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Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Flappers and Philosophers - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Flappers and Philosophers was the first collection of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in 1920. It includes eight stories:* "The Offshore Pirate"* "The Ice Palace"* "Head and Shoulders"* "The Cut-Glass Bowl"* "Bernice Bobs Her...
A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl - Amy Lane WATERMAN
A Little Candy Book for a Little Girl - Amy Lane WATERMAN
- Author: Amy Lane WATERMAN
- Genre: General / Reference
Join Betsey Bobbitt, a girl with an undeniable sweet tooth, as she discovers new recipes for candy and sweets to make with the reader. An entertaining cookbook with a narrative! (Summary by Mary Kay)...
By The Turtles of Tasman - Jack London
By The Turtles of Tasman - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Family Life
Turn of the century sibling rivalry between successful but uptight California businessman and his ne'er-do-well older brother, both widowers with equally-different 20-ish daughters. Written in 1911. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems - Sherwood ANDERSON
The Triumph of the Egg: A Book of Impressions from American Life In Tales and Poems - Sherwood ANDERSON
- Author: Sherwood ANDERSON
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
“The Triumph of the Egg” is a collection of stories and poems by Sherwood Anderson. Abandoning the interconnected quality of his more famous “Winesburg, Ohio,” the author adopts a variety of perspectives and settings while exploring similar themes:...
Unhappy Far-Off Things - Lord Dunsany
Unhappy Far-Off Things - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: War & Military
Better known today for his influential fantasy writings, Lord Dunsany also wrote a number of sketches during World War One. This compilation of essays written from time spent in France in 1916. Much more thoughtful and melancholy than the pieces...
Windy McPherson's Son - Sherwood ANDERSON
Windy McPherson's Son - Sherwood ANDERSON
- Author: Sherwood ANDERSON
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Windy McPherson's Son is the story of Sam McPherson's rise in the world of business and search for emotional enlightenment in later life. McPherson starts out as an ambitious newsboy in Caxton, Ohio, with drunkard of a father who constantly...
Dubliners - James JOYCE
Dubliners - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Masterful short stories about life in Dublin at the turn of the century, by James Joyce. (Summary by Hugh McGuire)...
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
Autobiography of a Seaman, Vol. 2 - Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Author: Lord Thomas COCHRANE
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
This second volume of the biography of Lord Cochrane deals with his fall from grace, imprisonment for debt, loss of honours, and attempts to clear his name. It has had a marked influence on naval fiction, most obviously on some of the novels by...
Main Street (Version 2) - Sinclair Lewis
Main Street (Version 2) - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Carol Milford, a college-educated, progressive, ambitious young woman, is self-sufficient working as a librarian in St. Paul, when she meets a country doctor, Will Kennicott, who convinces her to marry him and move to the rural Minnesota town of...
Ruth Erskine's Crosses - Pansy
Ruth Erskine's Crosses - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Third book in the Chautauqua Girls series. Written by Isabella Alden under the pseudonym Pansy. Ruth's father brings home a wife and daughter, after 18 years, that Ruth had never known about. Suddenly she is no longer the queen of her home. And...
A Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion - Gerald Birney SMITH
A Guide to the Study of the Christian Religion - Gerald Birney SMITH
- Author: Gerald Birney SMITH
- Genre: Education / Christianity - Other
Articles by numerous authors, compiled into a single collection for use by first year divinity students. This book is intended to be a guide to the study of the Christian religion for Protestants. It was prepared to aid students to understand...
Poet To His Love - Maxwell Bodenheim
Poet To His Love - Maxwell Bodenheim
- Author: Maxwell Bodenheim
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox volunteers bring you thirteen different readings of Poet To His Love, by Maxwell Bodenheim. This weekly poetry project was selected to celebrate Valentine’s Day.(Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Little Meg's Children - Hesba Stretton
Little Meg's Children - Hesba Stretton
- Author: Hesba Stretton
- Genre: Family
This is the touching and endearing story of Little Meg and her trials and difficulties as she does her best to look after 'her children' after their mother dies. Father is away at sea and is expected every day, but when father's ship comes in he is...
The Psychology of Religion - Edwin Diller STARBUCK
The Psychology of Religion - Edwin Diller STARBUCK
- Author: Edwin Diller STARBUCK
- Genre: Christianity - Other
“The present volume is an excursus into individual psychology, and represents only one of several aspects of the psychology... “It is a purely empirical study into the Line of Growth in Religion in individuals, and an inquiry into the causes and...
Habits that Handicap - Charles B. TOWNS
Habits that Handicap - Charles B. TOWNS
- Author: Charles B. TOWNS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology
Habits that Handicap is one of three novels about alcoholism and drug addiction written by Charles B. Towns. Towns was an expert on alcoholism and drug addiction who helped draft drug control legislation in the United States during the early 20th...
The French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille - Thomas CARLYLE
The French Revolution Volume 1 the Bastille - Thomas CARLYLE
- Author: Thomas CARLYLE
- Genre: History
The French Revolution: A History was written by the Scottish essayist, philosopher, and historian Thomas Carlyle. The three-volume work, first published in 1837 (with a revised edition in print by 1857), charts the course of the French Revolution...
Anthem (version 3) - Ayn RAND
Anthem (version 3) - Ayn RAND
- Author: Ayn RAND
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
This Novella by Ayn Rand was first published in England in 1938. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and socialistic thinking and economics....
Chronicles of Canada Volume 14 - The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812 - William Wood
Chronicles of Canada Volume 14 - The War With the United States: A Chronicle of 1812 - William Wood
- Author: William Wood
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
"International disputes that end in war are not generally questions of absolute right and wrong. They may quite as well be questions of opposing rights. But, when there are rights on both sides; it is usually found that the side which takes the...
Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales - Bram Stoker
Dracula's Guest & Other Weird Tales - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
Nine Gothic Horror Tales by the author of Dracula....
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 4 - Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 4 - Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
- Author: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
- Genre: Religion
Some years ago, the editor of an English magazine sent a communication to "the hundred greatest men in Great Britain" asking them this question: "If for any reason you were to spend a year absolutely alone, in a prison for instance, and could select...
Cousin Phillis - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cousin Phillis - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction
Cousin Phillis (1864) is a novel by Elizabeth Gaskell about Paul Manning, a youth of seventeen who moves to the country and befriends his mother's family and his second cousin Phillis Holman, who is confused by her own placement at the edge of...
To the Gnat - Samuel Rogers
To the Gnat - Samuel Rogers
- Author: Samuel Rogers
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of To The Gnat by Samuel Rogers. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 19, 2013. Some comments from our readers.. "It might seem a tad mellow dramatic, but if you live in the country as I do, this...
Aaron's Rod - D. H. Lawrence
Aaron's Rod - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: General Fiction
Flutist Aaron Sisson is caught up in the aftermath of WWI. A lost soul, he attempts to find himself in the comfort of bar-room talk and alcohol and a woman. Moving on, he spends time with a mining executive's relatives. But he finds the family a...
A Soup of Alphabets from A-Z - Various
A Soup of Alphabets from A-Z - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Reference
A collection of children's alphabet rhymes including Footsteps On the Road to Learning - a short text from 1850 which teaches children the English alphabet in rime--so that a child may not become a dunce! The Anti Slavery Alphabet - a book prepared...
Five Children and It (Version 5) - E. Nesbit
Five Children and It (Version 5) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The book follows the journey of five children who discover a mysterious creature (called by them as It) who grants them their wishes. Join in as they ask for the craziest of wishes, which are granted true for a day! - Summary by bhavya...
Heroes of the Middle Ages - Eva March Tappan
Heroes of the Middle Ages - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"The object of this book is to bring together stories of the most important movements in the history of Europe during the Middle Ages, and to make familiar the names of the most important figures in those scenes. I have endeavoured to weave a...
Ayala's Angel - Anthony Trollope
Ayala's Angel - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Lucy and Ayala Dormer are left penniless by the death of their parents. Ayala is taken in by their rich aunt Lady Tringle and Lucy by their poor uncle Mr Dosett. The girls find it hard to get used to their new surroundings. Lucy becomes engaged to...
The Tale of Daddy Long Legs - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Daddy Long Legs - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was author of more than forty children's books. He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah Goodhue.THERE was great excitement...
Wopsy: The Adventures of a Guardian Angel - Gerard F. SCRIVEN
Wopsy: The Adventures of a Guardian Angel - Gerard F. SCRIVEN
- Author: Gerard F. SCRIVEN
- Genre: Religion
Wopsy is the story of a very young Guardian Angel, sent to watch over a pagan baby in Africa. Wopsy desperately wants his baby's soul to become white and clean in baptism, but what is a small guardian angel to do when there is no missionary priest...
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People - L. Frank Baum
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
The Magical Monarch of Mo is a set of stories about the titular king, his queen, and his royal children. The stories are uproariously funny, dealing with topics as absurd as a man losing his temper who then tries to find it, an evil midget who...
Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane ADDAMS
Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane ADDAMS
- Author: Jane ADDAMS
- Genre: Political Science / Memoirs
Jane Addams was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. In a long, complex career, she was a pioneer settlement worker and founder of Hull-House in Chicago, public philosopher (the first American woman in that role), author,...
Short Science Fiction Collection 063 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 063 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The Dueling Machine - Ben BOVA
The Dueling Machine - Ben BOVA
- Author: Ben BOVA
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Dueling Machine is the solution to settling disputes without injury. After you and your opponent select weapons and environments you are injected into an artificial reality where you fight to the virtual death… but no one actually gets hurt....
The Princess and Curdie (Version 2) - George MacDonald
The Princess and Curdie (Version 2) - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A year has passed since Curdie's adventures with young Princess Irene and the hostile goblins deep in the mountain. As Curdie grows up, his faith in the elusive royal Great-Great-Grandmother is fading. When a thoughtless act plunges him into that...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 055 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 055 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include Philosophy and Psychology: selections from Kierkegaard's "Preparation for a Christian Life" and Jung's "The Hymn of Creation," and an...
Short Poetry Collection 053 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 053 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 053: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Children's Short Works, Vol. 029
Children's Short Works, Vol. 029
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 029: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Bible (YLT) 29: Joel - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 29: Joel - 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 World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I - Various
The World’s Famous Orations, Vol. III: Great Britain - I - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
In 1906, William Jennings Bryan, himself a famous American orator, and Francis Whiting Halsey published a series of the most famous orations of all time. They are ordered by both geographic area and time period, ranging from Ancient Greece to their...
Stories of the Lifeboat - Frank Mundell
Stories of the Lifeboat - Frank Mundell
- Author: Frank Mundell
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
There's fury in the tempest,And there's madness in the waves;The lightning snake coils round the foam,The headlong thunder raves;Yet a boat is on the waters,Filled with Britain's daring sons,Who pull like lions out to sea,And count the minute...
