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The Rose-colored World, and Other Fantasies - Ethel Mary BRODIE
The Rose-colored World, and Other Fantasies - Ethel Mary BRODIE
- Author: Ethel Mary BRODIE
- Genre: Romance
Love stories make perfect short stories. This collection contains 16 different short stories on the different ways a love affair can play out. - Summary by Carolin...
The Elements of Geology - William Harmon NORTON
The Elements of Geology - William Harmon NORTON
- Author: William Harmon NORTON
- Genre: Earth Sciences
Geology is a science of such rapid growth that no apology is expected when from time to time a new text-book is added to those already in the field. The present work, however, is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very simple outline, in...
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1 - Lew Wallace
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ Book 1 - Lew Wallace
- Author: Lew Wallace
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ "Book 1" gives a sideline view of events taking pace around the days of Christ. Book 1 gives the account of Christ's birth. (Summary by MHAIJH85)...
Lord Tedric - E. E. Smith
Lord Tedric - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Time is the strangest of all mysteries. Relatively unimportant events, almost unnoticed as they occur, may, in hundreds of years, result in Ultimate Catastrophe. On Time Track Number One, that was the immutable result. But on Time Track Number Two...
Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series - John WESLEY
Sermons on Several Occasions, Second Series - John WESLEY
- Author: John WESLEY
- Genre: Literary Collections / Christianity - Commentary / Christianity - Other
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last past. Every serious man who peruses...
The Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation - Louisa May Alcott
The Abbot's Ghost or Maurice Treherne's Temptation - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Romance
Written by Louisa May Alcott under her pseudonym, A. M. Barnard, this Christmas story deals with the themes of love and defending one's honor. Although he is disinherited and poor, Maurice Traherne tries to win the hand of his love, Octavia.(Summary...
The Four Feathers - A. E. W. Mason
The Four Feathers - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Four Feathers is a 1902 adventure novel by British writer A.E.W. Mason that has inspired many films of the same title.The novel tells the story of British officer, Harry Feversham, who resigns his commission in the East Surrey Regiment just...
The Persian Hidden Words - BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
The Persian Hidden Words - BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
- Author: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih (کلمات مکنونه) or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. This work is written partly in Arabic and partly in Persian. The Hidden Words is written in the form of a...
A Fish Answers - Leigh HUNT
A Fish Answers - Leigh HUNT
- Author: Leigh HUNT
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of A Fish Answers by James Leigh Hunt. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 26th, 2008....
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.3 - Alexander von Humboldt
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.3 - Alexander von Humboldt
- Author: Alexander von Humboldt
- Genre: Nature / Science / Travel & Geography
Volume 3, the final volume of the “Personal Narrative”, records the travels of Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist Aimé Bonpland in South and Central America, and the Caribbean. In this volume, they start at Angostura, the capital at that time...
Seven Against Thebes (Way Translation) - Aeschylus
Seven Against Thebes (Way Translation) - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Tragedy
Seven against Thebes is the third play in an Oedipus-themed trilogy produced by Aeschylus in 467 BC. The trilogy is sometimes referred to as the Oedipodea. It concerns the battle between an Argive army led by Polynices and the army of Thebes led by...
Short Science Fiction Collection 058 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 058 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The Normans in European History - Charles Homer HASKINS
The Normans in European History - Charles Homer HASKINS
- Author: Charles Homer HASKINS
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / History
Wherever their ships took them, the Normans (Northman) were ruthless conquerors but gifted governors. These eight lectures, given in Boston in 1915 by the eminent Harvard medievalist, Charles Homer Haskins, chronicle the achievements of these...
Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Charles Dickens the author of Dombey and Son, originally wrote the book in installments which were published from October 1846 to April 1848 under the title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. The story...
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems - Edwin MARKHAM
The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems - Edwin MARKHAM
- Author: Edwin MARKHAM
- Genre: Single author
Edwin Markham was an American poet whose poems often drew attention to the laborers of the world and frequently expressed elements of faith. The Man with the Hoe, perhaps his best known poem, was written after seeing a painting of the same name by...
The Privilege of Pain - Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
The Privilege of Pain - Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
- Author: Caroline Kane Mills EVERETT
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Philosophy
We have seen that as mankind rises in the scale of civilization the body becomes increasingly less important. Nevertheless, I wish it to be clearly understood, that I do not maintain that it is preferable to be ill than well, but only that each...
Christmas Conversion - Jean McKishnie Blewett
Christmas Conversion - Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Author: Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Jean McKishnie Blewett was a Canadian journalist, author and poet.Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by the Imperial Order of the Daughters of...
The Short Life - Francis DONOVAN
The Short Life - Francis DONOVAN
- Author: Francis DONOVAN
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward
At two years old, Timmy was an imbecile, incapable of talking or controlling his own body. At four years old, he abruptly stood up and began speaking in full sentences. Within a few years, he was a genius. But it was all a terrible mistake, one that...
One of My Sons - Anna Katharine Green
One of My Sons - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A young girl frantically summons a gentleman walking by on the street to come in and help her grandfather. Arthur Outhwaite answers her cry for help only to find himself as the last person to see her grandfather alive and left with the admonishment...
A Friend in Need - Dora Sigerson Shorter
A Friend in Need - Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Author: Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. - Summary by Wikipedia...
Omega: The Last Days of the World - Camille FLAMMARION
Omega: The Last Days of the World - Camille FLAMMARION
- Author: Camille FLAMMARION
- Genre: Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Omega: The Last Days of the World is a science fiction novel published in 1894 by Camille Flammarion. On 25th century Earth, a comet made mostly of Carbonic-Oxide (CO) could possibly collide with the Earth. It is concerned with the philosophy and...
The Soul of Prayer - P. T. FORSYTH
The Soul of Prayer - P. T. FORSYTH
- Author: P. T. FORSYTH
- Genre: Christianity - Other
"The worst sin is prayerlessness," states P.T. Forsyth at the start of this work on prayer but follows this up with the suggestion that the study of prayer is itself a prayer to pray better. He then brings together his dual roles as theologian and...
Mostly Boys: Short Stories - Francis J. FINN
Mostly Boys: Short Stories - Francis J. FINN
- Author: Francis J. FINN
- Genre: General / Religion
A collection of tales about real life boys in every walk of life. They are redolent of the breezy spirit of healthy, jovial boyhood, and permeated with the author’s best brand of humor. (The Publishers Trade List Annual 1917) The author, Francis J....
Glimpses of Bengal - Rabindranath Tagore
Glimpses of Bengal - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Letters
The book is a selection of letters written by Tagore, in various places in Bengal, India....
Tempest and Sunshine - Mary Jane HOLMES
Tempest and Sunshine - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Tempest and Sunshine is the first book written by Mary Jane Holmes. Set in the pre-Civil War south, it follows the struggles and romances of two sisters, as different as night and day; blonde Fanny and dark haired Julia. (Introduction by jedopi)...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
This was the last story published by Twain, a few months before he died. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven. It deals with the obsession of souls with the "celebrities" of heaven, like Adam and...
The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book - Jane Eayre FRYER
The Mary Frances Knitting and Crocheting Book - Jane Eayre FRYER
- Author: Jane Eayre FRYER
- Genre: Arts / Crafts & Hobbies
Mary Frances is a little girl whose Aunt Maria intends to teach her to knit and crochet, but she's very strict and demanding. It's a good thing the Knitting People are around to help Mary Frances out! This book includes real patterns which can be...
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret - G. A. Henty
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Intrigue, murder, highwaymen... A British soldier serving in India has stolen a diamond bracelet from a Hindu idol. The bracelet comes into the possession of Colonel Thorndyke, who is subsequently sent home to England, where he dies of wounds...
Still, Still, with Thee - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Still, Still, with Thee - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you ten readings of Still, Still, with Thee by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This hymn written by the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was the weekly poem for December 14 - 21, 2014. - Summary by Rachel...
A Lover's Litanies - Eric MACKAY
A Lover's Litanies - Eric MACKAY
- Author: Eric MACKAY
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of ten special love poems. - Summary by Carolin...
Mother West Wind "How" Stories - Thornton W. Burgess
Mother West Wind "How" Stories - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Peter Rabbit has many questions. How did Howler the Wolf get his name? How did Lightfoot the Deer learn to jump? How did Drummer the Woodpecker come by his red cap? When Peter asks Grandfather Frog, Grandfather Frog tells him a story of long ago....
The Scalp Hunters - Thomas Mayne REID
The Scalp Hunters - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: Action & Adventure
"Unroll the world’s map, and look upon the great northern continent of America. Away to the wild west, away toward the setting sun, away beyond many a far meridian, let your eyes wander. Rest them where golden rivers rise among peaks that carry the...
Hymns of the Early Church - John BROWNLIE
Hymns of the Early Church - John BROWNLIE
- Author: John BROWNLIE
- Genre: Poetry / Christianity - Other
This collection of hymns have been translated from the poetry to the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year. "This volume is intended for hours of devotion, and the vast storehouse of sacred poetry of the Latin Church has been put...
The Free Press - Hilaire Belloc
The Free Press - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Political Science
I propose to discuss in what follows the evil of the great modern Capitalist Press, its function in vitiating and misinforming opinion and in putting power into ignoble hands; its correction by the formation of small independent organs, and the...
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1 - Abigail ADAMS
Letters of Mrs. Adams, the Wife of John Adams, Vol. 1 - Abigail ADAMS
- Author: Abigail ADAMS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Abigail Adams lived the American Revolution as the wife of one of its central figures--John Adams. Her family correspondence, published along with a memoir by her grandson, Charles Francis Adams, brings that era into eloquent focus. What was it like...
An Exchange of Souls - Barry Pain
An Exchange of Souls - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Although only lightly known as an author of horror stories, Barry Pain departs from his typical themes with 'An Exchange of Souls'. In this novel, respected doctor Daniel Myas is a scientist who has developed a machine which allows for the exchange...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 1) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 1) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
This is the biography of Abraham Lincoln, written by two of his private secretaries. (Summary by ashleighjane)...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1837 - 1844) - Martin VAN BUREN
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1837 - 1844) - Martin VAN BUREN
- Author: Martin VAN BUREN
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel at Boarding-School - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Family
Because of the illness of her grandfahter, Lloyd Sherman, the Little Colonel, finds herself being sent off to boarding school from her home in Lloydsboro Valley, Kentucky. Jolly times are mixed with lessons in this 7th book in the "Little Colonel"...
The Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And Daring of Besiegers and Besieged In All Parts Of The World - Edward GILLIAT
The Romance Of Modern Sieges; Describing The Personal Adventures, Resource And Daring of Besiegers and Besieged In All Parts Of The World - Edward GILLIAT
- Author: Edward GILLIAT
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
Lively narratives of some of the great siege battles of war. The book was written before World War I, in 1908. Some of the narratives contain language which was common in 19th and early twentieth century usage but which listeners today may find...
