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Anabasis - Xenophon
Anabasis - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Antiquity
Xenophon the Athenian was born 431 B.C. He was a pupil of Socrates. He marched with the Spartans, and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land and property in Scillus, where he lived for many years before having to move once more, to settle in...
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale - Frank L. Packard
The Adventures of Jimmie Dale - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Frank Lucius Packard (February 2, 1877 β February 17, 1942) was a Canadian novelist born in Montreal, Quebec. He worked as a civil engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway. He later wrote a series of mystery novels, the most famous of which featured...
Man Overboard - Francis Marion Crawford
Man Overboard - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin Benton brothers. But oddly...
Abaft The Funnel - Rudyard Kipling
Abaft The Funnel - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Single Author Collections
"Men in pajamas sitting abaft the funnel and swapping lies of the purple seas." Thirty one early short stories by the master story teller Kipling. (Summary by David Wales and title page)...
Adam and Eve - John Milton
Adam and Eve - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Poetry / Epics / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Adam and Eve (From βParadise Lost,β Fourth Book) by John Milton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton. It was...
Sister Carrie - Theodore DREISER
Sister Carrie - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Theodore Dreiser (1871β1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carrie (1900) is his first novel and tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city (Chicago)...
Dead Men Tell No Tales - E. W. Hornung
Dead Men Tell No Tales - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Ernest William Hornung (June 7, 1866 β March 22, 1921) was an English author. Hornung was the third son of John Peter Hornung, a Hungarian, and was born in Middlesbrough. He was educated at Uppingham during some of the later years of its great...
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
Measure For Measure - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Described as a "problem play" Measure for Measure is only as much a problem as life itself is- that is, are there any easy answers to questions aplenty? For example: when "mortality and mercy" live in one person's mouth, can justice be said to exist...
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 2) - Hugh Lofting
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle (version 2) - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
Doctor Dolittle and his friends travel to South America to meet the greatest naturalist in the New World. A note to listeners: This book was written in a different time, and as such, contains language and sentiments that are offensive to modern...
The Marrow of Tradition - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Marrow of Tradition - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
In The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt--using the 1898 Wilmington, North Carolina massacre as a backdrop--probes and exposes the raw nerves and internal machinery of racism in the post-Reconstruction-era South; explores how miscegenation,...
A Selection of Australian Poetry and Prose - Various
A Selection of Australian Poetry and Prose - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
A collection of Australian writing from the public domain....
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales - Joseph Jacobs
- Author: Joseph Jacobs
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of folk and fairy tales from the Emerald Isle. There is an earlier version of this book - Celtic Fairy Tales, but this recording was done from a different book in Project Gutenberg. Same book, new readers! (Summary by Ann Boulais)...
Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Asphodel - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Like the Asphodel, a plant which grows far away from England, Daphne grows far away from home. In her first chance of freedom, at the age of almost 17, she finds an opportunity to forget for a while... Forget that her father, the renowned Sir Vernon...
How to Camp Out - John Mead GOULD
How to Camp Out - John Mead GOULD
- Author: John Mead GOULD
- Genre: Sports & Recreation
Advice on camp gear, clothing, cooking, hiking, and other topics. Much of the book remains good and sensible advice today, but modern readers may be amused by Maj. Gould's few remarks on ladies, who "must be cared for more tenderly than men." -...
The Terror: A Mystery - Arthur Machen
The Terror: A Mystery - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In rural England during the time of war, a rash of unsolved murders spawns conspiracy theories, paranoia, and fear as they search for a culprit, an explanation, and an end to the terror. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart - Maria W. STEWART
Meditations from the Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewart - Maria W. STEWART
- Author: Maria W. STEWART
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Maria W. Stewart was America's first black woman political writer. Between 1831 and 1833, she gave four speeches on the topics of slavery and women's rights. Meditations From The Pen of Mrs. Maria W. Stewartβpublished in 1879, shortly before her...
The Littlest One - His Book - Marion St. John Webb
The Littlest One - His Book - Marion St. John Webb
- Author: Marion St. John Webb
- Genre: Poetry
A delightful collection of humorous childrens' verse, describing the life and feelings of a little boy. - Summary by Caro Davy...
Protagoras - Plato
Protagoras - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
Jowett, in his always informative introduction, sees this dialogue as transitional between the early and middle dialogues. Socrates meets with Protagoras and other sophists and pursues his inquiry into virtue. The dialectic brings the thinkers to a...
Posterior Analytics - Aristotle
Posterior Analytics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Ancient
Posterior Analytics is the fourth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). Posterior Analytics deals with demonstration, definition, and scientific knowledge. Demonstration is distinguished as a...
Quiet Talks on Prayer - S. D. Gordon
Quiet Talks on Prayer - S. D. Gordon
- Author: S. D. Gordon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Self-Help
An open life, an open hand, open upward, is the pipe line of communication between the heart of God and this poor befooled old world. Our prayer is God's opportunity to get into the world that would shut Him out. (From the first chapter)...
These Twain - Arnold Bennett
These Twain - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
Hilda is saved from destitution by Edwin Clayhanger who marries her. The two, with Hilda's son by her disastrous 'marriage' to George Cannon, are living in Bursley. Edwin does not enjoy an entirely happy marriage with Hilda because of her...
Black Beauty - Young Folks' Edition - Anna Sewell
Black Beauty - Young Folks' Edition - Anna Sewell
- Author: Anna Sewell
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The same beloved story of the adventures of a young horse that we all know and love, but rewritten by the author for young people. All of the pathos, tenderness and fun are still there, just written for a younger audience. While forthrightly...
Rinkitink in Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Rinkitink in Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Prince Inga lives a happy life on the island of Pingaree until one day invaders from the north enslave every person on the island, including his parents. Inga, who escaped unnoticed in an apple tree, visiting King Rinkitink who had fallen in a well,...
Poems: Series One - Emily Dickinson
Poems: Series One - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Nature
Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, "Poems: Series One", presents the first installment of the complete poetic works of Miss Emily Dickinson. It is broken into four parts: Life, Love, Nature, and Time...
Mansfield Park (dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
Mansfield Park (dramatic reading) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen's 1814 novel focusing on Fanny Price, the daughter of a poor Portsmouth family, who is taken to live with her aunt and uncle Bertram's family on their estate at the age of ten. Surrounded by her wealthy and privileged...
Henry VIII - William Shakespeare
Henry VIII - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
This is Shakespeare's dutiful trubute to one of the most imposing and terrifying rulers in European history. The kingdom trembles as the giant monarch storms through his midlife crisis, disposing of the faithful Katharine of Aragon and starting a...
Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
Children of the Ghetto - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Historical Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices of transplanted eastern European Jews against the forces of assimilation. Zangwill's knowledge of Yiddishkeit...
The Intelligence of School Children - Lewis TERMAN
The Intelligence of School Children - Lewis TERMAN
- Author: Lewis TERMAN
- Genre: Education / Psychology
This book has been written for the rank and file of teachers, school supervisors, and normal-school students. Its purpose is to illustrate the large individual differences in original endowment which exist among school children and to show the...
The Camp of the Dog - Algernon Blackwood
The Camp of the Dog - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A party of campers on a deserted Baltic island is terrorized by a huge wolf... or is it?...
In The Dark - James Whitcomb Riley
In The Dark - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or...
Our Island Story, Part 1 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Our Island Story, Part 1 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history; we are treated to a dazzling...
Rilla of Ingleside - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rilla of Ingleside - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Written in 1921, this is the final book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series. Set during World War I, it shows the courage and endurance of the sisters, mothers and wives (and brothers and fathers) left to tend the home front. The main...
Theaetetus - Plato
Theaetetus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Theaetetus (Ancient Greek: ΞΡαίΟΞ·ΟΞΏΟ) discusses concepts including perception, true judgment and knowledge. Socrates compares the human mind to a piece of wax and is critical of lawyers who seek only to persuade. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
The Song Against Songs - G. K. Chesterton
The Song Against Songs - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Song Against Songs by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 16, 2011. Chesterton was a large man, standing 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and weighing around 21 stone (130...
Concerning Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
Concerning Isabel Carnaby - Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Author: Ellen Thorneycroft FOWLER
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
Isabel Carnaby returns from India. She starts looking for a place in upper class British society. At the begining, people are sceptical of her because she is an orphan. But she will surprise everybody. - Summary by Stav Nisser....
Refuge - Archibald Lampman
Refuge - Archibald Lampman
- Author: Archibald Lampman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encyclopedia says that he is "generally considered the...
Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey - Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics, Book 1: Preliminary Survey - Alfred Marshall
- Author: Alfred Marshall
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it. His plan for the work gradually extended...
Oh! Can You Leave Your Native Land? - Susanna Moodie
Oh! Can You Leave Your Native Land? - Susanna Moodie
- Author: Susanna Moodie
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you ten recordings of Oh! Can You Leave Your Native Land? by Susanna Moodie. This was the weekly poem for the week of November 16, 2014. Summary by Rachel...
The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History - James Francis HOGAN
The Gladstone Colony: An Unwritten Chapter of Australian History - James Francis HOGAN
- Author: James Francis HOGAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is an early history of the failed attempt to found the colony of North Australia at Gladstone, in what is now Central Queensland. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)...
The White Feather - P. G. Wodehouse
The White Feather - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: General Fiction
Sheen, a member of Seymour's House at Wrykyn School, flees from an unexpected assault by town boys. His colleagues wade into the fight with relish, acquiring bruises and sore heads, but in the fracas, Sheen is missed, and the story makes the rounds...
