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Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities - Andrew Lang
Tales of Troy: Ulysses the Sacker of Cities - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Children's Fiction
These are short stories about the life of Ulysses, the stealing of Helen, Paris, battles, Trojan horses, and more! - Summary by Maggie Travers...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 020 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 020 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General / Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 020: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2 - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Speeches, Part 2 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humor / Literary Collections / Writing & Linguistics
This collection of the 195 known, publicly-printed speeches of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) was compiled by Paul Fatout and published by the University of Iowa Press. The speeches are in the Public Domain, and our thanks go to the...
Great Englishwomen - M. B. Synge
Great Englishwomen - M. B. Synge
- Author: M. B. Synge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Great Englishwomen is a collection of biographies of some of the greatest women in England's history. Women who were leaders of their country in troubled times, women who were reformers in prison conditions, and those who sought improvement in the...
Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1 - Sir Thomas Malory
Le Morte d'Arthur - Vol. 1 - Sir Thomas Malory
- Author: Sir Thomas Malory
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Le Morte d'Arthur (spelled Le Morte Darthur in the first printing and also in some modern editions, Middle French for la mort d'Arthur, "the death of Arthur") is Sir Thomas Malory's compilation of some French and English Arthurian romances. The book...
Tales of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
Tales of the Five Towns - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the six towns in the county of Staffordshire, England, known as the...
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' - William Hope Hodgson
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig' - William Hope Hodgson
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Eighteenth-century sailors adrift in a lifeboat encounter strange lands and weird creatures in their search for home. A creepy tale of nautical adventure. - Summary by Jason Mills...
More William - Richmal Crompton
More William - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The second of Crompton's series of 39 books about William Brown, our cheeky 11 year-old protagonist. A hero to some, a dastardly villain to others, this book is structured round a year in his life. Starting with William waking up on Christmas...
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae - Edward Jenner
An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae - Edward Jenner
- Author: Edward Jenner
- Genre: Medical
This collection of three publications details Edward Jenner's investigations into the connection between smallpox and coxpox, and the creation of the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. - Summary by Jordan...
The Little Tea Book - Arthur Gray
The Little Tea Book - Arthur Gray
- Author: Arthur Gray
- Genre: Crafts & Hobbies / Cooking
After all, tea is the drink! Domestically and socially it is the beverage of the world. There may be those who will come forward with their figures to prove that other fruits of the soil—agriculturally and commercially—are more important. Perhaps...
Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
Newspaper Articles by Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Literary Collections
This is a collection of newspaper articles written by Samuel Clemens, for various newspapers, between 1862 and 1881. After Feb 3rd 1863, he began using the pen name Mark Twain. This compilation is the work of Project Gutenberg and contains articles...
Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories - Edith Howes
Wonderwings and other Fairy Stories - Edith Howes
- Author: Edith Howes
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of three short stories about fairies, complete with good moral lessons (as every fairy tale should be). (Summary by Claire Goget)...
The Branding Iron - Katharine Newlin Burt
The Branding Iron - Katharine Newlin Burt
- Author: Katharine Newlin Burt
- Genre: General Fiction
From the cold and mountainous regions of Wyoming to the bright lights of the big city, The Branding Iron is the story of a remarkable woman, Joan Carver. Born of poor means, at a fairly young age Joan decides to leave her father and strike out on...
The Life and Adventures of Venture - Venture Smith
The Life and Adventures of Venture - Venture Smith
- Author: Venture Smith
- Genre: Memoirs
Venture Smith (1729–1805) was an African captured as a child and transported to the American colonies to be sold as a slave. As an adult, he purchased his freedom and that of his family. His history was documented when he gave a narrative of his...
Lady Jane Grey and Her Times - Ida Ashworth Taylor
Lady Jane Grey and Her Times - Ida Ashworth Taylor
- Author: Ida Ashworth Taylor
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Lady Jane Grey was an English noblewoman, great-granddaughter of Henry VII. As her cousin, Edward VI, lay on his death-bed, he nominated her as his successor to the English crown ahead of his half-sisters Mary and Elizabeth. Jane's reign lasted a...
In Times Like These - Nellie McClung
In Times Like These - Nellie McClung
- Author: Nellie McClung
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
" Believing that the woman's claim to a common humanity is not an unreasonable one, and that the successful issue of such claim rests primarily upon the sense of fair play which people have or have not according to how they were born, andTherefore...
The People of the Abyss - Jack London
The People of the Abyss - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Business & Economics / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid only enough to allow them a...
Insect Stories - Vernon Kellogg
Insect Stories - Vernon Kellogg
- Author: Vernon Kellogg
- Genre: Science
These 13 essays explore the fascinating world of insects all around us. Vernon Kellogg, an eminent entomologist and natural story teller, and his little friend Mary, start by collecting Tarantula Holes and proceed to observe spiders, ant lions,...
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Satire
Come and hear the strange tail of The Boss Hank Morgan, a modern day (at the time of publication) Connecticut Yankee who inexplicably finds himself transported to the court of the legendary King Arthur (as the title of the book implies). Hank, or...
The Breaking Point - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Breaking Point - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Mary Roberts Rinehart -- "America's Agatha Christie," as she used to be called -- set this story in a New York suburban town, shortly after the end of the first world war. Dick Livingstone is a young, successful doctor, who in the course of events...
Fables in Slang - George Ade
Fables in Slang - George Ade
- Author: George Ade
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
While a columnist for The Chicago Record humorist George Ade penned numerous “fables” which were subsequently collected into books. Fables in Slang is the first of these collections. It contains 26 satirical stories that lampoon phrenologists,...
Five Little Peppers Grown Up - Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers Grown Up - Margaret Sidney
- Author: Margaret Sidney
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Five Little Peppers Grown Up continues the story of Ben, Polly, Joel, David, and Phronsie Pepper. Together with the Kings, the Whitneys, and other friends old and new, the Peppers learn and teach about life and love as they grow into adulthood....
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales - Edric Vredenberg
My Book Of Favourite Fairy Tales - Edric Vredenberg
- Author: Edric Vredenberg
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
This is a collection on well-known, favorite fairy stories, most of which we all grew up with. They were edited and retold in this volume. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
Coyote - Bret Harte
Coyote - Bret Harte
- Author: Bret Harte
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"He went with his widowed mother to California in 1854, and was thrown as a young man into the hurly-burly which he more than any other writer has made real to distant and later people. He was by turns a miner, school-teacher, express messenger,...
The Mentor: Game Animals of America - William T. Hornaday
The Mentor: Game Animals of America - William T. Hornaday
- Author: William T. Hornaday
- Genre: Animals
This is Vol. 4, No. 13, Serial No. 113 of The Mentor, published Aug 15, 1916.This edition of the Mentor Magazine is devoted to big game animals in North America. There is an emphasis on preservation of these animals and opposition to big game...
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
Born in the Marshalsea Prison for Debtors, Amy—Little Dorrit—the daughter of the ruined, but self-respectful William Dorrit, has put her entire heart in caring for her dear father, until one day her humble path is crossed by Arthur Clennam. Their...
History of Egypt - Frederick C. H. Wendel
History of Egypt - Frederick C. H. Wendel
- Author: Frederick C. H. Wendel
- Genre: Antiquity
The history of Egypt from the earliest times to the conquest by Alexander the Great, covering the development of Egyptian civilization: science, religion, art, language and literature. This book is written for the interested layperson, requiring no...
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi
The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi - Giacomo Leopardi
- Author: Giacomo Leopardi
- Genre: Single author
This is a volume of poems by Giacomo Leopardi. - Summary by Carolin...
Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850 - John Woodhouse Audubon
Audubon's Western Journal: 1849-1850 - John Woodhouse Audubon
- Author: John Woodhouse Audubon
- Genre: Nature / Modern (19th C) / Life Sciences
John Woodhouse Audubon (1812-1862), son of the famous painter John James Audubon and an artist in his own right, joined Col. Henry Webb's California Company expedition in 1849. From New Orleans the expedition sailed to the Rio Grande; it headed west...
Perfect Behavior (Version 2) - Donald Ogden Stewart
Perfect Behavior (Version 2) - Donald Ogden Stewart
- Author: Donald Ogden Stewart
- Genre: Humor
A humorous guide for ladies and gentlemen in all social crises. (Summary by MaryAnn)...
A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
A Romance of Two Worlds - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction / Religious Fiction
The book starts with a young heroine telling her story of coping with a debilitating illness that includes depression and thoughts of suicide. Her doctor is unable to help her and sends her off on a holiday where she meets a mystical character by...
Discourses: Biological and Geological - Thomas Henry Huxley
Discourses: Biological and Geological - Thomas Henry Huxley
- Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
- Genre: Earth Sciences / Life Sciences
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist (comparative anatomist). He was the most effective supporter of Darwin's Theory of Evolution and had a strong interest in scientific education - in schools, universities, and for the general public . He...
A House-Boat on the Styx - John Kendrick Bangs
A House-Boat on the Styx - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The premise of the book is that everyone who has ever died (up until the time in which the book is set, which seems to be about the time of its publication) has gone to Styx. This does not appear to be the conventional Hell described by Dante in The...
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria - William Westgarth
Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria - William Westgarth
- Author: William Westgarth
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Son of John Westgarth, surveyor-general of customs for Scotland, was born at Edinburgh, in June 1815. He was educated at the high schools at Leith and Edinburgh, and at Dr Bruce's school at Newcastle-on-Tyne. He then entered the office of G. Young...
Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you seventeen different readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 130. This sonnet offers a look into the Elizabethan ideal of womanly beauty, then turns it on its head with wry realism. Then as now, real beauty is inside. This was...
Murder Madness - Murray Leinster
Murder Madness - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Murder Madness! Seven Secret Service men had completely disappeared. Another had been found a screaming, homicidal maniac, whose fingers writhed like snakes. So Bell, of the secret "Trade," plunges into South America after The Master--the mighty,...
The Mortification of Sin in Believers - John Owen
The Mortification of Sin in Believers - John Owen
- Author: John Owen
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
John Owen, in this Puritan classic, writes succinctly of the matters of the heart in dealing with sin in the life of the Christian. In a way that cuts right to the heart of the matter while leaving no room for excuses, Owen encourages the Christian...
The Mystery of the Hidden Room - Marion Harvey
The Mystery of the Hidden Room - Marion Harvey
- Author: Marion Harvey
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A classic mystery/detective story in the Sherlock Holmes tradition, the hidden room suggested by the title of this book does not remain a mystery for very long as the book progresses. Written in the first person, the husband of his (Carlton Davies)...
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1 - Arthur Griffiths
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 1 - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / True Crime
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' - the warriors against crime have resorted not only to killing...
Non-Combatants and Others - Rose Macaulay
Non-Combatants and Others - Rose Macaulay
- Author: Rose Macaulay
- Genre: General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Through a variety of experiences of the effects of the First World War, an art student is drawn into pacifism. Rose Macaulay's satirical novel is passionate, and witty - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
