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Bible (WNT) NT 09: Galatians - Weymouth New Testament
Bible (WNT) NT 09: Galatians - Weymouth New Testament
- Author: Weymouth New Testament
- Genre: Bibles
Some have compared Paul's Letter to the fellowship at Galatia as the "Magna Carta" of the liberty of Christians. It is Paul's passionate defense against a sect known as Judaizers, who insisted Christ's followers were still required to follow certain...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Herbert Francis Peyser
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: Music
Mozart’s earthly career was so poignantly short yet so filled with incalculable achievement that the author of this booklet finds himself confronted with an impossible task. He has, consequently, preferred to outline as best he could in the space at...
Five Minute Stories - Laura E. Howe Richards
Five Minute Stories - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: Family
Another collection of poems and short stories by Laura Richards. Yes, these are all short and mostly all delightfully innocent and sweet. Some have a moral for little children, and some are just funny or poignant or educational, but all are a peek...
Essays book 1 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays book 1 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Genre: Essays / Early Modern
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism. He became famous for his effortless...
Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem - Leigh HUNT
Captain Sword and Captain Pen: A Poem - Leigh HUNT
- Author: Leigh HUNT
- Genre: Poetry
This Poem is the result of a sense of duty, which has taken the Author from quieter studies during a great public crisis. He obeyed the impulse with joy, because it took the shape of verse; but with more pain, on some accounts, than he chooses to...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. II - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boswell's famous work on the life of his admired friend Johnson, the formidable poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer, is a milestone in the development of biographical writing, a treasure-house of Johnson's...
Foreign Lands - Robert Louis Stevenson
Foreign Lands - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Foreign Lands by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 22nd, 2007....
Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts - Bill Nye
Bill Nye's Funniest Thoughts - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humor
Bill Nye was a famous American humor columnist in the middle 1800's. He said "We can never be a nation of snobs so long as we are willing to poke fun at ourselves." And he did exactly that in hundreds of newspaper columns that were later collected...
A Theologico-Political Treatise - Benedict de SPINOZA
A Theologico-Political Treatise - Benedict de SPINOZA
- Author: Benedict de SPINOZA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Written by the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus or Theologico-Political Treatise was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. It was a preemptive defense of Spinoza's later work, Ethics,...
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Life Of Charlotte Brontë Volume 2 - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Charlotte Bronte was a British author, the eldest of the three famous Bronte sisters who have become standards of English literature. She is best known for her novel Jane Eyre, one of the greatest classics of all times. Just two years after...
Solitude (Wilcox) - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Solitude (Wilcox) - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"Laugh, and the world laughs with you; . . Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, . . But has trouble enough of its own." Librivox volunteers bring you sixteen readings of Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the...
Above Life's Turmoil - James Allen
Above Life's Turmoil - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Self-Help
The turmoil of the world we cannot avoid, but the disturbances of mind we can overcome. The duties and difficulties of life claim our attention, but we can rise above all anxiety concerning them. Surrounded by noise, we can yet have a quiet mind;...
Legend Land Volume 1 & 2 - LYONESSE
Legend Land Volume 1 & 2 - LYONESSE
- Author: LYONESSE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Being a collection of some of the OLD TALES told in those Western Parts of Britain served by the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY, now retold by LYONESSE" (from the subtitle; Lyonesse was the pseudonym for George Basil Barham)....
A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Yurevich LERMONTOV
A Hero of Our Time - Mikhail Yurevich LERMONTOV
- Author: Mikhail Yurevich LERMONTOV
- Genre: General Fiction
A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will again tell me that a human being cannot be so wicked, and I will reply that if you can believe in the...
Practical Talks by an Astronomer - Harold JACOBY
Practical Talks by an Astronomer - Harold JACOBY
- Author: Harold JACOBY
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The present volume has not been designed as a systematic treatise on astronomy. There are many excellent books of that kind, suitable for serious students as well as the general reader; but they are necessarily somewhat dry and unattractive, because...
Planet of Dread - Murray Leinster
Planet of Dread - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Humans have expanded to myriads of worlds throughout the galaxies but they have found that the only way for colonies to be self sustaining, was to reproduce the total ecology of their home world; the original Earth. This meant bringing the entire...
The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
The Hollow Needle: Further Adventures of Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Arsène Lupin returns in a wonderful story of disguises, love, and of course treasure. Once again, Lupin crosses paths with the famous Holmlock Shears. But this time Arsène matches wits with Isidore Beautrelet, Sixth-form Schoolboy. Every step that...
The Rebel Rose - Justin McCarthy
The Rebel Rose - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
The Rebel Rose is the story of Mary Stuart Beaton, a descendant of Mary Queen of Scots who has come to London in the hope of having her family claims legitimized. The Pretendress -- as she is called, finds herself caught up in the devices of her own...
Beyond the Horizon - Eugene O'NEILL
Beyond the Horizon - Eugene O'NEILL
- Author: Eugene O'NEILL
- Genre: Tragedy
Beyond the Horizon is a 1920 play written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill. It was O'Neill's first full-length work, and the winner of the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play focuses on the portrait of a family, and particularly two...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 28 - The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion - A. H. U. COLQUHOUN
Chronicles of Canada Volume 28 - The Fathers of Confederation: A Chronicle of the Birth of the Dominion - A. H. U. COLQUHOUN
- Author: A. H. U. COLQUHOUN
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
During and after the United States' War of Independence, Canada remained loyal to Great Britain. The upheavals of the 1830's and early 1840's led to a Popular Government and union of Upper and Lower Canada in 1841, but many still wanted...
The Wishing Well - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The Wishing Well - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction
PENNY PARKER is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to...
Short Poetry Collection 115 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 115 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Anthologies
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2012....
Mrs. Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
Mrs. Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come...
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Kim is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the former British Empire. It tells the story of a street-wise but (in typical Kipling fashion) highly moral Anglo-Indian boy who becomes enmeshed the “the Great Game” -– the competition between...
The Story of My Childhood - Clara BARTON
The Story of My Childhood - Clara BARTON
- Author: Clara BARTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, recalls growing up in early 19th Century Massachusetts. (Introduction by Veronica Jenkins)...
The Crocodile - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crocodile - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Satire / Short Stories
Ivan Matveich, the most ordinary person you might hope to meet, is swallowed alive by a crocodile at a sideshow. Finding life inside the belly of the beast quite comfortable, he makes a home for himself there. His disquisitions on the state of the...
City of Endless Night - Milo HASTINGS
City of Endless Night - Milo HASTINGS
- Author: Milo HASTINGS
- Genre: Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / Published 1900 onward
An example of early dystopian science fiction written shortly after World War I, "City of Endless Night" imagines a future with a very different ending to the Great War. Set in 2151 and in an underground Berlin, our protagonist is Lyman De Forrest,...
Just So Stories (version 5) - Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories (version 5) - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The stories, first published in 1902, are fantastic accounts of how various natural phenomena came about. The original editions of Just So Stories were illustrated with woodcuts by Kipling himself. Each story is accompanied by a poem, in a somewhat...
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The hero, Etienne Gerard, is a Hussar in the French Army during the Napoleonic Wars. Gerard's most notable attribute is his vanity - he is utterly convinced that he is the bravest soldier, greatest swordsman, accomplished horseman and gallant lover...
The Three Rulers - Adelaide Anne Procter
The Three Rulers - Adelaide Anne Procter
- Author: Adelaide Anne Procter
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy, possibly due to her charity work,...
The Outside Track - Henry Lawson
The Outside Track - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Outside Track by Henry Lawson. his was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 25, 2019. ------ Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary...
Grace Harlowe's Problem - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Problem - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / School
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. The College Girls Series sees the friends part ways: Grace, Anne, and Miriam depart for Overton College,...
His Lady Friend - Ring Lardner
His Lady Friend - Ring Lardner
- Author: Ring Lardner
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This week's poem is taken from Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner's Bib Ballads book of poetry about his child. In his Forward he says Dear Parents:—Don't imagine, please,It's in a boastful spiritI fashion verses such as these;......But babes are babes,...
The Principles of Economics with Applications to Practical Problems - Frank Albert FETTER
The Principles of Economics with Applications to Practical Problems - Frank Albert FETTER
- Author: Frank Albert FETTER
- Genre: Business & Economics
Frank Albert Fetter was an American economist of the Austrian school, but referred to himself as a member of the “American Psychological School” instead. Fetter contested the position that land is theoretically distinct from capital, arguing that...
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones - George Frederick KUNZ
The Curious Lore of Precious Stones - George Frederick KUNZ
- Author: George Frederick KUNZ
- Genre: Religion / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Full title is "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, being a description of their sentiments and folklore, superstitions, symbolism, mysticism, use in medicine, protection, prevention, religion, and divination, crystal gazing, birthstones, lucky...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 8) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 8) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 8 chronicles Lincoln's life from 1862 to...
No Great Magic - Fritz Leiber
No Great Magic - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
They were a traveling group of Shakespearean players; perfectly harmless, right? wrong. For one thing, why did they have spacemen costumes in their wardrobes,next to caveman ones? Why was the girl in charge of backstage suffering from amnesia and...
A Solar Eclipse - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Solar Eclipse - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A commemoration of the recent solar eclipse is presented in this week's group reading. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Before Adam - Jack London
Before Adam - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published 1900 onward
"Before Adam is a mixture of sound science and sci-fi speculation. It is based around Darwin's theory of evolution and the idea of racial memory. The main character lives in the current world but has dreams and nightmares that he relives the...
History of Farming in Ontario - C. C. JAMES
History of Farming in Ontario - C. C. JAMES
- Author: C. C. JAMES
- Genre: Early Modern
This is a paper on the history of farming in Ontario. It take the reader through the early settlement from 1783 to the modern period of 1888-1912. We see how farming and farm industries developed and how the population was distributed during these...
