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Summa Theologica - 11 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 11 Pars Secunda Secundae, Treatise on the Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265β1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225β1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George EMERSON
The Smoky God or a Voyage to the Inner World - Willis George EMERSON
- Author: Willis George EMERSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a world peopled with giants....
Explanation of Catholic Morals - Rev. John H. STAPLETON
Explanation of Catholic Morals - Rev. John H. STAPLETON
- Author: Rev. John H. STAPLETON
- Genre: Modern
A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals. The ten commandments, vice and virtue from the Catholic perspective. The contents of this volume appeared originally in The Catholic Transcript, of Hartford, Connecticut, in weekly...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 025 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 025 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 029 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 029 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder.The story "Jimmy Goggles the God" by...
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal - Wyndham MARTYN
Anthony Trent, Master Criminal - Wyndham MARTYN
- Author: Wyndham MARTYN
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
In 1918, Anthony Trent, a well-educated young man in his late twenties, lives an unsatisfactory life in a New York boarding house. He writes successful crime fiction stories, but this doesn't pay enough for him to do the things he wants. Things...
Phantasmagoria and other poems - Lewis Carroll
Phantasmagoria and other poems - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
This is a collection of numerous lesser known poems by Lewis Carroll, with a tendency towards entertaining nonsense verses and unusual approaches to subject matter. Some of the poems are rather meta or introspective in content. Overall, this is a...
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland - Elizabeth BISLAND
In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World by Elizabeth Bisland - Elizabeth BISLAND
- Author: Elizabeth BISLAND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
In November 1889, the New York World announced that it was sending its reporter Nellie Bly around the world, in a bid to beat Phileas Fogg's fictitious 80-day journey in Jules Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days. Catching wind of this...
Wuthering Heights (Version 2) - Emily BrontΓ«
Wuthering Heights (Version 2) - Emily BrontΓ«
- Author: Emily BrontΓ«
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Emily BrontΓ«'s only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys...
Quit Your Worrying! - George Wharton JAMES
Quit Your Worrying! - George Wharton JAMES
- Author: George Wharton JAMES
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Christianity - Other
"People will worry, they do worry. What they want to know and need to learn is how to quit worrying. This I have attempted herein to show, with the full knowledge, however, that no one person's recipe can infallibly be used by any other personβso...
To My Cat - Rosamund Marriott WATSON
To My Cat - Rosamund Marriott WATSON
- Author: Rosamund Marriott WATSON
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 different recordings of To My Cat by Rosamund Marriott Wilson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 19th, 2007...
The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543 - John LELAND
The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543 - John LELAND
- Author: John LELAND
- Genre: History / Travel & Geography / Exploration
John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is made up of Leland's notebooks, which were first published in the 18th century, and later in a ten-part,...
Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story - Charles Ross JACKSON
Quintus Oakes: A Detective Story - Charles Ross JACKSON
- Author: Charles Ross JACKSON
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
There have been a series of assaults at the manor house, one sending the mistress of the house insane with fear, another escalating to murder. There are reports of a tread on the stairs and shady figures disappearing from view. The servants blame...
South African Memories - Lady Sarah WILSON
South African Memories - Lady Sarah WILSON
- Author: Lady Sarah WILSON
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Lady Sarah Isabella Augusta Wilson was the aunt of Winston Spencer Churchill. In 1899 she became the first woman war correspondent when she was recruited to cover the Siege of Mafeking for the Daily Mail during the Boer War. She moved to Mafeking...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 020 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 020 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
The Outlaw of Torn - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Outlaw of Torn - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The story is set in 13th century England and concerns the fictitious outlaw Norman of Torn, who purportedly harried the country during the power struggle between King Henry III and Simon de Montfort. Norman is the supposed son of the Frenchman de...
Told after Supper - Jerome K. Jerome
Told after Supper - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction
It is Christmas Eve, and the narrator, his uncle and sundry other local characters are sitting round the fire drinking copious quantities of whisky punch and telling ghost stories until bedtime, when... But no, I won't spoil the fun. This is a...
Amelia (Vol. 1) - Henry Fielding
Amelia (Vol. 1) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
This is the first volume of a three volume novel. In this novel, Amelia marries William Booth against her mother's desires, and the two must move to London. Fielding explores the issues of married life such as infidelity and whether women's...
The Endowments of Man Considered in Their Relations with His Final End - William Bernard Ullathorne
The Endowments of Man Considered in Their Relations with His Final End - William Bernard Ullathorne
- Author: William Bernard Ullathorne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Christianity - Other
William Bernard Ullathorne was a Benedictine monk and Roman Catholic priest who ministered in Australia from 1833 until 1840 and then returned to his native England, where he was ordained a bishop in 1847 and served as Roman Catholic Bishop of...
Bible (YLT) 31-33: Obadiah, Jonah and Micah - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 31-33: Obadiah, Jonah and Micah - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
Bible (YLT) 25: Lamentations - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 25: Lamentations - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
The Wrong Box - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wrong Box - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Wrong Box is a comedy about the ending of a tontine (a tontine is an arrangement whereby a number of young people subscribe to a fund which is then closed and invested until all but one of the subscribers have died. That last subscriber then...
Three Essays on Religion - John Stuart Mill
Three Essays on Religion - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Self-Help
The Three Essays on Religion were written at different times during Mill's life, and only published after his death. The first two, 'Nature' and 'The Utility of Religion' date from the 1850s - the period between the publication of 'The Principles of...
The Crimson Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Crimson Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Crimson Fairy Book contains thirty-six stories collected from around the world and edited by Andrew Lang. Many tales in this book are translated, or adapted, from those told by mothers and nurses in Hungary; others are familiar to Russian...
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) is a tragic novel by English author Thomas Hardy subtitled, "The Life and Death of a Man of Character". It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of...
A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta - Guy Boothby
A Bid For Fortune; Or, Dr Nikola's Vendetta - Guy Boothby
- Author: Guy Boothby
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Guy Newell Boothby (1867 β 1905) was a prolific Australian writer. He moved to London in 1894 and became most well-known for his Dr.Nikola mysteries. This book is the first in a series of five and introduces the good doctor himself. Dr Nikola Is a...
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - Harriet JACOBS
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself - Harriet JACOBS
- Author: Harriet JACOBS
- Genre: Memoirs
Harriet Jacobs' autobiography, written under the pseudonym Linda Brent, details her experiences as a slave in North Carolina, her escape to freedom in the north, and her ensuing struggles to free her children. The narrative was partly serialized in...
Baltimore Hats - William T. BRIGHAM
Baltimore Hats - William T. BRIGHAM
- Author: William T. BRIGHAM
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Technology & Engineering
It is not impossible that some useful information may be conveyed by this book. Should these pages prove of such service, their cost in labor is most cheerfully donated. This volume is composed of a series of articles which appeared in a Trade...
Sevastopol - Leo Tolstoy
Sevastopol - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Single Author Collections
Sevastopol Sketches (Russian: Π‘Π΅Π²Π°ΡΡΠΎΠΏΠΎΠ»ΡΡΠΊΠΈΠ΅ ΡΠ°ΡΡΠΊΠ°Π·Ρ, Sevastopolskiye rasskazy) are three short stories written by Leo Tolstoy and published in 1855 to record his experiences during the Siege of Sevastopol (1854β1855) in the Crimean War...
The Dhammapada (Version 2) - Unknown
The Dhammapada (Version 2) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Other religions
- A Collection of Verses Being One of the Canonical Books of the BuddhistsDhammapada means "The path of Dharma." The Pali word Dhamma corresponds to the Sankrit word Dharma. It is a collection of the teachings of the Buddha. These verses, compiled...
The Black Moth (version 2) - Georgette Heyer
The Black Moth (version 2) - Georgette Heyer
- Author: Georgette Heyer
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
Jack Carstares, oldest son of the Earl Wyncham, has been disgraced by his brother. Gone for six years, living the life a highwayman he meets the woman he will fall in love with. Saving her from being kidnapped by a dastardly blackguard he is injured...
The Wild Olive - Basil KING
The Wild Olive - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Norrie Ford, having been unfairly convicted of murder, has escaped. A lucky chance finds him being rescued by a mysterious girl (the Wild Olive of the title), who sets him up with a new life under a new name in Argentina. He makes such a success of...
The Lake - Edgar Allan Poe
The Lake - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of...
The God of All Comfort - Hannah Whitall SMITH
The God of All Comfort - Hannah Whitall SMITH
- Author: Hannah Whitall SMITH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help / Christianity - Other
This book is written to Christians who profess to believe the Bible as God's revelation, but whose "lives are filled with discomfort and unrest." Smith aims to show that the Bible's claim that God is the "the God of all comfort" is not an...
An American Robinson Crusoe - Samuel B. ALLISON
An American Robinson Crusoe - Samuel B. ALLISON
- Author: Samuel B. ALLISON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
An American Robinson Crusoe is a short version of the original story. An indolent, rebellious teen goes on a marine voyage against his parents' wishes. The ship (and all of its crew) is lost in a storm, but Robinson makes it to a deserted island. He...
The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 3 - Madison Cawein
The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 3 - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Single author
This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sections: In The Shadow of the Beeches, Tansy and Sweet-Alyssum, Weeds by the Wall, and A Voice on the Wind. It is...
The Shadow of the Rope - E. W. Hornung
The Shadow of the Rope - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Rachel Minchin stands in the dock, accused of murdering the dissolute husband she was preparing to leave. The trial is sensational, and public opinion vehemently and almost universally against her. When the jury astonishes and outrages the world...
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Grandfather Frog - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Longlegs the Blue Heron felt decidedly out of sorts. It was a beautiful morning, too beautiful for any one to be feeling that way. Indeed, it was the same beautiful morning in which Grandfather Frog had caught so many foolish green flies. Jolly,...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 032 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 032 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Democracy - An American Novel - Henry Brooks Adams
Democracy - An American Novel - Henry Brooks Adams
- Author: Henry Brooks Adams
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Not until after his death in 1918 was it revealed that Henry Adams was the anonymous author of Democracy, which had been published to great acclaim in 1880. Though the book avoids dates and the characters are fictitious, the setting is no doubt that...
