story follows the lives of four sisters Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. Set in the tumultuous days of the American Civil war, readers grow to love the four sisters as they grow and mature into young women. This book has characters any girl can relate to...
A Little Book of Christmas - John Kendrick Bangs
A Little Book of Christmas - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
Summary: Four short Christmas stories, a bit sentimental, but still affecting and worthwhile. Plus Four Christmas verses. (Summary by David Wales)...
Reuben Sachs: A Sketch - Amy Levy
Reuben Sachs: A Sketch - Amy Levy
- Author: Amy Levy
- Genre: General Fiction
Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but unexeptional family. But without Reuben, a woman like Judith might have a bleak future in mid-19th century...
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention is to live a pure and simple life filled with good works. But life among ordinary people in an English village...
Madame de Treymes - Edith Wharton
Madame de Treymes - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old flame, Fanny Frisbee, now the Marquis de Malrive. Fanny is separated from her husband and wants to marry John...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book....
