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The Seven Who Were Hanged - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
The Seven Who Were Hanged - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Genre: General Fiction
"I am very glad that "The Story of the Seven Who Were Hanged" will be read in English. The misfortune of us all is that we know so little, even nothing, about one another—neither about the soul, nor the life, the sufferings, the habits, the...
For Heaven's Sake: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
For Heaven's Sake: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
This is the second book in the "Angel Food" series by the author. It consists of a series of short sermons for children, in the form of a charming story. The author was a Catholic parish priest in New York for many years during the mid 1900's. He...
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys - Forrest Reid
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys - Forrest Reid
- Author: Forrest Reid
- Genre: General Fiction
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reid’s tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoerotic desire. A classic of “Uranian” literature, it tells the story of Graham Iddesleigh, a fifteen year old boy...
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2) - Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years old, this is a ‘Road’ tale in the very best tradition. Little Nell Trent and her Grandfather are the main characters, who secretly set off from their home under cover of night,...
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught relationships with his "sickly,...
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida - Oliver Optic
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
"Down South" is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western Series." The action of the story is confined entirely to Florida; and this fact may seem to belie the title of the Series. But the young yachtsman still maintains his hold upon...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in...
The Calico Cat - Charles Miner Thompson
The Calico Cat - Charles Miner Thompson
- Author: Charles Miner Thompson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This is a cute story of a mysterious feline annoyance and the result of a man acting upon his annoyance. The cat begins a vicious spiral of events that ends with lies, the arrest of a boy, and the guilty conscience of a man. (Summary written by...
Way of the Lawless - Max Brand
Way of the Lawless - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
He made one mistake in the beginning. He pushed the chestnut too hard the first and second days, so that on the third day he was forced to give the gelding his head and go at a jarring trot most of the day. On the fourth and fifth days, however, he...
My Buried Treasure - Richard Harding Davis
My Buried Treasure - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story, and, as it was his expedition...
The Man Whom the Trees Loved - Algernon Blackwood
The Man Whom the Trees Loved - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: General Fiction
The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour...
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
- Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all...
Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins
Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before witnesses, or in writing, were...
The Black Star - Johnston McCulley
The Black Star - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a mask so nobody knew what he looked like, rarely spoke to keep his voice from being recognized, and the only mark left at the scenes of the crimes which...
The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / House & Home
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious lodger. A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family, at one point...
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction
Of Human Bondage, published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s literary masterpieces. The story follows Phillip Carey from early childhood through his 30’s. Orphaned at 9,...
Cross Currents - Eleanor H. Porter
Cross Currents - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: General Fiction
Cross Currents: The Story of Margaret, to give it its full title, is delightful story about a little girl’s resilience and a mother’s unwavering love, from the beloved author of Pollyanna. Margaret Kendall (the Margaret of the story) has known...
Little Dorrit (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is considered one of his most profound. Dickens’ father spent three months in Marshalsea Prison for debt, which...
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy - Barbara Hofland
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy - Barbara Hofland
- Author: Barbara Hofland
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy (1829) Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if he is related to the famous Robinson Crusoe, and is told that he is not. His future adventures, however,...
The Girl Who Had Nothing - Alice Muriel Williamson
The Girl Who Had Nothing - Alice Muriel Williamson
- Author: Alice Muriel Williamson
- Genre: General Fiction
The Girl Who Had Nothing is about a young orphan girl in desperate circumstances, who throws herself on the mercy of an elderly stranger. By her own intelligence and wit, she manages to survive, and very nicely at that! (Summary by LynnAlison)...
The Seven Secrets - William Le Queux
The Seven Secrets - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A true “whodunit” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd is summoned to Courtenay Manor to examine the slain man and discovers a clue that might solve the case. But,...
Candide (version 3) - Voltaire
Candide (version 3) - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: General Fiction
Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote "Candide" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world has been a gayer place for readers. Voltaire wrote it in three days, and five or six generations have found that its...
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
- Author: Laurence Sterne
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion through a hundred pages, then...
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter by Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter by Robert Louis and Fanny van de Grift Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction
More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter (1885) is a collection of linked short stories by Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift. Three gentlemen of little means and no occupation meet in the Bohemian Cigar Divan, a tobacco shop with couches to...
To the Last Man - Zane Grey
To the Last Man - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
The story follows an ancient feud between two frontier families that is inflamed when one of the families takes up cattle rustling. The ranchers are led by Jean Isbel and, on the other side, Lee Jorth and his band of cattle rustlers. In the grip of...
Ancestors: A Novel - Gertrude Atherton
Ancestors: A Novel - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: General Fiction
Flora, the daughter of a clergyman, grew up the playmate of the castle children but learned early on that a certain prettiness and good breeding did not put her in the same class as her friends. With the sudden death of her father and no chance of a...
Flowing Gold - Rex Beach
Flowing Gold - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Unfairly given a dishonorable discharge from the army, Calvin Gray goes to Dallas, where he manages to win the trust of a jeweler and is able to sell a number of diamonds to the newly oil rich Briskows. He makes friends with the family and helps...
The Beloved Vagabond - William John Locke
The Beloved Vagabond - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: General Fiction
The vagabond, Paragot, a truly eccentric bohemian and a wandering scholar with a mysterious past, adopts a London street urchin (whom he calls Asticot) by purchasing him from his mother for half a crown. Paragot leads Asticot on various adventures...
That Mother-in-Law of Mine - Anonymous
That Mother-in-Law of Mine - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: General Fiction
Here we were, only a month married, and spending our honeymoon at a most charming summer resort, where there was no excuse for getting out of patience. Everything was beautiful and attractive: Little hotel, strange to say, quite delightful; no fault...
The Silent House - Fergus Hume
The Silent House - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mystery about a "locked door" murder committed in a house that has a reputation for being haunted. In the first half of the book, the murderer appears to be easy to figure out. The second half of the book, however, is filled with plot twists and...
Kathleen - Christopher Morley
Kathleen - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
A group called the Scorpions, eight Oxford undergraduates, find a letter Kathleen wrote a letter to Joe at Oxford. They build up an image of Kathleen and Joe from the letter and set out to find and meet Kathleen. The competition between them leads...
The Mystery of Mary - Grace Livingston Hill
The Mystery of Mary - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Handsome young Tryon Dunham has just returned home on the train from a business trip one evening when he's accosted by a beautiful young woman at the station. She's terrified that she's being followed and asks Dunham if she may walk with him away...
Scarhaven Keep - J. S. Fletcher
Scarhaven Keep - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The northern English sea coast provides a compelling backdrop for this genre of writing; a mysterious disappearance, a love interest, and plot twists 'se mijotent' to produce an intriguing read. (Summary by Cate Barratt)...
The Prince and Betty - P. G. Wodehouse
The Prince and Betty - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Prince and Betty is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. It was originally published in Ainslee's Magazine in the United States in January 1912, and, in a slightly different form, as a serial in Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom between February and...
The Doings of Raffles Haw - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Doings of Raffles Haw - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The people of the small town of Tamfield are not used to exciting things happening. When millionaire Raffles Haw moves to town, rumors spread like wildfire about him. The advent of Mr. Haw, however, changes the town, and particularly the lives of...
The American - Henry James
The American - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social customs and conventions of an old...
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Jude the Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, begun as a magazine serial and first published in book form in 1895. Its hero Jude Fawley is a lower-class young man who dreams of becoming a scholar. The two other main characters are his...
The Great White Queen - William Le Queux
The Great White Queen - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
How to describe this book? In a word – savage. For those regular Librivox Le Queux mystery listeners, this book is a step in a different direction by the author. The book starts out like most Le Queux. Our hero, Richard Scarsmere, befriends an...
The Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading) - George Gissing
The Paying Guest (version 2 dramatic reading) - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Clarence and Emmeline Mumford are in for a real treat when they take in the young, outspoken Miss Louise Derrick as their guest. Shedding a light on class struggles in the Victorian era, The Paying Guest offers a look at just what "proper society"...
The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities - Stephen Leacock
The Hohenzollerns in America With the Bolsheviks in Berlin and Other Impossibilities - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
More stories by Canadian Stephen Leacock. Some of these stories carry over characters introduced in Further Foolishness. Some stories are humourous; some are more thoughtful. It helps to be familiar with WWI-era European politics to catch much of...