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Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies - K. Langloh PARKER
Australian Legendary Tales Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs As Told To The Piccaninnies - K. Langloh PARKER
- Author: K. Langloh PARKER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A Collection of Australian Aboriginal Legendary Folk-Lore Tales, legends of the Narran tribe,known among themselves as Noongahburrahs....
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers - Undefined
Christmas Stories from French and Spanish Writers - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Anthologies
Fifteen short stories by Antoinette Ogden from French and Spanish writers of many times. - Summary by david wales...
Austerity Of Poetry - Matthew Arnold
Austerity Of Poetry - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. (Wikipedia)...
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
The War in the Air - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
War in the Air was written during a prolific time in H. G. Wells's writing career. Having withdrawn from British politics to spend more time on his own ideas, he published twelve books between 1901 and 1911, including this one. while many British...
Young Folks' Bible - Josephine Pollard
Young Folks' Bible - Josephine Pollard
- Author: Josephine Pollard
- Genre: Religion
The Sweet Stories of God's Word in the Language of Childhood....
Short Poetry Collection 104 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 104 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2012....
Eminent Victorians - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
Eminent Victorians - Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Author: Giles Lytton STRACHEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
On Modern Library's list of 100 Best Non-Fiction books, "Eminent Victorians" marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the...
Short Story Collection Vol. 046 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 046 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 046: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Monday or Tuesday - Virginia Woolf
Monday or Tuesday - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Short Stories
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English author, essayist, publisher, and writer of short stories, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. During the interwar period, Woolf was a significant figure in London...
The Book of the Bush - George DUNDERDALE
The Book of the Bush - George DUNDERDALE
- Author: George DUNDERDALE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"While the world was young, nations could be founded peaceably. There was plenty of unoccupied country, and when two neighbouring patriarchs found their flocks were becoming too numerous for the pasture, one said to the other: "Let there be no...
Man and Nature on the Broads - Arthur Henry PATTERSON
Man and Nature on the Broads - Arthur Henry PATTERSON
- Author: Arthur Henry PATTERSON
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
From its man-made origins as a consequence of medieval peat excavations, the Broads of Norfolk and Suffolk have evolved into a natural ecosystem, providing habitat for a diverse range of flora and fauna (some of which are unique to the Broads area),...
The Natural History Volume 3 - Pliny the Elder
The Natural History Volume 3 - Pliny the Elder
- Author: Pliny the Elder
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Reference
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of...
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography - Walt Whitman
Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An AutoBiography - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
This story ran as a serial in 1852 in the New York Sunday Dispatch, and for more than 160 years was buried in obscurity, unknown to the world as novel written by Walt Whitman. Zachary Turpin, a graduate student specializing in Whitman's works, had...
The Book of Ghosts - Sabine Baring-Gould
The Book of Ghosts - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) was an English hagiographer, antiquarian, novelist and eclectic scholar. During his life, he published more than 100 books, among them this collection of ghost stories. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
The Make-Believe Man - Richard Harding Davis
The Make-Believe Man - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Adventure was what our protagonist was looking for, when he boarded the steamer "Patience" for his holiday, and when one has a man with such a vivid imagination like Joseph Forbes Kinney as a travel companion, who seems to find adventures at every...
Short Poetry Collection 022 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 022 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 022: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Maid Of Sker - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
The Maid Of Sker - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Who is Bardie? Her refined clothes show that she is not an ordinary girl. But why did she have to be saved from the sea by a fisherman? This story is through the eyes of the fisherman, who followed Bardie throughout her childhood and attempted to...
The Gettysburg Address (version 2) - Abraham Lincoln
The Gettysburg Address (version 2) - Abraham Lincoln
- Author: Abraham Lincoln
- Genre: History
The Gettysburg Address is the most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted speeches in United States history. It was delivered at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 011 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 011 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works / Anthologies
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 011: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Etiquette - W. S. Gilbert
Etiquette - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these...
Uncle Wiggily's Automobile - Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily's Automobile - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
The irrepressible Uncle Wiggily falls ill and Dr. Possum prescribes "an automobile drive before every meal". thus Uncle Wiggly buys an automobile and sets out to be heals. His many adventures are filled with ducks, squirrels, crows and other excited...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 03. March 1897 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 03. March 1897 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles: Storms and Weather Forecasts, by Willis L. Moore Rubber Forests of Nicaragua and Sierra Leone, by Gen. A. W. Greely Recent Explorations...
The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself - Cole YOUNGER
The Story of Cole Younger, by Himself - Cole YOUNGER
- Author: Cole YOUNGER
- Genre: Memoirs
Autobiography of Cole Younger, American Civil War veteran and member of the Jesse James gang. Cole Younger was a member of Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War and along with his brother, Jim Younger and the James brothers, robbed banks and...
Sons and Lovers (Version 2) - D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers (Version 2) - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Lawrence summarised the plot of Sons and Lovers in a letter to Edward Garnett in 1912: “It follows this idea: a woman of character and refinement goes into the lower class, and has no satisfaction in her own life. She has had a passion for her...
Forgiveness (Russell) - George William RUSSELL
Forgiveness (Russell) - George William RUSSELL
- Author: George William RUSSELL
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Forgiveness by George William Russell. This was the weekly poetry project for June 7th, 2009....
The Children's Wonder Book - Various
The Children's Wonder Book - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a wild mix of different children's stories by different authors. All lof the stories are original, and some of them use a well-known story and bring a novel and often humorous twist to it. Children of all ages and all different tastes should...
The Luggage of Life - Frank W. Boreham
The Luggage of Life - Frank W. Boreham
- Author: Frank W. Boreham
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This collection contains 32 essays by the respected Baptist preacher Frank Boreham. Writing on topics that range from falling in love to eating sandwiches at a church meeting, Boreham seeks to encourage and inspire Christian believers around the...
Emma (version 4) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively...
Days With Sir Roger de Coverley - Joseph ADDISON
Days With Sir Roger de Coverley - Joseph ADDISON
- Author: Joseph ADDISON
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The author Sir Richard Steele, who was one of the writers for The Spectator, gets the opportunity to spend a month in Sir Roger de Coverley's house. (Elijah Fisher)...
The Last Ditch - Violet Hunt
The Last Ditch - Violet Hunt
- Author: Violet Hunt
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
An amusing but deeply poignant story, “The Last Ditch” describes the wartime experiences of a British aristocratic family who gradually realize that their old feudal perquisites are passing away in the trenches of the Great War and that...
At the Earth's Core - Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
This is the first book in the Pellucidar series. Pellucidar is a fictional Hollow Earth milieu invented by Edgar Rice Burroughs for a series of action adventure stories. The stories initially involve the adventures of mining heir David Innes and his...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 028 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 028 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 028: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Secret Garden (version 3) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden (version 3) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
When Mary Lennox, who has been brought up in India in a spoiled manner, is orphaned she has to move to Yorkshire, England, to live with her uncle in Misselthwaite Manor. Here she is treated much differently than she was in India - she is able to...
History of a Six Weeks' Tour - Percy Bysshe Shelley
History of a Six Weeks' Tour - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography
Full titled History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland; with Letters Descriptive of a Sail Round the Lake of Geneva and of the Glaciers of Chamouni, this small journal was a travel narrative kept by the...
On the Parts of Animals - Aristotle
On the Parts of Animals - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Ancient / Life Sciences
On the Parts of Animals (Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΖΩΩΝ ΜΟΡΙΩΝ; Latin: De Partibus Animalium) by Aristotle (ΑΡΙΣΤΟΤΕΛΗΣ). The first book asks whether animals were designed or came into existence by chance. The remaining three books focus on particular examples of...
Burning Daylight - Jack London
Burning Daylight - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Burning Daylight, Jack London's fictional novel published in 1910, was one of the best selling books of that year and it was his best selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed...
Chore Time - Jean McKishnie Blewett
Chore Time - Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Author: Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Jean McKishnie Blewett (4 November 1862 – 19 August 1934) was a Canadian journalist, author and poet. Blewett was a regular contributor to The Globe, a Toronto newspaper and in 1898 became editor of its Homemakers Department. In 1919, assisted by...
Captives of the Flame - Samuel R. DELANY
Captives of the Flame - Samuel R. DELANY
- Author: Samuel R. DELANY
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Chip Delany's 2nd novel -- the first is The Jewels of Aptor (1962) -- published by Ace Books in 1963. Set in the 35th Century, the survivors of a nuclear war live on the coastline and an island in a kingdom ruled by a royal family in disrepair. A...
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers - Elizabeth E. LEA
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers - Elizabeth E. LEA
- Author: Elizabeth E. LEA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
The compiler of [this book] having entered early in life upon a train of duties, was frequently embarrassed by her ignorance of domestic affairs. For, whilst receipt books for elegant preparations were often seen, those connected with the ordinary,...
Moths of the Limberlost - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
Moths of the Limberlost - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
Gene Stratton-Porter (August 17, 1863 - December 6, 1924) was an American author, amateur naturalist, wildlife photographer, specializing in the birds and moths in one of the last of the vanishing wetlands of the lower Great Lakes Basin. The...
