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History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 5 - Friedrich Schiller
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 5 - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: War & Military / Early Modern
Volume 5 concludes the History of the Thirty Years War in Germany. [Note From the first PG etext of this work: Separate sources indicate that at the beginning of this war there were about 15 million people in Germany, and at the end of the war there...
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson
Carnacki, the Ghost Finder - William Hope Hodgson
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Thomas Carnacki was a detective of the supernatural, created for a series of short stories by Wiliam Hope Hodgson. Hodsgon, also a noted photographer and bodybuilder, might have created more stories for this intrepid sleuth of the occult, but he...
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom - Thomas Bastard
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom - Thomas Bastard
- Author: Thomas Bastard
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Autobiography of Cockney Tom, Showing his Struggles through Life,and proving this Truth of the Old Saying"that Honesty is the best Policy". Set in England, South Australia and the goldfields of Victoria Australia in the 1800's. (Summary from the...
Queen Zixi of Ix - L. Frank Baum
Queen Zixi of Ix - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Fairy Queen Lulea and her merry band, in a quest to relieve themselves of boredom, decide to create a new magical amusement. They weave a beautiful magic cloak that grants its wearer a single wish. The Queen tells a fellow fairy to give the cloak to...
Half-Hours with the Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
Half-Hours with the Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mr Idiot returns with his opinions on a number of diverse topics, including women, taxation, and international diplomacy. As always, the Idiot's silly soliloquies are packed with equal parts ridiculous fallacy and sly wit. Which is your favourite?...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 2, August 1898 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 2, August 1898 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
The Cowardly Lion of Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Cowardly Lion of Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: General
Mustafa of Mudge has heard of the famous Cowardly Lion of Oz, and decides to capture him and put him into a zoo! He enlists the help of Bob Up and a clown called Notta Bit More - the master of disguise! The Cowardly Lion meanwhile travels though Oz...
A Few Figs from Thistles - Edna St. Vincent Millay
A Few Figs from Thistles - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
A collection of 23 poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay....
The People of the Black Circle - Robert E. Howard
The People of the Black Circle - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"The People of the Black Circle" is one of the original novellas about Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in three parts over the September, October and November 1934 issues....
Three Times and Out - Nellie McClung
Three Times and Out - Nellie McClung
- Author: Nellie McClung
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
The true story of M. C. Simmons, a Canadian soldier captured by the German Army during the early days of World War I. We read of his sixteen months of imprisonment, his encounters with other captured troops of the other Allied armies and his...
Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi - Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoi for the Young: Selected tales from Tolstoi - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Seven stories by Leo Tolstoy selected for inclusion into a school curriculum. Some of the stories are well known and others more obscure; some are long and others quite short but all are of course from the pen of the great graf Leo Tolstoy and...
Dulcibel - Henry Peterson
Dulcibel - Henry Peterson
- Author: Henry Peterson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Dulcibel is a young, pretty and kind-hearted fictional character charged with Witchcraft during the infamous Salem Witch trials. During this time there is a group of "afflicted girls" who accuse Dulcibel and many others of Witchcraft, and during...
Household Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Household Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The complete Brothers Grimm stories, as translated directly from the German. Some of the stories will be familiar such as The Frog Prince, Rapunzel, and Cinderella. Other tales are less well known such as The Three Black Princesses, and The Story of...
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure - Liezi
Yang Chu's Garden of Pleasure - Liezi
- Author: Liezi
- Genre: Philosophy / Ancient
At the Court of Liang at the period of Yang Chu, about 300 B.C., the philosophers were treated as guests of the reigning king, who reserved for them lodging and maintenance, and encouraged all who had any pretence to the pursuit of truth and wisdom....
The Four-Pools Mystery - Jean Webster
The Four-Pools Mystery - Jean Webster
- Author: Jean Webster
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In The Four Pools Mystery the tyrannical plantation owner is deemed responsible for his own murder because of his mistreatment of the former slaves who continued in his employment after the war. Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler...
Miss Marjoribanks - Margaret O. Oliphant
Miss Marjoribanks - Margaret O. Oliphant
- Author: Margaret O. Oliphant
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
One of the so-called "Chronicles of Carlingford", of which there were two short stories and five novels written from 1861 to 1876 by Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant. The Chronicles originally appeared in the famous Blackwood's Magazine. Mrs....
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Walt Whitman
Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money....
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy - Ida Laura Pfeiffer
A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy - Ida Laura Pfeiffer
- Author: Ida Laura Pfeiffer
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Ida Pfeiffer travelled alone in an era when women didn't travel. She went first on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, then went on to Egypt and Italy. Understanding the difficulties a woman would face travelling alone and on a budget, she made a will...
Reuben Sachs: A Sketch - Amy Levy
Reuben Sachs: A Sketch - Amy Levy
- Author: Amy Levy
- Genre: General Fiction
Reuben Sachs is a London lawyer whose political aspirations do not include marriage to Judith Quixano, the daughter of a respectable but unexeptional family. But without Reuben, a woman like Judith might have a bleak future in mid-19th century...
Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus - Rufus Estes
Good Things to Eat As Suggested By Rufus - Rufus Estes
- Author: Rufus Estes
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
Rufus Estes was born a slave in 1857 in Tennessee, and experienced first hand the turmoil of the Civil War. He began working in a Nashville restaurant at the age of 16, and in 1883 took up employment as a Pullman cook. In 1897, he was hired as...
A History of California: The American Period - Robert Glass Cleland
A History of California: The American Period - Robert Glass Cleland
- Author: Robert Glass Cleland
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
The Author's own summary surveys “first the faint awakenings of American interest in the Spanish province of Alta California. The New England merchants traffic again along the sunlit, poorly guarded coast; the shadow of Russia hangs for a moment...
The Splendid Wayfaring - John Neihardt
The Splendid Wayfaring - John Neihardt
- Author: John Neihardt
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Modern (19th C)
Quote:"In the following pages I have told the story of that body of adventurers who, from 1822 to 1829, opened the way for the expansion of our nation beyond the Missouri. I have made Jedediah Smith the central figure of my story, for of all...
Short Science Fiction Collection 004 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 004 - 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...
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight - Elizabeth von Arnim
The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight - Elizabeth von Arnim
- Author: Elizabeth von Arnim
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Princess Priscilla of Lothen Kunitz finds court life stifling and runs away to England with the elderly court librarian. Her intention is to live a pure and simple life filled with good works. But life among ordinary people in an English village...
The Romance of Piracy - Edward Keble Chatterton
The Romance of Piracy - Edward Keble Chatterton
- Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
- Genre: True Crime
The Library of Romance is a series of books concerning the romance of scientific facts, be it biology, chemistry, history, or politics. This volume is one of history, concerning an account of the known facts of piracy, starting with the Vikings, and...
Madame de Treymes - Edith Wharton
Madame de Treymes - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Edith Wharton's 1907 novella explores the milieu of Americans living abroad in Paris. New Yorker John Durham travels to Paris to woo an old flame, Fanny Frisbee, now the Marquis de Malrive. Fanny is separated from her husband and wants to marry John...
The House of Whispers - William Le Queux
The House of Whispers - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This is a story about a young lady and her blind father who live in a House of Whispers. "There is a legend that those who hear the whispers die quickly and suddenly." Story written by William Le Queux in 1910. Le Queux mainly wrote in the genres of...
The Wife of the Secretary of State - Ella Middleton Tybout
The Wife of the Secretary of State - Ella Middleton Tybout
- Author: Ella Middleton Tybout
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
In this political thriller set at the turn of the 20th century, several lives, both of Washington insiders and those on the periphery, intersect over the issue of some stolen diplomatic papers. And what hidden secrets bind Mrs. Redmond, the wife of...
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
The Gilded Age, A Tale of Today - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America. The term gilded age, commonly given to the era, comes from the title of this book....
Astounding Stories 08, August 1930
Astounding Stories 08, August 1930
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Issue eight of this seminal science-fiction magazineCONTENTSMurder Madness by Murray Leinster - the conclusion of this novelEarth the Maurader by Arthur J. Burks - Part 2 of a 3 Part novelas well as short Stories The Planet of Dread by R.F. Starxl,...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Satire
Old Martin Chuzzlewit has heaps of money that has never brought him anything but misery. Estranged from his grandson and namesake, when word gets out that he is ill, he finds himself surrounded by a throng of relatives that he despises, all hoping...
Short Poetry Collection 149 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 149 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for October 2015....
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Song of Songs is the twenty-second book of The Bible and was authored by Solomon. In some translations, this book is entitled The Song of Solomon. It is also known as The Best Song. Replete with metaphor, this book is a love song that describes...
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing - Mary Webb
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing - Mary Webb
- Author: Mary Webb
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Mary Webb was a novelist and poet and two of her novels "Gone to Earth" and "Precious Bane" have been successfully adapted for film and television. She was passionate about nature and particularly the Shropshire countryside where she grew up and...
Somewhere in France - Richard Harding Davis
Somewhere in France - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
When Captain Henri Ravignac married Marie Gessler, he was mistakenly thinking she was French. But Marie is in fact German, and her command of the French language and culture makes her a perfect spy. At the first opportunity, she double-crossed...
Every Man In His Humour - Ben Jonson
Every Man In His Humour - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Plays
Knowell, an old man - rumor says Shakespeare originally played this part - tries to spy upon the doings of his potentially wayward son. Meanwhile, Kitely, a merchant, worries so much about being cuckolded by his wife that perhaps it has to happen....
Quiet Talks about Jesus - S. D. Gordon
Quiet Talks about Jesus - S. D. Gordon
- Author: S. D. Gordon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
So far as I can find out, I have no theory about Jesus to make these talks fit into. I have tried to find out for myself what the old Book of God tells about Him. And here I am trying to tell to others, as simply as I can, what I found. It was by...
The Ballad of the White Horse - G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Epics
An English epic poem that follows the exploits of Alfred the Great in his defense of Christian civilization in England from the heathen nihilism of the North. Following a string of defeats at the hands of the invading Danes, a vision from heaven in...
Child Songs of Cheer - Evaleen Stein
Child Songs of Cheer - Evaleen Stein
- Author: Evaleen Stein
- Genre: Poetry
This is a little volume of children's poetry by Indiana poet Evaleen Stein. The poems in this volume concern really anything that could be fun for children, from picking flowers to learning things in school to sledding in the winter. - Summary by...
In Italy with the 332nd Infantry - Joseph L. Lettau
In Italy with the 332nd Infantry - Joseph L. Lettau
- Author: Joseph L. Lettau
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
A brief, personal recounting of the 332nd Infantry in World War I, including training in America, a brief billet in France, activities in Italy, and the return to America. Summary by KevinS...
