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A Witch Shall Be Born - Robert E. Howard
A Witch Shall Be Born - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Science Fiction
The kingdom of Khauran is admittedly a small one, nestled between the vast desert and the plains, but it is blessed with an abundance of rich soil, hard working devoted inhabitants and much gold but most of all by a sweet young queen who is as wise...
The Fisherman and his Soul - Oscar Wilde
The Fisherman and his Soul - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
βThe Fisherman and his Soulβ is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wildeβs βA House of Pomegranatesβ. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must shed his soul, which goes off to...
Cocoa Break Collection, Vol. 01 - Various
Cocoa Break Collection, Vol. 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Following in the vein of my Coffee-Break collections, this is a collection of short (all under 15 minutes) stories for kids. Focus is on fables and fairy tales published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Snow Queen and Other Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
The Snow Queen and Other Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This project features four longer stories by Hans Christian Andersen. Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to...
Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences - Constance LYTTON
Prison & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences - Constance LYTTON
- Author: Constance LYTTON
- Genre: Political Science
Constance Lytton worked along Emmeline Pankhurst for the cause of women's suffrage in England. Upset that she was getting preferential treatment by the authorities, she assumed a pseudonym (Jane Wharton) so that her titled status wouldn't be...
Rudder Grange - Frank R. Stockton
Rudder Grange - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: General Fiction
This book presents a number of short, comedic sketches of a country life in middle America in the late 1800s. The hilarious twists and turns endear our adorable, naive married couple to the reader; and the orphan servant Pomona - dear, odd, funny...
The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows - Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows - Margaret Vandercook
- Author: Margaret Vandercook
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Betty and Esther are having another camping adventure in the New Hampshire hills, but this time it is the dead of winter. They are stuck with an overturned sleigh in the middle of a snowstorm! That is just the beginning of the problems that need to...
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt - James BAIKIE
Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt - James BAIKIE
- Author: James BAIKIE
- Genre: General / History / Travel & Geography
Written primarily for children, James Baikie's 'peep' at ancient Egypt is a really well done, historical account of the ways of that fascinating land so many years ago. It has stood well the test of time, being both well researched and well written....
Bible (KJV) 22: Song of Solomon - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 22: Song of Solomon - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
Also known as Song of Songs, Solomon's Song of Songs, or as Canticles. The protagonists of the Song of Songs are a woman (identified in one verse as "the Shulamite") and a man, and the poem suggests movement from courtship to consummation....
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Short Stories / General
A sequel to Oldtown Folks, featuring some of the same characters, these are 15 charming short stories told by ole' Sam Lawson to entertain Horace and Bill, two impressionable, curious and clever young boys of Oldtown (a fictional 1850's New England...
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines - Clayton EDWARDS
A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines - Clayton EDWARDS
- Author: Clayton EDWARDS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction
It would be pleasant indeed to gather the characters of this book together and listen to the conversation of wholly different but interested couplesβfor this is a book of contrasts and has been written as such. Lives of the most dramatic and...
How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion - George Wilbur Peck
How Private George W. Peck Put Down The Rebellion - George Wilbur Peck
- Author: George Wilbur Peck
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A series of U.S. Civil War adventures or incidents experienced and enhanced (or created) by humorist George W. Peck. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. He had a wry sense of humor and sympathy for underdogs. ( Arnold...
Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - A. A. MILNE
Once on a Time (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This version of the book is done as a Dramatic Reading with various people speaking each characters part. When the King of Barodia receives a pair of seven-league boots as a birthday present, his habit of flying over the King of Euralia's castle...
Laws (version 2) - Plato
Laws (version 2) - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Antiquity
Laws (Greek: ΞΟΞΌΞΏΞΉ) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in...
Pierre and Luce - Romain ROLLAND
Pierre and Luce - Romain ROLLAND
- Author: Romain ROLLAND
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / War & Military Fiction
Pierre and Luce were an unlikely young pair who found themselves in the chaos of Paris during the war; Pierre, the shy, recently conscripted pacifist, and Luce, the free spirited artist in training, and both confused about the things going on around...
Discoverers and Explorers - Edward R. SHAW
Discoverers and Explorers - Edward R. SHAW
- Author: Edward R. SHAW
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / History
Tales of the brave and daring explorers that ventured into the unknown "Sea of Darkness" where it was thought monsters and angry gods lived. They dared to sail near the equator which was thought to have such intense heat that it would boil the ocean...
The Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener - Ida Dandridge BENNETT
The Vegetable Garden: A Manual for the Amateur Vegetable Gardener - Ida Dandridge BENNETT
- Author: Ida Dandridge BENNETT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Self-Help
This book is a good reference on vegetable gardening. It covers the economic value of a vegetable garden, planning and locating the garden, maintaining soil fertility, hotbeds, garden tools, sowing seeds, transplanting seedlings, growing and storing...
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking - Emily Dickinson
If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 27th, 2010....
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3 - Arthur L. Hayward
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 3 - Arthur L. Hayward
- Author: Arthur L. Hayward
- Genre: *Non-fiction / True Crime
This is the third volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published in 1735.Please note that some...
The Dust Flower - Basil KING
The Dust Flower - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancΓ©e Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instead the first person he meets. The book follows the result of this absurd promise, with consequences that neither of...
Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts - Mabel Osgood WRIGHT
Flowers and Ferns in their Haunts - Mabel Osgood WRIGHT
- Author: Mabel Osgood WRIGHT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature
Pleasant non-fiction journey into the backwoods of the New England coastal countryside by the first president of the Connecticut Audubon Society, circa 1900. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Shining Gateway - James Allen
The Shining Gateway - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Students of the works of James Allen all over the world will welcome with joy another book from his able pen. In this work we find the Prophet of Meditation in one of his deepest and yet most lucid expositions. How wonderfully he deals with...
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 - Various
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Vol. 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains twelve of the thirteen stories adapted as...
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Marble Faun - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Gothic Fiction
The Marble Faun is Hawthorne's most unusual romance. Writing on the eve of the American Civil War, Hawthorne set his story in a fantastical Italy. The romance mixes elements of a fable, pastoral, Gothic novel, and travel guide. In the spring of...
Bible (YLT) 23: Isaiah - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 23: Isaiah - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Poetry
For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death. Amidst a series of supernatural events, the mariner's life alone is spared and he repents, but he must wander the earth and tell his tale with the lesson that...
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
The Sikh Religion: its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 6 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Author: Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Philosophy
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. Macauliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well as support from Sikh scholars...
Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs - John Foxe
Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 2, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs - John Foxe
- Author: John Foxe
- Genre: History / Christianity - Biographies
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was first published by John Day, in...
After London, or Wild England - Richard JEFFERIES
After London, or Wild England - Richard JEFFERIES
- Author: Richard JEFFERIES
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
Jefferies' novel can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction." After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. The...
Shakspere: Personal Recollections - John A. JOYCE
Shakspere: Personal Recollections - John A. JOYCE
- Author: John A. JOYCE
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A fictitious account of a "friend" of William Shakespeare, who accompanies him from his birth to his death and beyond, chronicling Shakespeare's life, adventures, speeches, and impromptu bursts of poetry. (Summary by Tricia G.)...
John Dough and the Cherub - L. Frank Baum
John Dough and the Cherub - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure
An evil Arabian sorcerer loans a golden flask full of the Great Elixir - a magic liquid that endows a person with pronounced health, strength, and longevity - to a colorblind baker's wife to stop it falling into the wrong hands. Unfortunately, the...
The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories - Laura E. Howe Richards
The Pig Brother and Other Fables and Stories - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Here are some really amusing stories and fables told with delightful wit. Some poke fun at human foibles and some are there for the simple joy of silliness. all read for you by the amazing LibriVox volunteers.- Summary by Phil chenevert...
My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
My Shadow - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 14 readings of My Shadow, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson's famous poem concerns a child's shadow, and it's antics. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 7th, 2014. Summary by Sweet Pea....
A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 4 - Justin McCarthy
A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 4 - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
In Volume IV of this series on the Hanoverian kings, Justin McCarthy and his son, Justin Huntly McCarthy, both Liberal Irish MPs., bring on the stage that bulky, big-spender, George IV, his bumbling brother, William IV, the impulsive Liberal loose...
Departed Days - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Departed Days - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Departerd Days by Oliver Wendell Holmes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 8, 2011. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American physician, professor, lecturer, and author. Regarded by his peers...
Supreme Personality - Delmer Eugene CROFT
Supreme Personality - Delmer Eugene CROFT
- Author: Delmer Eugene CROFT
- Genre: Psychology
Life is self-realization. Every birth is divine. We are born anew every morning. My wish is that you may catch the gleam, be freed from limitations and enter upon your boundless possibilities. To bring you into the throne-room of your being, that...
Memoir of Jane Austen - James Edward AUSTEN-LEIGH
Memoir of Jane Austen - James Edward AUSTEN-LEIGH
- Author: James Edward AUSTEN-LEIGH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"The Memoir of my Aunt, Jane Austen, has been received with more favour than I had ventured to expect. The notices taken of it in the periodical press, as well as letters addressed to me by many with whom I am not personally acquainted, show that an...
The Wild Huntress - Thomas Mayne REID
The Wild Huntress - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Marian and Lilian are two sisters living in the backwoods, somewhere in America, with their father as squatters. One May morning a man shows up, wanting to take Marian away as his wife while he makes his mark with the Mormons. But, another man holds...
The Profits of Religion - Upton Sinclair
The Profits of Religion - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Religion
"The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation" is a non-fiction book, first published in 1917, by the American novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It is a snapshot of the religious movements in the U.S. before its...
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1 - Henry Richard Fox BOURNE
The Life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, Tenth Earl of Dundonald, Vol 1 - Henry Richard Fox BOURNE
- Author: Henry Richard Fox BOURNE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Lord Cochrane was a Napoleonic-era sea captain, whose adventures were the source material for many popular series of naval fiction. He started to write a biography but passed away after completing only two volumes. This work, co-authored by a naval...
