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Summer - Christina ROSSETTI
Summer - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the Bleak Midwinter.Rossetti was...
A Traveller in War-Time - Winston CHURCHILL
A Traveller in War-Time - Winston CHURCHILL
- Author: Winston CHURCHILL
- Genre: Travel & Geography
This is a collection of a series of journalistic articles written during his travels throughout WWI era Europe that Churchill -- the American author, not the famed British statesman -- published in 1917; the book version came out in 1918. The...
The Voyage Out (Version 2) - Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out (Version 2) - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Travel Fiction
Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on a course of self-discovery in a kind of modern mythical voyage. The mismatched jumble of passengers provide Woolf with an opportunity to satirise Edwardian life. The...
The Fallen Leaves - Wilkie Collins
The Fallen Leaves - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
Amelius Goldenheart, the hero of this story, is expelled from a Utopian community in New England and finds himself in London. His story is dominated by a number of women, all of them in some way a "fallen leaf", whom he tries to rescue. One of them...
The Girl Scouts at Home - Katherine Keene GALT
The Girl Scouts at Home - Katherine Keene GALT
- Author: Katherine Keene GALT
- Genre: Family
Little Rosanna Horton was a very poor little girl. When I tell you more about her, you will think that was a very odd thing to say.She lived in one of the most beautiful homes in Louisville, a city full of beautiful homes. And Rosanna's was one of...
The History Of Lady Barton - Elizabeth GRIFFITH
The History Of Lady Barton - Elizabeth GRIFFITH
- Author: Elizabeth GRIFFITH
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Satire
This is the story of the three Cleveland siblings: Fanny, the innocent yet very sympathetic sister; Louisa, the strong willed sister whose miserable marriage to Sir William is the center of the novel; and Sir George who tries to get over the loss of...
To A Hotel Keeper - T. W. H. Crosland
To A Hotel Keeper - T. W. H. Crosland
- Author: T. W. H. Crosland
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
We have all had mysterious charges added on to our hotel bills. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Revolution, and other Essays - Jack London
Revolution, and other Essays - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science
A collection of 13 essays written between 1900 and 1908, published in 1910. The lead essay, "Revolution", outlines how and why London renounced capitalism as a failed social system and declared himself an active participant in the "socialist...
Growth of the Soil - Knut HAMSUN
Growth of the Soil - Knut HAMSUN
- Author: Knut HAMSUN
- Genre: General Fiction
Growth of the Soil (Markens GrΓΈde) is the novel by Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun which won him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. The essential elements of this novel are expressed in the words of the English translator W.W. Worster in his...
Prisoner for Blasphemy - George William FOOTE
Prisoner for Blasphemy - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Memoirs / Atheism & Agnosticism
George William Foote, a British secularist, was convicted and imprisoned on the charge of blasphemy after founding "The Freethinker", a magazine that, despite the best efforts of the 19th Century British judicial system, is still going strong....
The Indian Fairy Book - Henry R. SCHOOLCRAFT
The Indian Fairy Book - Henry R. SCHOOLCRAFT
- Author: Henry R. SCHOOLCRAFT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These Indian fairy tales are chosen from the many stories collected by Mr. Henry R. Schoolcraft, the first man to study how the Indians lived and to discover their legends. He lived among the Indians in the West and around the Great Lakes for thirty...
Further Foolishness - Stephen Leacock
Further Foolishness - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works / Humor
Seventeen goofy stories and essays by Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the...
American Psychology, 1922-1947 - Various
American Psychology, 1922-1947 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Psychology
This is the second of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academic discipline in the United States during the twentieth century. This collection includes key texts in the...
Bible (WNT) NT 04: John - Weymouth New Testament
Bible (WNT) NT 04: John - Weymouth New Testament
- Author: Weymouth New Testament
- Genre: Weymouth New Testament
Richard Francis Weymouth was born 1822 a short distance from Plymouth Dock, now called Devonport, near Plymouth, Devonshire, England. Weymouth, a scholar and layman of the English Baptist denomination, edited The Resultant Greek Text, after which he...
A Thousand Degrees Below Zero - Murray Leinster
A Thousand Degrees Below Zero - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
The War to End All Wars has ended and the world has taken a deep breath and is trying to recover normal life in 1919. But a super Villan intent on ruling the entire world has other ideas. In his super fast helicopter (the Black Flyer) he sorties out...
The Snowman in the Yard - Joyce KILMER
The Snowman in the Yard - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Snowman in the Yard by Joyce Kilmer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 26, 2012. Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor....
Short Poetry Collection 007 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivoxβs Short Poetry Collection 007: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
The Prelude - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Poetry / Biography & Autobiography
Among monuments of narrative poetry, The Prelude; or, Growth of a Poet's Mind, by William Wordsworth, occupies a unique place. Wordsworth published the first version of the poem in 1798, but continued to work on it for the rest of his life. The...
The House of Arden - E. Nesbit
The House of Arden - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: General Fiction
This novel describes how Edred and Elfrida Arden and their Aunt Edith embark on a treasure hunt through time - for the famous Arden family treasure. With help from the magical creature Mouldiwarp, they find a whole lot of excitement and adventure....
Verses on a Young Lady - Tobias Smollett
Verses on a Young Lady - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsicord and Singing by Tobias Smollett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010. Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 β 17 September 1771) was...
Poems, 1914-1919 - Maurice Baring
Poems, 1914-1919 - Maurice Baring
- Author: Maurice Baring
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of Maurice Baring's poetry. This collection contains a number of Baring's earlier poetry, written before the war mostly about his travels in Russia. The other part of the collection is made up of poetry concerning World War I,...
Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu - Lionel GILES
Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu - Lionel GILES
- Author: Lionel GILES
- Genre: Ancient
If Lao Tzu then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to his disciple Chuang Tzu, who flourished more than a couple of centuries later, when the bugbear of...
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance - Marie Corelli
The Life Everlasting: A Reality of Romance - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Marie Corelli's book The Life Everlasting examines the world of past lives, mysticism, secret societies and twin souls against a backdrop of a true love based on the highest ideals. The plot follows our heroine from a yachting trip around Scotland...
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
The Golden Bowl - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the "major phase" of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of...
What the Bullet Sang - Bret Harte
What the Bullet Sang - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of What the Bullet sang by Bret Harte. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 18th, 2010....
A Lady of Quality - Frances Hodgson Burnett
A Lady of Quality - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Set in late 1600's England, the story follows the life of a woman living an unconventional life. The loves of her life and all of its ups and downs are included. (Summary by Linda Andrus)...
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin - Elizabeth Robins PENNELL
Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin - Elizabeth Robins PENNELL
- Author: Elizabeth Robins PENNELL
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"Few women have worked so faithfully for the cause of humanity as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin [1759-1797], and few have been the objects of such censure...The young were bidden not to read her books, and the more mature warned not to follow her...
Recollections of the Civil War - Charles Anderson DANA
Recollections of the Civil War - Charles Anderson DANA
- Author: Charles Anderson DANA
- Genre: Memoirs
Recollections of the Civil War records the events that took place during the American Civil war. It forms one of the most remarkable volumes of historical, political, and personal reminiscences which have been given to the public. Mr. Dana wrote...
Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord - Various
Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Formula of Concord (1577) is an authoritative Lutheran statement of faith (called a confession, creed, or "symbol") that, in its two parts (Epitome and Solid Declaration), makes up the final section of the Lutheran Corpus Doctrinae or Body of...
Gossip in a Library - Edmund Gosse
Gossip in a Library - Edmund Gosse
- Author: Edmund Gosse
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of informal essays about books in his library. He combines commentary, translations, and humorous asides about authors and their subjects...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909-1922 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909-1922 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Short Stories
L.M. Montgomery was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels that began with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made...
War and Peace, Book 16: First Epilogue 1813-1820 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 16: First Epilogue 1813-1820 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡ, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡΡ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
Vandover and the Brute - Frank Norris
Vandover and the Brute - Frank Norris
- Author: Frank Norris
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Vandover is a student who succumbs to a gambling addiction. This addiction causes him to divest himself of his cherished possessions and to lose his status in life, whilst his friends prosper. Eventually he is transformed by a strange degenerative...
The Clouds - Aristophanes
The Clouds - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Drama
Strepsiades is an Athenian burdened with debt from a bad marriage and a spendthrift son. He resolves to go to the Thinking Shop, where he can purchase lessons from the famous Socrates in ways to manipulate language in order to outwit his creditors...
The Birds' Christmas Carol (version 2) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Birds' Christmas Carol (version 2) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Born on Christmas Day, little Carol Bird is a gentle soul who touches every life around her. Despite physical illness, Carol is loved by everyone who knows her. This year, she is going to make Christmas extra special for her family and the little...
The Life of Captain James Cook - Arthur Octavius KITSON
The Life of Captain James Cook - Arthur Octavius KITSON
- Author: Arthur Octavius KITSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
βIn publishing a popular edition of my work, Captain James Cook, R.N., F.R.S., it has, of course, been necessary to condense it, but care has been taken to omit nothing of importance, and at the same time a few slight errors have been corrected, and...
Short Poetry Collection 148 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 148 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2015....
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David WYSS
The Swiss Family Robinson - Johann David WYSS
- Author: Johann David WYSS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Swiss Family Robinson has delighted generations of readers with its exciting tale of a family which, though shipwrecked, displays βthe right stuffβ and builds a charming colony that later, they do not want to leave. Cut off from the comforts and...
Betty Wales, Freshman - Margaret WARDE
Betty Wales, Freshman - Margaret WARDE
- Author: Margaret WARDE
- Genre: General Fiction
First published in 1904, Betty Wales Freshman is the first book in an 8 volume series that follows Betty and her classmates throughout college and beyond. It takes place at Harding in New England (NOT to be confused with the Arkansas university)...
The Pentecost of Calamity - Owen Wister
The Pentecost of Calamity - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (20th C)
Nonfiction. Appalled by the savagery of World War I, Owen Wister in 1915 published an attempt to move the United States out of neutrality into joining the Allies against Germany. His aim was the quicker defeat of that nation. (Wister: βthe new...
