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July - Michael Field
July - Michael Field
- Author: Michael Field
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 β 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 β 13 December 1913). As Field they wrote around 40 works...
The Siege of London - Henry James
The Siege of London - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In this work, first published in 1883, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however, is not a product of the Boston or New York upper classes, but of the American West, and is thus...
Short Science Fiction Collection 016 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 016 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected...
To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Margaret Steele Anderson
To The Men Who Went Down On The Titanic - Margaret Steele Anderson
- Author: Margaret Steele Anderson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Margaret Steele Anderson's tribute to the men left on board the doomed ship, some of whom followed the "Women and children first" tradition of the sea. - Summary by David Lawrence...
A Study In Scarlet (version 5) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet (version 5) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"A Study in Scarlet" is the first ever Sherlock Holmes story split into two quite distinctive parts. The first part is told from the viewpoint of Dr. John Watson and recounts his first experiences of meeting the illustrious Sherlock Holmes and their...
Summer Morning - John Clare
Summer Morning - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Summer Morning by John Clare. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 9th, 2009....
What Men Live By and Other Tales (Version 2) - Leo Tolstoy
What Men Live By and Other Tales (Version 2) - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Religious Fiction / Single Author Collections
This is a collection of 4 stories by Leo Tolstoy, all dealing with the question asked in the title of the first story: What Does Man Live By. What is the purpose of life? How are we expected to live with others? What is all of this about anyway? And...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 045 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include ancient Greek thinkers--Parmenides, Demosthenes, Euclid; William Lloyd Garrison and the National Anti-Slavery Convention; 19th and 20th century...
The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France - George WRONG
The Chronicles of America Volume 10 - Conquest of New France - George WRONG
- Author: George WRONG
- Genre: War & Military / Religion / Early Modern
The English colonies, holding a great stretch of the Atlantic seaboard, increased in number and power. New France also grew stronger. The steady hostility of the rivals never wavered. There was, indeed, little open warfare as long as the two Crowns...
Alarm Clocks - Joyce KILMER
Alarm Clocks - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Joyce Kilmer (born as Alfred Joyce Kilmer) was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913), which was published in the collection Trees and Other Poems in 1914. While most of his works are largely unknown, a...
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...
A Lear of the Steppes, etc. - Ivan Turgenev
A Lear of the Steppes, etc. - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This book contains three novellas by one of the major writers of Russian literature. The first, A LEAR OF THE STEPPES, is a brilliant re-imagining of Shakespeareβs play King Lear, wherein a larger-than-life father makes a life-altering decision with...
The Pirates of Penzance - W. S. Gilbert
The Pirates of Penzance - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band...
Vigils - Aline KILMER
Vigils - Aline KILMER
- Author: Aline KILMER
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by American poet Aline Murray Kilmer, widow of the poet Joyce Kilmer. These poems have been published several years after Joyce Kilmer's death in 1918 while he was deployed in France, and their daughter Rose's death in...
The Story of Garfield - William Gunion RUTHERFORD
The Story of Garfield - William Gunion RUTHERFORD
- Author: William Gunion RUTHERFORD
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A short biography of the 20th U.S. President. Garfield was raised in humble circumstances on an Ohio farm by his widowed mother and elder brother. Before he was elected president in the Republican party he was first elected to Congress in 1862 as...
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
Catriona - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This is a sequel to Kidnapped. Many thought Kidnapped ended quite abruptly. The reason is Stevenson planned on writing a sequel. Catriona takes up the story of David Balfour on the same day Kidnapped ends. He must now try to clear his name and the...
The Argonautica - Apollonius RHODIUS
The Argonautica - Apollonius RHODIUS
- Author: Apollonius RHODIUS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry
The story of how Jason and a group of famous heroes of Greece took to sea in the Argos has been told many times, before and after Apollonius of Rhodes, wrote his Argonautica, in the 3rd century b.C.. It is not only the oldest full version of the...
Summa Theologica - 02 Pars Prima, Trinity and Creation - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 02 Pars Prima, Trinity and Creation - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265β1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners as a compilation of all of the main theological...
The Man Who Laughs - Victor HUGO
The Man Who Laughs - Victor HUGO
- Author: Victor HUGO
- Genre: General Fiction
The Man Who Laughs is a novel by Victor Hugo, originally published in April 1869 under the French title L'Homme qui rit. Also published under the title "By Order of the King". (Introduction by Wikipedia)...
The Broken Shaft: Tales in Mid-Ocean - Henry NORMAN
The Broken Shaft: Tales in Mid-Ocean - Henry NORMAN
- Author: Henry NORMAN
- Genre: Anthologies
This special anthology, published in 1885, is formed of seven stories, together with an introductory chapter setting up a framing narrative by Henry Norman, which is returned to at the end of each subsequent tale. This connecting narrative concerns...
The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances - John Charles VAN DYKE
The Desert, Further Studies in Natural Appearances - John Charles VAN DYKE
- Author: John Charles VAN DYKE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Travel & Geography
The Desert by John Charles Van Dyke, published in 1901, is a lush, poetic description of the natural beauty of the American Southwest. "What land can equal the desert with its wide plains, its grim mountains, and its expanding canopy of sky!" Van...
Lore of Proserpine - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
Lore of Proserpine - Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Author: Maurice Henry HEWLETT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
If a thing is not sensibly true it may be morally so. If it is not phenomenally true it may be so substantially. And it is possible that one may see substance in the idiom, so to speak, of the senses. That, I take it, is how the Greeks saw...
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2 - Hans GROSS
Criminal Investigation: a Practical Handbook for Magistrates, Police Officers and Lawyers, Volume 2 - Hans GROSS
- Author: Hans GROSS
- Genre: Psychology / Science
Reputedly inspired by the Sherlock Holmes stories, Austrian criminal jurist and examining magistrate Hans Gross wrote the first handbook on criminal investigation. This treatise covers everything from the qualities of a good investigating officer...
Please Buy My Verses - Anonymous
Please Buy My Verses - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Please Buy My Verses by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 18, 2018. ------ PLEASE BUY MY VERSES. PRICE: WHAT YOU PLEASE The Bearer Lost His Eyesight While Blasting in December,...
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author - Luigi Pirandello
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- Genre: Plays
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore) is the most famous and celebrated play by the Italian writer Luigi Pirandello. Pirandello, in the preface to the play, says that whenever a reader opens Danteβs Inferno,...
The Boy Scouts in Russia - Harold L. Goodwin
The Boy Scouts in Russia - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Thrown out of Russia by a powerful relative, a young American Boy Scout, Fred Waring, meets his Russian cousin, Boris Suvaroff, and together they discover the secrets of the advancing German army. Through perilous escapes, secret passages, and being...
The Passenger from Calais - Arthur Griffiths
The Passenger from Calais - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
An army officer, and a mysterious lady with a maid and baby in tow, are the only passengers on the Engadine express from Calais. The lady is afraid that someone is following her. Who is she? And what is her strange package? One suspicious...
Recalled to Life - Grant Allen
Recalled to Life - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A woman is haunted by a terrible event she witnessed in her youth but is unable to make sense of -- a murder, the sight of which is so traumatic that it drives every memory of life up to that moment from her mind. The murdered man was her father,...
The First Book of Urizen - William Blake
The First Book of Urizen - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Poetry
The Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English poet William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the word "first".The book takes its...
Songs of Kabir - KABIR
Songs of Kabir - KABIR
- Author: KABIR
- Genre: Poetry
Kabir (1440 - 1518) was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic Al-Kabir which means 'The Great' - the 37th Name of God in the Qur'an. Kabir was influenced by the...
When We Two Parted - George Gordon, Lord Byron
When We Two Parted - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of When We Two Parted, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 26th, 2006....
Charles I - Jacob Abbott
Charles I - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
There are certain names which are familiar, as names, to all mankind; and every person who seeks for any degree of mental cultivation, feels desirous of informing himself of the leading outlines of their history, that he may know, in brief, what it...
Saint Distaffs day, or the morrow after Twelfth day - Robert Herrick
Saint Distaffs day, or the morrow after Twelfth day - Robert Herrick
- Author: Robert Herrick
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of Saint Distaff's Day, or the Morrow After Twelfth Day, by Robert Herrick. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 6th, 2008. What is St. Distaff's Day? Historically, it was...
Gods of the North - Robert E. Howard
Gods of the North - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
"The Frost-Giant's Daughter" is, arguably the earliest chronological story by Robert E. Howard in terms of Conan's life. The brief tale is set somewhere in frozen Nordheim, geographically situated north of Conan's homeland, Cimmeria. Conan is...
The Eyes Have It & Tony and the Beetles - Philip K. DICK
The Eyes Have It & Tony and the Beetles - Philip K. DICK
- Author: Philip K. DICK
- Genre: Science Fiction
Aliens have invaded the earth! Horrible one celled creatures disguised as normal human beings ! Well, at least that is what it seems to the author. Yes, The Eyes Have It is a whimsical story, making gentle fun of certain writing styles, but only a...
The Genius - Theodore DREISER
The Genius - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
"The only figure of literary repute who ever rated The "Genius" as first among the novels of Theodore Dreiser was Theodore Dreiser," literary historian Larzer Ziff observed. His fifth published novel, The "Genius" was actually the third novel...
New Year Greeting - Louise R. WAITE
New Year Greeting - Louise R. WAITE
- Author: Louise R. WAITE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of New Year Greeting by Louise R. Waite . This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 21st, 2010., The 21st of March is the ancient Persian festival of Naw-RΓΊz, also spelled "Noruz" (New Day) which is the...
Sonnets and Poems - John Masefield
Sonnets and Poems - John Masefield
- Author: John Masefield
- Genre: Single author
47 poems, most of them sonnets, most on the subjects of beauty and death, touching the mystery just beyond the known. - Summary by Josh Mitteldorf...
The Wreck of the Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Wreck of the Hesperus - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you ten recordings of "The Wreck of the Hesperusβ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,the Fortnightly Poem for August 31, 2014. May we each be spared from the wreck of pride on the reef of Norman's Woe. (Summary by MaryAnn)....
The Way of Peace - James Allen
The Way of Peace - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
The Way of Peace is your guide to the power of meditation; self and truth; the acquirement of spiritual power; the realization of selfless love; entering into the infinite; saints, sages, and saviors; the law of service; and the realization of...
