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My Doves - Louisa May Alcott
My Doves - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you eleven readings of My Doves, by Louisa May Alcott. This was the fortnightly poem for December 21, 2014 - January 4, 2015 - Summary by Rachel...
The Tale of Rusty Wren - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Rusty Wren - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects to entertain. The Tale of Rusty Wren is one of 16 stories of his Tuck-Me-In Tales series. - Summary by Larry...
In Search of the Unknown - Robert W. Chambers
In Search of the Unknown - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
Robert Chambers was a contemporary of Lovecraft, and this book consists of "weird supernatural tales" in a somewhat similar manner, except that the emphasis is on humor rather than horror. The narrator works for the newly opened Bronx Zoo in New...
Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals - Various
Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Short Stories / Animals
This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a typhoon. Other characters include the young...
The Gorilla Hunters - R. M. Ballantyne
The Gorilla Hunters - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Action & Adventure
Ralph Rover is happily at home from his adventure on The Coral Island and wondering if he should settle down when he receives a visit from an eccentric stranger that won't give his name. This visit starts him on a string of adventures that find him...
The Comet and Other Verses - Irving Sydney Dix
The Comet and Other Verses - Irving Sydney Dix
- Author: Irving Sydney Dix
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry
A few years ago, while recovering from an illness, I conceived the idea of writing some reminiscent lines on country life in the Wayne Highlands. And during the interval of a few days I produced some five hundred couplets,βa few good, some bad and...
The Wolf Hunters - James Oliver Curwood
The Wolf Hunters - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Animals & Nature
Follow Roderick and his friends Wabi and Mukoki on their adventures in the pristine North. They fight voracious wolves, hostile natives, and the vicious elements of nature, while on the hunt. Getting more than they bargained for, they discover a...
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the country portrayed, but with no pretensions to being a purely scientific piece of work.... This volume is intended...
The Power of the Dog - Rudyard Kipling
The Power of the Dog - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the first English-language...
Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Golden Lion - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Tarzan's amazing ability to establish kinship with some of the most dangerous animals in the jungle serves him well in this exciting story of his adventures with the Golden Lion, Jad-bal-ja, when the great and lordly animal becomes his ally and...
Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium - Walter Alden Dyer
Pierrot, Dog Of Belgium - Walter Alden Dyer
- Author: Walter Alden Dyer
- Genre: Family Life / Nature & Animal Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This 1915 novella was published as the First World War raged. "Belgium lies bleeding. Across her level, lush meadows the harsh-shod hosts of war have marched. Beside her peaceful waters the sons of God have spilled each otherβs blood. Beneath her...
The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes - Charles Godfrey Leland
The Algonquin Legends of New England or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes - Charles Godfrey Leland
- Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction
This work, then, contains a collection of the myths, legends, and folk-lore of the principal Wabanaki, or Northeastern Algonquin, Indians; that is to say, of the Passamaquoddies and Penobscots of Maine, and of the Micmacs of New Brunswick. All of...
Insects - John Clare
Insects - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th...
I Am A Cat (excerpt) - SΕseki Natsume
I Am A Cat (excerpt) - SΕseki Natsume
- Author: SΕseki Natsume
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
These are the first two chapters of Natsume SΕseki's masterpiece, "I Am A Cat" (Wagahai wa Neko de Aru). It is recognized as a landmark of modern Japanese literature, with its humorous but insightful depiction of society as seen through the eyes of...
Old Granny Fox - Thornton W. Burgess
Old Granny Fox - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Animals & Nature / Family
Old Granny Fox and grandson Reddy Fox must use all their cunning to hunt up enough food to survive the long winter. Food in the Green Meadow is scarce but Farmer Brown's hens are locked up tight and protected by Bowser the Hound, so Granny takes a...
Trading Jeff and His Dog - Jim Kjelgaard
Trading Jeff and His Dog - Jim Kjelgaard
- Author: Jim Kjelgaard
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Animals & Nature
A fight in the Midwest leaves the dog's owner dead. He searches for a new friend and encounters Trading Jeff. Jeff is a traveling peddler. Beware, though, because life as a peddler isn't easy (and it's definitely not safe!) Join us for the...
Spring Song of the Swallow - Marietta Holley
Spring Song of the Swallow - Marietta Holley
- Author: Marietta Holley
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of "Spring Song of the Swallow", by Marietta Holley (better known as Josiah Allen's Wife). This was the weekly poem for March 22-29, in honour of spring 2015! - Summary by Rachel...
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction
Myths and Legends of the Great Plains is a compendium of myths and legends from the Great Plains region of the US. It includes many short stories, and also quite a few songs and poems. Each tale is tagged with what culture it is from - (Summary by...
The End of Summer - Madison Cawein
The End of Summer - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. - Summary by Wikipedia...
Indian Why Stories: Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire - Frank Bird LINDERMAN
Indian Why Stories: Sparks From War Eagle's Lodge-Fire - Frank Bird LINDERMAN
- Author: Frank Bird LINDERMAN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction
Delightful fables, collected by a devotee of Indian lore, recounts many of the legends told to him by tribal members, among them intriguing explanations of "Why the Chipmunk's Back is Striped," "How the Otter Skin Became Great Medicine," "How the...
The Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths - Various
The Junior Classics Volume 2: Folk Tales & Myths - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Sagas
Compilation of tales designed and arranged for young people. This volume covers tales from the North, the Rhine, Greece and Rome, tales from the Hudson River, and animal stories. - Summary by DrPGould...
Animal Heroes - Ernest Thompson Seton
Animal Heroes - Ernest Thompson Seton
- Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction
A hero is an individual of unusual gifts and achievements. Whether it be man or animal, this definition applies; and it is the histories of such that appeal to the imagination and to the hearts of those who hear them. In this volume every one of the...
Earth's Enigmas - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Earth's Enigmas - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Single Author Collections
Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost literal transcript of dreams which...
On The Tree Top - Clara Doty BATES
On The Tree Top - Clara Doty BATES
- Author: Clara Doty BATES
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. - Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman....
Finn The Wolfhound - Alec John DAWSON
Finn The Wolfhound - Alec John DAWSON
- Author: Alec John DAWSON
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Dawson published over thirty books, the one best remembered today probably being the animal adventure story Finn the Wolfhound (1908)β¦. His own dog Tynagh and her son Gareth, who was described as the largest and finest specimen of his breed to date,...
Kazan - James Oliver Curwood
Kazan - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
Kazan (sometimes published with the subtitle The Wolf Dog) is a once very popular novel by environmentalist and author James Oliver Curwood. After a trip to the Yukon area of Canada and Alaska, Curwood wrote a series of wilderness adventure novels...
South American Jungle Tales - Horacio QUIROGA
South American Jungle Tales - Horacio QUIROGA
- Author: Horacio QUIROGA
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Single Author Collections
The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact with on his farm in Misiones, a region of jungle in Uruguay along the banks of the Upper Parana river. Each...
Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 5, December 1902 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 5, December 1902 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Nature
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
Erie Waters - E. Pauline Johnson
Erie Waters - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"Her death is not only a great loss to those who knew and loved her: it is a great loss to Canadian literature and to the Canadian nation. I must think that she will hold a memorable place among poets in virtue of her descent and also in virtue of...
Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton
Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton
- Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction
Wild Animals I Have Known is an 1898 book by naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton. The first entry in a new genre of realistic wild-animal fiction, Seton's first collection of short stories quickly became one of the most popular books of its...
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisite in color, poetical in feeling, these legends of sun, moon, and stars, of snow, ice, lightning, thunders,...
The Adventures of Prickly Porky - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Prickly Porky - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Animals & Nature
A stranger from the North Woods has just arrived in the Green Forest causing a great stir among the woodland creatures who live there. They quickly discover that this odd fellow with the barbed spikes in his fur is the loyal and brave Prickly Porky...
Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
Elizabeth and her German Garden - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Nature & Animal Fiction
Elizabeth and Her German Garden is a novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, first published in 1898; it was very popular and frequently reprinted during the early years of the 20th century. The story is a year's diary written by the protagonist Elizabeth...
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Action & Adventure
Author and editor of numerous children's books, Thornton W. Burgess was also a noted conservationist. In writing for youngsters he combined a gift for storytelling with his love of the outdoors, creating an entertaining menagerie of animals whose...
Around The Campfire - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Around The Campfire - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Short Stories
Action and adventure short stories of men and animals in the wild. - Summary by David Wales...
The Devil's Bridge - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Devil's Bridge - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry
Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2) - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths And Legends Of The Great Plains (version 2) - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
Here, amidst the vast sweep of the plains which stretch away to the horizon on every side, boundless, limitless, endless, lived the plains Indians. Standing in the midst of this vast green plain on a soft May morning, after the Thunder Gods have...
The Race Of The Swift - Edwin Carlile LITSEY
The Race Of The Swift - Edwin Carlile LITSEY
- Author: Edwin Carlile LITSEY
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This 1905 collection is of the authorβs short animal stories, some previously published in magazines. - Summary by David Wales...
The Hunter and His Dying Steed - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
The Hunter and His Dying Steed - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Author: Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She was "one of the first English-Canadian writers to depict French Canada in a way that earned the praise of, and resulted in her novels being read by, both...
