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The House Where We Were Wed - Will Carleton
The House Where We Were Wed - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The House Where We Were Wed by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for August 23rd, 2009....
Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Grimm's Fairy Tales (version 2) - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Children's and Household Tales (German: Kinder- und Hausmärchen) is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales...
Clara A. Swain, M.D. - Mrs. Robert HOSKINS
Clara A. Swain, M.D. - Mrs. Robert HOSKINS
- Author: Mrs. Robert HOSKINS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a brief biography of Clara A. Swain, M.D. who is regarded as the "first Medical Missionary to the Women of the Orient." She graduated from the Woman's Medical College in Philadelphia and was sent out to India where she eventually came to be...
On Our Selection - Steele RUDD
On Our Selection - Steele RUDD
- Author: Steele RUDD
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
The humorous account of Dad and Dave and the rest of the Rudd clan as they attempt to carve a farming 'selection' out of the Australian wilderness in spite of fire, famine, snakebite, and a loony hired hand. - Summary by Son of the Exiles...
The King of Schnorrers - Israel Zangwill
The King of Schnorrers - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction
Manasseh da Costa, protagonist of this hilarious novel, is a schnorrer (beggar) who lives on the charitable contributions of the Jews of late 18th-century London. Manasseh is far from being a humble panhandler for, as every schnorrer knows,...
Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress - Gaylord DUBOIS
Barry Blake Of The Flying Fortress - Gaylord DUBOIS
- Author: Gaylord DUBOIS
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Gaylord DuBois wrote juvenile literature for decades. This is a boys' adventure story about serving in the American World War II flying corps. - Summary by david wales...
J. Poindexter, Colored - Irvin S. Cobb
J. Poindexter, Colored - Irvin S. Cobb
- Author: Irvin S. Cobb
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This comic novel relates the first-person adventures in New York City of Jefferson Poindexter, personal assistant to Cobb's famous Judge Priest, while the judge is vacationing abroad. (Introduction by Grant Hurlock)...
Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack - Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Author: Benjamin FRANKLIN
- Genre: Philosophy / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A brief biographical sketch of Franklin's life, followed by a collection (published in 1899) of 670 aphorisms, apothegms, or proverbs - short, pithy, instructive sayings - that were scattered throughout the pages of his Poor Richard's Almanack over...
Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation) - Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation) - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Tragedy
"Oedipus at Colonus" (also Oedipus Coloneus, Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles' death in 406 BC and produced by his...
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson - John Charlton HARDWICK
Religion and Science from Galileo to Bergson - John Charlton HARDWICK
- Author: John Charlton HARDWICK
- Genre: Philosophy
This history of Western philosophy, published in 1920, explores the ways mankind has explained the natural world during the last few centuries, whether by spiritual interpretation or through advances in science. From the Preface: "The chapters which...
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07 - Anonymous
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 07 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Short Story Collection Vol. 049 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 049 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 049: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. 'How the Hodja Saved Allah' by Cyrus Adler and Allan Ramsay...
The Underground City or the Child of the Cavern - Jules Verne
The Underground City or the Child of the Cavern - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining engineer James Starr sets off for the old Aberfoyle mine, thought...
Scholia on the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten - Cyril of Alexandria
Scholia on the Incarnation of the Only-Begotten - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Thirty-seven short articles discussing "What is Christ?" ( The Reader)...
Men of Iron - Howard Pyle
Men of Iron - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Men of Iron by Howard Pyle is historical fiction that transports us back to the 1400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is eight years old when news comes they must flee their home. His blind father is accused of treason. We see...
The Four Million - O. Henry
The Four Million - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime. The Four Million is the second book...
Black Oxen - Gertrude Atherton
Black Oxen - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Romance / Fantasy Fiction
Lee Clavering, a young playwright falls in love with an Austrian countess, not noticing the adoring glances from the outgoing flapper, Janet. Unknown to the young lover, the object of his devotion is defying age with artifice in this controversial...
Nell and Her Grandfather - Anonymous
Nell and Her Grandfather - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
If you have heard of the Dickens novel, The Old Curiosity Shop, and remember Nell Trent, the beautiful and virtuous young girl of "not quite fourteen", an orphan, who lived with her maternal grandfather in his shop of odds and ends, then you will...
The Jack-Knife Man - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Jack-Knife Man - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A lighthearted tale which revolves around old Peter Lane, who lives in a houseboat on the Mississippi River and mostly whiles away his time whittling with his jack-knife and not really doing much else. That is, until one night, a sickly woman knocks...
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service - James R. DRISCOLL
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service - James R. DRISCOLL
- Author: James R. DRISCOLL
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Brighton Boys in the Radio Service is a boys adventure story set in WWI - Three College Chums join the military and face the perils of spies, submarines and enemy soldiers in the trenches of embattled Europe. An engaging story set in a period...
The Travelling Thirds - Gertrude Atherton
The Travelling Thirds - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Romance
The semi-invalid Mrs. Moulton and her long-suffering husband are touring Europe with their two adult daughters, Jane and Lydia. They have firm ideas of what is proper and decorous. Mr. Moulton's young relative, Catalina, does not fit this ideal. Her...
The Dream - Joanna Baillie
The Dream - Joanna Baillie
- Author: Joanna Baillie
- Genre: Tragedy
The Dream is Joanna Baillie’s gothic, proto-Lynchian meditation on fear, guilt, and the prophetic power of dreams. In the cloistered confines of a Swiss monastery, a small group of monks share the same prophetic dream: a forlorn specter reaches out...
Three Soldiers - John Dos PASSOS
Three Soldiers - John Dos PASSOS
- Author: John Dos PASSOS
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Three Soldiers is a 1920 novel by the American writer and critic John Dos Passos. It is one of the key American war novels of the First World War, and remains a classic of the realist war novel genre. H.L. Mencken, then practicing primarily as an...
The Time Traders - Andre Norton
The Time Traders - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Science Fiction
If it is possible to conquer space, then perhaps it is also possible to conquer time. At least that was the theory American scientists were exploring in an effort to explain the new sources of knowledge the Russians possessed. Perhaps Russian...
Essay on the Trial by Jury - Lysander Spooner
Essay on the Trial by Jury - Lysander Spooner
- Author: Lysander Spooner
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / History / Political Science
FOR more than six hundred years that is, since Magna Carta, in 1215 there has been no clearer principle of English or American constitutional law, than that, in criminal cases, it is not only the right and duty of juries to judge what are the facts,...
The Impostures of Scapin - Molière
The Impostures of Scapin - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays
Scapin is a liar, a schemer, an arrogant meddler who thinks he can make people do anything. And yet sometimes he acts in the cause of good. Here he attempts to help out some secret lovers whose parents would prefer they don't marry. - Summary by...
The Hoosier Schoolmaster - Edward EGGLESTON
The Hoosier Schoolmaster - Edward EGGLESTON
- Author: Edward EGGLESTON
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
"Want to be a school-master, do you? You? Well, what would you do in Flat Crick deestrick, I'd like to know? Why, the boys have driv off the last two, and licked the one afore them like blazes. You might teach a summer school, when nothin' but...
The Mystery of the Sea - Bram Stoker
The Mystery of the Sea - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Undefined
Mystery of the Sea is a novel with elements of adventure, supernatural and romance. Archie Hunter goes on a holiday to relax but finds he sees unusual things like spirits and ghosts. An old woman claims she sees them too and that they are both...
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - Lewis Carroll
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded continues the adventures of the many characters in the previous volume Sylvie and Bruno. The fairy-children Sylvie and Bruno are charming whenever they appear, their fairy companions such as the Professor delight in taking...
Beasts and Super-Beasts - Saki
Beasts and Super-Beasts - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Short Stories
Saki (December 18, 1870 – November 14, 1916) was the pen name of British author Hector Hugh Munro. Saki's world contrasts the effete conventions and hypocrisies of Edwardian England with the ruthless but straightforward life-and-death struggle?????s...
Policeman Bluejay - L. Frank Baum
Policeman Bluejay - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is another "TWINKLE TALE" from Mr. Baum (written under the pen name Laura Bancroft) and celebrates the further adventures of Twinkle and Chubbins as they magically become child-larks and live the exciting, and often dangerous, life of birds in...
The Hope of the Gospel - George MacDonald
The Hope of the Gospel - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Perhaps most well-known for his fairytales and fantasy stories such as The Golden Key and Phantastes, or for his poetry, George MacDonald was a great spiritual master of the nineteenth century. He spent several years as a minister in his native...
Planet of the Gods - Robert Moore WILLIAMS
Planet of the Gods - Robert Moore WILLIAMS
- Author: Robert Moore WILLIAMS
- Genre: Science Fiction
Far, far in the future Earth has achieved real peace and is sending out interstellar expeditions, not to conquer, but to explore. The third such expedition, has made it to the Vega system and discovered to everyone's amazement, not only a solar...
Short Account of the History of Mathematics - W. W. Rouse BALL
Short Account of the History of Mathematics - W. W. Rouse BALL
- Author: W. W. Rouse BALL
- Genre: Mathematics
This is a history of mathematics from antiquity to the turn of the 20th century. (Summary by Paul King)...
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri MURGER
The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri MURGER
- Author: Henri MURGER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
As much as any other work of literature, Henri Murger’s 1851 collection of witty sketches Scènes de la vie de bohème shaped the later romanticized image of the bohemian artist: independent, insouciant, exuberantly lustful, devoted to Art for Art’s...
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore - Mary Cowden CLARKE
Ophelia, the Rose of Elsinore - Mary Cowden CLARKE
- Author: Mary Cowden CLARKE
- Genre: General Fiction
This story is from Mary Cowden Clarke's multi-volume work The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, in which she imagined the early lives of characters from Portia to Beatrice to Lady Macbeth. In her revision of Ophelia from Hamlet, she creates a...
The Ballad of the Oysterman - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The Ballad of the Oysterman - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the worse....
The Sonnets - Julia Caroline Dorr
The Sonnets - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Sonnets
This is a collection of Julia Caroline Dorr's Sonnets, from her collected poems. - Summary by Carolin...
The Parables of the Lord Jesus Christ - Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
The Parables of the Lord Jesus Christ - Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Author: St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Homilies 44 though 64 of St John Chrysostom's commentary on the Holy Gospel according to St Matthew, which include the parables and teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ. - Summary by The Reader...
Through the Looking-Glass (version 2) - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass (version 2) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The sequel to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” finds Alice back in Wonderland and a piece in a surreal chess game. This weird and wonderful book includes the poems “Jabberwocky” and “The Walrus and the Carpenter,” a talking pudding, and that...
