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Folk-lore and legends: English - Charles John Tibbits
Folk-lore and legends: English - Charles John Tibbits
- Author: Charles John Tibbits
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The old English Folklore Tales are fast dying out. The simplicity of character necessary for the retaining of old memories and beliefs is being lost, more rapidly in England, perhaps, than in any other part of the world. Our folk are giving up the...
White Rose of Weary Leaf - Violet Hunt
White Rose of Weary Leaf - Violet Hunt
- Author: Violet Hunt
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author renowned for her literary salons, which hosted such notables as H.G. Wells, D.H. Laurence, Henry James, W. Somerset Maugham, Oscar Wilde and Ezra Pound. In White Rose of Weary Leaf (often considered her best...
Frenzied Fiction - Stephen Leacock
Frenzied Fiction - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
From the cave man to Santa Claus; spies, know-it-alls, and journalists: all are fair game for Leacockβs special brand of humor. He touches on the changes time has brought about in the city, education, and work habits. Among the other topics in this...
A Snow Storm - Thomas Frederick YOUNG
A Snow Storm - Thomas Frederick YOUNG
- Author: Thomas Frederick YOUNG
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Snow Storm by T.F. Young. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 6, 2019. ------ Pedantic critics may find fault with my modest productions, and perhaps justly, in regard to grammatical...
Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poems - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Single author
This volume of poems was published in 1923, the year Edna St. Vincent Millay became the third woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. It was perhaps the lead poem in this volume, Renascence, published in 1918 in a literary contest that first won...
The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
The Great God Pan - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
"The Great God Pan" is a novella written by Arthur Machen. A version of the story was published in the magazine Whirlwind in 1890, and Machen revised and extended it for its book publication (together with another story, "The Inmost Light") in 1894....
Selected Stories of Bret Harte - Bret Harte
Selected Stories of Bret Harte - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Short Stories / Westerns
Bret Harte (August 25, 1836 β May 6, 1902) was an American author and poet, best remembered for his accounts of pioneering life in California. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
What Katy Did at School - Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did at School - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The continuing story of Katy Carr, recounting the time she spent at boarding school with her sister Clover. (Summary by Karen Savage)...
A Short History of the United States - Edward CHANNING
A Short History of the United States - Edward CHANNING
- Author: Edward CHANNING
- Genre: General / Early Modern
Channing's best known work, A History of the United States, is regarded as one of the most complete and accurate accounts of American history and received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for History. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Don Quixote - Vol. 1 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote - Vol. 1 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the...
The Family Kitchen Gardener - Robert BUIST
The Family Kitchen Gardener - Robert BUIST
- Author: Robert BUIST
- Genre: Gardening
The Family Kitchen Gardener contains plain and accurate descriptions (ca 1847) of all the different species and varieties of specifically American culinary vegetables, fruit, and herbs in alphabetical order. It includes the best mode of cultivating,...
The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
The Mystery (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2006) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Author: LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The idea was to write a whole novel in the month of November, based on the guidelines of the National Novel Writing Month. The twist is that there are up to 30 people writing together, instead of one toiling alone. Each writer signed up to do one...
Contentment - Eugene Field
Contentment - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays....
A Dash for a Throne - Arthur W. MARCHMONT
A Dash for a Throne - Arthur W. MARCHMONT
- Author: Arthur W. MARCHMONT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The young Count von Rudloff got himself into so much trouble with the Imperial Family in Berlin, that he sees no other way out of it than to fake his own death. Stumbling through different identities, he finally assumes - quite against his will -...
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
The Reign of Queen Anne, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military
Anne Stuart (1665-1714), Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, succeeded William III to the throne in 1702. She was the daughter of the deposed Catholic king, James II, but was of the Anglican faith. Liberal, Irish member of Parliament, Justin...
A Shropshire Lad (version 2) - A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad (version 2) - A. E. Housman
- Author: A. E. Housman
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
This is a lovely collection of melodic poems, many melancholy in tone, many featuring Housman's constant theme of living this short life to the fullest. (Summary by Jon Sindell)...
Cana - James Freeman CLARKE
Cana - James Freeman CLARKE
- Author: James Freeman CLARKE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Cana by James Freeman Clarke, from The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 14th, 2010. Trivia: After hearing the song "John Brown's Body", Clarke...
Trial of Susan B. Anthony - Anonymous
Trial of Susan B. Anthony - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
In 1872, after the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution, the womenβs suffrage movement in the United States adopted a new strategy. Arguing that the right to vote was one of the βprivileges and immunitiesβ guaranteed to every...
Allan Quatermain - H. Rider Haggard
Allan Quatermain - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Allan Quatermain was the quintessential Victorian English gentleman cum African big-game hunter. In this book, the second in the series, Quaterman and his two good friends from KSM have tired of their dull and unfulfilling lives in England, and...
The Leopard's Spots - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
The Leopard's Spots - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- Author: Thomas Dixon Jr.
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The first in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), parts of this novel were incorporated in the 1915 silent movie classic, "The Birth Of A Nation". Set in North Carolina, the...
The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman, Jr.
The Oregon Trail - Francis Parkman, Jr.
- Author: Francis Parkman Jr.
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Modern (19th C)
The book is a breezy, first-person account of a 2 month summer tour of the U.S. states of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas when Parkman was 23. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
Captain Ted - Mary T. WAGGAMAN
Captain Ted - Mary T. WAGGAMAN
- Author: Mary T. WAGGAMAN
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
When tragedy hits his family, in the form of a sudden illness to his father, young Teddy Thornton is forced to leave school and find work to help support his family. Without his realization he is thrown into a world of crime and counterfeiting. Will...
On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
On the Eve - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Historical Fiction
On the Eve appeared in 1860, two years before Fathers and Sons, Turgenev's most famous novel. It is set in the prior decade (by the end of the novel, the Crimean War (1853-56) has already broken out. It centers on the young Elena Nikolaevna Stakhov,...
Gambler's World & The Yillian Way - Keith Laumer
Gambler's World & The Yillian Way - Keith Laumer
- Author: Keith Laumer
- Genre: Science Fiction
Here are two stores starring the always unconventional Terrestrial Diplomat, Retief. As a diplomat, Retief does not always follow procedure. Well the truth is that he almost never follows procedure but somehow his wit and strength manage to salvage...
New Chronicles of Rebecca - Kate Douglas Wiggin
New Chronicles of Rebecca - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This book tells further stories from the period of Rebecca's sojourn in Riverboro....
Pioneers of France in the New World - Francis Parkman, Jr.
Pioneers of France in the New World - Francis Parkman, Jr.
- Author: Francis Parkman Jr.
- Genre: Early Modern
Parkman has been hailed as one of America's first great historians and as a master of narrative history. Numerous translations have spread the books around the world. The American writer and literary critic Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) in his book O...
A Simple Story - Elizabeth INCHBALD
A Simple Story - Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Author: Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The story could really have been simple: Miss Milner, who is admired for her beauty and charm, could have been a socialite, marry a respectable and good looking man and be happy in the standards of her time. But if it was so, why would there be a...
The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska - Filippo DE FILIPPI
The Ascent of Mount St. Elias, Alaska - Filippo DE FILIPPI
- Author: Filippo DE FILIPPI
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Although Mount St. Elias had been known to native Americans for thousands of years and to Europeans since 1741 when Vitus Bering saw the peak and gave it its current name, it was not successfully climbed until 1897 by a party lead by Prince Luigi...
Short Story Collection Vol. 064 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 064 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This collection comprises 20 short stories of various genres, chosen by the readers. Contributions include works from Guy de Maupassant, Rudyard Kipling, Ray Bradbury, Anton Chekhov, and Gustave Flaubert, among others. - Summary by Ruth Golding...
Canyons of the Colorado - John Wesley POWELL
Canyons of the Colorado - John Wesley POWELL
- Author: John Wesley POWELL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Nature
John Wesley Powell was a pioneer American explorer, ethnologist, and geologist in the 19th Century. In 1869 he set out to explore the Colorado and the Grand Canyon. He gathered nine men, four boats and food for ten months and set out from Green...
Bumper the White Rabbit and His Friends - George Ethelbert Walsh
Bumper the White Rabbit and His Friends - George Ethelbert Walsh
- Author: George Ethelbert Walsh
- Genre: Animals & Nature
In this fourth book of the Twilight Animal series, we find 16 stories of Bumper the white rabbit and the adventures he has with his friends in the forest....
Our Little Australian Cousin - Mary F. NIXON-ROULET
Our Little Australian Cousin - Mary F. NIXON-ROULET
- Author: Mary F. NIXON-ROULET
- Genre: General
Another delightful look back at how people and children lived in the late 1800s in this part of the British Empire. This book introduces us to Fergus and Jean Hume and their family who are sailing to Australia from Scotland to make it their new...
Short Poetry Collection 191 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 191 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2019....
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 6 - Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 6 - 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...
Whilomville Stories - Stephen Crane
Whilomville Stories - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This collection consists of thirteen stories. The stories are set in the mythical town of Whilomville used by Stephen Crane for many of his best stories. They appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine between 1899 and 1900. The writing is crisp, the...
Heroines of Fiction - William Dean Howells
Heroines of Fiction - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This two-volume work includes heroines from the works of Eliot, Trollope, Hardy, Harte, Austen, Edgeworth, Scott, Dickens, Hawthorne, E. Bronte, Thackeray, and others. These studies of nineteenth-century literature were by a critical light of the...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Just David - Eleanor H. Porter
Just David - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: General
David and his father set out from their idyllic mountain home to go to meet family, but enroute, David's father, who is sick dies, and David is left stranded in a little farming town. No one can read his father's handwriting, and David doesn't know...
In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace - H. G. Wells
In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Political Science
In the Fourth Year is a collection H.G. Wells assembled in the spring of 1918 from essays he had recently published discussing the problem of establishing lasting peace when World War I ended. It is mostly devoted to plans for the League of Nations...
The Door of the Unreal - Gerald BISS
The Door of the Unreal - Gerald BISS
- Author: Gerald BISS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
An early werewolf novel, praised by H.P Lovecraft. The only weird fiction from an author of mainly crime fiction. Two strange disappearances occur on a road in Sussex. The second involved a member of the aristocracy and a famous actress, so a large,...
