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Windsor Castle, Book 1 - William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle, Book 1 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Book 1 - Anne Boleyn. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of Surrey and...
The Soul of London - Ford Madox Ford
The Soul of London - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
'Most of us love places very much as we may love what, for us, are the distinguished men of our social lives. [...] We are, all of us who are Londoners, paying visits of greater or less duration to a Personality that, whether we love it or very...
Short Poetry Collection 005 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 005: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel - Margaret HERSCHEL
Memoir and Correspondence of Caroline Herschel - Margaret HERSCHEL
- Author: Margaret HERSCHEL
- Genre: Memoirs / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
For many people, the name Caroline Herschel will be unfamiliar, but she was one of the most significant women on the English scientific scene during the late 18th and early 19th century. Sister of the well known William Herschel (he of the discovery...
More Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
More Bab Ballads - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Ballads
This is a subset of the second collection of Gilbert’s “Bab Ballads” – light verses poking fun at the life and people of his time in Gilbert’s unique “topsy-turvey” style. The epitaph on his memorial on the Victoria Embankment in London is “HIS FOE...
Histology of the Blood - Paul EHRLICH
Histology of the Blood - Paul EHRLICH
- Author: Paul EHRLICH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
This is a textbook on the science of blood and bloodwork by (1908) Nobel Prize winner, Dr. Paul Ehrlich. Should appeal to hematologists, phlebotomists, and just plain folks interested in how our bodies work. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Home Life in Colonial Days - Alice Morse EARLE
Home Life in Colonial Days - Alice Morse EARLE
- Author: Alice Morse EARLE
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Early Modern
CHAPTER IHOMES OF THE COLONISTSWhen the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable. The colonists found a land magnificent with forest trees of every...
Short Poetry Collection 109 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 109 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2012....
Christmas Morning - Eugene Field
Christmas Morning - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Christmas Morning by Eugene Field. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 12, 2010. Eugene Field, Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his...
A Chain of Evidence - Carolyn Wells
A Chain of Evidence - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Mystery: ”Mr. Stone," I began, "if three persons spent the night in an apartment so securely locked on the inside that there was no possible means of ingress, and if in the morning it was found that one of those three persons had been murdered...
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn - Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer Abroad by Huck Finn - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of Jules Verne-esque adventure stories. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim set sail to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where...
Whose Body? (Version 2) - Dorothy L. SAYERS
Whose Body? (Version 2) - Dorothy L. SAYERS
- Author: Dorothy L. SAYERS
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Whose Body? is the first of Dorothy Sayers’s famous Lord Peter Wimsey novels, introducing that nobleman, as well as his manservant and fellow-sleuth, Mervyn Bunter. Scotland Yard’s Inspector Charles Parker, who figures more or less prominently in...
Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl - Unknown
Mabel Ross, the Sewing Girl - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Orphaned Mabel struggles to raise her sisters by working as a sewing girl for long hours and low wages. She meets her challenges with a calm steady faith while her younger sister chafes against the injustice of their lot in life. She is determined...
Anything You Can Do ... (version 2) - Randall Garrett
Anything You Can Do ... (version 2) - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Alien did not intend to crash land on earth, but he did. The alien tried to communicate with humans, but he could not. The alien did not wish to be captured, and so he wasn't. For over 5 years he roamed, looting and killing as necessary. Why...
The Pretty Lady - Arnold Bennett
The Pretty Lady - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christine, who has escaped from wartime Ostend, and set herself up in business in London. Though a refugee, she...
The Superstition of Divorce - G. K. Chesterton
The Superstition of Divorce - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Family & Relationships
This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending marriage and indicating the weaknesses in divorce. He did this 16 years before the first Christian denomination...
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2 - Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend, Version 2 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Our Mutual Friend (written in the years 1864–65) is the last novel completed by Charles Dickens and is one of his most sophisticated works, combining psychological insight with social analysis. It centres on, in the words of critic J. Hillis Miller,...
A Little Bush Maid - Mary Grant BRUCE
A Little Bush Maid - Mary Grant BRUCE
- Author: Mary Grant BRUCE
- Genre: Children's Fiction
An Australian childrens' classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, like the latter story, expect some racial stereotyping of Asian and Aboriginal characters. (Summary...
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 2 - Charles F. Horne
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 2 - Charles F. Horne
- Author: Charles F. Horne
- Genre: History
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. This is volume 2 of 22, covering from 450 BC to 12...
The Kingdom of God is within you - Leo Tolstoy
The Kingdom of God is within you - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The title of the book comes from Luke 17:21. It is a non-fiction work of the famous Russian author Leo Tolstoy. He wrote it after many years of reflexion on Christianity and Jesus. Many subjects are present such as wars, non-violence,...
More About Pixie - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
More About Pixie - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Genre: Family
Pixie is older, her world becomes wider. The stories of her sister Bridgie and her brother Jack emerge, and also that of an intriguing neighbor, Miss Sylvia Trevor. (Summary by Judi Mason)...
Celibates - George Moore
Celibates - George Moore
- Author: George Moore
- Genre: General Fiction
The author is considered the first great Irish writer of realist fiction and is said to have been an inspiration for James Joyce. Celibates is a novel of three characters: Mildred Lawson, John Norton and Agnes Lahens.They have nothing in common...
Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection) - Steele RUDD
Dad's Trip to Brisbane (from Our New Selection) - Steele RUDD
- Author: Steele RUDD
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
Chapters XV through XIX of "Our New Selection" "The wheat was in, and Dad decided to take a trip to Brisbane. For seven or eight years he had been thinking of that trip, but something or other always came to prevent his going. According to Dad...
Kari the Elephant - Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
Kari the Elephant - Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
- Author: Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction
The adventures of an Indian boy and his beloved elephant. Born near Calcutta, Mukerji won the Newbury Medal for children's fiction. (Summary by Adrian Praetzellis)...
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedy by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honor. The action is set in London, in "the present", and takes place within a single day....
George Washington - Calista McCabe COURTENAY
George Washington - Calista McCabe COURTENAY
- Author: Calista McCabe COURTENAY
- Genre: General / Biography & Autobiography
In this biography for young people, Calista McCabe Courtenay takes the reader from George Washington the surveyor to his early military career, first as a colonel in the Virgina militia and then as a member of General Braddock'a staff during the...
The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates - Iola BEEBE
The True Life Story of Swiftwater Bill Gates - Iola BEEBE
- Author: Iola BEEBE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The life of American frontiersman, adventurer, and prospector "Swiftwater" Bill Gates as told by his mother in law. During the Klondike gold rush of the 1890's, Gates made and lost several fortunes. He once gave a dance house girl her weight in...
Astounding Stories 19, July 1931 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 19, July 1931 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction
THE DOOM FROM PLANET 4 JACK WILLIAMSON A Ray of Fire, Green, Mysterious, Stabs Through the Night to Dan on His Ship. It Leads Him to an Island of Unearthly Peril. THE HANDS OF ATEN H. G. WINTER Out of the Solid Ice Craig Hews Three Long-Frozen...
Comic Tragedies - Louisa May Alcott
Comic Tragedies - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Plays
Fans of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women will remember the elaborate plays which the March sisters loved to perform. This volume, published after Alcott's death, is a compilation of the real plays written by her and her sisters, which were...
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3 - Various
United Kingdom House of Commons Speeches Collection, volume 3 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This is the third LibriVox collection of speeches given in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The collection comprises recordings of 10 historic speeches given to the UK House of Commons between 1601 and 1960. Readings are of speeches...
Short Story Collection Vol. 067 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 067 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of 20 short stories selected and read by Librivox readers in English. ...
Ruby Wedding Collection - Various
Ruby Wedding Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This collection comprises short stories, poems, a little bit of history and a little bit of ornithology, all with ruby connections. The reader greatly enjoyed searching out suitable gems for inclusion in this celebration of her own Ruby Wedding...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 7 - Samuel Richardson
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 7 - Samuel Richardson
- Author: Samuel Richardson
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
In Volume 7, the degradation and humiliation of Clarissa continue, from all the forces of society and the personal nefariousness of the devilish rake Lovelace, while her moral greatness and superiority to Lovelace shine out with an undiminished...
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets - Edward LEAR
Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets - Edward LEAR
- Author: Edward LEAR
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A selection of nonsense poems, songs (not sung!), stories, and miscellaneous strangeness. The work includes the "Owl and the Pussycat" and a recipe for Amblongus Pie, which begins "Take 4 pounds (say 4½ pounds) of fresh ablongusses and put them in a...
A Treatise of Modern Falconry - James CAMPBELL
A Treatise of Modern Falconry - James CAMPBELL
- Author: James CAMPBELL
- Genre: Animals / Nature
The 18th century book A Treatise on Modern Falconry is still one of the most quoted books in today's falconry community. The preface was possibly written by a Rev. A. Willis, ridicules "The Origin and Progress of Language," a publication shortly...
Two Thousand Miles Below - Charles Willard Diffin
Two Thousand Miles Below - Charles Willard Diffin
- Author: Charles Willard Diffin
- Genre: Science Fiction
A science fiction novel that was originally produced in four parts in the publication: Astounding Stories in June, September, November 1932, January 1933. The main character is Dean Rawson, who plans on discovering a way of mining power from a dead...
The Lair of the White Worm (Version 2) - Bram Stoker
The Lair of the White Worm (Version 2) - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The Lair of the White Worm (also known as The Garden of Evil) is a horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, who also wrote Dracula. It is partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm. The book was published in 1911, the year before Stoker's...
American Scenery, Vol. 2 - Nathaniel Parker Willis
American Scenery, Vol. 2 - Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Author: Nathaniel Parker Willis
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Although the focus of this book is the engravings depicting scenic sites of 19th century America, each is accompanied by a short description of the site and location. These vignettes give us rare glimpses of scenic locations as they appeared in...
An American Politician - Francis Marion Crawford
An American Politician - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In 1880’s Boston, Mass. the good life is lead according to all the Victorian era societal rules of the New World. Political ambitions and the business of making money go hand in hand. A Senate seat suddenly opens up due to the current junior...
Edgar Allan Poe Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Poetry
Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) is widely famed as one of the greatest writers of all time. He is best known for his works of horror, such as "The Tell Tale Heart." However, and this is less known, Poe also wrote many love poems. In this collection of...
