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The Fur Country - Jules Verne
The Fur Country - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada on a mission to found a fort at 70 degrees, north of the Arctic Circle. At some point, an earthquake occurs, and from then on, laws of physics seem...
Chicot the Jester - Alexandre Dumas
Chicot the Jester - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Romance
This sequel to Dumas' “Marguerite de Valois” begins four years after the sudden death of King Charles IX and succession of his brother Henry III. The reign of King Henry III was plagued with rebellion and political intrigue due to the War of the...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2) - Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Version 2) - Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
- Author: Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
- Genre: Modern
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is the only book published by Ludwig Wittgenstein. Any summary would frankly do the work an injustice - the interested reader is directed to Wittgenstein's preface and to the introduction of Wittgenstein's teacher,...
The Subjection Of Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
The Subjection Of Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Author: Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Genre: Family Life
This is a sequel to "Concerning Isabel Carnaby". Isabel and Paul Seaton are now happily married. This book tells about their trials and tribulations, their little son, and, of course, their love for each other. - Summary by Stav Nisser....
The Rain-Girl - Herbert George Jenkins
The Rain-Girl - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he sells all his possessions (except his books), and sets off on a tramp through the countryside. On the very...
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading) - Frances BROWNE
Granny's Wonderful Chair (Dramatic Reading) - Frances BROWNE
- Author: Frances BROWNE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Her most famous work, Granny's Wonderful Chair, was published in 1856 and it is still in print to this day. It is a richly imaginative book of fairy stories and has been translated into many languages. This work, read as a child by Frances Hodgson...
Who Loves the Rain - Frances SHAW
Who Loves the Rain - Frances SHAW
- Author: Frances SHAW
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Who Loves the Rain by Frances Shaw. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 2nd, 2008....
Blood Road - Katharine Lee BATES
Blood Road - Katharine Lee BATES
- Author: Katharine Lee BATES
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Blood Road by Katharine Lee Bates. This was the New Year's Weekly Poetry project for December 30. 2018. ------ Katharine Lee Bates was an American writer, poet, professor, and social activist. Although...
The Card - Arnold Bennett
The Card - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
The ‘Card’ in question is Edward Henry Machin - His mother called him ‘Denry’. This light-hearted story is of his rise from humble beginnings as the son of a washerwoman and sempstress in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, in the pottery...
The Battle of Life - Charles Dickens
The Battle of Life - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
While "The Battle of Life" is one of Charles Dickens' Christmas Books - his annual release of a story just before Christmas - this one breaks the tradition by not being concerned with Christmas. Rather, its subtitle, "A Love Story", reveals more of...
Lord Clive - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Lord Clive - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: War & Military
Robert Clive was, in Macaulay’s view, the real founder of British power in India. Macaulay himself served on the Governor’s Council in India from 1834 to 1838, working on legal and educational changes in that country. In his view, the establishment...
Home Thoughts From Abroad - Robert Browning
Home Thoughts From Abroad - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of Home Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning. This was the weekly poetry project for March 29th, 2009....
Idle Ideas in 1905 - Jerome K. Jerome
Idle Ideas in 1905 - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Back in 1905 Jerome K. Jerome shared his thoughts on a variety of subjects, including "Should Women Be Beautiful?", "Should Soldiers Be Polite?" and "Is The American Husband Made Entirely Of Stained Glass?". Each subject is analysed and commented on...
From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse - Various
From the Tower Window of My Bookhouse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Family
Full of delightful fairy tales, charming poems and engaging stories, this is the fifth volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive Beaupre Miller,...
Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States - US GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM
Fourth National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States - US GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM
- Author: US GLOBAL CHANGE RESEARCH PROGRAM
- Genre: Earth Sciences
Are you interested in learning about climate change and its current and future effects on the United States? The Fourth National Climate Assessment – Volume II is a 2018 report written in non-technical language by the U.S. Global Change Research...
The Sovereignty of God - Arthur PINK
The Sovereignty of God - Arthur PINK
- Author: Arthur PINK
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
In the following pages an attempt has been made to examine anew in the light of God's Word some of the profoundest questions which can engage the human mind. (Summary by Arthur Pink)...
Short Poetry Collection 123 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 123 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2013....
The Indian Corn Planter - E. Pauline Johnson
The Indian Corn Planter - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indian Corn Planter by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 29, 2012. "But in the writings of one poet alone I came upon a new note—the note of the Red Man's Canada. This...
Dawn - Eleanor H. Porter
Dawn - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Romance / Family / General
Dawn (also known in England as "Keith’s Dark Tower"), was published in 1919, and is set during World War I. Keith Burton is going blind. It is hard for him and his family. Most of the book deals with their ways - right and wrong - of dealing with...
Notwithstanding - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
Notwithstanding - Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Author: Mary CHOLMONDELEY
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book starts with Annette Georges choosing between two fates: suicide and running away with a disreputable stranger. She is rescued by a kind woman who looks after her until she can go to live with her maiden aunts in a village in the English...
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters - Logan Marshall
The Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters - Logan Marshall
- Author: Logan Marshall
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
This is a detailed and accurate account of the most awful marine disaster in history, constructed from the real facts as obtained from those on board who survived (gutenberg.org)....
Easy Knowledge
Easy Knowledge
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Arthur Macy did not consider his work of sufficiently high poetic standard to be published. Every one praised his choice of words, his wonderful facility in rhyme, the perfection of his metre, and the daintiness and delicacy of his verse. "All...
Little Wanderers - Margaret Warner Morley
Little Wanderers - Margaret Warner Morley
- Author: Margaret Warner Morley
- Genre: Science
This book discusses a great variety of plants and their seeds in a simple, yet interesting way that children will enjoy. As the books says, "Plants are great travelers; they often wander far and wide. Sometimes they even cross the ocean and take up...
The Story of the Glittering Plain - William Morris
The Story of the Glittering Plain - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
In this early example of the modern high fantasy genre, Hallblithe, a warrior of the House of Raven, sets out in pursuit of the pirates who have kidnapped his troth-plight maiden, the Hostage. Kidnapped himself, Hallblithe sails to the Isle of...
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment - Donald SHAW
Eighteen Months' Imprisonment - Donald SHAW
- Author: Donald SHAW
- Genre: Memoirs
This is an absorbing memoir of an inmate's experiences and impressions while in a London prison. He describes himself as "a man of education and worldly experience" and weighing "19 stone 13 lbs" (279 lbs), a stone being 14 lbs, at the beginning of...
By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 - Lavinia Honeyman PORTER
By Ox Team to California - A Narrative of Crossing the Plains in 1860 - Lavinia Honeyman PORTER
- Author: Lavinia Honeyman PORTER
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Imagine a young, twenty-something woman in 1860, reared “in the indolent life of the ordinary Southern girl” (which means she has never learned to cook); married to a professional man who knows “nothing of manual labor;” who is mother to a young...
Elsie's New Relations - Martha Finley
Elsie's New Relations - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Family / Historical
In this ninth book in the classic Elsie Dinsmore series, the family finishes their summer at the seaside and returns to Ion. The narrative turns from Elsie to Violet's family, particularly her step-children Max and Lulu as they adjust to life in...
The Lion's Skin - Rafael Sabatini
The Lion's Skin - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Justin Caryll was an unwilling hero: an unwilling plotter of revenge, an unwilling spy and an unwilling pursuer of the woman he loves. Justin must thread a perilous path through various sticky wickets, between the machinations of his foster father,...
The Grell Mystery - Frank FROEST
The Grell Mystery - Frank FROEST
- Author: Frank FROEST
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Mr Robert Grell, millionaire and socialite, is found murdered in his study on a stormy evening. It's up to Heldon Foyle, the detective, to unravel the mystery. (Summary by Christine Blachford - to be expanded)...
Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich - Various
Poems Recorded in Deptford and Greenwich - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Armed with a hand-held digital recorder and the Penguin Book of English Verse, LibriVox’s UK Chapter set out one Sunday afternoon to capture some wonderful poems ‘on location’ - in the churchyard of St Nicholas’, Deptford, and the Greenwich Foot...
37 American Poems - Various
37 American Poems - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Here are 37 distinctively American poems, covering the mid-17th - early 20th Centuries, from Anne Bradstreet to Dorothy Parker's sole PD work. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
The Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Discursive ramblings of a generous mind, no-one would know from Lamb's conversational button-holing of you and telling you whatever is on his mind that his sister had killed their mother and he had spent his life looking after her; had collaborated...
The Morals (Moralia), Book 1 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
The Morals (Moralia), Book 1 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Self-Help / Essays / Ancient
The Moralia (or The morals or Matters relating to customs and mores) is a work by the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea. It is a collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches that give an insight into Roman and Greek life. Extremely...
Resurrection, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction
Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the...
On Passing Deadman’s Island - Thomas Moore
On Passing Deadman’s Island - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of On Passing Deadman’s Island by Thomas Moore. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 22, 2012. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. In 1803 he was appointed...
The Moonstone (version 2) - Wilkie Collins
The Moonstone (version 2) - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Said to be the first detective novel ever written, it is wonderful for its blending of the intrigues of romance with the conventional sleights of hand of the mystery novel. Marvellous also for its sensitive portrayal of traditionally outsider...
The Social History of Smoking - George L. APPERSON
The Social History of Smoking - George L. APPERSON
- Author: George L. APPERSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing or tobacco related manufacture, but is rather the story of how smoking has fitted in with the fashions and...
What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
What Katy Did is a children's book written by Susan Coolidge, the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey. It follows the adventures of Katy Carr and her family, growing up in America in the 1860s. Katy is a tall untidy tomboy, forever getting into...
The First American Sister of Charity: Elizabeth Bayley Seton - John Clement REVILLE
The First American Sister of Charity: Elizabeth Bayley Seton - John Clement REVILLE
- Author: John Clement REVILLE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
This is a picturesque and moving account of the life and work of Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821), the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. This widowed mother of five established...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 07-08. July-August 1897 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 07-08. July-August 1897 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the July-August Number. It includes the following articles: The Venezuelan Boundary Commission and its Work, by Marcus Baker Mineral Production in the United States, by John Hyde The Forests...
