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Rick and Ruddy - Howard R. Garis
Rick and Ruddy - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This delightful story is full of ups and downs involving a young boy and his dog, "a gift from the sea". The adventures range from playful antics to times of peril, and through it all, our protagonists (both human and canine alike) come through for...
The Jewels of Aptor - Samuel R. DELANY
The Jewels of Aptor - Samuel R. DELANY
- Author: Samuel R. DELANY
- Genre: Science Fiction
Delany's first novel, from 1962, serves as a sort of prologue to the subsequent Captives of the Flame, 1963. Set several centuries after the Great Fire -- a nuclear holocaust -- a young woman seeks her destiny with the help of a four-armed youth....
Short Poetry Collection 037 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 037 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 037: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
A Late Good Night - Robert F. MURRAY
A Late Good Night - Robert F. MURRAY
- Author: Robert F. MURRAY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Much is written about success and failure in the career of literature, about the reasons which enable one man to reach the front, and another to earn his livelihood, while a third, in appearance as likely as either of them, fails and, perhaps,...
The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois
The Souls of Black Folk - W. E. B. Du Bois
- Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Music
The Souls of Black Folk is a well-known work of African-American literature by activist W.E.B. Du Bois. The book, published in 1903, contains several essays on race, some of which had been previously published in Atlantic Monthly magazine. Du Bois...
A Wodehouse Miscellany - P. G. Wodehouse
A Wodehouse Miscellany - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success for more than seventy years. Best known today for the Jeeves and Blanding Castle novels and short stories, Wodehouse was also a talented playwright and...
Bible (ASV) NT 09: Galatians - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 09: Galatians - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Epistle to the Galatians is a book of the New Testament. It is a letter from Paul of Tarsus to a number of early Christian communities in the Roman province of Galatia in central Anatolia. It is principally concerned with the controversy...
The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Jimmy Rabbit - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
From his Tuck-Me-In series, Arthur Scott Bailey wrote many "Tales" books about animals and birds to be read to children for bed-time stories. This story is about Jimmy Rabbit and his friends (who are focused on in other books) in Pleasant Valley. -...
A Study in Scarlet (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new character of Sherlock Holmes, who later became one of the most famous literary detective characters. He wrote the story in 1886, and it was...
Famous Sea Fights - John Richard HALE
Famous Sea Fights - John Richard HALE
- Author: John Richard HALE
- Genre: War & Military / History
I propose to tell in non-technical and popular language the story of some of the most remarkable episodes in the history of sea power. I shall begin with the first sea-fight of which we have a detailed history—the Battle of Salamis (B.C. 480), the...
The Wailing Asteroid - Murray Leinster
The Wailing Asteroid - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
There was no life on the asteroid, but the miles of rock-hewn corridors through which the earth party wandered left no doubt about the purpose of the asteroid. It was a mighty fortress, stocked with weapons of destruction beyond man's power to...
The Third Person - Henry James
The Third Person - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith in one of James's earliest...
Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2) - United States Government
Amendments to the United States Constitution (version 2) - United States Government
- Author: United States Government
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The Constitution has a total of 27 amendments. The first ten, collectively known as the Bill of Rights, were ratified simultaneously. The following seventeen were ratified separately. (Summary from wikipedia.org)...
The Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow - Florence Roma Muir WILSON
The Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow - Florence Roma Muir WILSON
- Author: Florence Roma Muir WILSON
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the War, seeking a spiritual renewal. Deep in the forest he stumbles fatefully upon the strange, almost elvish...
Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Rough and Ready OR Life Among the New York Newsboys - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Join Rough and Ready for his adventure on the streets of New York City. Working as a newsboy, Rough and Ready tries to support himself and his sister on his meager earnings. Unfortunately, their stepfather is seeking to kidnap little Rose, getting...
The Colonel's Dream - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
The Colonel's Dream - Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Author: Charles Waddell Chesnutt
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In this novel, Chesnutt described the hopelessness of Reconstruction in a post-Civil War South that was bent on reestablishing the former status quo and rebuilding itself as a region of the United States where new forms of "slavery" would replace...
The Citizen's Almanac - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Citizen's Almanac - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Author: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Genre: Education
This is a recording of a booklet given to new naturalized American citizens, it contains an explanation of fundamental documents, symbols and anthems of the United States. "Today you are a citizen of the United States of America— becoming “a peer of...
The World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume II: India, Persia, Mesopotamia and Palestine - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Poetry / Essays & Short Works
This is the second volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
Short Poetry Collection 160 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 160 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2016....
They Call Me Carpenter - Upton Sinclair
They Call Me Carpenter - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
The story takes place in the fictional city of Western City circa 1920. It begins with a man named Billy who is attacked by a mob of ex-servicemen outside a theater after watching a German film. Billy stumbles into a church to escape the mob and is...
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel - Guy de Maupassant
Bel Ami, or The History of a Scoundrel - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction
“He had faith in his good fortune, in that power of attraction which he felt within him - a power so irresistible that all women yielded to it.” Though firmly set in 1880s Paris, Maupassant's gripping story of an amoral journalist on the make could,...
Just Stories: The Kind That Never Grow Old - Winfrid HERBST
Just Stories: The Kind That Never Grow Old - Winfrid HERBST
- Author: Winfrid HERBST
- Genre: Religion
Good Books are wise counselors. They point out the right way in the devious paths of life. Have we not often stood at the juncture of two roads, the one of righteousness and the other of unfaithfulness, and was it not then that some golden little...
The Pianoforte Sonata - John South SHEDLOCK
The Pianoforte Sonata - John South SHEDLOCK
- Author: John South SHEDLOCK
- Genre: Music / Early Modern
John S. Shedlock covers the history of what might now be called the keyboard sonata, from Kuhnau's Sonata in B flat from 1695, believed at the time to be the earliest keyboard sonata, up the present day. Along the way, works by Emanuel Bach, Haydn,...
The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House - Margaret Sidney
The Stories Polly Pepper Told to the Five Little Peppers in the Little Brown House - Margaret Sidney
- Author: Margaret Sidney
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family
Polly Pepper loves to tell stories, but there just isn't enough room in the other books to include her stories! So, since "the author has received from mothers and other persons interested in the Pepper Family, so many requests for the Stories told...
One-Act Play Collection 007 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Librivox’s One-Act Play Collection 007 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. Project BC: Michele Eaton Cast listings: Stepmother Narrator: Ruth Golding Cora Prout: Elizabeth Klett Adrian Prout: bala...
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions - Wirt SIKES
British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions - Wirt SIKES
- Author: Wirt SIKES
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
The British Isles, in particular Wales, are renowned for legend and folklore. The author, an American journalist working in Europe, was appointed Consul to Wales and thus began his fascination with Welsh folklore. He became a renowned authority and...
Widdershins - Oliver ONIONS
Widdershins - Oliver ONIONS
- Author: Oliver ONIONS
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Onions wrote several collections of ghost stories, of which the best known is Widdershins (1911). It includes the novella The Beckoning Fair One, widely regarded as one of the best in the genre of horror fiction, especially psychological horror. On...
Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
Peggy Raymond's Way (or Blossom Time At Friendly Terrace) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Family
In this fifth and (as far as is known) final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from the Great War, and pursuing more domestic and mischievous pursuits. Finishing up college and preparing for...
Consolation - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Consolation - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This Weekly Poem is taken from The Queens' Garden - Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded - Samuel Richardson
- Author: Samuel Richardson
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
"Now first published in order to cultivate the Principles of Virtue and Religion in the Minds of the Youth of Both Sexes. A Narrative which has its Foundation in Truth and Nature; and at the same time that it agreeably entertains, by a Variety of...
The Angel of Terror (version 2) - Edgar Wallace
The Angel of Terror (version 2) - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Beautiful Jean Briggerland is the epitome of evilness in this twisting and turning thriller. She plots many different ways to steal her new victim's riches including lies and murder. Only Jack Glover the lawyer of Jean's most recent victim, is aware...
Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes - Mary Earle HARDY
Sea Stories for Wonder Eyes - Mary Earle HARDY
- Author: Mary Earle HARDY
- Genre: Science
Water is fascinating! Which child is not delighted by the sea shore, by rivers, even by puddles in the street? This little book explains to children that a river can cut through rock to weave its way to the sea, how sand is made, and how fish can...
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
A Doll's House - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Drama
A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play was highly...
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad - Henri BARBUSSE
Under Fire: The Story of a Squad - Henri BARBUSSE
- Author: Henri BARBUSSE
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
An English translation of the French World War I novel "Le Feu", written by a French soldier and dedicated to "the memory of the comrades who fell by my side at Crony and on Hill 119." Barbusse was invalided out of the army after 17 months in 1915,...
The Celebrity - Winston CHURCHILL
The Celebrity - Winston CHURCHILL
- Author: Winston CHURCHILL
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Satirizes the rise of a young novelist (thought to be Richard Harding Davis, but denied as such by Churchill). - Summary by Joseph Tabler...
The Precipice - Ivan Goncharov
The Precipice - Ivan Goncharov
- Author: Ivan Goncharov
- Genre: General Fiction
The Precipice is a story of the romantic rivalry among three men, condemning nihilism as subverting the religious and moral values of Russia. It was originally published in 1869 in Vestnik Evropy. Later critics came to see it as the final part of a...
I Say No - Wilkie Collins
I Say No - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Emily Brown is an orphan girl that almost no one can help but love when they meet her. She is pursued by two worthy men: Mr. Alban Morris, the drawing master at her school; and Rev. Miles Mirabel, a clergyman. However, one of them is lying to her...
The Ghosts' High Noon - W. S. Gilbert
The Ghosts' High Noon - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Ghosts' High Noon by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry HALLOWE'EN project for October 24th, 2010....
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure … and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters - Mole, Rat, and Toad - generally lead upbeat and happy lives, but their tales are...
Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems - Edward Powys MATHERS
Coloured Stars: versions of fifty Asiatic love poems - Edward Powys MATHERS
- Author: Edward Powys MATHERS
- Genre: Anthologies
"There is an opportunity of knowing in brilliant English translations much of the poetry of China and Japan, of India and Persia; and Arabic poetry is accessible ; but I believe this book to be the first general English anthology of Asiatic verse....
