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A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains - Isabella L. BIRD
A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Isabella Bird began travelling while in her early twenties to help alleviate illness that had plagued her since childhood. She was a single woman in her early forties when she made her treck through the Rocky Mountains. A Lady's Life in the Rocky...
The Nursery ''Alice'' - Lewis Carroll
The Nursery ''Alice'' - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Action & Adventure
A shortened version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland . . . adapted by the author himself for children "from nought to five". . . . It is written as though the story is being read aloud by someone who is also talking to the child listener, with...
A Treatise of Religion - Fulke GREVILLE
A Treatise of Religion - Fulke GREVILLE
- Author: Fulke GREVILLE
- Genre: Poetry / Religion
Part diatribe, part discourse, part sermon and part stand-up comedy, this is Fulke Greville's 114 stanza, verse-poem about religious hypocrisy. (Summary by Michael Armenta)...
Song (Poe version) - Edgar Allan Poe
Song (Poe version) - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Song by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 10, 2011. Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic...
Cock-House at Fellsgarth - Talbot Baines REED
Cock-House at Fellsgarth - Talbot Baines REED
- Author: Talbot Baines REED
- Genre: School
A classic English Public School story with all the usual suspects: unruly juniors, wise upper form boys, and an outcast. Summary by Von...
Nature Near Home and Other Papers - John Burroughs
Nature Near Home and Other Papers - John Burroughs
- Author: John Burroughs
- Genre: Nature
Nature Near Home is one of many books on natural history by John Burroughs. It is full of simple observations about rural scenes and charming stories about animals, plants, and even people! Burroughs loves the creatures around him and derives great...
The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa" - Sir Edwin ARNOLD
The Book of Good Counsels - From the Sanskrit of the "Hitopadesa" - Sir Edwin ARNOLD
- Author: Sir Edwin ARNOLD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Ancient
The term ‘Hitopadesha’ is a combination of two Sanskrit terms, ‘Hita’ (welfare/ benefit) and ‘Upadesha’ (counsel). As the term suggests, The Hitopadesha is a collection of tales that gives good counsel. Hitopadesa was presumably written by Narayan...
Earth's Enigmas - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Earth's Enigmas - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Single Author Collections
Most of the stories in this collection attempt to present one or another of those problems of life or nature to which, as it appears to many of us, there is no adequate solution within sight. Others are the almost literal transcript of dreams which...
The Dead Letter - Metta Victoria Fuller VICTOR
The Dead Letter - Metta Victoria Fuller VICTOR
- Author: Metta Victoria Fuller VICTOR
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Published in 1866, "The Dead Letter: An American Romance" written by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor under the pseudonym, Seeley Regester, is credited by historians of popular literature to be the first full-length American crime fiction novel. The...
The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Conjure Woman - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Published in 1899 by Houghton Mifflin, Chesnutt's first book, The Conjure Woman, was a collection of seven short stories, all set in "Patesville" (Fayetteville), North Carolina. While drawing from local color traditions and relying on dialect,...
The Wonderful Garden - E. Nesbit
The Wonderful Garden - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Do you believe in magic? Caroline, Charles and Charlotte do, and nothing that happens during their summer holiday at their great uncle's house does anything to diminish that belief. There the Three C.'s find a wonderful garden and some very old...
Lovers' Vows - Elizabeth INCHBALD
Lovers' Vows - Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Author: Elizabeth INCHBALD
- Genre: Plays / Romance
Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe (1780; literally "Child...
Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov
Uncle Vanya - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
Uncle Vanya (subtitled “Scenes From Country Life”) is a tragicomedy by Anton Chekhov. It is set on the failing country estate of a retired professor, Serebrakoff, who returns after a long absence with his beautiful young wife, and throws the...
The Whale - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Whale - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James B. Hendryx, Berton Braley, F....
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon - Henry Fielding
Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Sailing voyage from England to Portugal in the mid Eighteenth Century, by one of the premier humorists, satirists, novelists and playwrights of his age. It was to be his last work, as his failing health proved unable to persevere much longer after...
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too - Alfred ELWES
The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too - Alfred ELWES
- Author: Alfred ELWES
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This fictional work is written in 1st person by the dog himself. It's a cute story of the adventures in the life of a noble dog who is appropriately named, Job. The canine society in which he lives is an interesting parallel to human society....
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 - Louisa May Alcott
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A book of short stories by Louisa May Alcott, author of Little Women and Eight Cousins. It includes Two Little Travellers, a story about two very different little girls, Lunch, a story of two women who resolve to stop the schoolboys from eating...
A Defence of Idealism - May Sinclair
A Defence of Idealism - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The philosophy of Idealism, revived in eighteenth-century Europe by George Berkeley, argued against philosophical materialism by maintaining that Reality is a creation of the Mind. Despite its flourishing under the leadership of Hegel, Fichte,...
Equation of Doom - Gerald VANCE
Equation of Doom - Gerald VANCE
- Author: Gerald VANCE
- Genre: Science Fiction
A world weary space pilot on the lam from earth for crimes unspecified; the most beautiful (earthly) tri-D woman in the universe who is determined to be the most powerful too; a planet of crafty and unscrupulous giant frogs intent on kicking out all...
BOOH - Eugene Field
BOOH - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays....
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome - George Washington GREENE
Visits To The Dead In The Catacombs Of Rome - George Washington GREENE
- Author: George Washington GREENE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Travel & Geography
This essay of a cultured observer, for many years United States consul in Rome, appeared in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 10, issue 59, April, 1855, pp 577 - 600. (Summary by David Wales)...
Curiosities of Street Literature - Various
Curiosities of Street Literature - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Satire / Biography & Autobiography
This is a collection of broadsides from London. Broadsides are short, popular publications, a precursor to today's tabloid journalism. The collection contains sensationalist and sometimes comical stories about criminal conduct, love, the Royal...
The Mysteries of London Vol. III - George W. M. REYNOLDS
The Mysteries of London Vol. III - George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Author: George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the third volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap operas. Known as "Penny...
The Mysteries of London Vol. II - George W. M. REYNOLDS
The Mysteries of London Vol. II - George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Author: George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England, published in four volumes. This is the second volume. Initially serialized in weekly installments, they were the forerunners of today's soap operas. Known as "Penny...
Tales of a Traveller - Washington Irving
Tales of a Traveller - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Writing under the pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, Washington Irving chronicled his travels through Europe in the early 1820’s. He wrote of people he met, places he saw and stories he was told. In fact, much of the work is recounting tales told to him by...
Brief Lives Volume I - John AUBREY
Brief Lives Volume I - John AUBREY
- Author: John AUBREY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A collection of sparkling gossipy biographical pieces of Aubrey's contemporaries, including Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare, Brief Lives' glimpses into the unofficial side of these towering figures has won it an undying popularity, with Ruth Scurr's...
Wessex Poems - Thomas Hardy
Wessex Poems - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry by Thomas Hardy, some of which were previously published or adapted into his prose works. - Summary by Libby Gohn...
Myths And Legends Of British North America - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths And Legends Of British North America - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Religion
[The Native American] story tellers of the camp related, with dramatic gestures, stories of the Days of the Grandfathers, in the beginning of the Newness of Things. Nothing was too large or too small to come within the bounds of their beliefs, or...
Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century - Edwin BENSON
Life in a Mediaeval City, Illustrated by York in the XVth Century - Edwin BENSON
- Author: Edwin BENSON
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
A short and gentle overview of mediaeval life in a large city. It lightly covers the class structure of society, local government, guilds, pageantry and punishment. The author has an easy, rhythmic style which leaves the reader wanting to find out...
Short Story Collection Vol. 051 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 051 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Patricia Brent, spinster - Herbert George Jenkins
Patricia Brent, spinster - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A romantic comedy, written in 1918, but with a modern feel to it. Patricia Brent one day overhears two fellow-boarders pitying her because she "never has a nice young man to take her out". In a thoughtless moment of anger she announces that the...
The Religion of Ancient Egypt - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
The Religion of Ancient Egypt - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
William Matthew Flinders Petrie – the father of Egyptian Archaeology – developed and applied statistical analysis to pottery from prehistoric sites and by this established seriation as a relative dating method as a major contribution to Egyptian...
In the Closed Room - Frances Hodgson Burnett
In the Closed Room - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This is a short story about a shy, quiet little girl living in a big city. When her parents are offered the opportunity to take care of a house in the suburbs for the summer she meets another little girl in the house and they become playmates....
The Challenge of Waste - Stuart CHASE
The Challenge of Waste - Stuart CHASE
- Author: Stuart CHASE
- Genre: Business & Economics
"The Challenge of Waste" examines the wasteful nature of the competitive market system, particularly from a Veblenian point of view. He also praises World War I era planning by the Fuel Administration and other government wartime agencies. (Summary...
Short Poetry Collection 180 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 180 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for May 2018....
A Charming Fellow - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
A Charming Fellow - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Author: Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Genre: General Fiction
A scathing criticism of social climbing underlies this unsettling story by Frances Eleanor Trollope, sister-in-law to Anthony and daughter-in-law to Frances Milton Trollope. Published in 1876, A Charming Fellow is a serious exploration of a bitterly...
He Fell in Love with His Wife - Edward P. Roe
He Fell in Love with His Wife - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida marries a man only to find out he's already married. She's so undone when she finds out that she just wants to...
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Bartolomé de las CASAS
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Bartolomé de las CASAS
- Author: Bartolomé de las CASAS
- Genre: Early Modern
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of the...
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin - Charles Darwin
- Author: Charles Darwin
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin is the autobiography of the British naturalist Charles Darwin which was published in 1887, five years after his death. Darwin wrote the book, which he entitled Recollections of the Development of my Mind and...
The Tale of Three Lions - H. Rider Haggard
The Tale of Three Lions - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Taking place in the heart of Africa, “The Tale of Three Lions” is one more thrilling adventure from the eventful life of old hunter Quatermain, the famous hero of “King Solomons Mines”. This time, though there are no bloodthirsty people for the old...
