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Mother West Wind's Animal Friends - Thornton W. Burgess
Mother West Wind's Animal Friends - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This is the 6th compilation of childrens bedtime stories by conservationist and newspaper columnist author Thornton Waldo Burgess. Burgess used his outdoor observations as plots for his stories.The stories involve his earlier developed characters...
Studies in Pessimism - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
Studies in Pessimism - Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Author: Arthur SCHOPENHAUER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Arthur Schopenhauer, an early 19th century philosopher, made significant contributions to metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics. His work also informed theories of evolution and psychology, largely through his theory of the will to power – a concept...
The House of a Thousand Candles (version 2) - Meredith Nicholson
The House of a Thousand Candles (version 2) - Meredith Nicholson
- Author: Meredith Nicholson
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A reputedly wealthy and eccentric old man dies in Vermont. His home, the House of a Thousand Candles, so called for the owner's preference to candle light, is left empty save a faithful servant -- his fortune mysteriously vanished, though rumored to...
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Book 2 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 1:29 - 5:34. (Summary by the reader)...
Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms - Heywood BROUN
Pieces of Hate and other Enthusiasms - Heywood BROUN
- Author: Heywood BROUN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This book is a collection of humorous short stories about ordinary instances in daily life. We learn many interesting things about life, such as how to court women successfully, what it feels like to be a god, and why sometimes it would be a good...
On The Tree Top - Clara Doty BATES
On The Tree Top - Clara Doty BATES
- Author: Clara Doty BATES
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of Nursery Rhymes retold by the author and others. - Summary by David Lawrence *Additional Proof-listening by Christine Lehman....
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 2) - Philip Francis NOWLAN
Armageddon- 2419 A.D. (Version 2) - Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Author: Philip Francis NOWLAN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Armageddon—2419 A.D. is the first appearance of the character that would become Buck Rogers. First published in the August 1928 issue of Amazing Stories, followed by a sequel in March 1929. These two novellas would spawn a comic strip that would run...
Echo - Christina ROSSETTI
Echo - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Echo by Christina Rossetti. This was the weekly poetry project for April 12th, 2009....
The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy - Sarah FIELDING
The Governess; Or, The Little Female Academy - Sarah FIELDING
- Author: Sarah FIELDING
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General / School
The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (published 1749) by Sarah Fielding is the first full-length novel written for children, and a significant work of 18th-century children's literature. (Wikipedia) It's about a boarding school for girls and...
The Poster-Painter's Masterpiece - Sam Walter FOSS
The Poster-Painter's Masterpiece - Sam Walter FOSS
- Author: Sam Walter FOSS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet. For many years the opening lines from Foss' The Coming American ("Bring me men to match my mountains / Bring me men to match my plains / Men with empires in their purpose / And new eras in their...
Moving the Mountain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Moving the Mountain - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
Moving the Mountain is a feminist utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner and then in book form, both in 1911. The book was one element in the major wave of utopian...
Transformed; or, the History of a River Thief, Briefly Told - Jerry MCAULEY
Transformed; or, the History of a River Thief, Briefly Told - Jerry MCAULEY
- Author: Jerry MCAULEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Jerry McAuley gives a testimony of his transformation from one of the wickedest men to ever live to being saved and a life of helping others do the same. (Summary by Curt Walton)...
The Story of the French Revolution - Ernest Belfort BAX
The Story of the French Revolution - Ernest Belfort BAX
- Author: Ernest Belfort BAX
- Genre: History
Preface Excerpt: "The following sketch of the course of the French Revolution was originally published during 1889 in serial form in "Justice," the weekly organ of the Social Democratic Federation. It has been revised, corrected, and, in some parts,...
The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems - Kate Seymour MacLean
The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems - Kate Seymour MacLean
- Author: Kate Seymour MacLean
- Genre: Poetry
There is truth, doubtless, in the remark, that we are enriched less by what we have than by what we hope to have. As the poetic art in Canada has had little of an appreciable past, it may therefore be thought that the songs that are to catch and...
The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells
The Rise of Silas Lapham - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: General Fiction
The Rise of Silas Lapham is the most widely read of W.D. Howells’ novels. An example of literary realism, the story is about a farmer (Silas Lapham) who launches a very successful paint business, and moves his family up the social ladder of Boston....
Red Arrows in the Night - Daniel A. LORD
Red Arrows in the Night - Daniel A. LORD
- Author: Daniel A. LORD
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Religious Fiction
The Scarlet Archer of Agincourt is claimed by the Erkenwold’s as their family ghost. Tradition held that the death of an important Erkenwold was always heralded by the apparition of the Scarlet Archer. Now in the early years of WWII, the archer has...
The Wizard - H. Rider Haggard
The Wizard - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Described by the author, best known for his King Solomon's Mines, as "a tale of victorious faith," this story begins on a Sunday afternoon in an English church. Most of the book, though, is set in Africa, and the adventure story is as engaging as...
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy - René DESCARTES
Selections from the Principles of Philosophy - René DESCARTES
- Author: René DESCARTES
- Genre: Philosophy
The Principles of Philosophy, originally published in Latin in 1644, and translated to French in 1647, sets forth the principles of nature--the Laws of Physics--as Descartes viewed them. The book provides a systematic statement of natural philosophy...
The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective - Maurice Leblanc
The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In "The Blonde Lady, being a record of the duel of wits between Arsène Lupin and the English detective" - original title "Arsène Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes" - the gentleman-burglar once more meets his enemy, the English detective Herlock Sholmes....
The Imaginary Invalid - Molière
The Imaginary Invalid - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
The Imaginary Invalid (French: Le Malade imaginaire) is a three-act comédie-ballet by the French playwright Molière. It was first performed in 1673 and was the last work he wrote. In an ironic twist of fate, Molière collapsed during his fourth...
Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling – A Study in Forensic Psychology - William HEALY
Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling – A Study in Forensic Psychology - William HEALY
- Author: William HEALY
- Genre: Psychology
This work describes and analyzes several cases of pathological behavior. The interest comes not only from the cases themselves, but also from the of-its-time analysis which is mired in what we now know to be wrong thinking about mental illness,...
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness - Honoré de Balzac
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Love in a Mask, or Imprudence and Happiness, is an entertaining short novel by Honoré de Balzac, unpublished in his lifetime. Beginning with a flirtatious conversation at a masked ball, Balzac introduces his two main characters, a beautiful wealthy...
Letters on an Elk Hunt - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
Letters on an Elk Hunt - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Author: Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Genre: Letters
This is a sequel to Letters of a Woman Homesteader in which Elinore Rupert (Pruitt) Stewart describes her arrival and early years on a Burntfork Wyoming ranch in 1909-1913. The letters are written to her elderly friend, Mrs. Coney, in Denver. In the...
The Aeneid, prose translation - Virgil
The Aeneid, prose translation - Virgil
- Author: Virgil
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Aeneid is the most famous Latin epic poem, written by Virgil in the 1st century BC. The story revolves around the legendary hero Aeneas, a Trojan prince who left behind the ruins of his city and led his fellow citizens to Italy, where he became...
The Panther - Rainer Maria Rilke
The Panther - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets". He wrote both verse and highly-lyrical...
Lysistrata (version 3) - Aristophanes
Lysistrata (version 3) - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
The women of Athens are sick of the Peloponnesian war that has dragged on for year after year after year, causing great hardship to everyone. They decide to deny the men sex until they agree to make peace, using the one thing that perhaps men enjoy...
Summer Sun - Robert Louis Stevenson
Summer Sun - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Summer Sun, by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 22nd, 2008....
Windsor Castle, Book 2 - William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle, Book 2 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Book 2 - Herne the Hunter. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of...
The House of Mirth (Version 3) - Edith Wharton
The House of Mirth (Version 3) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, a woman who is torn between her desire for luxurious living and a relationship based on mutual respect and love. She sabotages all her possible opportunities for a wealthy marriage, loses the esteem...
Snow-Flakes - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Snow-Flakes - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / Nature
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Snow-Flakes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 20th, 2009....
Stories from the Adirondacks - Albert A. YOUNG
Stories from the Adirondacks - Albert A. YOUNG
- Author: Albert A. YOUNG
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of five stories all of which take place in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, and most which contain elements of some mystery hidden deep within the forests. - Summary by Roger Melin...
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth - René DESCARTES
Discourse on the Method of Rightly Conducting One’s Reason and of Seeking Truth - René DESCARTES
- Author: René DESCARTES
- Genre: Medieval
The Discourse on Method is best known as the source of the famous quotation “cogito ergo sum”, “I think, therefore I am.” …. It is a method which gives a solid platform from which all modern natural sciences could evolve. With this work, the idea of...
Probable Sons - Amy LE FEUVRE
Probable Sons - Amy LE FEUVRE
- Author: Amy LE FEUVRE
- Genre: General Fiction
Little Milly is left an orphan after the death of her mother and sent to live with her bachelor uncle, who has no use for children, especially of the female variety. As the days go by, his heart warms to his endearing niece who wants all probable...
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I - Justin McCarthy
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume I - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Law / Political Science
An engaging history of Great Britain in the heyday of Queen Victoria and of her empire by the liberal Irish Member of Parliament, Justin McCarthy. He brings us the larger than life personalities of the day, Victoria and Albert, Russell and Peel,...
The Firm of Nucingen - Honoré de Balzac
The Firm of Nucingen - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: General Fiction
Part of the Comedie Humane and a "supplementary" tale to go with Father Goriot and Gobseck. Nucingen is the married family name of one of Father Goriot's daughters. "James Waring" is a pseudonym of Ellen Marriage (Balzac was considered sometimes too...
The Train of Life - Edmund Gosse
The Train of Life - Edmund Gosse
- Author: Edmund Gosse
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine readings of The Train of Life by Edmund Gosse. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 28th, 2014....
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove - Laura Lee Hope
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue were featured in a series of 20 books for young children published by the Stratemeyer Syndicate from 1916-1930. In this adventure, first published in 1920, Bunny and Sue lose a valuable possession belonging to their...
Chronicles of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Chronicles of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General
Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery, related to the Anne of Green Gables series. It features a number of stories relating to the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea, and was first published in 1912. (Summary...
Elsie Venner - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Elsie Venner - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Bernard Langdon is close to earning his degree in medicine when his family finds itself in financial difficulties, forcing Langdon to interrupt his studies for a time in order to earn money with which to fund the rest of his degree. He therefore...
Amelia (Vol. 2) - Henry Fielding
Amelia (Vol. 2) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Romance
The second volume of Amelia. - Summary by Libby Gohn...
