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An American Robinson Crusoe - Samuel B. ALLISON
An American Robinson Crusoe - Samuel B. ALLISON
- Author: Samuel B. ALLISON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his parents' wishes. The ship (and all of its crew) is lost in a storm, but Robinson makes it to a deserted island. He...
The Shadow of the Rope - E. W. Hornung
The Shadow of the Rope - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and public opinion vehemently and almost universally against her. When the jury astonishes and outrages the world...
Democracy - An American Novel - Henry Brooks Adams
Democracy - An American Novel - Henry Brooks Adams
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great acclaim in 1880. Though the book avoids dates and the characters are fictitious, the setting is no doubt that...
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse
- Author: Hermann Hesse
- Genre: General Fiction
Siddhartha is one of the great philosophical novels. Profoundly insightful, it is also a beautifully written story that begins as Siddhartha, son of an Indian Brahman, leaves his family and begins a lifelong journey towards Enlightenment. On the way...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Irritated and drunken, an itinerant farm-worker sells his wife and child to a stranger. Thus begins The Mayor of Casterbridge, set in rural and small-town England in the mid-1800s. In the original subtitle, Hardy called this the story of "a man of...
The Price of Love - Arnold Bennett
The Price of Love - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
Rachel Louise Fleckring works for the elderly Mrs Maldon, and although with the woman for only a short time, she is taken into the heart of the family. She falls in love with one of Mrs Maldon's descendents, but along the way, she has to come to...
The Fortunate Youth - William John Locke
The Fortunate Youth - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Paul is a poor boy who grew up in London, in the household of his mother and stepfather. His journey to greatness is the subject of our story. But his desired success comes at a very high price. (Summary by Stav Nisser)...
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works - Jane Austen
Love and Freindship, and Other Early Works - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
This book draws together some of Jane Austen's earliest literary efforts. It includes "Love & Freindship" and "Lesley Castle" both told through the medium of letters written by the characters. It also contains her wonderful "History of England"...
The Gloved Hand - Burton Egbert Stevenson
The Gloved Hand - Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Mr. Lester, a private investigator, and his friend Godfrey are caught up in a strange case that takes them to a large estate in the country where at midnight they witness a mysterious "falling star" that appears to burst into a shower of sparks over...
Favourite Chapters Collection 003 - Various
Favourite Chapters Collection 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction
A collection of LibriVox volunteersβ 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....
The Story of the Mikado - W. S. Gilbert
The Story of the Mikado - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The Mikado is the ninth of the 14 Gilbert and Sullivan musical collaborations. It opened in 1885, had the second longest run for any work of musical theatre of the time, and remains the most frequently performed Gilbert and Sullivan. It was adapted...
Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The College Girls Series sees the friends part ways: Grace, Anne, and Miriam depart for Overton College, while Jessica and Nora attend a conservatory. The Eight Originals gather on holidays, but the seven College books focus on the three at Overton,...
To Have And To Hold - Mary JOHNSTON
To Have And To Hold - Mary JOHNSTON
- Author: Mary JOHNSTON
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
When I first started reading this book, I thought it to be a historical romance novel. As I read further, I pondered whether it might be a sea-faring story. Reading still further, I determined it to be an adventure story. Alas, it is all three. To...
Operation Terror - Murray Leinster
Operation Terror - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
An unidentified space ship lands in a Colorado lake. Equipped with a paralyzing ray weapon, the creatures begin taking human prisoners. A lone land surveyor and a journalist are trapped inside the Army cordon, which is helpless against the...
This Side of Paradise (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
This Side of Paradise (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: General Fiction
Amory Blaine grew up in a wealthy family and was given an Ivy League education. Without a need to learn a profession, he chiefly dabbled in literature and partying. His school chums were of similar background, and the ideas they reflected to each...
The Pastor's Wife - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Pastor's Wife - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: General Fiction
Written by an author born in Australia, grew up in England, married in Germany, and then flew to the United States. A tale about a young woman, freed up from the bonds of her family life, to wonder all around in search of all things feminist. The...
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
War in the Air was written during a prolific time in H. G. Wells's writing career. Having withdrawn from British politics to spend more time on his own ideas, he published twelve books between 1901 and 1911, including this one. while many British...
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography - Walt Whitman
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the world as novel written by Walt Whitman. Zachary Turpin, a graduate student specializing in Whitman's works, had...
The Make-Believe Man - Richard Harding Davis
The Make-Believe Man - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer "Patience" for his holiday, and when one has a man with such a vivid imagination like Joseph Forbes Kinney as a travel companion, who seems to find adventures at every...
Emma (version 4) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively...
The Secret Garden (version 3) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden (version 3) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
When Mary Lennox, who has been brought up in India in a spoiled manner, is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor. Here she is treated much differently than she was in India - she is able to...
Captives of the Flame - Samuel R. DELANY
Captives of the Flame - Samuel R. DELANY
- Author: Samuel R. DELANY
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Chip Delany's 2nd novel -- the first is The Jewels of Aptor (1962) -- published by Ace Books in 1963. Set in the 35th Century, the survivors of a nuclear war live on the coastline and an island in a kingdom ruled by a royal family in disrepair. A...
The Story of Avis - Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
The Story of Avis - Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
- Author: Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
- Genre: General Fiction
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a talented painter, and bucks against the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. She wants to pursue a...
The Innocents, A Story for Lovers - Sinclair Lewis
The Innocents, A Story for Lovers - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
βMr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, or of cuddling together in corners, and Father was a person of stubborn youthfulness.β It is only by...
Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories - Various
Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Poetry
The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the readerβs grandchildren in mind. βThe Raggedy Manβ and βLittle Orphant Annie,β both by James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet were favorites of the reader when she was a child on a farm...
Tik-Tok of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Tik-Tok of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Betsy Bobbin encounters many strange and exciting adventures and people in the land of Oz; a side-plot is Queen Ann of Oogaboo's mission to take over Oz. (Summary by Ryan T.)...
The Vicar of Wrexhill - Frances Milton Trollope
The Vicar of Wrexhill - Frances Milton Trollope
- Author: Frances Milton Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
A villainous vicar insinuates himself into the life of a wealthy but foolish widow, ruining the fortunes and happiness of her three children, until they begin to fight back. Published in 1837 by the mother of the better-known Anthony Trollope, this...
The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery - Paul Leicester FORD
The Great K. & A. Train-Robbery - Paul Leicester FORD
- Author: Paul Leicester FORD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
In this short novel the narrator is a superintendent on the K. & A. railroad, sometime in the late nineteenth century. The train is robbed somewhere in the Arizona desert. Various adventures involve this young superintendent. Romance is provided...
Fame and Fortune - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Fame and Fortune - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: General Fiction
Richard Hunter, formerly Ragged Dick, continues to advance in the world through luck and excellent morals. He, along with his friend Henry, moves into a better boarding house and then finds a promising job. He is framed for theft by a jealous...
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame - Thomas W. HANSHEW
The Riddle of the Frozen Flame - Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Author: Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Another full-length mystery story featuring Hamilton Cleek, whom we met first in Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces . This time, Cleek investigates the sinister disappearance of people and the mysterious appearance of flames at night in the desolate...
The House in the Mist - Anna Katharine Green
The House in the Mist - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
It was a night to drive any man indoors. Not only was the darkness impenetrable, but the raw mist enveloping hill and valley made the open road anything but desirable to a belated wayfarer like myself.Being young, untrammeled, and naturally...
Aunt Jane's Nieces - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction
Jane Merrick is a wealthy, elderly, difficult invalid woman who is preparing for her approaching death. In her youth, she inherited her money and estate from her fiancΓ©, Thomas Bradley, who died before their wedding took place. With no children of...
Four Girls at Chautauqua - Pansy
Four Girls at Chautauqua - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
Authored by Isabella M. Alden under the pen name βPansy.β First in the Chautauqua Girls series.Four friends - spoiled, quirky Ruth; fun-loving and mischievous Eurie; poor, independent and brainy Marion; and meek, approval-seeking Flossy - attend...
This Is the End - Stella Benson
This Is the End - Stella Benson
- Author: Stella Benson
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Some books have plots that drive relentlessly toward a conclusion. Others, like "This Is The End", just meander. It is the story of a Family halfheartedly searching for a missing relation who does not want to be found, while just off-stage, World...
The Phoenix and the Carpet - E. Nesbit
The Phoenix and the Carpet - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The Phoenix and the Carpet is a fantasy novel for children, written in 1904 by E. Nesbit. It is the second in a trilogy of novels that began with Five Children and It (1902), and follows the adventures of the same five protagonists β Cyril, Anthea,...
Just William (version 2) - Richmal Crompton
Just William (version 2) - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Just William is the first book of hilarious short stories about 11-year-old William Brown -- eternally scruffy and frowning. William's family, his elder sister Ethel and brother Robert, placid mother and stern father, and never-ending supply of...
The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name...
The Red Room - August Strindberg
The Red Room - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
A young idealistic civil servant, Arvid Falk, leaves the drudgery of bureaucracy to become a journalist and author. As he explores various social activities β politics, publishing, theatre, philanthropy, and business β he finds more hypocrisy and...
Stella Fregelius - H. Rider Haggard
Stella Fregelius - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Following a shipwreck Stella is preparing to die but is unexpectedly rescued. A love triangle of an unusual sort develops where an inventor of the mobile phone, back in 1900, who is engaged, becomes involved with a woman who has a passionate...
Mr Hogarth's Will - Catherine Helen SPENCE
Mr Hogarth's Will - Catherine Helen SPENCE
- Author: Catherine Helen SPENCE
- Genre: General Fiction
Jane and Elsie Melville were raised by their kindly but eccentric uncle, Mr Hogarth who believed that women were just as good as men, and thus gave his nieces a boy's education. Upon his death, they find that he has left his entire fortune to his...
