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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ - Nicolas NOTOVITCH
The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ - Nicolas NOTOVITCH
- Author: Nicolas NOTOVITCH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The New Testament describes the life of Jesus, but nothing is said of his life between the ages of 14 and 29. Notovitch, like so many historians, tries to find evidence of what happened to Jesus during those years. He claims to have found the answer...
Mice & Other Poems - Gerald BULLETT
Mice & Other Poems - Gerald BULLETT
- Author: Gerald BULLETT
- Genre: Single author
Gerald William Bullett was a British man of letters. He was known as a novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic and poet. He wrote both supernatural fiction and some children's literature. "Mice & Other Poems" is one of a series of small...
If Winter Comes - A. S. M. HUTCHINSON
If Winter Comes - A. S. M. HUTCHINSON
- Author: A. S. M. HUTCHINSON
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
If Winter Comes, was in many aspects ahead of its time, dealing with an unhappy marriage, eventual divorce, and an unwed mother who commits suicide. According to the New York Times, "If Winter Comes" was the best-selling book in the United States...
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II) - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume II) - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Published before 1800
Volume II continues the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy Peregrine Pickle. The novel is written as a series of adventures, with every chapter typically describing a new adventure. There is also a very long independent...
A Cathedral Singer - James Lane ALLEN
A Cathedral Singer - James Lane ALLEN
- Author: James Lane ALLEN
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction / Published 1900 onward
New York City in the early 20th century, a boy with an angelic voice, his devoted mother, the great Episcopal Cathedral of Saint John The Divine. - Summary by david wales...
The Marvelous Land of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Marvelous Land of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Marvelous Land of Oz is the second of the Oz books. It follows the adventures of the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and Tip. The Emerald City has been taken over by the Army of Revolt, and our adventurous friends need the help of Glinda the Good to...
Lily Of The West - Anonymous
Lily Of The West - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"Lily of the West is an Irish folk poem. Some say it is a metaphor for the Irish life after emigrating to America." - Summary by Stav Nisser and Wikipedia....
World English Bible - World English Bible
World English Bible - World English Bible
- Author: World English Bible
- Genre: World English Bible
The Holy Bible derived from the American Standard Bible of 1901. - Summary by Winfred Wardell Henson...
Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sympathy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird...
Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects - Edward SAUNDERS
Wild Bees, Wasps and Ants and Other Stinging Insects - Edward SAUNDERS
- Author: Edward SAUNDERS
- Genre: Animals
An overview of bees and stinging insects - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Version 2) - Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew (Version 2) - Margaret Sidney
- Author: Margaret Sidney
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew tells the story of how the Peppers live, learn, and play in their little brown house. They are poor, and Mamsie must work constantly to keep the wolf from the door but they do it with gaiety and spirit that...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Dr. Watson chronicles here some of the more interesting detective cases that he and his good friend, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, have encountered during their association. We see the cases unfold as he does, scratch our heads as does he while the evidence...
Bible (KJV) NT 13: 1 Thessalonians - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 13: 1 Thessalonians - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The First Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, usually referred to simply as First Thessalonians and often written 1 Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The first letter to the Thessalonians was likely the first...
Elementary Theosophy - L. W. ROGERS
Elementary Theosophy - L. W. ROGERS
- Author: L. W. ROGERS
- Genre: Philosophy
This book provides the basics of Theosophy and perhaps the beginning of a life long journey. Theosophy comes from the ancient wisdom that man and nature are as inseparable from the universe as the universe is inseparable from man and nature. It is a...
Pamela, Volume 2 - Samuel Richardson
Pamela, Volume 2 - Samuel Richardson
- Author: Samuel Richardson
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
Pamela, tells the story of a 15-year old maidservant named Pamela Andrews, whose country landowner master, Mr. B, makes unwanted advances towards her after the death of his mother. He abducts her, locks her up in one of his estates, and attempts to...
Revolted Woman - Charles George HARPER
Revolted Woman - Charles George HARPER
- Author: Charles George HARPER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
One man's opinion of woman in 1894. Charles Harper believes in the superiority of the male sex and the subordination of the female. He paints an entire gender with the same brush. He believes all women to be identical in mind (illogical) and body...
Bible (WEB) NT 20: James - World English Bible
Bible (WEB) NT 20: James - World English Bible
- Author: World English Bible
- Genre: Bibles
The Book of James : Supposed to have been written by James the Brother of Jesus and First Leader of the Christian movement in Jerusalem after the death of Jesus Christ. The theme of this book is the importance of Works as the vehicle of Faith . (...
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand - Charlotte EVANS
Over the Hills and Far Away: A Story of New Zealand - Charlotte EVANS
- Author: Charlotte EVANS
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
One of the very first New Zealand novels, Over the Hills and Far Away is a heavily romanticised tale of a woman's journey from England to Otago, New Zealand, and her subsequent experiences in the wild new colony. - Summary by Lewis Fletcher...
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah - Beth ELLIS
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah - Beth ELLIS
- Author: Beth ELLIS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
An English Girl's First Impressions of Burmah, by Beth Ellis, is a well-edited, turn-of-the-century journal documenting a young womanβs visit to Burma. The account documents her ocean voyage to Rangoon, and her stay in a small, jungle-embedded,...
Typee - Herman Melville
Typee - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Typee is Herman Melville's first book, recounting his experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands in 1842, and becoming a captive of a cannibal island tribe. It was an immediate success in America and England, and was Melville's...
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life - Peter RANDOLPH
From Slave Cabin To Pulpit and Sketches Of Slave Life - Peter RANDOLPH
- Author: Peter RANDOLPH
- Genre: Memoirs
Peter Randolph was born a slave in 1825 (?), was freed before the American Civil War, and became a clergyman in the Baptist tradition, dying in 1897. This is his 1893 autobiography. The latter third of the book is a slightly edited re-publication of...
Paula the Waldensian - Eva LECOMTE
Paula the Waldensian - Eva LECOMTE
- Author: Eva LECOMTE
- Genre: Religion
Into the home of an interesting but self-centered family in old France comes Paula, a young orphaned cousin, from the little village of Villar, in the Waldensian Valley. Though living very simply, tending cows, goats, sheep and rabbits, Paula has...
The Life of St. Teresa - Frances Alice Forbes
The Life of St. Teresa - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Teresa of Γvila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa SΓ‘nchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 β 4 October 1582), was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, an author of the Counter Reformation and...
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1) - Various
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 6: Fancy and Sentiment (Part 1) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The sixth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a range of notable poems that deal with both the realm of the fantastic and our own sensibilities,...
Human Toll - Barbara BAYNTON
Human Toll - Barbara BAYNTON
- Author: Barbara BAYNTON
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
Ursula (Ursie) Ewart, orphaned as a young child, is sent away from her home in the Australian bush. While Ursie was previously doted on by station hands, Boshy, Nungi,and Queeby, at her new home, in a nearby country town, she is barely tolerated....
The Fall of the Nibelungs - Unknown
The Fall of the Nibelungs - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"The Fall of the Nibelungs" is Margaret Armour's plain prose translation from the middle high German of the "Nibelungenlied", a poetic saga of uncertain authorship written about the year 1200. The story is believed by many to be based on the...
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
A classic tale of what comes to those whose hearts are hard. In a series of ghostly visits, Scrooge visits his happy past, sees the difficulties of the present, views a bleak future, and in the end amends his mean ways. (Summary written by Kristen...
Wise and Otherwise - Pansy
Wise and Otherwise - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Immature Mr. Tresevant (from "The King's Daughter") comes to Newton with his spoiled wife to be the new pastor of the church attended by Dr. and Mrs. Douglass, Mr. and Mrs. Sayles, and Mr. and Mrs. Tyndall (from "Ester Ried" and "Julia Ried"),...
The Metamorphosis (version 3) - Franz Kafka
The Metamorphosis (version 3) - Franz Kafka
- Author: Franz Kafka
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Metamorphosis (German: Die Verwandlung, also sometimes translated as The Transformation) is a novella by Franz Kafka, first published in 1915. It has been cited as one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 30 - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time - Oscar D. SKELTON
Chronicles of Canada Volume 30 - The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier: A Chronicle of Our Own Time - Oscar D. SKELTON
- Author: Oscar D. SKELTON
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
In conformity with its title, this volume, save for the earlier chapters, is history rather than biography, is of the day, more than of the man. The aim has been to review the more significant events and tendencies in the recent political life of...
The Makers of Canada: Champlain - Narcisse-Eutropee DIONNE
The Makers of Canada: Champlain - Narcisse-Eutropee DIONNE
- Author: Narcisse-Eutropee DIONNE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A biography of Samuel de Champlain, French explorer, founder of Quebec, and father of New France. ( Summary by Cathy Barratt )...
A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound - John R. JEWITT
A Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Savages of Nootka Sound - John R. JEWITT
- Author: John R. JEWITT
- Genre: Memoirs
John Jewitt (1783-1821), a blacksmith by trade, spent the years 1803-1806 as a slave among the Nuu-chah-nulth people of Nootka Sound, off the Pacific Coast of Vancouver Island, Canada, after the trading vessel on which he served as armorer was...
Sabotage - Elizabeth Gurley FLYNN
Sabotage - Elizabeth Gurley FLYNN
- Author: Elizabeth Gurley FLYNN
- Genre: Education / Political Science
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was a leading American socialist and feminist. Her book "Sabotage, the conscious withdrawal of the workers' industrial efficiency" was written to explain the utility and legality of sabotage. (Summary by Enko)...
Winter Sport - Unknown
Winter Sport - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 13 readings of Winter Sport, by an unknown author. This was the weekly poem for the week of November 23 - 30, 2014. - Summary by Rachel...
Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others - Jeannette Augustus MARKS
Little Busybodies: The Life of Crickets, Ants, Bees, and Others - Jeannette Augustus MARKS
- Author: Jeannette Augustus MARKS
- Genre: Science
These short stories about crickets, ants, bees, beetles and other little busybodies are intended by the two authors to show their children the wonderland of insectcs if we just take the time to look closely. "We hope that you will realize that more...
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Adventures of Johnny Chuck is another in the long list of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, it is spring time and a young chuck's fancy turns to thoughts of β¦ traveling, protecting one's turf, finding a new...
Short Poetry Collection 108 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 108 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2012....
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 3) - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Chatterer the Red Squirrel (version 3) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Chatterer the Red Squirrel finds himself in trouble again and is forced to abandon his old home. As the search for a new home begins, Chatterer's curiosity gets the better of him and a moment of carelessness causes him to stumble into a far...
The Life of Charlemagne - Thomas HODGKIN
The Life of Charlemagne - Thomas HODGKIN
- Author: Thomas HODGKIN
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
Charlemagne (Charles the Great) c. 742-814 was King of the Franks, conqueror of Lombard Italy, and on Christmas day 800, was crowned by Pope Leo III as the first Holy Roman Emperor. The author tells us that he "was a man of commanding presence, more...
Washington Square - Henry James
Washington Square - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter...
