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Red Men And White - Owen Wister
Red Men And White - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
These eight stories are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as by-gone as the Revolution; so swiftly do we proceed. They belong to each other in a kinship of life and manners, and a little through the...
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: History
Continuing the series with European Leaders, Dr. Lord discusses William IV, Sir Robert Peel, Cavour, Czar Nicholas, Louis Napoleon, Prince Bismarck, William Ewart Gladstone. (Summary by KHand)...
The Sunbonnet Babies in Italy - Eulalie Osgood Grover
The Sunbonnet Babies in Italy - Eulalie Osgood Grover
- Author: Eulalie Osgood Grover
- Genre: General
"See that smoking mountain, Molly! Look! I believe it is a volcano. It is Mount Vesuvius. Yes, I know it is Mount Vesuvius!"May, the Sunbonnet Baby, was talking with Molly, her little Sunbonnet Baby sister. They were standing on the deck of a great...
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
Nightmare Abbey - Thomas Love Peacock
- Author: Thomas Love Peacock
- Genre: Satire
Deep in the fens of the British coast sits the gloomy mansion that goes by the name Nightmare Abbey. It is inhabited by persons of very low opinion of the human race, and in fact they pride themselves in the depths of their detestation. Others of...
The Three Clerks (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
The Three Clerks (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk in the General Post Office to provide an entertaining and moving account of how ambition within the service...
Short Poetry Collection 172 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 172 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 38 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2017....
Mr Munchausen - John Kendrick Bangs
Mr Munchausen - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The author has discovered for us in this volume the present stopping place of that famous raconteur of dear comic memory, the late Hieronymous Carl Friederich, sometime Baron Munchausen, and he transmits to us some further adventures of this...
Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman
Anarchism and Other Essays - Emma Goldman
- Author: Emma Goldman
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Emma Goldman (1869-1940) was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century....
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 4 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 4 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Book 4 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 6:38 - 7:24....
The Miller's Daughter - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Miller's Daughter - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of The Miller's Daughter by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 13th, 2008....
The Best Man - Grace Livingston Hill
The Best Man - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Romance
Cyril Gordon, a young and handsome secret service agent is running from pursuers who desperately want the information he holds. He hides out from them in a church, and then finds himself married to a woman he’s never seen before. A sweet and...
The Boy Scouts on the Trail - St. George Henry Rathborne
The Boy Scouts on the Trail - St. George Henry Rathborne
- Author: St. George Henry Rathborne
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Silver Fox Patrol is up in the Maine Woods, hiking and hunting for big game. The boys find out that guns, and other explosives, can be fun, and dangerous, too! But all the fun comes to an end when some fugitives enter the woods nearby. Herbert...
Autobiography - John Stuart Mill
Autobiography - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 8 May 1873), British philosopher, political economist, civil servant and Member of Parliament, was an influential liberal thinker of the 19th century. He was an exponent of utilitarianism, an ethical theory developed...
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I) - Tobias Smollett
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (Volume I) - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Published before 1800
The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle is a picaresque novel by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett (1721 – 1771), first published in 1751, and revised and reissued in 1758. It is the story of the fortunes and misfortunes of the egotistical dandy...
How I Know God Answers Prayer - Rosalind Goforth
How I Know God Answers Prayer - Rosalind Goforth
- Author: Rosalind Goforth
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
This book is a testimony of how powerful prayer is, how God answers every prayer, even if it is not just how we want it answered. Rosalind Goforth was a missionary to China with her husband and children. She had many, many opportunities to prove...
Jane Austen and Her Times - Geraldine Edith Mitton
Jane Austen and Her Times - Geraldine Edith Mitton
- Author: Geraldine Edith Mitton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a lively and highly accessible overview of the life and times of one of England's most beloved authors. Using excerpts from a wide variety of sources, such as Austen's own personal correspondence and the works of her contemporaries, Mitton...
Lady Barbarina - Henry James
Lady Barbarina - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost a staple of late Victorian literature. "The...
Pillars of Society - Henrik Ibsen
Pillars of Society - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Drama
Pillars of Society was Ibsen's first successful realist drama, first performed in 1877. Karsten Bernick is the dominant businessman in a small coastal town in Norway, with interests in shipping and shipbuilding in a long-established family firm. Now...
The Parasite (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Parasite (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
In this short novel of 1894, Conan Doyle describes a character with seemingly extraordinary powers. Are these powers occult or are they only in the minds of other people? There is no Sherlock Holmes to solve this mystery. (Summary by Delmar H....
Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Elective Affinities - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: General Fiction
Elective Affinities (Die Wahlverwandtschaften) was Goethe's third novel. It depicts human relationships in a Romantic crucible, and is the sourcebook and inspiration for many literary and filmic adaptations and variations. - Summary by Nicole Lee...
Roderick Hudson - Henry James
Roderick Hudson - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student in Northampton, Massachusetts,...
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 3 - Marguerite of Navarre
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Vol. 3 - Marguerite of Navarre
- Author: Marguerite of Navarre
- Genre: Single Author Collections
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 3 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity,...
Through Glacier Park; Seeing America First With Howard Eaton (version 2) - Mary Roberts Rinehart
Through Glacier Park; Seeing America First With Howard Eaton (version 2) - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Travel & Geography
This is the first of two travelogues published by Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876-1958). Both deal with Glacier National Park. (The other is entitled Tenting To-night, which also deals with the Cascade Mountains.). Rinehart wrote hundreds of short...
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1 - Various
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: History / Literary Collections
Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length vary greatly. This collection is a sampling of twenty such articles including one from the Journal de Paris....
Born Again - Alfred Lawson
Born Again - Alfred Lawson
- Author: Alfred Lawson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
"I doubt that anyone who reads [Born Again] will ever forget it: it is quite singularly bad, with long undigestible rants against the evils of the world, an impossibly idealistic Utopian prescription for the said evils, and - as you will have...
The Rulers of the Lakes - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Rulers of the Lakes - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
"The Rulers of the Lakes" is a complete story, but it is also the third volume of the French and Indian War Series, following "The Hunters of the Hills" and "The Shadow of the North." Robert Lennox, Tayoga, Willet, and all the important characters...
The Plastic Age - Percy Marks
The Plastic Age - Percy Marks
- Author: Percy Marks
- Genre: General Fiction
The Plastic Age (1924) is a novel by Percy Marks, which tells the story of co-eds at a fictional college called Sanford. With contents that covered or implied hazing, partying, and "petting", the book sold well enough to be the second best-selling...
The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge - Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox volunteers bring you eight different recordings of The Singing-Woman from the Wood's Edge, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, to celebrate Halloween. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 29th, 2006....
Agnes Grey (Version 3) - Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey (Version 3) - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Anne Bronte's semi-autobiographic novel about Agnes Grey, a young woman who becomes a governess to support her family, but finds her new career more difficult than she expected. - Summary by Libby Gohn...
Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems - Sadakichi Hartmann
Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems - Sadakichi Hartmann
- Author: Sadakichi Hartmann
- Genre: Single author
Sadakichi Hartmann was born in Nagasaki Harbor, to a German businessman and a Japanese mother. His mother died during childbirth and Sadakichi was sent to Germany to be raised. He arrived in America in 1882 and became friends with Walt Whitman....
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods - Laura Lee Hope
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue in the Big Woods - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Family
Bunny Brown and his little sister, Sue, have been having adventures and fun, and getting into scrapes, since the early 1900s. From Chapter One: "Bunny Brown and his sister Sue were at Camp Rest-a-While with their father and their mother. They had...
Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question - Undefined
Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
The issue of Irish home rule was the dominant political question of British and Irish politics in the late 1800s to early 1900s. Published in 1887, this work contains articles in favour of the measure. (Irish home rule was finally approved in 1914...
Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2 - H. H. Bashford
Half-Past Bedtime - Version 2 - H. H. Bashford
- Author: H. H. Bashford
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The wonderful adventures of Marian after she meets the strange Mr. Jugg. "And who are you, Mr Jugg?" she inquired. "I'm the King of the Bumpies," he replied. When Marian was puzzled there came a little straight line, exactly in the middle, between...
Sonnets from the Patagonian: The Street of Little Hotels - Donald Evans
Sonnets from the Patagonian: The Street of Little Hotels - Donald Evans
- Author: Donald Evans
- Genre: Poetry
Sonnets from The Patagonian is a collection of sonnets and the first work published by the short-lived Claire Marie press. Each sonnet is a portrait of someone Evans knows from the Modernist scene just beginning to coalesce in Greenwich Village, and...
The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla - John W. Arctander
The Apostle of Alaska: The Story of William Duncan of Metlakahtla - John W. Arctander
- Author: John W. Arctander
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is this story of William Duncan, an English missionary, who established a colony among the Tsimshian people of the Pacific Northwest. He worked there from 1856 until his death in 1918 at the age of 86. - Summary by Fritz...
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
Alice Adams - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Alice Adams chronicles the attempts of a lower middle class American midwestern family at the turn of the 20th century to climb the social ladder. The eponymous heroine is at the heart of the story, a young woman who...
Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice - Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Hagar's Daughter. A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice - Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- Author: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Hagar's Daughter was first published serially in "The Colored American Magazine" in 1901-1902 by Pauline E. Hopkins, a prominent African-American novelist, journalist, historian, and playwright. The book was described as "a powerful narrative of...
Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion - Various
Poems of American History, Volume 5, The Period of Expansion - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Modern (19th C)
The final section of Poems of American History covers The Reconstruction after the Civil War, the First Centennial, the continued expansion westward, the assasination of Garfield, The Spanish American War, and World War I. Poets in this volume...
Short Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Short Stories - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a collection of short stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist and short story writer. (Summary by sidhu177)...
My Inventions and Other Works - Nikola Tesla
My Inventions and Other Works - Nikola Tesla
- Author: Nikola Tesla
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Between February and October 1919, Nikola Tesla submitted many articles to the magazine Electrical Experimenter. The most famous of these works is a six part series titled My Inventions, which is an autobiographical account of Nikola Tesla's life...
