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Camille - Alexandre Dumas, fils
Camille - Alexandre Dumas, fils
- Author: Alexandre Dumas fils
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Theatre de Vaudeville in Paris, France on...
Omar Resung - Charles G. BLANDEN
Omar Resung - Charles G. BLANDEN
- Author: Charles G. BLANDEN
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry
Most of the translations of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam have been in verse. However, there have been three notable exceptions to this convention; the French translation by J. B. Nicolas (1867), the English version by Justin Huntly McCarthy (1889)...
Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint - Maud Jean FRANC
Two Sides To Every Question: From A South Australian Standpoint - Maud Jean FRANC
- Author: Maud Jean FRANC
- Genre: General Fiction
'Two Sides to Every Question’: From a South Australian Standpoint is a meditation on poverty, wealth, and social aspiration set in the free settlement of Adelaide in pre-Federation Australia. The novel follows the lives of a cast of characters from...
Favourite Chapters Collection 002 - Various
Favourite Chapters Collection 002 - 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....
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls - L. Frank Baum
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls - 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...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4 - Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4 - Laurence Sterne
- Author: Laurence Sterne
- Genre: General Fiction
This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next...
The New Machiavelli - H. G. Wells
The New Machiavelli - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction
About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure, this novel by H.G. Wells generated controversy when it was first published in 1911. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
Armadale - Wilkie Collins
Armadale - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer...
Up the River - Oliver Optic
Up the River - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Up the River is the sixth and last of "The Great Western Series." The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close with the return of the hero, by a route not...
The Fifth Queen - Ford Madox Ford
The Fifth Queen - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Fifth Queen trilogy is a series of connected historical novels by English novelist Ford Madox Ford. It consists of three novels, The Fifth Queen; And How She Came to Court (1906), Privy Seal (1907) and The Fifth Queen Crowned (1908), which...
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
Oblomov - Ivan Goncharov
- Author: Ivan Goncharov
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction / Satire
Oblomov is the best known novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is also the central character of the novel, often seen as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century...
The Adventures of Master F.J. - George GASCOIGNE
The Adventures of Master F.J. - George GASCOIGNE
- Author: George GASCOIGNE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Poetry
This story presents through letters, poems and third-person commentary the love affair between a young man named Freeman Jones and a married woman named Elinor, lady of the castle he is visiting in Scotland. Events in the affair are traced from...
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s optimism and imagination have helped her to always see...
Trilby - George du MAURIER
Trilby - George du MAURIER
- Author: George du MAURIER
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram...
A Damsel in Distress - P. G. Wodehouse
A Damsel in Distress - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
A Damsel in Distress is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. on October 4, 1919 by George H. Doran, New York, and in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on October 17 1919. It had previously been serialised in The Saturday...
The Ninth vibration and other stories - L. Adams BECK
The Ninth vibration and other stories - L. Adams BECK
- Author: L. Adams BECK
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
This is a collection of the following short stories: The Ninth Vibration -- The Interpreter : A Romance of the East -- The Incomparable Lady : A Story of China with a Moral -- The Hatred of the Queen : A Story of Burma -- Fire of Beauty -- The...
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2 - Booth Tarkington
The Magnificent Ambersons (Growth Trilogy Vol 2) Version 2 - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942...
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery - L. Frank Baum
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery - 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...
Betty Baird's Golden Year - Anna Hamlin Weikel
Betty Baird's Golden Year - Anna Hamlin Weikel
- Author: Anna Hamlin Weikel
- Genre: General Fiction
It seems that all the people close to Betty are going through major life changes. Lois is certainly spending a lot of time with Dunmore Lane these days. Is Betty about to lose her friend and confidante forever? Even Miss Minturne is behaving...
Douglas Duane - Edgar FAWCETT
Douglas Duane - Edgar FAWCETT
- Author: Edgar FAWCETT
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Science Fiction
An introverted, kind-hearted book collector befriends a mad scientist, who isn’t exactly a good friend. When the scientist falls in love with the book collector’s fiancée, he concocts an evil plot to have her for his own. Edgar Fawcett was a...
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation is a juvenile novel for girls, written by L. Frank Baum. It is the seventh in the ten volumes in the Aunt Jane's Nieces series, and carries forward the continuing story of the three cousins Lousie Merrick Weldon, Patsy...
Little Women (version 3 dramatic reading) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (version 3 dramatic reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Louisa May Alcott's beloved 1868 novel is about the four March girls - Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy - who are growing up in Massachusetts during the Civil War. As the novel opens, their father is away at war, and the girls are struggling to be good and to...
Theo - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Theo - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
It's described as "A SPRIGHTLY LOVE STORY" and it is written by F. H. Burnett, "one of the most charming among American writers!" (Summary by Project Gutenberg and Elli)...
Ruth Hall - Fanny Fern
Ruth Hall - Fanny Fern
- Author: Fanny Fern
- Genre: General Fiction
This is a COMPELLING semi-autobiography of a woman who experienced severe highs and lows! Starting many things at a very young age in life & experiencing incredible happiness! Only all too soon to find herself in extreme opposite situations....
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I - François Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Book I - François Rabelais
- Author: François Rabelais
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel (in French, La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel) is a connected series of five novels written in the 16th century by François Rabelais. It is the story of two giants, a father (Gargantua) and his son...
The Real Thing - Henry James
The Real Thing - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about the relationship between the notion of reality in our humdrum world, and the means that an artist must use in...
The Guilty River - Wilkie Collins
The Guilty River - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
After his father’s death Gerard Roylake returns from Germany to take up his inheritance at Trimley Deen. On one evening he meets his childhood friend, Cristel Toller. They fall in love, but there is a crux. A deaf man, called The Lodger is obsessed...
The Hidden Places - Bertrand W. SINCLAIR
The Hidden Places - Bertrand W. SINCLAIR
- Author: Bertrand W. SINCLAIR
- Genre: General Fiction
Hollister, returning home from the war physically scarred but otherwise healthy and intact, finds life difficult among society, and so chooses to roam about a bit seeking a future for himself. He eventually leads himself to a remote area in British...
Don Quixote - Vol. 2 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote - Vol. 2 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the...
The Calico Cat (version 2) - Charles Miner Thompson
The Calico Cat (version 2) - Charles Miner Thompson
- Author: Charles Miner Thompson
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a shotgun at an annoying cat on his fence.. and hits a man skulking in the bushes. What did the cat do to...
The Dog Crusoe and His Master - R. M. Ballantyne
The Dog Crusoe and His Master - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This is a story of an adventure involving a young man, his dog, and two friends. Together they wander through the Western prairies on a mission to make peace between the "pale-faces" and the "Red men". They face many perils and become heroes many...
The Cloak - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Cloak - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: General Fiction
"The Cloak" is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky: "We all come out from...
Ester Ried's Namesake - Pansy
Ester Ried's Namesake - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: General Fiction / Christian Fiction
Esther Ried Randall tries to live up to her parents' expectations and the name she's been given, but her religion is a chore. Will she learn the lesson of faith that Ester did? Fifth and final book in the Ester Ried series. Authored by Isabella M....
Kipps - H. G. Wells
Kipps - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s 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...
An Eye for an Eye - Anthony Trollope
An Eye for an Eye - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of his family that he will marry someone suitable for inheriting an Earldom - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
The Channings - Mrs. Henry Wood
The Channings - Mrs. Henry Wood
- Author: Mrs. Henry Wood
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This is a saga about life in a small town in England during the Victorian era. The "stars" of this saga are the Channings. Mr. Channing was ill and, because of his poverty, his six children have to work. Many things happen during this saga: a man...
Little Women (version 4) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women (version 4) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Little Women is the classic story of the March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls–Practical, yet fashion conscious, Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious, book worm, Jo, who wants to become...
Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton
Crucial Instances - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
This is Edith Wharton's second published collection of short stories (1901). One of these seven stories, "Copy: A Dialogue," is written as a short play. The role of Hilda is read by Arielle Lipshaw, and the role of Ventnor by Mark F. Smith. (Summary...
The Wanderer - Fanny Burney
The Wanderer - Fanny Burney
- Author: Fanny Burney
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
This is the fourth and final novel by Fanny Burney, the author of Evelina, Cecilia, and Camilla. "Who is "Miss Ellis?" Why did she board a ship from France to England at the beginning of the French revolution? Anyway, the loss of her purse made this...
The Room in the Dragon Volant - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
The Room in the Dragon Volant - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom he glimpses momentarily behind her black veil. In...
