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Teddy's Button - Amy LE FEUVRE
Teddy's Button - Amy LE FEUVRE
- Author: Amy LE FEUVRE
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield and guards his button jealously. But this brings contention and strife when a new girl comes to town. Teddy begins to learn what it means to be a soldier under...
The Adventures of Ulysses - Charles Lamb
The Adventures of Ulysses - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Lamb used Homer's Odyssey as the basis for the re-telling of the story of Ulysses's journey back from Troy to his own kingdom of Ithaca. Not a direct translation and deemed modern in its time, Lamb states in the preface that, "I have gained a...
A Sweet Little Maid - Amy Ella BLANCHARD
A Sweet Little Maid - Amy Ella BLANCHARD
- Author: Amy Ella BLANCHARD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Dimple, the nine-year-old little girl is accustomed to being always the first. She has Bubbles, a little coloured girl as playmate and servant. One day Dimple’s cousin, Florence comes to visit her and they have a wonderful time together. But then...
The Story of H.M.S. Pinafore - W. S. Gilbert
The Story of H.M.S. Pinafore - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest...
The Nomad of the Nine Lives - Abby Frances FRIEBE
The Nomad of the Nine Lives - Abby Frances FRIEBE
- Author: Abby Frances FRIEBE
- Genre: General Fiction
Tales of a cat's life told by the cat in hopes of saving cats from death by animal shelters or abandonment. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)...
Erema - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Erema - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: General Fiction
A few years before the great Civil War, a young English woman and her father, having left the security of their wagon train, are lost in the unforgiving Californian desert, looking in vain for the landmark that marks the short-cut across those last...
Brazilian Tales - Various
Brazilian Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period - the end of the 19th century. His comprehensive preface aims at familiarizing the reader with a...
The Purple Cloud - Matthew Phipps SHIEL
The Purple Cloud - Matthew Phipps SHIEL
- Author: Matthew Phipps SHIEL
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The story, a recording of a medium's meditation over the future writing of the text, details the narrator's (Adam Jeffson's) expedition to the North Pole during the 20th century on board the Boreal. Jeffson's fiancée, the Countess Clodagh, poisons...
Briarwood Girls - Julia Lestarjette GLOVER
Briarwood Girls - Julia Lestarjette GLOVER
- Author: Julia Lestarjette GLOVER
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / School
Kindred Spirits return for their Sophomore year at Briarwood College. There's a new girl who upsets the status quo. (Introduction by Linda Velwest)...
Samuel the Seeker - Upton Sinclair
Samuel the Seeker - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction
What would happen to you if you tried to make your way in the world believing all the clear, simple things you had ever been taught growing up? Here we have one response to that question, a commentary by the great novelist, journalist and political...
A Cousin's Conspiracy - Horatio Alger, Jr.
A Cousin's Conspiracy - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Ernest Ray is a young boy who sets out to reclaim the inheritance that was unjustly with held from his father and given to a cousin. (Introduction by Abigail Rasmussen)...
Robbery Under Arms - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
Robbery Under Arms - Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Author: Rolf BOLDREWOOD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
A tale of cattle duffing, horse stealing and bushranging in the New South Wales outback with Captain Starlight.To quote the author "though presented in the guise of fiction, this chronicle of the Marston family must not be set down by the reader as...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel) The Wit and Humor of America series...
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches - Mark Twain
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are...
Short Story Collection Vol. 055 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 055 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by J. M. Barrie, O. Henry, Jerome, Joyce, London, Saki, R. L. Stevenson, Trollope, Wilde and...
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: General Fiction
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist,...
The Little White Bird - J. M. Barrie
The Little White Bird - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
"A children's book, sharp social commentary and sad psychological thriller about a man's search for a sense of belonging. All in one amazing and lyrical collection. This is the first book in which Peter Pan starts to appear. His adventure in...
The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope
The Prime Minister - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. With Phineas' difficulties resolved, Trollope introduces new characters. A respectable young girl forsakes the man her family had always intended her to marry when she...
Anne of Avonlea (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Avonlea (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The second part in the story of Anne Shirley, covering her years of teaching at Avonlea School, before she heads off to college.Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of the Island Anne's House of Dreams Rainbow Valley...
Caleb Williams or Things As They Are - William GODWIN
Caleb Williams or Things As They Are - William GODWIN
- Author: William GODWIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The novel describes the downfall of Ferdinando Falkland, a British squire, and his attempts to ruin and destroy the life of Caleb Williams, a poor but ambitious young man that Falkland hires as his personal secretary. Caleb accidentally discovers a...
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Nicholas is forced to unwelcome employment to help secure support for his widowed mother and his sister from...
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Doctor's Wife - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is one of the Victorian “Sensationist” Mary Elizabeth Braddon's many novels (best known among them: “Lady Audley’s Secret”). It is extremely well written, fluid, humorous and, in places, self-mocking: one of the main characters is a Sensation...
The Vicar of Bullhampton - Anthony Trollope
The Vicar of Bullhampton - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This little-known but engrossing Trollope novel, published in 1870, centers on a feisty small-town clergyman, his cantankerous neighbor, the miller, and the women in both their lives. A murder, a trial, a feud, a fallen woman, and a complicated...
What is Man? and Other Essays - Mark Twain
What is Man? and Other Essays - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
"What Is Man?", published by Mark Twain in 1906, is a dialogue between a young man and an older man jaded to the world. It involves ideas of destiny and free will, as well as of psychological egoism. The Old Man asserted that the human being is...
Master Humphrey's Clock - Charles Dickens
Master Humphrey's Clock - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Between April of 1840 and December of the following year, Charles Dickens published Master Humphrey's Clock - a weekly periodical that presented short stories ostensibly read by the title character and his circle of friends - as well as...
Rangy Pete - Guy MORTON
Rangy Pete - Guy MORTON
- Author: Guy MORTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
Canadian novelist Guy Morton's Rangy Pete is one of a trio of westerns he wrote in the 1920s (the other two being Black Gold and Wards of the Azure Hills). In this one, the Gary Cooper-esque title character, Rangy Pete, goes up against the...
Ayesha, the Return of She - H. Rider Haggard
Ayesha, the Return of She - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Ayesha, the return of She, is set 16 years after the previous novel She. Horace Holly and Leo Vincey have spent the years travelling the world looking for Ayesha, along the way they experience many adventures, including avalanches, glaciers and even...
Mary Louise in the Country - L. Frank Baum
Mary Louise in the Country - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote...
And So They Were Married - Florence Morse Kingsley
And So They Were Married - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This is the story of Elizabeth North, a young woman who becomes engaged and with the aid of a social climbing friend begins to plan her wedding beyond what she can afford. Her friend Evelyn Tripp convinces Elizabeth that she “simply can’t afford”...
Robin Hood - Paul CRESWICK
Robin Hood - Paul CRESWICK
- Author: Paul CRESWICK
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
"Well, Robin, on what folly do you employ yourself? Do you cut sticks for our fire o' mornings?" Thus spoke Master Hugh Fitzooth, King's Ranger of the Forest at Locksley, as he entered his house. Robin flushed a little. "These are arrows, sir," he...
Raggedy Andy Stories - Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Andy Stories - Johnny Gruelle
- Author: Johnny Gruelle
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Raggedy Ann is a fictional character created by writer Johnny Gruelle (1880–1938) in a series of books he wrote and illustrated for young children. Raggedy Ann is a rag doll with red yarn for hair. The character was created in 1915 as a doll, and...
Satan's Diary - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Satan's Diary - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919. But a few years ago the most popular and successful of Russian writers, Andreyev died almost penniless, a sad, tragic...
The Great Impersonation - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Great Impersonation - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: General Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales are thrillers and espionage. The Great Impersonation was written following World War I and is considered by...
The Carved Lions - Mary Louisa Molesworth
The Carved Lions - Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
When two life sized carved lions from the east are given as a gift to an English household, the children of the house are enchanted, especially when the lions come to life and help take care of them. This is a delightful book for young girls but...
My Lady's Money - Wilkie Collins
My Lady's Money - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about to complete the letter with which she is to send the note off, an emergency occurs in the house, and for a...
Rock Crystal - Adalbert STIFTER
Rock Crystal - Adalbert STIFTER
- Author: Adalbert STIFTER
- Genre: General Fiction
On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th...
Candide (version 2) - Voltaire
Candide (version 2) - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: General Fiction
Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for the best, a sentiment they cling to as...
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic. Faced with a huge search task to find the probe on the...
The Fortunes of Philippa - Angela BRAZIL
The Fortunes of Philippa - Angela BRAZIL
- Author: Angela BRAZIL
- Genre: General Fiction
The Fortunes of Philippa is based on the author's mother, Angelica Brazil, who had grown up in Rio de Janeiro and attended an English boarding school at the age of 10, finding the English culture, school life and climate confronting. (Summary by...
The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
The Dead Secret - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
"Everything in life has a price. May be, telling a Secret has the highest. However, not telling may be worse. What will Sarah choose? will she tell the Secret which destroyed her life?" (Summary by Stav Nisser)...
