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War Is a Racket - Smedley BUTLER
War Is a Racket - Smedley BUTLER
- Author: Smedley BUTLER
- Genre: War & Military / Business & Economics / Modern (20th C)
Army Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler's expose of American Corporate Imperialism. Butler said, “I served in all commissioned ranks from second lieutenant to Major General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big...
Short Poetry Collection 009 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 009 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 009: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain
Those Extraordinary Twins - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Those Extraordinary Twins" was published as a short story, separate and distinct from its origins inside Twain's "The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson". As Twain explains, he extricated "Twins" from "Pudd'nhead" when he found, as he was writing, that...
Elusive Isabel - Jacques Futrelle
Elusive Isabel - Jacques Futrelle
- Author: Jacques Futrelle
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Elusive Isabel is a novel by Jacques Futrelle (April 9, 1875 - April 15, 1912) first published in 1909. Set in Washington, D.C., it is a spy novel about an international conspiracy of the "Latin" countries against the English-speaking world with the...
Bible (KJV) NT 26: Jude - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 26: Jude - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The Epistle of Jude is a brief book of only a single chapter with 25 verses. It is a general epistle, that is, a letter meant to be circulated and read in all the early Christian churches. Although brief, the content of the book is dense. Many...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2) - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (abridged, version 2) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll. It tells of a girl named Alice who falls down a rabbit hole into a...
The Comic English Grammar - Percival LEIGH
The Comic English Grammar - Percival LEIGH
- Author: Percival LEIGH
- Genre: Language learning
This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author, in keeping with the times (1840), is a...
Easter Hymns - Various
Easter Hymns - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Lockwood, Brooks & Co. Have nearly ready the volume of “Easter Hymns” selected by Miss J.E.C. Chapman, an accomplished lady of Boston, and introduced by a note from her uncle, Rev. Dr. J.I.T. Coolidge. The hymns are excellently chosen, and the...
The Dolls - William Butler Yeats
The Dolls - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, his earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical...
Our Army at the Front - Heywood BROUN
Our Army at the Front - Heywood BROUN
- Author: Heywood BROUN
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (20th C)
During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by notable New York Tribune war correspondent, Heywood Broun. Although Broun better known (and remembered) as a...
Kept in the Dark - Anthony Trollope
Kept in the Dark - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance
Kept in the Dark is a novel by the 19th century English novelist Anthony Trollope. It was published in eight monthly installments in 1882, and also in book form in the same year. Cecilia Holt ends her engagement to Sir Francis Geraldine because of...
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance, a short volume, published by Sheldon & Co., NY in 1871, is Mark Twain's third book. It consists of two stories - First Romance, which had originally appeared in The Express in 1870, and A...
The Islands of Magic - Elsie Spicer EELLS
The Islands of Magic - Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Author: Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beautiful islands called the Azores which belong to Portugal. Their names are Flores, Corvo, Fayal, Pico, S. Jorge,...
A Lost Lady - Willa Sibert Cather
A Lost Lady - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The young Niel Herbert idolizes Marian Forrester, the beautiful and charismatic wife of a pioneering railroad magnate. After discovering Mrs Forrester’s affair with another man, Herbert loses faith in her and all he thought she represented. Content...
Folk Ballad Collection 001 - Various
Folk Ballad Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Music
Librivox’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection)....
Premonition - Bliss Carman
Premonition - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Premonition by Bliss Carman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 27, 2019. ------ William Bliss Carman, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he...
The Vikings - Allen MAWER
The Vikings - Allen MAWER
- Author: Allen MAWER
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
This is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer, MA, Professor of English Language and Literature in Armstrong College, University of Durham: late Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It includes the following chapters: I.Causes...
Faust I - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust I - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Tragedy
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend; a highly successful scholar, but also dissatisfied with his life, and so makes a deal with the devil, exchanging his soul for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. Johann Wolfgang von...
Black Jack - Max Brand
Black Jack - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 02) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is the second chapter of Thomas Babington Macaulay’s History of England from the Succession of James II. In this chapter we see the restoration of the House of Stuart. The mood of the people sours toward the Roundheads, Army and, of course the...
Bible (ASV) NT 22: 2 Peter - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 22: 2 Peter - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Second Epistle of Peter is a book of the New Testament of the Bible. According to the epistle itself, it was written by the apostle Peter, an eyewitness to Jesus' ministry. He criticizes "false teachers" who distort the authentic, apostolic...
Secrets of the Woods - William J. Long
Secrets of the Woods - William J. Long
- Author: William J. Long
- Genre: General / Nature
The unique merit of this nature student rests in his fascinating style of writing, which invariably interests young and old; for without this element his pioneer work in the realm of nature would now be familiar only to scientists, introducing...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery (L.M. Montgomery) was a prolific Canadian writer of books and short stories for children and adults during the first half of the twentieth century. Her writings, frequently set in Prince Edward Island where she was born and grew...
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter (version 2) - Beatrix Potter
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter (version 2) - Beatrix Potter
- Author: Beatrix Potter
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Treasury contains nineteen stories written by Beatrix Potter. The most famous story is Peter Rabbit, which features a naughty young rabbit who learns the value of listening to his mother. (Summary by Jenny Lundak)...
The Art of Fiction - Henry James
The Art of Fiction - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American writer Henry James in the same year. (Summary by Julie VW)...
History of the United States, Vol. IV: The West and Jacksonian Democracy - Charles Austin Beard
History of the United States, Vol. IV: The West and Jacksonian Democracy - Charles Austin Beard
- Author: Charles Austin Beard
- Genre: Early Modern
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 4 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
The Masque of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Masque of Anarchy - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Political Science
The Masque of Anarchy was Shelley's response to the Peterloo massacre at St Peter's Fields, Manchester, where 18 died and hundreds were injured, after Hussars charged into a rally for parliamentary reform. Written in Italy in 1819, the poem was not...
The Penal Cluster - Randall Garrett
The Penal Cluster - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
What do you do with telepaths? Chain them to an asteroid of course and just leave them there ..... but why? Wait a minute ... did I just say that the punishment for being a telepath in the future earth was to be chained to an asteroid 50 million...
Recuerdo - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Recuerdo - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Recuerdo, by Edna St. Vincent Millay. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 16th, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
The Broad Highway - John Jeffery FARNOL
The Broad Highway - John Jeffery FARNOL
- Author: John Jeffery FARNOL
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Our hero, Peter Vibart, an Oxford graduate with no means of support but for 10 guineas he has inherited, sets out on a walking tour of the Kent countryside. Along the way, he meets many quaint and adoring characters as well as a few ne’er-do-wells,...
Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery - Absalom MARTIN
Kastle Krags: A Story of Mystery - Absalom MARTIN
- Author: Absalom MARTIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
A series of murders occur at the remote seaside mansion of a millionaire in Florida. The mystery is heightened via local lore of pirates and hidden treasure, not to mention a fabled ancient octopus said to have a taste for the local black...
Man Carrying Bale - Harold MONRO
Man Carrying Bale - Harold MONRO
- Author: Harold MONRO
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Harold Edward Monro was an English poet born in Brussels and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, which helped many poets bring their work before the public.In his later years, Monro reflected on whether the Poetry Bookshop had fulfilled its...
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Sharer - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
A young untested ship captain finds a man named Leggatt clinging to the side of his ship. The Captain makes the unusual decision to hide Leggatt in his quarters. What is he thinking? Conrad will tell us. - The Secret Sharer was first published in...
The Pocket Measure - Pansy
The Pocket Measure - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Three young women are the central characters in this story. Callie and her husband are poor, but they are frugal, spending using God's principles, and they reserve a tenth for God's work. Eva's husband makes more than double what Callie's husband...
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works - Various
John Stuart Mill; His Life and Works - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This biography is actually a series of essays by prominent personalities of the time that shed light on John Stuart Mill's life and areas of endeavor. Those areas include his experiences in India House, his moral character, certain botanical...
Dubliners (Version 2) - James JOYCE
Dubliners (Version 2) - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
Dubliners is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. They form a naturalistic depiction of Irish middle class life in and around Dublin in the early years of the 20th century. The stories were written when Irish...
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories - Alice Hegan RICE
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories - Alice Hegan RICE
- Author: Alice Hegan RICE
- Genre: Short Stories
This is a volume of very cute short stories. Miss Mink for instance invites a lonely soldier to her place for dinner and realises that with this one man the entire world walked into her front door. The other stories are connected by their southern...
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes from the Underground - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s short masterpiece about a ranting, slightly mad civil servant. The stylistic inventiveness, and the insights into the absurdities and weakness of humans seem so fresh and incisive today that if published now (a century and a...
The British Barbarians - Grant Allen
The British Barbarians - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Romance / Science Fiction
After Civil Servant Philip Christy crosses paths with the mysterious Bertram Ingledew in the respectable suburb of Brackenhurst, Philip and his sister Frida, married to the wealthy Scot Robert Monteith, become friends with the stranger. Bertram has...
