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The Discovery of New Worlds - M. B. Synge
The Discovery of New Worlds - M. B. Synge
- Author: M. B. Synge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
This is the second volume in the series, The Story of the World, which covers the period of history from the rise of Rome to the Conquest of Peru. Along the way, passing through the Dark Ages, going on the Crusades, and exploring the unknown world...
The Book of Life - Upton Sinclair
The Book of Life - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton Sinclair, confided his most prized worldly wisdom for generations to come. His kind and witty personal advice...
The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore - Ida Dandridge BENNETT
The Flower Garden: A Handbook of Practical Garden Lore - Ida Dandridge BENNETT
- Author: Ida Dandridge BENNETT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Self-Help
This book is a good reference on the perennial flower gardening and landscaping. It contains information on growing the plants from seed and explains how to grow and care for the traditional garden flowering plants, bulbs, trees, and shrubs. There...
Thirty Years A Slave - Louis HUGHES
Thirty Years A Slave - Louis HUGHES
- Author: Louis HUGHES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Louis Hughes was born a slave near Charlottesville, Virginia to a white father and a black slave woman. Throughout his life he worked mostly as a house servant, but was privy to the intimate details and workings of the entire McGee cotton plantation...
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children - Jane ANDREWS
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children - Jane ANDREWS
- Author: Jane ANDREWS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Nature
"You may think that Mother Nature, like the famous "old woman who lived in the shoe," has so many children that she doesn't know what to do. But you will know better when you become acquainted with her, and learn how strong she is, and how active;...
Proposed Roads to Freedom - Bertrand Russell
Proposed Roads to Freedom - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Bertrand Russell, 3rd Earl Russell (1872 – 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, political activist and Nobel laureate. He led the British "revolt against idealism" in the early 1900s and is considered one of the founders of...
The Desire of Ages - Ellen G. White
The Desire of Ages - Ellen G. White
- Author: Ellen G. White
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Ellen Gould White (1827 - 1915) was a prolific Christian writer, authoring 40 books in her lifetime. She was active in the Millerite movement, and was one of the principle founders of the Seventh Day Adventist Church. The Desire of Ages, first...
The Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
The Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A history of Russia from 500 B.C. to 1855 A.D., written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, the brother of Jacob Abbott. (Summary by Jean Bascom)...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This chapter of Macaulay’s, History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to suppress these. Argyle has been sheltering in Holland and returns to raise an army against James. Although...
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson's adventures on an extended walk through uplands and mountains in south-western France. Humorous on his own failings as a traveller, and on his travails with Modestine the self-willed donkey,...
Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Author: William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. Sherman was one of the...
How to Appreciate Music - Gustav KOBBÉ
How to Appreciate Music - Gustav KOBBÉ
- Author: Gustav KOBBÉ
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Crafts & Hobbies / Music
Originally published in 1906, this book is essentially a how to guide on music appreciation. Includes sections on the pianoforte, orchestral, and vocal music. Good for anyone who wishes for a greater appreciation of the wonders of music. (Summary by...
Schubert And His Works - Herbert Francis Peyser
Schubert And His Works - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Music
This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating fecundity and inspiration. Like Bach, like Haydn, like Mozart, Schubert’s capacity for creative labor...
Literary Taste: How to Form It - Arnold Bennett
Literary Taste: How to Form It - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
Arnold Bennett describes a method for enjoying literature, and suggests the contents of a comprehensive library. Chapters 1-10 and 14 describe his method for learning to enjoy literature. Chapters 11, 12, and 13 contain detailed lists of the 337...
Poetics - Aristotle
Poetics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Aristotle’s Poetics from the 4th century B.C. aims to give a short study of storytelling. It discusses things like unity of plot, reversal of situation, and character in the context of Greek tragedy, comedy and epic poetry. But it still applies...
Is Mars Habitable? - Alfred Russel WALLACE
Is Mars Habitable? - Alfred Russel WALLACE
- Author: Alfred Russel WALLACE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
In 1907 Wallace wrote the short book Is Mars Habitable? to criticize the claims made by Percival Lowell that there were Martian canals built by intelligent beings. Wallace did months of research, consulted various experts, and produced his own...
Eusebius History of the Christian Church - EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA
Eusebius History of the Christian Church - EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA
- Author: EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Religion
Eusebius presents the history of the Church from the apostles to his own time, with special regard to the following points: 1. the successions of bishops in the principal sees 2. the history of Christian teachers 3. the history of heresies 4. the...
A Dictionary of English Synonymes, Vol. 01 - Richard SOULE
A Dictionary of English Synonymes, Vol. 01 - Richard SOULE
- Author: Richard SOULE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Education / Self-Help
A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology is a project for new LibriVox members to practice recording and using their recording setup....
Deephaven - Sarah Orne Jewett
Deephaven - Sarah Orne Jewett
- Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
Sarah Orne Jewett is best known for her clean and clear descriptive powers that at once elevate common-place daily events to something remarkable, and lend dignity and grace to the most humble and homely human character. In Deephaven, go with her on...
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4 - John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4 - John Calvin
- Author: John Calvin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Christianity - Other
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native...
With Fire and Sword (Byers) - Samuel H. M. BYERS
With Fire and Sword (Byers) - Samuel H. M. BYERS
- Author: Samuel H. M. BYERS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Samuel H. M. Byers was an American poet, diplomat, and soldier in the Civil War. "In war some persons seek adventures; others have them in spite of themselves. It happened that the writer of this book belonged to a regiment that seemed to be always...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 070 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 070 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works selected by the readers. “Shall we ever be able to visit the moon?” queries journalist Charles Nevers Holmes in 1920. Holmes was hopeful. Technology had come a long way since 1862, when balloonist James Glaisher made a...
Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion - William Blake
Jerusalem - The Emanation of the Giant Albion - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
The epic poem Jerusalem was in Blake's own opinion his masterpiece. It is the last of the great prophetic books. Originally produced as an engraved book of 100 pages (only one copy of which was every fully finished in the colouring), the poem...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in its efforts to represent Johnson as he was, celebrating his flaws as well as his genius, and in Boswell's...
The Montessori Method - Maria MONTESSORI
The Montessori Method - Maria MONTESSORI
- Author: Maria MONTESSORI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori began her work by developing methods to educate mentally retarded children, the method she developed was...
The Rome Express - Arthur Griffiths
The Rome Express - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: Detective Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. Only one passenger cannot be awoken by the porter, no matter how loudly he knocks. At last, when the door is...
On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis - Immanuel Kant
On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “On the Common Saying” (both M.J. Gregor and H.B. Nisbet) – Kant takes up the issue of the relation of theory...
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Author: Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as...
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - A. ALPHEUS
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - A. ALPHEUS
- Author: A. ALPHEUS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word 'hypnotism' was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been practiced for many centuries, but it was in the...
The Quest of the Historical Jesus - Albert SCHWEITZER
The Quest of the Historical Jesus - Albert SCHWEITZER
- Author: Albert SCHWEITZER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
In this book, Schweitzer traces the historical progress of 'Historical Jesus' research, from Hermann Reimarus in the mid 18th century, to William Wrede at the turn of the 20th. Schweitzer showed how Jesus' image had changed with the times and with...
The Story of the Pony Express - Glenn D. BRADLEY
The Story of the Pony Express - Glenn D. BRADLEY
- Author: Glenn D. BRADLEY
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The Story of the Pony Express offers an in depth account behind the need for a mail route to connect the eastern U.S. with the rapidly populating west coast following the gold rush of California, the springing up of lumber camps, and all incidental...
Arizona Sketches - Joseph MUNK
Arizona Sketches - Joseph MUNK
- Author: Joseph MUNK
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
An introduction to Arizona from approximately a century ago. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Author: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in...
Woman on the American Frontier - William Worthington FOWLER
Woman on the American Frontier - William Worthington FOWLER
- Author: William Worthington FOWLER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised children, and much more. This book is full of mini-biographies of women in many places, and many ages- each...
Relativity: The Special and General Theory - Albert EINSTEIN
Relativity: The Special and General Theory - Albert EINSTEIN
- Author: Albert EINSTEIN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
This is an introduction to Einstein’s space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively....
Anecdotes of Dogs - Edward JESSE
Anecdotes of Dogs - Edward JESSE
- Author: Edward JESSE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." The character, sensibilities, and intellectual faculties of animals have always been a favourite study, and they are, perhaps, more strongly developed in the dog than in...
Queen Victoria - E. Gordon BROWNE
Queen Victoria - E. Gordon BROWNE
- Author: E. Gordon BROWNE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This book is about the life of Queen Victoria (1819 to 1901). All nine of her children married into the royal houses of Europe. She became the longest reigning monarch and more. This book is a fascinating read about the woman behind the British...
The New Organon Or True Directions Concerning The Interpretation of Nature - Francis Bacon
The New Organon Or True Directions Concerning The Interpretation of Nature - Francis Bacon
- Author: Francis Bacon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Novum Organum is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon published in 1620. The title translates as "new instrument". This is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a...
The Way of Peace (version 2) - James Allen
The Way of Peace (version 2) - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Other religions
James Allen (1864 - 1912) was a philosopher and a pioneer of New Thought movement. His works have formed the basis of much of the curriculum used today by many motivational and self-help groups.His first book, which published in 1901, was From...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 050 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Seventeen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include science and natural history--the donkey, forestry, grape vines, astronomy, historian Agnes Mary Clerke, and Greek botanist Theophrastus ;...
