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Smugglers' Reef - Harold L. Goodwin
Smugglers' Reef - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Seventh entry in the Rick Brant Science Mystery Adventure series has Rick and buddy Scott using infrared technology on the trail of smuggling no-goodniks in the vicinity of Spindrift Island, Rick's home and location of his dad's laboratory, off the...
A Young Girl's Diary - Anonymous
A Young Girl's Diary - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The diary of an upper middle class Austrian girl, this book describes her life between the ages of eleven and fourteen. It's a coming of age story full of angst, boys, and questions. (Summary by KHand)...
Paris Pair, Their Day's Doings - Beatrice Bradshaw BROWN
Paris Pair, Their Day's Doings - Beatrice Bradshaw BROWN
- Author: Beatrice Bradshaw BROWN
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Paris Pair, Their Day's Doings by Beatrice Bradshaw Brown. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 20, 2019. ------ A poetic summary of a day in the life of two children in Paris. (D Lawrence)...
Birds of the Air - Arabella B. Buckley
Birds of the Air - Arabella B. Buckley
- Author: Arabella B. Buckley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Nature
Arabella Buckley had a great love of nature and wished to impart that love to children. Birds of the Air will encourage children to observe birds in their natural environment and notice the habits of each particular bird they encounter. (Summary by...
Beatrice - H. Rider Haggard
Beatrice - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Romance
Beatrice is a lonely twenty-two year old woman. After saving Geoffrey's life, they fall in love. However, Geoffrey is married. In addition, a local rich land owner wants to marry the beautiful Beatrice. This is a romance by the author of King...
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy - Pádraic Colum
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy - Pádraic Colum
- Author: Pádraic Colum
- Genre: General
Also known as "The Children's Homer," this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey for young people. Colum's rich, evocative prose narrates the travails of Odysseus, King of Ithaca: his experiences...
Understood Betsy (version 2) - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Understood Betsy (version 2) - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Genre: Family
Elizabeth Ann is a timid, sickly little girl who lives with her Aunt Frances and her Great-Aunt Harriet. When Great-Aunt Harriet becomes ill, poor little Elizabeth Ann is sent to live with the much-feared Putney cousins, whom, as Great-Aunt Harriet...
That Unfortunate Marriage - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
That Unfortunate Marriage - Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Author: Frances Eleanor TROLLOPE
- Genre: Romance / Satire
This is the funny, romantic, slightly tongue-in-cheek story of how little May Cheffington makes her way in the world despite being the sole surviving product of "that unfortunate marriage." - Summary by Angela Rowland...
The Arabic Hidden Words - BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
The Arabic Hidden Words - BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
- Author: BAHÁ'U'LLÁH
- Genre: Other religions
Kalimát-i-Maknúnih or The Hidden Words is a book written in Baghdad around 1857 by Bahá'u'lláh, the founder of the Bahá'í Faith. This work is written partly in Arabic and partly in Persian. The Hidden Words is written in the form of a collection of...
A Third Rubaiyat Miscellany - Omar Khayyám
A Third Rubaiyat Miscellany - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Anthologies
In addition to Edward Fitzgerald, many authors have produced versions of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This collection features the work of some less well known English translators.In an article in The North American Review, 1869, Charles Eliot...
Hunter Patrol - H. Beam Piper
Hunter Patrol - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
World War IV has dragged on for 12 years and the whole world is drained and tired of the killing and destruction. One man, a high school chemistry teacher from St. Louis in the USA, is serving his latest forced stint in the UN forces when something...
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter - Beatrix Potter
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter - Beatrix Potter
- Author: Beatrix Potter
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Born in Victorian London on July 28th, 1866, Beatrix Potter created some of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. Starting with Peter Rabbit and moving through the rest of these delightful tales, the Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter...
Growing Old - Matthew Arnold
Growing Old - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Growing Old by Matthew Arnold. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 17, 2011. Matthew Arnold was a British poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of...
Lion Ben of Elm Island - Elijah KELLOGG
Lion Ben of Elm Island - Elijah KELLOGG
- Author: Elijah KELLOGG
- Genre: Action & Adventure
An adventure story for boys, in which the author aims to "impart pleasure, and, at the same time, inspire respect for labor, integrity and every noble sentiment". There is a sense of nostalgia, as Kellogg sets his story in bygone days, when the...
Thoughts on the Death Penalty - Charles C. BURLEIGH
Thoughts on the Death Penalty - Charles C. BURLEIGH
- Author: Charles C. BURLEIGH
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This 1845 publication, written by a prominent reformer of the day, argues against capital punishment from several perspectives, including historical, philosophical and biblical arguments. It is broken into 3 chapters: Expediency, Justice, and Sacred...
The Counterpane Fairy - Katharine Pyle
The Counterpane Fairy - Katharine Pyle
- Author: Katharine Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A little boy, recuperating from a lengthy illness, is entertained by visits from the Counterpane Fairy, who treats him to stories associated with each of the squares in the counterpane (quilt) on his sickbed. She has him concentrate on one of the...
The Lusiads - Luís Vaz de CAMÕES
The Lusiads - Luís Vaz de CAMÕES
- Author: Luís Vaz de CAMÕES
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Epics
The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas) is a Portuguese epic poem, written in the 16th century by Luis Vaz de Camões. The poem tells the tale of the Portuguese discoveries in the 15th and 16th centuries, specially the voyage to India by Vasco da Gama. Modelled...
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha - Kate Langley BOSHER
Mary Cary, Frequently Martha - Kate Langley BOSHER
- Author: Kate Langley BOSHER
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General
"My name is Mary Cary. I live in the Yorkburg Female Orphan Asylum. You may think nothing happens in an Orphan Asylum. It does. The orphans are sure enough children, and real much like the kind that have Mothers and Fathers; and that’s why I am...
Stolen Idols - E. Phillips Oppenheim
Stolen Idols - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Two temple statues, one with the most beautiful of features, the other a hideous sight, are at the core of this tale of adventure and the supernatural. Carved by Chinese craftsmen, they have stood to either side of the great Buddha for hundreds of...
The Tree of Heaven - May Sinclair
The Tree of Heaven - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
One of the most heart-breaking of all World War I novels, this family epic was written in the midst of the War itself, and shows the intense emotion generated in ordinary lives by that tragedy. May Sinclair astonishingly weaves multiple themes into...
Welsh Fairy Tales - William Elliot Griffis
Welsh Fairy Tales - William Elliot Griffis
- Author: William Elliot Griffis
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of delightful tales that explore the uniqueness of the Welsh people, Welsh heroes, Welsh countryside, Welsh animals and Welsh pride. Some other minor peoples are mentioned in passing (the English, The Scots, etc.) but mainly...
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman - Philip STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman - Philip STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
- Author: Philip STANHOPE 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Philosophy
Philip Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, was at one time Ambassador to the Hague, negotiated the second Treaty of Vienna, was a founding governor of London’s Foundling Hospital, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Secretary of State. Having no legitimate...
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Letitia, Aggie and Lizzie are at it again, solving mysteries, getting into scrapes. Is there no end to the antics of these three spinster ladies? A murder at a hospital, reuniting lovers, a mangy dog or does it have fleas? The hilarious and often...
Brief Lives Volume II - John AUBREY
Brief Lives Volume II - John AUBREY
- Author: John AUBREY
- Genre: Memoirs
Volume 2 of Aubrey's sparkling gossipy biographical pieces on his 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...
Victory - Lester del Rey
Victory - Lester del Rey
- Author: Lester del Rey
- Genre: Science Fiction
Lester del Rey (1915 – 1993) was a Golden Age science fiction author and editor closely connected to John W. Campbell Jr. and Astounding Science Fiction magazine. He also founded Del Rey Books, a popular publishing label he edited with his wife...
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself, died the following year on his way to...
Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse - Anne Wales ABBOT
Autumn Leaves, Original Pieces in Prose and Verse - Anne Wales ABBOT
- Author: Anne Wales ABBOT
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
The pieces gathered into this volume were, with two exceptions, written for the entertainment of a private circle, without any view to publication. The editor would express her thanks to the writers, who, at her solicitation, have allowed them to be...
The House of the White Shadows - B. L. FARJEON
The House of the White Shadows - B. L. FARJEON
- Author: B. L. FARJEON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Literary Fiction
Is a defense attorney bound to defend his client, or with his conscience, when he knows that the man he is defending is guilty of the charges against him after the trial has already commenced? And if friends hold a belief that he may have been aware...
The Problem Club - Barry Pain
The Problem Club - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Problem Club is an infamous London Club which meets once a month to discuss a given problem. The problems have nothing to do with mathematics, but are social problems, in the broadest possible sense of the word. For instance, how does one manage...
Short Poetry Collection 093 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 093 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of December 2010....
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - Various
The San Francisco Earthquake and Fire - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Modern (20th C)
During the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906, newspaper reporters in the stricken city made a heroic effort to keep the public informed. Despite the destruction of their offices and presses, they managed to track down news and write stories...
Short Story Collection Vol. 040 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 040 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 040: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen - Mary Edwards WALKER
Unmasked, or the Science of Immorality. To Gentlemen - Mary Edwards WALKER
- Author: Mary Edwards WALKER
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Medical
Mary Edwards Walker was a physician and surgeon who served in the Civil War. An abolitionist, prohibitionist, and cross-dressing leader of the women's dress reform movement, she published this lively sex manual in 1878. It is a curious blend of...
Short Science Fiction Collection 033 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 033 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
An Editor's Tales - Anthony Trollope
An Editor's Tales - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900
These 'tales' describe a series of encounters between various magazine editors and those who wish to have their works published. While containing some amusing bits, the tales are relatively grim, compared to most Trollope stories. The Turkish Bath:...
The Art of Travel - Sir Francis GALTON
The Art of Travel - Sir Francis GALTON
- Author: Sir Francis GALTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Travel & Geography
The Art of Travel is a handbook of practical advice for the adventure seeking Victorian. We hear how to organize all steps of a voyage, from the very beginnings (qualifications of a traveller, how to organize an expedition, the perfect outfit), to...
A Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer - Keith Laumer
A Bad Day For Vermin by Keith Laumer - Keith Laumer
- Author: Keith Laumer
- Genre: Science Fiction
For your listening pleasure, here are three stories by the ingenious Keith Laumer from the glorious days of Science Fiction in the early 1960s: A Bad Day for Vermin, The King of the City and Doorstep. They were all published in various Science...
The Grey Lady - Henry Seton MERRIMAN
The Grey Lady - Henry Seton MERRIMAN
- Author: Henry Seton MERRIMAN
- Genre: General Fiction
A tale of romance, greed, blackmail, secrets, Spain and ships. Loss and intrigue too as we follow twin brothers along their life paths. Summary by Sandra...
Fifty Cents - Billy MORTIMER
Fifty Cents - Billy MORTIMER
- Author: Billy MORTIMER
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / Music
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Fifty Cents by Billy Mortimer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 21, 2011. Originally published in 1881 as a song, with music by Dan Lewis. (Summary by TriciaG)...
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) - Xenophon
The Polity of the Athenians and the Lacedaemonians (Spartans) - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Political Science
The Polity of the Lacedaemonians talks about the laws and institutions created by Lycurgus, which train and develop Spartan citizens from birth to old age. It only because of Xenophon that we have most of our knowledge about the Spartans. Xenophon...
