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Twilight Voices - William ALLINGHAM
Twilight Voices - William ALLINGHAM
- Author: William ALLINGHAM
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William Allingham was an Irish poet, diarist and editor, who wrote several volumes of lyric verse. (Summary by David Lawrence)...
Song (Behn version) - Aphra BEHN
Song (Behn version) - Aphra BEHN
- Author: Aphra BEHN
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 different recordings of Song by Aphra Behn. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of May 6th, 2007....
Beyond the Stars - Charles Hanson TOWNE
Beyond the Stars - Charles Hanson TOWNE
- Author: Charles Hanson TOWNE
- Genre: Single author
Charles Hanson Towne was a well known editor, author and poet. He was a popular New York celebrity who was considered by many as being the quintessential New Yorker. Besides being the editor at such magazines as Smart Set, Delineator, McClure’s,...
Long Poems Collection 002 - Various
Long Poems Collection 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Long Poems Collection 002: a collection of 7 public-domain poems longer than 5 minutes in length....
Mystery of the Secret Band - Edith LAVELL
Mystery of the Secret Band - Edith LAVELL
- Author: Edith LAVELL
- Genre: Action & Adventure
This book is about a 16 year old girls' detective sleuthing skills and how they help her to solve mysteries. This is the 3rd and final book in this girls' series. - Summary by April Reynolds...
A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting - Eugene Edward HALL
A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting - Eugene Edward HALL
- Author: Eugene Edward HALL
- Genre: Technology & Engineering
This instruction manual contains complete directions for making and fitting new staffs for watches from raw material. The author refers to several illustrations throughout the text. These can be seen at the Online text in the Links section on this...
The Duel - Anton Chekhov
The Duel - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: General Fiction
The plot centres around Laevsky, who is living in a small seaside town in the Caucasus after running away with another man's wife, Nadyezhda Fyodorovna, amid dreams of starting a new life.The dreams have come to nothing as Laevsky idles away his...
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 Maccabees - Douay-Rheims Version
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 1 Maccabees - Douay-Rheims Version
- Author: Douay-Rheims Version
- Genre: Douay-Rheims Version
1 Maccabees is an apocryphal/deuterocanonical book written by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, probably about 100 BC. It is included in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canons. Protestants, Jews, and some...
Paradise Lost (version 2) - John Milton
Paradise Lost (version 2) - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Poetry / Epics
As Vergil had surpassed Homer by adapting the epic form to celebrate the origin of the author’s nation, Milton developed it yet further to recount the origin of the human race itself and, in particular, the origin of and the remedy for evil; this is...
The Retired Cat - William Cowper
The Retired Cat - William Cowper
- Author: William Cowper
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of...
The Flaming Jewel - Robert W. Chambers
The Flaming Jewel - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
During the last two years, Fate, Chance, and Destiny had been too busy to attend to Mike Clinch. But now his turn was coming in the Eternal Sequence of things. The stars in their courses indicated the beginning of the undoing of Mike Clinch. In the...
Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy - E. Luscomb HASKELL
Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy - E. Luscomb HASKELL
- Author: E. Luscomb HASKELL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
"The Life of Jesse Harding Pomeroy: The Most Remarkable Case in the History of Crime or Criminal Law" by E. Luscomb Haskell was published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1892 by the Harvard Law School Library, and is part of "The Making of the Modern...
The Spirit of Sweetwater - Hamlin Garland
The Spirit of Sweetwater - Hamlin Garland
- Author: Hamlin Garland
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Clement had unwittingly succeeded where others had failed at mining in the western Colorado mountains. Now he found himself wanting to share his success with some deserving soul, and one day found a young dying woman to whom he seemed inexplicably...
The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 5, January 1910 - Various
The History Teacher's Magazine, Vol. I, No. 5, January 1910 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: History
"The History Teacher’s Magazine is devoted to the interests of teachers of History, Civics, and related subjects in the fields of Geography and Economics. It aims to bring to the teacher of these topics the latest news of his profession. It will...
The Treaty with China - Mark Twain
The Treaty with China - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"A good candidate for 'the most under-appreciated work by Mark Twain' would be 'The Treaty With China,' which he published in the New York Tribune in 1868. This piece, which is an early statement of Twain's opposition to imperialism and which...
A Retrospect - J. Hudson TAYLOR
A Retrospect - J. Hudson TAYLOR
- Author: J. Hudson TAYLOR
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Join James Hudson Taylor on the God-led journey through his calling, time of preparation, and life work in China. This British Christian missionary founded China Inland Mission (CIM), now known as OMF International. - Summary by HannahMary...
The Story of Mary MacLane - Mary MacLane
The Story of Mary MacLane - Mary MacLane
- Author: Mary MacLane
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
At the age of 19 in 1902, MacLane published her first book, The Story of Mary MacLane. It sold 100,000 copies in the first month and was popular among young girls, but was strongly criticized by conservative readers, and lightly ridiculed by H.L....
The Mother and the Child - Maria MONTESSORI
The Mother and the Child - Maria MONTESSORI
- Author: Maria MONTESSORI
- Genre: Family Life / *Non-fiction
"The mother and the child" is a lecture given by Maria Montessori in 1915. The famous educational reformer speaks about the importance to give children freedom and a suitable environment, so they will be able to fully develop according to their own...
Cupid in Africa - Percival Christopher WREN
Cupid in Africa - Percival Christopher WREN
- Author: Percival Christopher WREN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the colonial Indian Army Reserve as a second Lieutenant at the start of Great War. Feeling a complete fish out of...
The King's Daughter - Pansy
The King's Daughter - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Dell Bronson has been reared in Boston by her refined uncle and aunt until, at age 18, she is called home by her father, a coarse tavern owner in Lewiston. As a daughter of the heavenly King, she strives to honor her heavenly Father by wooing her...
An Amiable Charlatan (version 2) - E. Phillips Oppenheim
An Amiable Charlatan (version 2) - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A lively adventure of a father-daughter con team enjoying themselves in Edwardian London. - Summary by Cate Barratt...
Our Little Irish Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Our Little Irish Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Author: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Genre: General
This little book is intended to help American children (and adults) learn more about the children of Ireland, their culture and how they live their daily lives. It is one of a series attempting to do this with countries and peoples around the world...
As You Like It (version 2) - William Shakespeare
As You Like It (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Shakespeare's pastoral comedy was written and first performed around 1599, and presents some of his familiar motifs: a cross-dressing heroine, a wise-cracking fool, brothers usurping their brothers' power, a journey from the court to the country,...
Just Sixteen - Susan Coolidge
Just Sixteen - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories from the author of the What Katy Did series, for an audience ranging from younger to older children - and enjoyable for adults too! They vary in style - fairy tales, humorous sketches, stories of everyday life,...
Peter the Great - Jacob Abbott
Peter the Great - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
There are very few persons who have not heard of the fame of Peter the Great, the founder, as he is generally regarded by mankind, of Russian civilization. The celebrity, however, of the great Muscovite sovereign among young persons is due in a...
The Valley of Fear (Version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Valley of Fear (Version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
John Douglas has been murdered at Birlstone manner, but Sherlock Holmes' main concern is the missing dumbell in the murder room. This fourth and final novel of Sherlock Holmes is based on the real-life adventures of the mob in Pennsylvania and the...
Philoctetes (Campbell Translation) - Sophocles
Philoctetes (Campbell Translation) - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Tragedy
Philoctetes is a play by Sophocles (Aeschylus and Euripides also each wrote a Philoctetes but theirs have not survived). The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven tragedies of Sophocles to have survived the ravages of...
Our American Cousin - Tom TAYLOR
Our American Cousin - Tom TAYLOR
- Author: Tom TAYLOR
- Genre: Comedy
Our American Cousin is an 1858 three-act play by English playwright Tom Taylor. The play is a farce whose plot is based on the introduction of an awkward, boorish, but honest American, Asa Trenchard, to his aristocratic English relatives when he...
The Lure of the Dim Trails - B. M. Bower
The Lure of the Dim Trails - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
Phil Thurston was born on the range where the trails are dim and silent under the big sky. It was the place his father loved, the place he had to be. After the death of his father when he was five, his mother brought him back to the city, where he...
Acres of Diamonds (Version 2) - Russell Conwell
Acres of Diamonds (Version 2) - Russell Conwell
- Author: Russell Conwell
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
One of the most requested motivational lectures of all time. "I say that you ought to get rich, and it is your duty to get rich ... The men who get rich may be the most honest men you find in the community. Let me say here clearly ... ninety-eight...
Short Story Collection Vol. 053 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 053 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including short stories by Melville, Blackwood, Hawthorne, Dostoyevsky, Wilde and Thomas Hood....
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and Daughters - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
If you like Jane Austen, you will probably like this book! Mrs. Gaskell, as she was often referred to, is considered one of the greatest British novelists of the Victorian era. She was one of the earliest novelists ever to use dialect in her works,...
The Golden Silence - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
The Golden Silence - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Author: Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
Trying to get away from an engagement he had got himself into more or less against his will, Stephen Knight travels to Algiers to visit his old friend Nevill. On the Journey there he meets the charming and beautiful Victoria. She is on her way to...
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 05 - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Monologues Collection vol. 05 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
LibriVox readers present the fifth collection of monologues from Shakespeare’s plays. Containing 20 parts. William Shakespeare (April 26, 1564 – April 23, 1616) remains widely to be considered the single greatest playwright of all time. He wrote in...
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert TRESSELL
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists - Robert TRESSELL
- Author: Robert TRESSELL
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Clearly frustrated at the refusal of his contemporaries to recognise the iniquity of society, Tressell's cast of hypocritical Christians, exploitative capitalists and corrupt councillors provide a backdrop for his main target — the workers who think...
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II - Henry MAYHEW
London Labour and the London Poor Volume II - Henry MAYHEW
- Author: Henry MAYHEW
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Subtitled, "A Cyclopaedia of the condition and earnings of those that will work, those that cannot work, and those that will not work.""The history of a people from the lips of the people themselves .. their labour, earnings, trials and sufferings,...
Bible (YLT) 13: 1 Chronicles - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 13: 1 Chronicles - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Not just a big book of geneaological lists, it is a record of things not mentioned in the Books of Samuel and Kings. It tells us of the kingdom of David and his life, but also gives us incredible spiritual truths. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)...
Eve’s Diary (version 2) - Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Eve's Diary is a comic short story by Mark Twain. It was first published in the 1905 Christmas issue of the magazine Harper's Bazaar, and in book format in June 1906 by Harper and Brothers publishing house. It is written in the style of a diary kept...
The Comedy of Errors (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The Comedy of Errors tells the story of two sets of identical twins that were accidentally separated at birth. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant, Dromio of Syracuse, arrive in Ephesus, which turns out to be the home of their twin brothers,...
Yankee at Molokai - Eva K. BETZ
Yankee at Molokai - Eva K. BETZ
- Author: Eva K. BETZ
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
As a daring soldier in the Union Army, Ira Dutton earned the respect and affection of the men around him. Handsome and affable, he could have had a full social life when the war was over. But he felt that his "wild years" demanded atonement - and...
