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Snowdrop and Other Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Snowdrop and Other Tales - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Many of these tales were published in English in 1909, the Brothers Grimm tales in this book were published separately in 1920 with illustrations by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). (Summary by Ann Boulais)...
A Book of Fairy Tales - Sabine Baring-Gould
A Book of Fairy Tales - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of fairy tales, retold by Sabine Baring-Gould. The collection contains such well-known stories as Cinderella and the Beauty and the Beast, but also tales which are now not as widely known, such as the Yellow Dwarf and the White...
The Hour of Twilight - George William RUSSELL
The Hour of Twilight - George William RUSSELL
- Author: George William RUSSELL
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 different recordings of The Hour of Twilight by George William Russell, published in "Collected Poems" in 1913. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 18th, 2007....
The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth - Thomas JEFFERSON
The Jefferson Bible - The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth - Thomas JEFFERSON
- Author: Thomas JEFFERSON
- Genre: Bibles / Biography & Autobiography
The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, commonly referred to as the Jefferson Bible, was a book constructed by Thomas Jefferson in the later years of his life by cutting and pasting with a razor and glue numerous sections from the New Testament as...
Famous Men of the Middle Ages - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of the Middle Ages - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Middle Ages/Middle History
“THE study of history, like the study of a landscape, should begin with the most conspicuous features. Not until these have been fixed in memory will the lesser features fall into their appropriate places and assume their right proportions. The...
The Author's Abstract of Melancholy - Robert BURTON
The Author's Abstract of Melancholy - Robert BURTON
- Author: Robert BURTON
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Author's Abstract of Melancholy by Robert Burton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for September 20, 2009....
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph - Frances SHERIDAN
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph - Frances SHERIDAN
- Author: Frances SHERIDAN
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance
Sidney and Cecilia are best childhood friends who are forced to part for 5 years. In that interval, Sidney Bidulph - an undoubtedly good and dutiful woman - writes to her friend about everything: her marriage, her children, her other friendships...
Vixen - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Vixen - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This is an exquisite and heartbreaking love story. Violet Tempest and Roderick Vawdrey, otherwise known to each other as Vixen and Rorie, are childhood sweethearts. However, Rorie's family wants him to marry elsewhere. You may think it is the old...
The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts - Abbie Farwell Brown
The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts - Abbie Farwell Brown
- Author: Abbie Farwell Brown
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Poems and Christian stories of the animal encounters of various saints. - Summary by Wikipedia...
The Tale of Ferdinand Frog - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Ferdinand Frog - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The wild folk in Pleasant Valley agreed that Ferdinand Frog was an agreeable person to have around. No matter what happened, he was always cheerful. Nobody ever heard of his losing his temper, though to be sure he was sometimes the means of other...
Short Poetry Collection 179 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 179 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 39 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2018....
Sophistical Elenchi - Aristotle
Sophistical Elenchi - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Science
The Sophistical Elenchi is the sixth of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon ("Instrument"). In the Sophistical Elenchi Aristotle identifies 13 falacies. Verbal Fallacies are: Accent or Emphasis; Amphibology;...
The Moon Metal - Garrett P. Serviss
The Moon Metal - Garrett P. Serviss
- Author: Garrett P. Serviss
- Genre: Science Fiction
Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader. Serviss's favorite...
The Prince (Version 3) - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Version 3) - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: Philosophy / Political Science
The Prince (Italian: Il Principe) is a political treatise by the Italian diplomat, historian and political theorist Niccolò Machiavelli. From correspondence a version appears to have been distributed in 1513, using a Latin title, De Principatibus...
Main Street, and Other Poems - Joyce KILMER
Main Street, and Other Poems - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Poetry
This is a book of poems by Joyce Kilmer. It includes several of his religious poems and poems about World War I, in which the author himself lost his life in 1918. - Summary by Carolin...
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form - Augusta STEVENSON
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form - Augusta STEVENSON
- Author: Augusta STEVENSON
- Genre: Plays / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of short stories by the Brothers Grimm, Aesop, Anderson, and more authors, turned into short children's plays by Augusta Stevenson. This collection has seventeen plays in which characters come together and form a classic...
Short Poetry Collection 004 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 004: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand
Gunman's Reckoning - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
A typical early 20th century western. It's a tale of a tough guy who gets involved with an evil man with an angel daughter for whom the tough guy falls. His efforts to recover hers and her father's gold mine claims is the story. Not a lot of shoot...
At the Back of the North Wind (version 2) - George MacDonald
At the Back of the North Wind (version 2) - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Action & Adventure
At the Back of the North Wind is a children's book by George MacDonald. It was serialized in the children's magazine Good Words for the Young beginning in 1868 and was published in book form in 1871. It is a fantasy centered on a boy named Diamond...
Short Poetry Collection 019 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 019 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 019: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Overruled - Pansy
Overruled - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Sequel to "Making Fate". We continue the story of Marjorie Edmonds and those who surround her: Mr. Maxwell, her mother's boarder; Ralph and Estelle Bramlett, with Ralph's impulsiveness and Estelle's selfishness; Hannah Bramlett, who is helping keep...
Cleopatra - Georg EBERS
Cleopatra - Georg EBERS
- Author: Georg EBERS
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The world knows the fate of the classic lovers Cleopatra and Mark Antony, so there is no need to announce a spoiler alert. Georg Ebers was a German Egyptologist who deftly applied his comprehensive knowledge of Rome and Egypt into a fictionalized...
Andersen's Fairy Tales (Version 2) - Hans Christian Andersen
Andersen's Fairy Tales (Version 2) - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A small collection of some of H.C. Andersen's fairy tales -- including The Emperor's New Clothes, The Red Shoes, The Naughty Boy and fifteen others. (Summary by Halle Kill)...
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3) - Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estimation; others disagree) yet of rich imagination, high ideals and a thirst for knowledge of the world. Carried...
Hippolytus - Euripides
Hippolytus - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Eurpides' tragedy tells of Theseus' chaste son Hippolytus, who refuses to worship Aphrodite in favor of Artemis. Aphrodite gets revenge by causing Hippolytus' stepmother Phaedra to fall in love with him, unleashing a chain of tragic events. (Summary...
The Ultimate Weapon - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
The Ultimate Weapon - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Author: John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 039 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include literary figures--Alice Mangold Diehl, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Arthur Hugh Clough; philosophers--Hegel, Kierkegaard; religious...
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill - Alice B. EMERSON
Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill - Alice B. EMERSON
- Author: Alice B. EMERSON
- Genre: Family
Brave, adventurous and loyal, recently-orphaned Ruth Fielding is sent to live with her estranged Uncle Jabez at the Red Mill in Cheslow, New York. A new town means making new friends, and the teenage Ruth quickly befriends the children of a wealthy...
Abandoned - Jules Verne
Abandoned - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Explorers in a hot-air balloon land on an island, figuring that they must be the only inhabitants. However, they discover a bullet inside a wounded animal--one which must have been fired within the previous three months. The men propose to build a...
Bible (YLT) 22: Song of Solomon - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 22: Song of Solomon - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Bibles / Young's Literal Translation
The Song of Songs, also known as the Song of Solomon, the Canticle of Canticles, or simply Canticles, is one of the books of the Ketuvim (the "Writings", the last section of the Hebrew Bible), and the fifth of the "wisdom" books of the Christian Old...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3) - PATANJALI
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man (version 3) - PATANJALI
- Author: PATANJALI
- Genre: Philosophy
This is Charles Johnston's translation of and commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Johnston's interpretation of this seminal yogic text focuses on "the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man." - Summary by Maggie Russell...
The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume V: Italy, France, Spain and Portugal - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / War & Military
This is the fifth 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...
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M. R. JAMES
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary - M. R. JAMES
- Author: M. R. JAMES
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Montague Rhodes James (1862-1936) was a medieval scholar; Provost of King’s College, Cambridge. He wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition of spooky Christmas Eve tales. His stories often use rural settings, with a...
The Tale of Old Mr. Crow - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Old Mr. Crow - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects to entertain. The Tale of Old Mr. Crow is one of 16 stories of his Tuck-Me-In Tales series. - Summary by...
Middle Age Enthusiasms - Thomas Hardy
Middle Age Enthusiasms - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles Dickens was another important...
In God's Garden - Amy Steedman
In God's Garden - Amy Steedman
- Author: Amy Steedman
- Genre: Religion
"In this book you will not find the stories of all God's saints. I have gathered a few together, just as one gathers a little posy from a garden full of roses. But the stories I have chosen to tell are those that I hope children will love best to...
The Divine Comedy (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Dante ALIGHIERI
The Divine Comedy (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Narratives
The Divine Comedy (in Italian, Divina Commedia, or just La commedia or Comedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri in the first decades of the 14th Century, during his exile from his native Florence. Considered the most important work of...
In His Steps (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Charles Monroe SHELDON
In His Steps (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Author: Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Christian Fiction
After a strange event at the Raymond First Church, Reverend Henry Maxwell asks his congregation a startling question: Will they pledge to try and do only what Jesus would for an entire year? Even more important, however is the question: Who will...
A King in Babylon - Burton Egbert Stevenson
A King in Babylon - Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A film company shooting a movie in Egypt becomes embroiled in events that happened in ancient Egypt. A supernatural adventure story about a pharaoh's curse and reincarnation... but with film directors and movie stars as our protagonists. (Written 5...
The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 1 - Flavius Josephus
The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 1 - Flavius Josephus
- Author: Flavius Josephus
- Genre: History / Antiquity
Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. It is a history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. Beginning with the creation of Adam and...
