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The Dried-up Fountain - Robert LEIGHTON
The Dried-up Fountain - Robert LEIGHTON
- Author: Robert LEIGHTON
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Dried-up Fountain by Robert Leighton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 18, 2011. This poem is taken from A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed....
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed - Edna Ferber
Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction
Dawn O’Hara, the Girl Who Laughed was Edna Ferber’s first novel. Dawn, a newspaperwoman working in New York, finds herself back home in Michigan on doctor’s orders. Years of living in boarding-houses and working to pay for the care of her brilliant...
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Prayer of Manasses - King James Version
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Prayer of Manasses - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The Prayer of Manasses is supposed to have been the prayer of Manasses King of Judah when he repented from his idolatrous ways when he was held captive by the Assyrians in Babylon. Manasseh’s evil ways are recorded in 2 Kings 21:1-18, and the...
Music On Christmas Morning - Anne Brontë
Music On Christmas Morning - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Music On Christmas Morning by Anne Bronte.Published in the 1846 collection Poems By Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell under Anne's nom de plume 'Acton Bell'. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for...
Pearl of Great Price - Joseph Smith, Jr.
Pearl of Great Price - Joseph Smith, Jr.
- Author: Joseph Smith Jr.
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The Pearl of Great Price is a selection of choice materials touching many significant aspects of the faith and doctrine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. These items were translated and produced by the Prophet Joseph Smith, and...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 1: The Marquise de Brinvilliers - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
The crimes of the Marquise of Brinvilliers, a French aristocrat during the reign of Louis XIV, included some of the most famous murders, scandals (Affair of the Poisons) and mysteries (the Man in the Iron Mask) in French history. This story recounts...
The Yosemite - John Muir
The Yosemite - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography
John Muir's adventure guide for the Yosemite Valley....
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry - M. M. Pattison MUIR
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry - M. M. Pattison MUIR
- Author: M. M. Pattison MUIR
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Chemistry
A light journey through the history of chemistry, from its start in the obscure mysteries of alchemy to what was, for the author, the cutting edge of the development of modern atomic theory ... and whose developing blind ends we can now see with the...
The Courage of the Commonplace - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
The Courage of the Commonplace - Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Author: Mary Raymond Shipman ANDREWS
- Genre: General Fiction
The short story of a young man who came to terms with himself and became a man on a day when he had proven to be a failure to his family, his friends, his classmates, the girl he liked, and most importantly to himself. (Summary by Roger Melin)...
Lines - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 13th, 2009....
The Ocean of Air - Meteorology for Beginners - Agnes GIBERNE
The Ocean of Air - Meteorology for Beginners - Agnes GIBERNE
- Author: Agnes GIBERNE
- Genre: Earth Sciences
This is an immensely readable book explaining anything to do with air - the atmosphere, wind and clouds, and life. This 1896 explanation has since been overtaken by more specific scientific discoveries, but the general concepts certainly still hold...
Eliza - Barry Pain
Eliza - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A gentle, yet deliciously humourous series of anecdotes following the life of the main character and his wife, Eliza. Full summary to follow. (Summary by Nigel Boydell)...
The Coral Island - R. M. Ballantyne
The Coral Island - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Ralph Rover is a traveler at heart, and has always dreamed of shipping out to the South Seas islands. He finally convinces his aging parents to let him go and find his way in the world. But the islands that Ralph finds are not as idyllic as in his...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10 - Anonymous
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 10 - 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...
Girl Scout Collection - Various
Girl Scout Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
These articles, pamphlets, and stories relating to the Girls Scouts of America touch on the history, activities, ideals, and traditions of this remarkable girls' organization. Though some of the articles appear redundant, they were selected to...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August von Kotzebue had been a...
Our Little Austrian Cousin - Florence E. MENDEL
Our Little Austrian Cousin - Florence E. MENDEL
- Author: Florence E. MENDEL
- Genre: General
In this volume I have endeavored to give my young readers a clearer and a more intimate knowledge than is usually possessed of the vast territory known as the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which is a collection of provinces united under one ruler, and...
The Problem of China - Bertrand Russell
The Problem of China - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
In 1920-21 Bertrand Russell lived and taught in Peking (Beijing), publishing this book on his return to England. In 1920 he had visited Bolshevik Russia, talked to Lenin, and was unimpressed by what he had seen. China, however, was another matter....
Camp-Fire Girls In The Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success Against Odds - Stella M. FRANCIS
Camp-Fire Girls In The Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success Against Odds - Stella M. FRANCIS
- Author: Stella M. FRANCIS
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Camp Fire Girls books is a series of fiction novels written for children by various authors from 1912 into the 1930s. (Wikipedia)...
Our Own Set - Ossip SCHUBIN
Our Own Set - Ossip SCHUBIN
- Author: Ossip SCHUBIN
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Austrian nobility in Rome forms a very close circle, into which only those of high rank and wealth are admitted. They managed to get along with Cecil Sterzl, who, although not one of their own, is regarded as quite an amiable man. However, when...
Ned Franks, or The Christian's Panoply - Charlotte Maria Tucker
Ned Franks, or The Christian's Panoply - Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Author: Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Genre: Religion / Christian Fiction
Ned Franks, a one-armed Christian sailor, returns to his sister's home after several years away at sea. She and her son are not Christians, and are cold toward him, viewing him as a hindrance and expense. By his upright, kind behavior and...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 3 chronicles Lincoln's life from his...
A Vanished Hand - Sarah Doudney
A Vanished Hand - Sarah Doudney
- Author: Sarah Doudney
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Memories haunt Elsie Kilner at every turn. Kicked out of her family home, she finds a new abode in which she finds fragments of a diary. It begins with the words: "If I only knew that some one would be kind to Jamie". Finding a kindred spirit in the...
Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
Rachel Ray - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The love that develops between Luke Rowan and Rachel Ray is not universally welcomed. Mrs. Tappitt- a rich, influential, and bad woman - wishes him to marry one of her own daughters, while Rachel's mother and older sister are not sure he is worthy...
Fraternal Charity - Father Benoit VALUY
Fraternal Charity - Father Benoit VALUY
- Author: Father Benoit VALUY
- Genre: *Non-fiction
This short treatise comes from a work by the Roman Catholic priest Father Valuy, S.J., and bears an imprimatur. It was written for members of religious orders; yet, as the translator notes, it may be of interest to others, for "love, the sunshine of...
Miracles - Walt Whitman
Miracles - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of Miracles, by Walt Whitman. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 4th, 2007....
The Essence of Christianity - Ludwig FEUERBACH
The Essence of Christianity - Ludwig FEUERBACH
- Author: Ludwig FEUERBACH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
Taking issue with Hegel's sense that God, as Logos, is somehow central to all that is, Feuerbach explores his own notion that Christianity, as religion, grew quite naturally from ordinary human observation. Only upon deeper, systematic reflection...
Compassion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Compassion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". This poem is taken for the collection 'Poems of...
The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith - Reuben Archer TORREY
The Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Faith - Reuben Archer TORREY
- Author: Reuben Archer TORREY
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
We were having a great many accessions to our church. While many of these came by letter form other churches, many of them were new converts and had had practically no systematic instruction in the fundamental truths of the Christina faith, so we...
Six Years in the Prisons of England - Frank HENDERSON
Six Years in the Prisons of England - Frank HENDERSON
- Author: Frank HENDERSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A Merchant talks about daily life inside prisons of England, describes routines and how prisoners are treated. He notes stories of how fellow prisoners came to be in prison, and his ideas about the penal system, its downfalls and ways to improve it....
The Red and the Black, Volume II - STENDHAL
The Red and the Black, Volume II - STENDHAL
- Author: STENDHAL
- Genre: General Fiction
Stendhal - a German pen-name for a French writer who hated the English. Contemporary to some of the great names of French literature like Balzac and Flaubert, Stendhal is quite often considered a writer that doesn't seem to fit a defined genre. Some...
Long Poems Collection 001 - Various
Long Poems Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox's Long Poems Collection 001: a collection of 5 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length. (Summary by Alan Davis-Drake)...
A Strange Disappearance - Anna Katharine Green
A Strange Disappearance - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 – April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt...
A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Satire
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, composed between 1694 and 1697, that was eventually published in 1704. It is arguably his most difficult satire, and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody which is...
A Family of Noblemen - Mikhail SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
A Family of Noblemen - Mikhail SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
- Author: Mikhail SALTYKOV-SHCHEDRIN
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Satire
Meet the Golovliovs, the ultimate dysfunctional family. In the difficult transition years before and after the liberation of Russia’s serfs, the Golovliovs are a gentry family ill-equipped to face the adaptations necessary in the new social order....
Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia - Agnes C. LAUT
Chronicles of Canada Volume 23 - The Cariboo Trail: A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia - Agnes C. LAUT
- Author: Agnes C. LAUT
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Between the California and Yukon/Klondike gold rushes was the Cariboo Gold Rush in what would become northern British Columbia. The first discovery was made in 1859, but the rush didn't get underway in earnest until 1861. This short work documents...
My November Guest - Robert Frost
My November Guest - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of My November Guest by Robert Frost. This was the fortnightly poetry project for November 16th to 30th, 2008....
Rachel Gray - Julia KAVANAGH
Rachel Gray - Julia KAVANAGH
- Author: Julia KAVANAGH
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Kavanagh's books feature strong young women, like herself, and had much popular appeal among that audience during her lifetime. She lived most of her life in France, caring for her invalid mother, remaining unmarried. 'Rachel Gray' is founded on...
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - John Bunyan
Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners - John Bunyan
- Author: John Bunyan
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Other
Grace Abounding is the spiritual autobiography of John Bunyan, who also penned Pilgrim’s Progress, perhaps one of the most significant pieces of Christian literature, second only to the Bible. Grace Abounding follows Bunyan’s struggle to find true...
Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved - Thomas Moore
Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Oh, No - Not Even When First We Loved by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry Valentine's project for February 13, 2011. Thomas Moore (28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852) was an Irish poet, singer,...
