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The Book of the Dead - E. A. Wallis Budge
The Book of the Dead - E. A. Wallis Budge
- Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The Egyptian Book of the Dead, or the Book of Coming Forth by Day, is an Ancient Egyptian funerary text consisting of spells to protect the soul on its journey to Duat, or Afterlife....
A Candle For Our Lady - Regina Victoria Hunt
A Candle For Our Lady - Regina Victoria Hunt
- Author: Regina Victoria Hunt
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction / Religion
Dark times for British Catholics hung over England in the days of King Henry VIII. Henry, influenced by the hated Thomas Cromwell, fell into opposition with them, suppressing them, and closing religious houses. In that period a famous shrine,...
Bobby Gray Squirrel's Adventures - George Ethelbert Walsh
Bobby Gray Squirrel's Adventures - George Ethelbert Walsh
- Author: George Ethelbert Walsh
- Genre: Animals & Nature
In this sixth volume of the Twilight Animal series, we read about the adventures of Bobby the Gray Squirrel, who (together with his friends from the woods!) brings joy and happiness to a very special new friend. - Summary by Foon...
Sea Fever - John Masefield
Sea Fever - John Masefield
- Author: John Masefield
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 different recordings of Sea Fever by John Masefield. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 16th, 2007....
Warren Hastings - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Warren Hastings - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"Warren Hastings" is Chapter IV of Thomas Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays, vol. III. It first appeared in the Edinburgh Review of October 1841 as a review of Memoirs of the Life of Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of Bengal....
Our Little Canadian Cousin - Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
Our Little Canadian Cousin - Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
- Author: Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General
In " Our Little Canadian Cousin," the author's intention is to tell, in a general way and in one defined local setting, the story of Canadian home life in the late 19th century. To Canadians, home life means not merely sitting at a huge fire-place,...
To the River - Edgar Allan Poe
To the River - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of To the River by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2019. ------ This Weekly Poem is taken from the Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe (1883)...
Day Dreams - Rudolph Valentino
Day Dreams - Rudolph Valentino
- Author: Rudolph Valentino
- Genre: Single author
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court-imposed exile from the film industry, where a protracted legal battle with Famous Players-Lasky prevented...
The Speaking Voice - Katherine Jewell Everts
The Speaking Voice - Katherine Jewell Everts
- Author: Katherine Jewell Everts
- Genre: Poetry / Literary Collections / Self-Help
From the Preface of The Speaking Voice: principles of training simplified and condensed: "This book offers a method of voice training which is the result of a deliberate effort to simplify and condense, for general use, the principles which are...
From Dreamland Sent - Lilian Whiting
From Dreamland Sent - Lilian Whiting
- Author: Lilian Whiting
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Lilian Whiting. As the title of the volume already hints at, the poems share a dreamy atmosphere, and in that are a typical example of American poetry of the end of the 19th century. - Summary by Carolin...
Song of the Kicking Horse - Bliss Carman
Song of the Kicking Horse - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Song of the Kicking Horse by Bliss Carman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 26th, 2010....
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
Casey at the Bat - Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Author: Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Casey at the Bat by Ernst Lawrence Thayer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2012. Ernst Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote "Casey at the Bat", the "single most...
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories - Ernest Bramah
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Ernest Bramah is mainly known for his 'Kai Lung' books - Dorothy L Sayers often used quotes from them for her chapter headings. In his lifetime however he was equally well known for his detective stories. Since Sherlock Holmes we have had French...
Wyllard's Weird - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Wyllard's Weird - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A novel written in three volumes. In the golden age of steam, the London train wends its way across the Tamar into the strange and mystic land that is Cornwall, having left most of its length at Plymouth. A weary doctor gazes at the countryside,...
Poems - Mary Coleridge
Poems - Mary Coleridge
- Author: Mary Coleridge
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Mary Coleridge was a novelist, essayist and biographer. She was also a talented poet, and her posthumously published verses are variously meditative, joyous, gothic, wistful and devotional. (Newgatenovelist)...
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3 - Niccolò Machiavelli
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 3 - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for the present. As the title mentions, the subject of the work is the...
The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Grand Inquisitor (dramatic reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
The Grand Inquisitor is a parable told by Ivan to Alyosha in Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880). Ivan and Alyosha are brothers; Ivan questions the possibility of a personal, benevolent God and Alyosha is a novice monk. The...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / School
When ten-year-old Rebecca Randall arrives at her aunts' brick house in Riverboro, she is not exactly welcomed with the open arms one would hope for. Her cheerful spirit touches the lives of many, but will Rebecca be able to endure Aunt Miranda's...
Summa Theologica - 08 Pars Prima Secundae, Treatise on Habits, Virtues and Vices - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 08 Pars Prima Secundae, Treatise on Habits, Virtues and Vices - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
Short Science Fiction Collection 007 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science and technology. This is a reader-selected...
Poems of William Blake - William Blake
Poems of William Blake - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Poetry
Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul are two books of poetry by the English poet and painter, William Blake. Although Songs of Innocence was first published by itself in 1789, it is believed that...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 027 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 027 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
The Man from Glengarry - Ralph Connor
The Man from Glengarry - Ralph Connor
- Author: Ralph Connor
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. The Man from Glengarry was his most popular and accomplished work. Immediately after its publication...
The Kama Sutra - Mallanaga Vatsyayana
The Kama Sutra - Mallanaga Vatsyayana
- Author: Mallanaga Vatsyayana
- Genre: Erotica / Ancient
The Kama Sutra, or Aphorisms on Love, has survived at least 1400 years as a dominant text on sexual relations between men and women. Vatsyayana claimed to have written the Kama Sutra while a religious student, “in contemplation of the Deity” - but...
The Faerie Queene Book 5 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 5 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Fifth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Artegall or of Ivstice.This masterpiece was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as a paean...
The Golden Bough - George Gibbs
The Golden Bough - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
The eyes of the Légionnaire, now grown accustomed to the glow of the light, made sure that the figure had not moved, nor was aware of his silent and furtive approach. Two plans of action suggested themselves, one to move behind the foliage to the...
The Elements of Entomology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Entomology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
The Elements of Entomology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. It is a succinct little textbook from 1845 that presents an introduction to entomology. The author was a surgeon...
Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The novel tells the story of Agnes Grey, the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn the money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era – the...
The Lifted Veil (Version 2) - George Eliot
The Lifted Veil (Version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
George Eliot’s 1859 novella, The Lifted Veil, departs radically from the grounded realism of her longer and better known works, such as Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. Its tone calls to mind the works of middlebrow Sensationists, like Wilkie Collins...
An Elementary Greek Grammar - Raphael Kühner
An Elementary Greek Grammar - Raphael Kühner
- Author: Raphael Kühner
- Genre: Language learning
We have followed the Grammars of Kühner, known as his "Large" and "School" Grammars. [...] Omitting the learned dissertations and numerous details of the original, we have endeavored to furnish to the student, in a concise and simple form, whatever...
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Brooks Adams
The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Brooks Adams
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century...
Planet of the Damned - Harry Harrison
Planet of the Damned - Harry Harrison
- Author: Harry Harrison
- Genre: Science Fiction
Once in a generation, a man is born with a heightened sense of empathy. Brion Brandd used this gift to win the Twenties, an annual physical and mental competition among the best and smartest people on Anvhar. But scarcely able to enjoy his victory,...
Lost Diaries - Maurice Baring
Lost Diaries - Maurice Baring
- Author: Maurice Baring
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction
Within these pages find passages from the "lost diaries" of a wide range of people: royal, regular, famous, infamous, historical, and fictional. - Summary by A. Gramour...
Helps to Holiness - Samuel Logan Brengle
Helps to Holiness - Samuel Logan Brengle
- Author: Samuel Logan Brengle
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Samuel Logan Brengle was a commissioner in the Salvation Army. His books are known for the practicality, joyfulness and authenticity. His life was spent working with people on the streets, so his insights into the work of the Holy Spirit are...
The Book of Clever Beasts - Myrtle Reed
The Book of Clever Beasts - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A humorous book, hitting off the many writers who have returned to nature and made intimate friends in the Animal World. The author describes the super-human intelligence to be found by the discerning among our kindred of the wild. All those who...
Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters - Amy Steedman
Knights of Art - Stories of the Italian Painters - Amy Steedman
- Author: Amy Steedman
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Arts
A children's version of the Lives of Artists by Vassari with many Illustrations. Of course we won't be able to show the paintings but the descriptions and the anecdotes are interesting and may lead a child to further interest. - Summary by Susan...
Love - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Love - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 different recordings of Love by Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
Nutcracker and Mouse King - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Nutcracker and Mouse King - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The original story of the Nutcracker, weird and wonderful by one of the masters of horror and weirdness. Summary by Sandra Cullum....
The Wishing Horse of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Wishing Horse of Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Family
Magic wishing emeralds mysteriously arrive in the little kingdom of Skampavia. King Skamperoo immediately confiscates them and wishes to become the Emperor of Oz, with his magic horse Chalk as his advisor. All the residents of Oz are enchanted to...
Current Superstitions - Fanny Dickerson Bergen
Current Superstitions - Fanny Dickerson Bergen
- Author: Fanny Dickerson Bergen
- Genre: *Non-fiction
No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the original researchers of North American oral traditions relating to such key life events and experiences...
