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The Lost Princess - George MacDonald
The Lost Princess - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Also known as "A Double Story" or "The Wise Woman." The story of two very spoiled girls, a princess and a peasant, who are kidnapped by a strange woman for a lesson in life. They may not emerge the same... but will their parents be changed for the...
Oldtown Folks - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Oldtown Folks - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
1870's rural Massachusetts communities became famous as “Oldtown” in Harriet Beecher Stowe's 7th novel and national bestseller. Based partially on her husband Rev. Calvin Stowe's childhood memories and other old timers' recollections, this story of...
Mademoiselle Ixe - Mary Elizabeth Hawker
Mademoiselle Ixe - Mary Elizabeth Hawker
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Hawker
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This is a story by the English writer Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908) entitled Mademoiselle Ixe, by[pseudonym] Lanoe Falconer. The manuscript had been previously rejected by many publishers. The heroine is a governess in an English country house....
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Titus Brothers Contractors company have won a government contract in Peru to blast a tunnel through a mountain and connect two isolated railroad lines. The deadline is approaching, and the contractors have hit a literal wall: excessively hard...
Cats by the Way - Sarah E. TRUEBLOOD
Cats by the Way - Sarah E. TRUEBLOOD
- Author: Sarah E. TRUEBLOOD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Animals
Between these pages you will find only the good, old-fashioned, every-day cat. No Angora or thoroughbred has been entered here, unless it be "Hansie," who is little more than mentioned. These are true incidents and true lives, with the exception of...
Bear Creek Collection Volume 1 - Robert E. Howard
Bear Creek Collection Volume 1 - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Westerns / Single Author Collections
Breckinridge Elkins is the roughest, toughest, fastest-shootin', hardest-fightin' feller in the Bear Creek settlement, and probably in the entire Humbolt Mountains. As he travels further from home, he single-handedly takes on outlaws, settles (and...
Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages Volume 2 - George HODGES
Saints and Heroes Since the Middle Ages Volume 2 - George HODGES
- Author: George HODGES
- Genre: Religion
In this second volume, Hodges uses stories of the lives of fourteen well-known saints and heroes of the faith to continue the history of the church from the end of the Reformation through the 1700s. These stories recount their lives and sacrifices...
Satires - Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
Satires - Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
- Author: Decimus Iunius IUVENALIS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry / Satire
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late 1st and early 2nd century AD. The details of the author's life are unclear, although references within his text to known persons of the late 1st and early 2nd...
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Set in a time of oppressive colonisation, when large areas of the world were still unknown to Europe, and Africa was literally on maps and minds as a mysterious shadow, Heart of Darkness famously explores the rituals of civilisation and barbarism,...
The Faerie Queene (version 2) - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene (version 2) - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Epics
Spenser planned a 24-book romance-epic consisting of two parts, of which he completed half of the first. The first twelve books were to illustrate the development of virtues within the individual soul, and the second twelve were to depict the...
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson - James Boswell
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: Travel & Geography
An anecdotal account of the journey undertaken by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson to the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides Islands - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Eugene Field
Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories
This is a collection of Christmas short stories and poems by Eugene Field, published in 1912. The stories beautifully evoke an old-fashioned spirit of Christmas, each presenting a different angle of this special holiday. - Summary by Carolin...
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
What really killed Sir Charles Baskerville? Is his nephew, Sir Henry, in danger from the legendary family curse, a gigantic black hound? Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are on the case in this classic mystery, set on lonely Dartmoor in Devonshire....
Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
Oedipus at Colonus (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
This is the second installment in Sophocles's Theban Plays that chronicles the tragic fates of Oedipus and his family. After fulfilling the prophecy that predicted he would kill his father and marry his mother, Oedipus blinds himself and leaves...
To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut - William Cowper
To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut - William Cowper
- Author: William Cowper
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of To The Immortal Memory of the Halibut, On Which I Dined This Day, Monday, April 26, 1784 by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 29, 2011. William Cowper is attributed with...
The Trenches - Frederic MANNING
The Trenches - Frederic MANNING
- Author: Frederic MANNING
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Trenches by Frederic Manning. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 30, 2011 to mark this year's festivals of remembrance. Manning was an Australian poet living in England at the...
Selected Poems of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
Selected Poems of Robert Frost - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Nature
Robert Frost, who lived from March 26, 1874 to January 29, 1963, was a winner of 4 Pulitzer prizes and one of America’s best loved poets. This selection of his poems is a short walk through the variety of his simplistic natural themes and complex...
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts - Henry James
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which...
Bungay Castle: A Novel - Elizabeth BONHÔTE
Bungay Castle: A Novel - Elizabeth BONHÔTE
- Author: Elizabeth BONHÔTE
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Bungay Castle is a gothic novel by Elizabeth Bonhôte. It was first published in 1796 and follows the fortunes of the De Morney family at Bungay Castle in Suffolk. Two young members of the family, Roseline and Edwin, search for the source of strange,...
The Death-bed - Thomas Hood
The Death-bed - Thomas Hood
- Author: Thomas Hood
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Thomas Hood was an English poet, author, and humourist, best known for poems such as The Bridge of Sighs and The Song of the Shirt. Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch. He later published a magazine largely...
Trees and Other Poems - Joyce KILMER
Trees and Other Poems - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Poetry
"I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a tree;A tree whose hungry mouth is presd against the sweet earth's flowing breast ...".Almost all of us, including myself of course, have heard and enjoyed those famous words which begin Kilmer's...
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale - Laura Lee Hope
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale was the first book in a long-running series centering around four girls: Betty Nelson, Mollie Billette, Amy Stonington, and Grace Ford. The girls go on many exciting adventures and solve mysteries. In this book the...
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 3) - Charles Dickens
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Nicholas Nickleby was Dickens's third novel following on from Pickwick Papers and Oliver twist. It has a cast of wonderful characters that include Wackford Squeers, the reprehensible and villainous headmaster whose reign of terror at his school in...
Plague Ship - Andre Norton
Plague Ship - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Science Fiction
Lured by its exotic gems, the space trader Solar Queen lands on the little-known planet of Sargol, only to find the ruthless Inter-Solar Company there ahead of them. Adapting quickly to the culture of Sargol’s feline inhabitants, the crew of the...
Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2 - John Clare
Selected Poems of John Clare, Volume 2 - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Poetry
John Clare (1793 - 1864) was a farm labourer in the village of Helpstone, Northamptonshire, who became arguably England's greatest nature poet. He rose to fame when his 'Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery' was published in 1820. His...
The New Jerusalem - G. K. Chesterton
The New Jerusalem - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Religion / Travel & Geography
The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of anyone involved in the production of this book, and are not the views of LibriVox. Dale Ahlquist calls the book a "philosophical travelogue" of Chesterton's journey across Europe to Palestine. "On...
The Seen and the Unseen - Richard Marsh
The Seen and the Unseen - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Single Author Collections
Is it true that people can literally be scared to death ? Is it possible to photograph astral projections ? What happens if you play with a pack of cards which belonged to a dead card-trickster ? These and more questions are raised and answered in...
Little Jack Rabbit and Danny Fox - David Cory
Little Jack Rabbit and Danny Fox - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. This is the second of the Little Jack Rabbit books. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Deeds of Daring done by Girls - Hannah Hudson MOORE
Deeds of Daring done by Girls - Hannah Hudson MOORE
- Author: Hannah Hudson MOORE
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Do not think, dear girls, that because you are girls you may not have as much courage as your brothers. I believe that quite as stout hearts beat beneath muslin frocks as under stuff jackets. When you have finished reading this book about your...
Sergeant York and His People - Sam K. COWAN
Sergeant York and His People - Sam K. COWAN
- Author: Sam K. COWAN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (20th C)
From a cabin back in the mountains of Tennessee, forty-eight miles from the railroad, a young man went to the World War. He was untutored in the ways of the world. Caught by the enemy in the cove of a hill in the Forest of Argonne, he did not run;...
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 5 - Eugène Sue
The Mysteries of Paris - Volume 5 - Eugène Sue
- Author: Eugène Sue
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Rodolphe, who is really the Grand Duke of Gerolstein (a fictional kingdom of Germany) but is disguised as a Parisian worker. He can speak in argot, is extremely strong and a good fighter. However he shows great compassion for the lower classes, good...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 1: Joan of Naples - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime / Early Modern
The celebrated crimes committed during the life of Joan (Joanna I) of Naples span from personal misdeeds (adulteries and mariticide) to regional warfare (like the 1345 War in the Piedmont), and ultimately unraveled her father’s legacy (King Robert...
Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education - Horace MANN
Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education - Horace MANN
- Author: Horace MANN
- Genre: Education
Horace Mann is called The Father of the Common School and was one of the first progressive thinkers on education in the United States. His Annual Reports to the Massachusetts Board of Education, written between 1837 and 1848, are wide-ranging essays...
Woman as Decoration - Helen M. URBAN
Woman as Decoration - Helen M. URBAN
- Author: Helen M. URBAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
A guide for women to complement their dress to their surroundings, be it in their own home, on outings or on stage. (Summary by Julie VW)...
Statesman - Plato
Statesman - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Statesman (Ancient Greek: Πολιτικός) discusses God's role in maintaining the universe and describes the statesman as a good shepherd who promotes intermarriage between the orderly and courageous. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain creates an entertaining adventure of Middle America in the 1800's - afloat on a raft on the Mississippi River. Huck escapes his civilized life when he arranges his own "murder" and turns back into...
Jetta of the Lowlands - Ray Cummings
Jetta of the Lowlands - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Science Fiction
Fantastic and Sinister Are the Lowlands into Which Philip Grant Descends on His Dangerous Assignment. (Summary by Ray Cummings)...
Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries - Melville Davisson POST
Selected Uncle Abner Mysteries - Melville Davisson POST
- Author: Melville Davisson POST
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Historical Fiction
Fourteen mysteries from the pages of the Saturday Evening Post, the Metropolitan, Red Book, and Pictorial Review magazines featuring Uncle Abner, who solves crimes in the pre-Civil War West Virginia hill country. His weapons are keen observation,...
Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere's Fan (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the...
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories - Mark Twain
Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of Twain short stories including: The Loves Of Alonzo Fitz Clarence And Rosannah Ethelton On The Decay Of The Art Of Lying About Magnanimous-Incident Literature The Grateful Poodle The Benevolent Author The Grateful Husband Punch,...
