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Ravensdene Court - J. S. Fletcher
Ravensdene Court - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Leonard Middlebrook, a young attorney with, among other things, a bibliographical interest, accepts an invitation to lonely Ravensdene Court on the Northumbrian coast. There, Francis Raven, the owner, recently retired to the family property after an...
Dirge for Two Veterans - Walt Whitman
Dirge for Two Veterans - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In celebration of Memorial Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you twelve different recordings of Dirge for Two Veterans by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 27th, 2007 (summary by Karen...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 3 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Romance / Sagas
Betsy Thoughtless is about marriage, rather than dealing with courrtship and thus differs from the type of domestic writing that would develop in the 19th century such as Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Rather than attracting a partner well, Betsy...
Chapters from my Autobiography - Mark Twain
Chapters from my Autobiography - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) began writing his autobiography long before the 1906 publications of these Chapters from my Autobiography. He originally planned to have his memoirs published only after his death but realized, once he’d passed his 70th...
Star Song - Gladys CROMWELL
Star Song - Gladys CROMWELL
- Author: Gladys CROMWELL
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Star Song by Gladys Cromwell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 4th, 2014. Gladys Cromwell was a fine young poet who, with her twin sister, sadly ended her own life after experiencing the...
Coffee Break Collection 24 -- Ghosts, Ghouls and Spooky Things - Various
Coffee Break Collection 24 -- Ghosts, Ghouls and Spooky Things - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This is the twenty-fourth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this...
The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Yee-Haaww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again. The boys are back home, but as they are chopping wood, it is decided that they need a new adventure out west. Mr. Perkin's, Walter's dad, has suggested the Grand Canyon. So, meeting Professor...
Essays, Second Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, Second Series - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, and poet, best remembered for leading the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19th century. His teachings directly influenced the growing New Thought movement of the mid 1800s. (Summary...
Within the Deep - R. Cadwallader SMITH
Within the Deep - R. Cadwallader SMITH
- Author: R. Cadwallader SMITH
- Genre: Science
Presented in the form of lessons, R. Cadwallader Smith vividly portrays life in the ocean. Learn about the common and not so common that swim about in the deep, how they hunt for food and hide from enemies, visit a nursery and find out about the...
Uncanny Tales - Mary Louisa Molesworth
Uncanny Tales - Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Mrs. Molesworth was during her time best known for her many children's books. It is not so well known that she also wrote some uncanny tales, which are probably best enjoyed by people a little above the age-group for which Mrs. Molesworth normally...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 018 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass law, history, science, travel, philosophy, nature and religion. (summary by J....
Yollop - George Barr McCutcheon
Yollop - George Barr McCutcheon
- Author: George Barr McCutcheon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Mr. Crittenden Yollop makes friends with the man who came to burglarize his home and sets out to help him return to where he really wants to be...prison. This humorous satire takes a somewhat different look at prisons, criminals, the law and...
Shorty McCabe - Sewell FORD
Shorty McCabe - Sewell FORD
- Author: Sewell FORD
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Yes, it's been a couple of years since I quit the ring. . . . I slid into a quiet corner for a month or so, and then I dropped into the only thing I knew how to do, trainin' comers to go against the champs. It ain't like pullin' down your sixty per...
Mardi Vol. 1 - Herman Melville
Mardi Vol. 1 - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
"Not long ago, having published two narratives of voyages in the Pacific, which, in many quarters, were received with incredulity, the thought occurred to me, of indeed writing a romance of Polynesian adventure, and publishing it as such; to see...
When You Are Old - William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 29 recordings of When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3rd, 2010....
The Diary of a Birthday Doll - Ethel DOW
The Diary of a Birthday Doll - Ethel DOW
- Author: Ethel DOW
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A doll, given to a young girl for her birthday, goes through adventures and faults to get her new mother to love her. - Summary by Emma Hatton...
Among the Forest People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Forest People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Another delightful children's book by Clara Dillingham Pierson about various forest animals - what they do, and what they are like. Each one also giving subtle moral and life lessons to young children. - Summary by Claire Schreuder...
Bible (YLT) 20: Proverbs - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 20: Proverbs - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
This book contains small morsels of great practical wisdom and instruction for all. Solomon, no doubt, wrote the majority of this book, but the last proverb was authored by a King Lemuel, who wrote of the wisdom imparted to him by his mother....
You Bid Me Try - Henry Austin DOBSON
You Bid Me Try - Henry Austin DOBSON
- Author: Henry Austin DOBSON
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of "You Bid Me Try" by Austin Dobson . This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 24, 2011. Henry Austin Dobson , commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist. His official career was...
The Divine Companion - James Allen
The Divine Companion - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / *Non-fiction
James Allen was a British philosophical writer known for his inspirational books and poetry and as a pioneer of the self-help movement. In the introduction Lily Allen writes: "It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any...
The Life of Saint Paul - Frances Alice Forbes
The Life of Saint Paul - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Christianity - Biographies
A short biography of Saint Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles, from the time of his persecution of the Christians to his martyrdom. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06 - Anonymous
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 06 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Bleak House (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Bleak House (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
The Chancery Court had jurisdiction over all matters of equity, including administration of estates, the guardianship of orphans, and disputed property disbursement. In Dickens’ time, some cases could take years to be settled, changing the lives of...
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1) - Songling Pu
Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (selections from Volume 1) - Songling Pu
- Author: Songling Pu
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" or "Strange Tales of Liaozhai") is a collection of nearly five hundred mostly supernatural tales written by Pu Songling during the early Qing Dynasty. It was written in Classical Chinese rather than Vernacular...
The Papers - Henry James
The Papers - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being celebrated by the media in all its various forms. Henry James, of course, long pre-dates the multiplicity of media in today’s world, when the press was the main source of...
France in the Nineteenth Century - Elizabeth Wormeley LATIMER
France in the Nineteenth Century - Elizabeth Wormeley LATIMER
- Author: Elizabeth Wormeley LATIMER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Author Elizabeth Latimer synthesizes notes from a variety of sources to produce this summary of the nation of France in the 19th century. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Unknown London - Walter George BELL
Unknown London - Walter George BELL
- Author: Walter George BELL
- Genre: History
Herein you will find much concerning those things which everybody knows about, but nobody knows — the things you have known about since childhood, and have been content to leave them at that, knowing little of what they are and still less where they...
Little Sister Snow - Frances LITTLE
Little Sister Snow - Frances LITTLE
- Author: Frances LITTLE
- Genre: General Fiction
American author Fannie Caldwell, under pen name of Frances Little, tells the story of young Yuki San growing up in Japan circa early 1900s, and of her dreams of an American. (Introduction by Cheri Gardner)...
Shadows in Zamboula (version 2) - Robert E. Howard
Shadows in Zamboula (version 2) - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
In the dark streets of Zamboula, huge ghouls stalk the night seeking victims for their ghastly rites and feasts. Conan is passing through this city and is almost a victim but escapes, only to rush to the aid of a beautiful, voluptuous maiden still...
The Verbalist - Alfred AYRES
The Verbalist - Alfred AYRES
- Author: Alfred AYRES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
Osmun arranges usage problems alphabetically and treats certain areas in greater detail as he sees fit. For example, his first entry is A-AN (articles). His second is ABILITY-CAPACITY, in which he distinguishes between the meanings. The alphabetical...
Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise - Lucy CLIFFORD
Anyhow Stories: Moral and otherwise - Lucy CLIFFORD
- Author: Lucy CLIFFORD
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
A collection of stories and poems for children by British novelist, journalist, and playwright Lucy Lane Clifford, better known during her lifetime as Mrs W.K. Clifford. She was famous with her mathematician husband for Sunday salons which attracted...
Sestinas - Various
Sestinas - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
The sestina has enjoyed intermittent popularity in English writing and translation since the sixteenth century, and this selection highlights some of the varied ways the form has been used and adapted. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Our Little Japanese Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Our Little Japanese Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Author: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Genre: General
Meet Lotus Blossom, our little Japanese Cousin and her little brother Toyo. Join them in their everyday life and learn about Japanese customs and culture. (Summary by Julia Niedermaier)...
The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph - Henry M. FIELD
The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph - Henry M. FIELD
- Author: Henry M. FIELD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Science
Cyrus W. Field had a dream: to link the Old World of Britain and Europe to that of the New World of North America by a telegraph cable stretching across the great Atlantic Ocean. It took him thirteen years, a lot of money, and many men and ships and...
Short Story Collection Vol. 010 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 010: a collection of 10 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Castle of Otranto - Horace WALPOLE
The Castle of Otranto - Horace WALPOLE
- Author: Horace WALPOLE
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
The Castle of Otranto is a 1764 novel by Horace Walpole. It is generally held to be the first gothic novel, initiating a literary genre which would become extremely popular in the later 18th century and early 19th century. Thus, Castle, and Walpole...
Old Mother West Wind - Thornton W. Burgess
Old Mother West Wind - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Thornton Waldo Burgess (January 14, 1874 – June 5, 1965) was a conservationist and author of children's stories. He loved the beauty of nature and its living creatures so much that he wrote about them for 50 years. By the time he retired, he had...
Strophes of Omar Khayyám - Omar Khayyám
Strophes of Omar Khayyám - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry
One of the earliest versions of Omar Khayyám's quatrains by an American translator is John Leslie Garner's collection, published in 1888. It contains 152 quatrains, which the translator calls "Strophes." The collection is divided into eleven books,...
The Tale Of Tommy Fox - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale Of Tommy Fox - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Bailey's writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: "Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories in a way that won educator's approval without arousing the...
The Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day - Sir Walter Scott
The Fair Maid of Perth, Or, St. Valentine's Day - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Henry Gow has fallen in love with the Fair Maid of Perth, Catherine, the glovemaker's daughter. To make sure that he would be the first person she sees on Valentine's day, he walks to her house at the break of dawn, and arrives - just in time to...
