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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General
The timeless story of the Wizard Of Oz. Follow Dorothy as she leaves Kansas for Oz on a cyclone. She meets many strange, and wonderful people and creatures along the way. Enjoy it again with your children and family. L. Frank Baum's classic story...
Short Science Fiction Collection 049 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 049 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
A Chicago Princess - Robert BARR
A Chicago Princess - Robert BARR
- Author: Robert BARR
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
After working several years in foreign affairs, and after winning and then losing a fortune, Rupert Tremorne is stranded in Nagasaki, at the end of his wits and in some debt. His only chance is to take the post as private secretary to the...
Anton Tchekhov: and other essays - Lev SHESTOV
Anton Tchekhov: and other essays - Lev SHESTOV
- Author: Lev SHESTOV
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This book was called Nachala i Kontzy when first published in 1908 in Russian and has been titled Anton Tchekhov and other essays as well as Penultimate Words in English when published in 1916. Lev Shestov, like Soren Kierkegaard before him, liked...
Marguerite de Valois - Alexandre Dumas
Marguerite de Valois - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
A historical fiction novel set in Paris (1572) during Charles IX's reign and the French Wars of Religion. Marguerite de Valois, daughter of deceased Henry II, is the novel's protagonist set against the infamous schemes of the Catholic power player,...
Mashi and Other Stories - Rabindranath Tagore
Mashi and Other Stories - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
A 1918 collection of short stories, by the popular Bengali writer.(Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Sir Edmund Orme - Henry James
Sir Edmund Orme - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of his contemporaries? It's generally possible to find earthly interpretations, Freudian and other, for his...
The Cathedral - Hugh Walpole
The Cathedral - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, CBE (1884 – 1941) was an English novelist. He was the son of an Anglican clergyman, intended for a career in the church but drawn instead to writing. Among those who encouraged him were the authors Henry James and Arnold...
Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works - Edward Baxter PERRY
Descriptive Analyses of Piano Works - Edward Baxter PERRY
- Author: Edward Baxter PERRY
- Genre: Music
A look at the poetic motivations behind certain piano works. An understanding of these pieces on purely poetic grounds, with little insight into the technical or objective side of the music. How to understand the pieces in terms of an assumed...
Nice Girl With 5 Husbands - Fritz Leiber
Nice Girl With 5 Husbands - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
Four quirky short stories by the talented Fritz Leiber: Nice Girl with 5 Husbands, A Pail of Air, The Last Letter and A Bad Day for Sales. - Summary by phil chenevert...
The Flight - Lloyd MIFFLIN
The Flight - Lloyd MIFFLIN
- Author: Lloyd MIFFLIN
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Flight by Lloyd Mifflin. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 19, 2011. Lloyd Mifflin first received art instruction from his father and then at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, as well...
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth - George Alfred TOWNSEND
The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth - George Alfred TOWNSEND
- Author: George Alfred TOWNSEND
- Genre: True Crime / Modern (19th C)
A series of articles by the New York World newspaper's special correspondent covering the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, its background and subsequent events. It should be noted that some statements in this contemporaneous account have since been...
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 3 - Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Hurlbut's Story of the Bible Part 3 - Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
- Author: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
- Genre: Religion
Some years ago, the editor of an English magazine sent a communication to "the hundred greatest men in Great Britain" asking them this question: "If for any reason you were to spend a year absolutely alone, in a prison for instance, and could select...
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
Captain Blood - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Captain Blood is an adventure novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and enslaved on...
Plain Tales from the Hills - Rudyard Kipling
Plain Tales from the Hills - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Named a "prophet of British imperialism" by the young George Orwell, and born in Bombay, India, Rudyard Kipling had perhaps the clearest contemporary eye of any who described the British Raj. According to critic Douglas Kerr: "He is still an author...
Fairy Tales from South Africa - Mrs. E. J. BOURHILL
Fairy Tales from South Africa - Mrs. E. J. BOURHILL
- Author: Mrs. E. J. BOURHILL
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The stories in this collection come from the oral traditions of the people from Swaziland, Matabeleland (Ndebele people) and Zululand in South Africa. The authors, Mrs. E. J. Bourhill and Mrs. J. B. Drake, or more properly the collectors and editors...
Bible (KJV) NT 06: Romans - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 06: Romans - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The Epistle of Paul to the Romans, often shortened to Romans, is the sixth book in the New Testament. Biblical scholars agree that it was composed by the Apostle Paul, to explain that Salvation is offered through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is by...
Mental Efficiency - Arnold Bennett
Mental Efficiency - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Psychology / Self-Help / Contemporary
In this light-hearted yet thought-provoking collection of articles, Bennett offers his thoughts on exercising the mind, organising your life, the advantages (and disadvantages) of marriage and other pocket philosophies. The book stands the test of...
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - Anonymous
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz was edited in 1616 in Strasbourg (annexed by France in 1681). It is the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians). NOTE: It was translated into...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 2, February 1900 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 2, February 1900 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, stories and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
The Uses of Diversity - G. K. Chesterton
The Uses of Diversity - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of 35 essays by G.K. Chesterton originally published in his weekly columns in "The Illustrated London News" and the "New Witness". The subjects vary greatly from lamp posts to Jane Austen's Emma, from "On Pigs as Pets" to Mormonism and...
Swann's Way (Version 2) - Marcel PROUST
Swann's Way (Version 2) - Marcel PROUST
- Author: Marcel PROUST
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"Swann's Way" is the first of the seven parts of Marcel Proust's great autobiographical novel "In Search of Lost Time." From the very first page the reader is drawn into the many facets of memory, memory as prompted by all the human senses. "Swann's...
Katydid's Poems - Kate Slaughter MCKINNEY
Katydid's Poems - Kate Slaughter MCKINNEY
- Author: Kate Slaughter MCKINNEY
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Kate Slaughter McKinney, poet laureate of the State of Alabama of 1931, who often went by the pen-name Katydid. The poems are cute and amusing, children will enjoy them. - Summary by Carolin...
The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl - Thomas Middleton
- Author: Thomas Middleton
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / *Non-fiction
The Roaring Girl is a rip-roaring Jacobean comedy co-written by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker and first published in 1611. The play is a fictionalized dramatization of the life of Mary Frith, known as "Moll Cutpurse", a woman who had gained a...
Old Fashioned Fairy Tales - Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Old Fashioned Fairy Tales - Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Author: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Ogres, hillmen, and both fairies and fools abound by forest and town in this book by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing. Designed to cultivate imagination, character, and leave a strong moral when finished, she blends humor with short parables and rustic...
Beauty's Hour - Olivia SHAKESPEAR
Beauty's Hour - Olivia SHAKESPEAR
- Author: Olivia SHAKESPEAR
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
The young, intelligent Mary discovers that through an act of will she can transform her appearance to make herself incredibly beautiful. But will her newfound identity be all that she hopes?This recording is from the novella’s original publication...
Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole - Anna ADOLPH
Arqtiq: A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole - Anna ADOLPH
- Author: Anna ADOLPH
- Genre: Science Fiction
Described by author Liza Daly as a "strange masterpiece of outsider art," Arqtiq is a bizarre, borderline hallucinatory work of feminist utopian fiction. Equal parts sci-fi adventure, philosophical tract, and pro-Symmesian pamphlet, Anna Adolph’s...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 4 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of...
The Blue Envelope - Roy J. Snell
The Blue Envelope - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
A mystery and adventure story for girls set in Alaska....
Bible (ASV) NT 01: Matthew - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 01: Matthew - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Gospel of Matthew (Greek: Κατά Μαθθαίον or Κατά Ματθαίον, Kata Maththaion or Kata Matthaion; literally, "according to Matthew") is a synoptic gospel in the New Testament, one of four canonical gospels. It narrates an account of the life and...
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea - Allan CUNNINGHAM
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea - Allan CUNNINGHAM
- Author: Allan CUNNINGHAM
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 4, 2012. Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and author. Cunningham was apprenticed to a stonemason, but...
The War of the Worlds (version 2) - H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds (version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
War of the Worlds by Herbert George Wells (H.G. Wells) was published in 1898 at a time when he wrote a series of novels related to a number of historical events of the time. The most important of these was the unification and militarization of...
Europe and the Faith - Hilaire Belloc
Europe and the Faith - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: History / Christianity - Other
The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in the confessional accuses himself of what he knows to be true and what other people cannot judge, so a Catholic,...
Agnes Sorel - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Agnes Sorel - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The Hundred Years' War: a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession to the French throne. It was a...
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems - Vachel Lindsay
The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay. Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from this collection. - Summary by Carolin...
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 3) - Hugh Lofting
The Story of Doctor Dolittle (version 3) - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
After his parrot Polynesia teaches him to speak animal languages, Doctor Dolittle decides to abandon his human practice, and become an animal doctor. - Summary by Karen Savage...
Said and Did - George MacDonald
Said and Did - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Said and Did by George MacDonald.. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 2, 2018. ------ George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the...
Short Poetry Collection 175 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 175 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 34 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2017....
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers - J. Walker McSpadden
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers - J. Walker McSpadden
- Author: J. Walker McSpadden
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
These 12 stories give a personal portrait of twelve famous soldiers from the past two centuries. Each story explores the early life of the soldier —to trace his career up from boyhood through the formative years. Such data serves to explain the...
Fidelity - Susan Glaspell
Fidelity - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The small Midwestern town of Freeport was scandalized years ago when Ruth Holland, then a young girl, ran away to the West with a married man. Now that she's returned home to take care of her dying father, she faces some hard truths about who her...
