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Stories of Don Quixote : written anew for young people - James Baldwin
Stories of Don Quixote : written anew for young people - James Baldwin
- Author: James Baldwin
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The romance entitled "The Achievements of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote de la Mancha," was originally written in Spanish by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in the 17th century. It has been read and enjoyed by men and women of the most diverse...
The Runaway Skyscraper - Murray Leinster
The Runaway Skyscraper - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Arthur Chamberlain has problems. His one-man engineering firm is faltering and his pretty secretary Estelle barely notices him. But these problems are put aside when his Manhattan office building falls into the fourth dimension. Madison Square is...
William Tell Told Again - P. G. Wodehouse
William Tell Told Again - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This is the classic story of William Tell - Swiss patriot and great apple-shooter - as seen through the eyes of English humorist P.G. Wodehouse.No Swiss were (permanently) injured in the telling of this story; however, results differed for Austrian...
History of the Christian Church During the First Six Centuries - Samuel CHEETHAM
History of the Christian Church During the First Six Centuries - Samuel CHEETHAM
- Author: Samuel CHEETHAM
- Genre: Antiquity / Christianity - Other
The intention of this work is to provide a sketch of the History of the Church in the first six centuries of its existence, resting throughout on original authorities, and also giving references to the principal modern works which have dealt...
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 3) - Jerome K. Jerome
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog) (version 3) - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Humor
A humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The three men are based on Jerome himself (the narrator J.) and two real-life friends, George Wingrave (who would become a senior...
Bumper the White Rabbit - George Ethelbert Walsh
Bumper the White Rabbit - George Ethelbert Walsh
- Author: George Ethelbert Walsh
- Genre: Animals & Nature
All little boys and girls who love animals should become acquainted with Bumper the white rabbit. Bumper had many friends, such as Mr. Blind Rabbit, Fuzzy Wuzz and Goggle Eyes, his country cousins; and Bobby Gray Squirrel had his near cousins,...
The Workman's Dream - Edgar A. GUEST
The Workman's Dream - Edgar A. GUEST
- Author: Edgar A. GUEST
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 in Birmingham, England – 5 August 1959 in Detroit, Michigan) (aka Eddie Guest) was a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's...
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf - George W. M. REYNOLDS
Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf - George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Author: George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Historical Fiction
Wagner is a poor, lonely old shepherd living on the edge of the Black Forest. In a devil's pact he gains youth and wealth for the price of transforming into a ravenous wolf once a month. This book contains everything from murder, kidnap, robbery,...
Selections from The Army and Navy Hymnal, Volume 2 - Various
Selections from The Army and Navy Hymnal, Volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Music / Religion
This collection was a joint effort by the chaplains of the US Army and the Navy to meet the needs of divine services conducted in the Army and Navy, and for, in the compilers' words, "the upbuilding of patriotic citizenship." These 20 hymns from the...
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2) - Charles Dickens
The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The last of Dickens' Christmas novellas (1848), The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain centres around Professor Redlaw, a teacher of chemistry, whose personal life has been marred by sorrow and, he feels, by wrongs done to him in his past. He is...
Dandelion Cottage - Carroll Watson Rankin
Dandelion Cottage - Carroll Watson Rankin
- Author: Carroll Watson Rankin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Carroll Watson Rankin's best known novel is Dandelion Cottage, published in 1904 by Henry Holt and Company. She first wrote the story serially for her own children. Considered a regional classic in the midwest, it tells of four young girls who...
Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields - Thaddeus William Henry LEAVITT
Kaffir, Kangaroo, Klondike; Tales Of The Gold Fields - Thaddeus William Henry LEAVITT
- Author: Thaddeus William Henry LEAVITT
- Genre: Short Stories
Seven short stories. - Summary by david wales...
Short Story Collection Vol. 006 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 006 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox's Short Story Collection 006: a collection of 20 short essays and fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World - Snorri STURLESON
Heimskringla: The Stories of the Kings of Norway, Called The Round World - Snorri STURLESON
- Author: Snorri STURLESON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Heimskringla (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheimsˌkʰriŋla]) is the best known of the Old Norse kings' sagas. It was written in Old Norse in Iceland by the poet and historian Snorri Sturluson (1178/79–1241) ca. 1230. The name Heimskringla was first used...
Là-bas - Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
Là-bas - Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
- Author: Joris-Karl HUYSMANS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief by turning to the study of the Middle Ages and begins to research the life of the notorious 15th-century...
Man: King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance - James Allen
Man: King of Mind, Body, and Circumstance - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Other religions
The problem of life consists in learning how to live. It is like the problem of addition or subtraction to the schoolboy. When mastered, all difficulty disappears, and the problem has vanished. All the problems of life, whether they be social,...
The Frog Prince and Other Stories - Walter Crane
The Frog Prince and Other Stories - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
Here are three charming fairy tales with happy endings. They feature an enchanted frog; a princess, her brothers, and a dastardly plot against them; and a magical lamp with a Genius inside. (by Laurie Anne Walden)...
Early Spring - Fay Inchfawn
Early Spring - Fay Inchfawn
- Author: Fay Inchfawn
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
The Vernal Equinox signals the time when the winter’s cold mantle begins to succumb to the warming influences of the oncoming spring. Fay Inchfawn (nee Elizabeth Rebecca Ward) took the springtime of 1920 as her inspiration for the bright promise of...
Historic Waterways - Reuben Gold THWAITES
Historic Waterways - Reuben Gold THWAITES
- Author: Reuben Gold THWAITES
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
Historic Waterways, Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing down the Rock, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers. This volume is the record of six hundred miles of canoeing experiences on historic waterways in Wisconsin and Illinois during the summer of 1887. There has...
Charmides, and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde
Charmides, and Other Poems - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Oscar Wilde, containing some of his rather famous longer poetry in the first part, and a section of sonnets in the second part of the book. - Summary by Carolin...
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2) - Various
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 5: Nature (Part 2) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The fifth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of poems dealing with the natural world, covering subjects such as trees; flowers; plants;...
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Cradock Nowell Vol. 3 - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Family Life / Literary Fiction
Cradock Nowell: a Tale of the New Forest is a three-volume novel by R. D. Blackmore published in 1866. Set in the New Forest and in London, it follows the fortunes of Cradock Nowell who, at the end of Volume 1, is thrown out of his family home and...
Belinda - Maria Edgeworth
Belinda - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: General Fiction
When Belinda was published in 1801, it became both controversial and popular. Controversial because of the inter-racial marriage presented in the novel, and popular because it's a very good comedy of manners, like Evelina by Fanny Burney. Belinda,...
Birds and Nature, Vol. X, No 3, October 1901 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. X, No 3, October 1901 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
Elves and Heroes - Donald Alexander Mackenzie
Elves and Heroes - Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- Author: Donald Alexander Mackenzie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This volume describes, in verse, the mythical creatures and people of ancient Scotland. It also includes explanatory notes about about the characters and folk tales that inspired the author's poetry. (Introduction by Matthew Reece)...
Book of the Damned - Charles Hoy FORT
Book of the Damned - Charles Hoy FORT
- Author: Charles Hoy FORT
- Genre: Nature / Science
The Book of the Damned was the first published nonfiction work of the author Charles Fort (first edition 1919). Dealing with various types of anomalous phenomena including UFOs, strange falls of both organic and inorganic materials from the sky, odd...
An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language - CUEY-NA-GAEL
An Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language - CUEY-NA-GAEL
- Author: CUEY-NA-GAEL
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Language learning
Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that he would learn the Dutch language within a fortnight. On his return, he has to admit that it wasn't quite that...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
The Story of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
In The Story of Doctor Dolittle (1920), the first of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books, we are introduced to the good doctor who gives up treating people after Polynesia, his parrot, teaches him animal languages. His fame in the animal kingdom...
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria - William SCOTT-ELLIOT
The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria - William SCOTT-ELLIOT
- Author: William SCOTT-ELLIOT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This volume contains two publications by W. Scott-Elliot, namely The Story of Atlantis (1896) and The Lost Lemuria (1904). A theosophist and believer of the Occult, W. Scott-Elliot gives us a description of the history and structure of Atlantis and...
Zofloya - Charlotte DACRE
Zofloya - Charlotte DACRE
- Author: Charlotte DACRE
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
Victoria de Loredani lives the life of a fairy tale princess in Venice. She has everything one might desire and more, until the sinister Count Ardolph enters her world. The Count carries off Victoria's mother in an elopement, and sets off a series...
Astounding Stories 18, June 1931 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 18, June 1931 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction
This issue contains The Man from 2072 by Sewell Peaslee Wright ~ Out of the Flow of Time there appears to Commander John Hanson a Man of Mystery from a Forgotten Past Manape the Mighty by Arthur J. Burks~ High in theJungle Swings young Bentley - his...
By the Sea, and Other Verses - Hannah Lavinia BAILY
By the Sea, and Other Verses - Hannah Lavinia BAILY
- Author: Hannah Lavinia BAILY
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poetry by Hannah Lavinia Baily. They describe a number of different settings, prominently the sea in the titular poem, and bring in contemporary as well as mythical themes. - Summary by Carolin...
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
Captains Courageous - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: General Fiction
Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey Cheyne out of the Atlantic. There's no place on the Grand Banks for...
The Flood - John Clare
The Flood - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major re-evaluation in the late 20th...
Violet Osborne - Trilogy - Emily PONSONBY
Violet Osborne - Trilogy - Emily PONSONBY
- Author: Emily PONSONBY
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
"This book is in turns funny and sad. Violet Osborne is a very beloved child with no financial problems. She is both beautiful and good, and of course she must be happy. Yet, as we learn, she is a manipulative and overbearing woman who would do...
Mary Stuart - Friedrich Schiller
Mary Stuart - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Schiller's tragedy depicts the final days of Mary, Queen of Scots, who has been imprisoned by her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, because of her potential claim on the English throne. The action of the play revolves around an attempt to rescue Mary from...
Basil - Wilkie Collins
Basil - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Basil, son of a father who values the family pedigree and who would not let him marry below his station, falls in love at first sight with a girl he sees on a bus. He stalks her and discovers she is Margaret Sherwin, only daughter of a linen draper....
Catherine Howard (Dramatic Reading) - Alexandre Dumas
Catherine Howard (Dramatic Reading) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction
Subtitled "The Throne, The Tomb, and The Scaffold - An Historical Play in 3 Acts From the Celebrated Play of that Name by Alexandre Dumas" - How can you resist a play about English history - the doomed fifth wife of Henry the 8th - by the celebrated...
Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat - version 2) - Guy de Maupassant
Boule de Suif (Ball of Fat - version 2) - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Boule de Suif (1880) is a short story by the late-19th century French writer Guy de Maupassant. It is arguably his most famous short story, and is the title story for his collection on the Franco-Prussian War, entitled "Boule de Suif et Autres...
Early Poems - James Russell Lowell
Early Poems - James Russell Lowell
- Author: James Russell Lowell
- Genre: Single author
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Carolin...
