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Speeches Against Catilina - Marcus Tullius Cicero
Speeches Against Catilina - Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
- Genre: Antiquity
This volume contains the four speeches delivered by Cicero in 63 BC, when he was a consul, against the conspiracy headed by L. Sergius Catilina. Catilina was scheming to bring about a general uprising in the country if he could not rise to a...
Everyman - Unknown
Everyman - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
A Holy Day in 1495. Join the crowd streaming towards a temporary outdoor stage and be entertained (and maybe even instructed) by a performance of Everyman by the Guild of LibriVox Readers. Cast:(in order of appearance) Narrator - Annise Messenger -...
Poems of Purpose - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Purpose - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Single author
This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1919. - Summary by Carolin...
Short Science Fiction Collection 023 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 023 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
Cape Cod Stories - Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
Cape Cod Stories - Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
- Author: Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories / Single Author Collections
This book (eleven short stories) was also published under the title of “The Old Home House”. Joseph Crosby Lincoln (1870 – 1944) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, many set in a fictionalized Cape Cod. Lincoln's work...
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays - Sir William OSLER
An Alabama Student And Other Biographical Essays - Sir William OSLER
- Author: Sir William OSLER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Medical
Here are thirteen biographical sketches of physicians penned by one of the founders of modern medicine, William Osler, published in 1908. "Sir William Osler, one of the best-loved and most influential teachers of his time, was born in Canada in...
Imaginotions - Truthless Tales - Tudor JENKS
Imaginotions - Truthless Tales - Tudor JENKS
- Author: Tudor JENKS
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a collection of short stories by Tudor Jenks. Those stories are all written and composed in the way of a fairy tale, but they are not primarily aimed at children. The stories contain excellent satire, and are generally very funny and...
Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy - Herbert Francis Peyser
Hector Berlioz; A Romantic Tragedy - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
How much more futile is it to attempt on the minuscule scale of the following tiny, if rambling, pamphlet to touch upon even a thousandth of those achievements and unremitting conflicts which entered into the texture of this master’s agitated and...
Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous - Sarah Knowles Bolton
Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous - Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Author: Sarah Knowles Bolton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
These characters have been chosen from various countries and from varied professions, that the youth who read this book may see that poverty is no barrier to success. It usually develops ambition, and nerves people to action. Life at best has much...
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses - P. R. KINCAID
The Arabian Art of Taming and Training Wild and Vicious Horses - P. R. KINCAID
- Author: P. R. KINCAID
- Genre: Animals
Back in the day before automobiles, a good horse trainer and veterinarian was the equivalent of “Mr Goodwrench”. A badly behaving or unhealthy equine was equivalent to breaking down on the highway or running out of gas on a lonely stretch of highway...
Woman and the New Race - Margaret SANGER
Woman and the New Race - Margaret SANGER
- Author: Margaret SANGER
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one point, even served jail time for importing birth control pills, then illegal, into the United States. Woman and...
Summa Theologica - 10 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 10 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Theological Virtues: Faith, Hope, Charity - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
Before Edgehill Fight - Rudyard Kipling
Before Edgehill Fight - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Before Edgehill Fight by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7, 2019. ------ A real and down to earth poem about a the Battle of Edgehill. - Summary by Campbell Schelp...
The Two Heroines of Plumplington - Anthony Trollope
The Two Heroines of Plumplington - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In the small English Town of Plumplington the daughter of a brewer and that of a banker each has selected her future husband contrary to the wishes of her father. Both young men are regarded as not 'good enough', though each is, in fact, much like...
Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Our Knowledge of the External World: As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
Bertrand Russell gave the Lowell Lectures in March and April of 1914; these lectures produced 'Our Knowledge of the External World'. Russell attempts to analyze the relationship of the crude data of our senses to the notions of physics such as...
The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South - Mary JOHNSTON
The Chronicles of America Volume 05 - Pioneers of the Old South - Mary JOHNSTON
- Author: Mary JOHNSTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Early Modern
In this remarkably detailed and sweeping fifth installment, Mary Johnston takes us from discoveries and settlements to the evolution into the first colonies, specifically Virginia, Maryland, North and South Carolina, and finally Georgia. Group:...
The Alchemist - Ben Jonson
The Alchemist - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Satire
An outbreak of plague in London forces a gentleman, Lovewit, to flee temporarily to the country, leaving his house under the sole charge of his butler, Jeremy. Jeremy uses the opportunity given to him to use the house as the headquarters for...
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
Anthem for Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
- Author: Wilfred Owen
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Anthem for Doomed Youth, by Wilfred Owen, in honor of Veteran’s Day, Remembrance Day, and Armistice Day, 2006. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 5th....
The Country Beyond - James Oliver Curwood
The Country Beyond - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
The Country Beyond, subtitled A Romance In the Wilderness, is a story of "Jolly" Roger McKay, an outcast on the run from the law; Nada, the girl he falls in love with; and Peter, the devoted mixed-breed dog who links the two together as no human...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 5 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 5 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
Young Robin Hood - George Manville Fenn
Young Robin Hood - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: General Fiction
Ever wonder how Robin Hood became Robin Hood? Well, now you can read how a young boy was molded into the famous hero who "robbed from the rich and gave to the poor". This imaginative story gives zesty details into the development and growth of the...
Richard II, Makers of History - Jacob Abbott
Richard II, Makers of History - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Chronicles the life of Richard II, born in 1367 in Bordeaux, France, who later wore the crown of King of England. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries - Charles John Samuel THOMPSON
Poison Romance And Poison Mysteries - Charles John Samuel THOMPSON
- Author: Charles John Samuel THOMPSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction
A writer and physician, Charles John Samuel Thompson wrote several works on poisons which are still consulted today. He is especially informative on early historical poisons. This book discusses many cases of poisoning, famous and not so, as well as...
Saint George for England - G. A. Henty
Saint George for England - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
A tale written for children in 1885.It tells of a child of noble birth whose parents have fallen foul of the current royalty. He is placed in hiding and grows up with a bowyer and then apprenticed to an armourer just outside the gates of the City of...
Prison Life in Andersonville - John Levi MAILE
Prison Life in Andersonville - John Levi MAILE
- Author: John Levi MAILE
- Genre: War & Military
A firsthand account of the deplorable conditions within the most infamous prisoner-of-war camp of the Confederacy. Though functioning only during the last year of the Civil War, nearly 13,000 of 45,000 incarcerated Union soldiers died under inhumane...
The Way It Came - Henry James
The Way It Came - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Best known under the title "The Friends Of The Friends" and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology "Black Water" by Alberto Manguel as one of the best ghost stories ever written, this "ghost" story (that is, if it is "a ghost...
3 Science Fiction Stories - William Tenn
3 Science Fiction Stories - William Tenn
- Author: William Tenn
- Genre: Science Fiction
These are three imaginative SF stories by an author I admire a lot, William Tenn. Venus is a Man's World, (Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1951), Project Hush (Galaxy Science Fiction, 1954_ and Of All Possible Worlds. (Galaxy, Sept 1956) - Summary by...
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven" is a short-story written by American writer Mark Twain and published in 1909. The story follows Captain Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven, his accidental misplacement, his short-lived...
Campaign For Petersburg - Richard Wayne LYKES
Campaign For Petersburg - Richard Wayne LYKES
- Author: Richard Wayne LYKES
- Genre: War & Military
In the American Civil War the Union victory in the ten-month campaign for the city of Petersburg, Virginia (June 1864-March 1865), led directly to the surrender of the Confederacy within two weeks. This 1970 National Park Service booklet tells the...
Iolanthe - W. S. Gilbert
Iolanthe - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Iolanthe is a fairy banished from fairyland for the crime of marrying a mortal. Her half-fairy, half-human son Strephon is a fairy down to the waist, but his legs are human. He loves Phyllis, but she is courted by the whole House of Lords and the...
The Revelation - Coventry PATMORE
The Revelation - Coventry PATMORE
- Author: Coventry PATMORE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happy marriage. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles - James PLANCHÉ
The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles - James PLANCHÉ
- Author: James PLANCHÉ
- Genre: Drama
Freely adapted from Lord Byron’s Fragment of a Novel, J.R. Planché’s The Vampire; or, the Bride of the Isles predates Dracula in its depiction of the vampire as a seductive, sophisticated, and noble figure. It also helped popularize the character of...
The Story of the Amulet (version 2) - E. Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet (version 2) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children, written in 1906 by E. Nesbit. It is the final part of a trilogy of novels that also includes Five Children and It (1902) and The Phoenix and the Carpet (1904). In it the children re-encounter the...
The Quest of the Golden Pearl - John Robert HUTCHINSON
The Quest of the Golden Pearl - John Robert HUTCHINSON
- Author: John Robert HUTCHINSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure
A classic boys' adventure story, with two intrepid boys pursuing a jewel thief despite deadly perils and a haunted temple on a desolate island. The book has been made into an online game for modern-day treasure hunters. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
The Slayer of Souls - Robert W. Chambers
The Slayer of Souls - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Tressa Norne is an American living in China. After her life was spared during a revolution in the area, Tressa finds herself taken as a slave and forced to serve Erlik, a demon-god, and his cult. She ends up escaping back to America, but only to...
The Book of Lieh-Tzu - Liezi
The Book of Lieh-Tzu - Liezi
- Author: Liezi
- Genre: Ancient
Although Lieh Tzu's work has evidently passed through the hands of many editors and gathered numerous accretions, there remains a considerable nucleus which in all probability was committed to writing by Lieh Tzu's immediate disciples, and is...
Life and Death, and Other Stories and Legends - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
Life and Death, and Other Stories and Legends - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Author: Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Henryk Sienkiewicz won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1905, but as he wrote in Polish many English-speakers are unfamiliar with his work. This short story collection is a sampler of five myths and legends which he collected. The "Life and Death"...
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex - Sigmund Freud
Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: Psychology
In this little book Freud discusses three areas of human sexuality: 1. Sexual pervisons or abberations. In this essay, Freud concludes that "a disposition to perversions is an original and universal disposition of the human sexual instinct and...
The Woman in the Alcove - Anna Katharine Green
The Woman in the Alcove - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"I was, perhaps, the plainest girl in the room that night. I was also the happiest—up to one o'clock. Then my whole world crumbled, or, at least, suffered an eclipse. Why and how, I am about to relate." Thus begins this mystery told by Anna...
Eyebright - Susan Coolidge
Eyebright - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Family
"Imagination is like a sail, as Mr. Joyce had said that evening; but sails are good and useful things sometimes, and carry their owners over deep waters and dark waves, which else might dampen, and drench, and drown." Twelve year old Isabella Bright...
