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Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 5, November 1898 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 5, November 1898 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
To My Dream-Love - Walter Richard CASSELS
To My Dream-Love - Walter Richard CASSELS
- Author: Walter Richard CASSELS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Walter Richard Cassels is the speculated author of the anonymous work Supernatural Religion.He wrote poetry and was an art collector. Never married, he died in London on 10 June 1907. - Summary by Wikipedia...
The Inconstant - George Farquhar
The Inconstant - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Subtitled "The Way to Win Him:, this play is placed in Paris - a change from many others of Farquhar's plays which used English settings - though still presented to the same English audience. "This comedy ... had a reception, on the first night of...
The Story of Avis - Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
The Story of Avis - Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
- Author: Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
- Genre: General Fiction
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's 1877 novel is set in a New England college town, and focuses on Avis Dobell, a professor's daughter. Avis is a talented painter, and bucks against the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. She wants to pursue a...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 1: Desrues - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 1: Desrues - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
This story chronicles the crimes of Antoine-Francois Desrues (also called "Derues") from his childhood to his execution. Desrues constructed the veneer of a virtuous reputation that hid his ever-increasing deviancy from society. Eventually, his lust...
Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose - Various
Eighteenth Century Poetry and Prose - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Anthologies
A collection of prose and poetry written principally in the 18th Century. These works of world literature are written in the English language or are in English translation. (Summary by Alan Davis Drake) NOTE: Poem 35, “Hills of Home,” was written...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Edgar Allan Poe has the ability to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little was 'done' in the sense of horrible actions described. My imagination, under the power of his creepy words,...
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of Macbeth (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Macbeth is a play written by William Shakespeare. It is considered one of his darkest and most powerful tragedies. Set in Scotland, the play dramatizes the corroding psychological and political effects produced when its protagonist, the Scottish...
The Works of Tacitus, Vol. I - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Works of Tacitus, Vol. I - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The historical works of Tacitus are a history of the period from A.D. 14 to 96 in thirty volumes. Although many of the works were lost (only books 1-5 of the Histories and 1-6 and 11-16 of the Annals survive), enough remains to provide a good sense...
Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories - Albert Payson Terhune
Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories - Albert Payson Terhune
- Author: Albert Payson Terhune
- Genre: Short Stories
Buff: A Collie and Other Dog-Stories is one of many popular books written by Albert Payson Terhune that have delighted dog lovers for decades. Terhune loved dogs, and he bred and raised collies at his Sunnybank Kennels. Terhune sometimes included...
A Short History of Scotland - Andrew Lang
A Short History of Scotland - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Antiquity / Middle Ages/Middle History
A Short History of Scotland is a consise introduction to the history of Scotland from Roman times to the last Jacobite rebellion, written by the author of a much longer Scottish history. (Summary by Sibella Denton.)...
Cutlass and Cudgel - George Manville Fenn
Cutlass and Cudgel - George Manville Fenn
- Author: George Manville Fenn
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Action & Adventure
Based around the crew of cutter HMS White Hawk, this is a tale of smuggling in the early 19th century off the coast of Wessex. The midshipman of the cutter is taken hostage by the smugglers and is befriended by a farm-boy, son of one of the...
The Innocents, A Story for Lovers - Sinclair Lewis
The Innocents, A Story for Lovers - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
“Mr. and Mrs. Seth Appleby were almost old. They called each other 'Father' and 'Mother.' But frequently they were guilty of holding hands, or of cuddling together in corners, and Father was a person of stubborn youthfulness.” It is only by...
Twain and Howells On Each Other - Mark Twain
Twain and Howells On Each Other - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and William Dean Howells were friends for 44 years. Their personal and professional relationship is considered by many to be one of the most important in American literature. Howells published his famous "My Mark Twain"...
Contagion - Katherine MACLEAN
Contagion - Katherine MACLEAN
- Author: Katherine MACLEAN
- Genre: Science Fiction
Minos was such a lovely planet. Not a thing seemed wrong with it. Excepting the food, perhaps. And a disease that wasn't really. Originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction, October, 1950. Katherine Anne MacLean (born January 22, 1925) is an...
The Statement of Stella Maberly - F. Anstey
The Statement of Stella Maberly - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
From childhood Stella Maberly has been violently wilful and jealous, yet certain of her own superiority. She can be loving and friendly, but soon loses friends, when in the grip of her “demons” she acts with disdain and subtle cruelty, and then...
Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies - Charles G. MUTZENBERG
Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies - Charles G. MUTZENBERG
- Author: Charles G. MUTZENBERG
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
As this book will show, there have been a variety of clashes and feuds which have taken place in and near Kentucky over the years, primarily in the 19th century. The most renowned of these was that between the Hatfield and McCoy clans, which is...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 041 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include a woman in Alaska, Cuban folklore, and hunting peccaries on the Nueces; Max Planck's Quantum Theory and Newton's world view; church bells and...
The Boss - Edward SHELDON
The Boss - Edward SHELDON
- Author: Edward SHELDON
- Genre: Plays / Drama
The Boss centers on the relationship between Michael Regan, an Irish-American businessman, and Emily Griswold, an outspoken American girl bent on saving her father's business. Set during a time when unions fought for wages and bosses fought for more...
Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse) - Anna Sewell
Black Beauty (The Autobiography of a Horse) - Anna Sewell
- Author: Anna Sewell
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Black Beauty is Anna Sewell’s first and only novel. The story is told in the “first person” (or first horse) as an autobiographical memoir of a highbred horse named Black Beauty, from his carefree days as a foal on an English farm, to his difficult...
A Man's World - Rachel CROTHERS
A Man's World - Rachel CROTHERS
- Author: Rachel CROTHERS
- Genre: Plays
The mysterious Frank Ware is a woman writer forced to write under a masculine pseudonym in order to win literary respect. Adding to her enigmatic status is the fact that she lives in New York City with her adopted child, a little son of unknown...
A Guide to Men - Helen ROWLAND
A Guide to Men - Helen ROWLAND
- Author: Helen ROWLAND
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
A series of occasionally witty one-liners, poems and considerations on the subject of Men, Women and their Conjunction. By turns tender, bland, sexist (in both directions!) and funny. Summary by Cori Samuel. From the text: A man is like a park...
Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections - William Diller MATTHEW
Dinosaurs, With Special Reference to the American Museum Collections - William Diller MATTHEW
- Author: William Diller MATTHEW
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science / Life Sciences
America has had a fascination with dinosaurs, particularly since the wild enthusiasm of Jurassic Park and its sequels. The term "dinosaur" was coined in 1841 by the Victorian scientist Sir Richard Owen. By the end of the 19th century, geologists and...
Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 001 - William Shakespeare
Shakespearean Dialogues Collection 001 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
This is a collection of scenes from Shakespeare's plays, mainly comprising dialogues between two characters. The theme for this collection is "Wooing, Wedding, and Repenting" (inspired by a line from Much Ado About Nothing). (Summary by Elizabeth...
Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers - Charles BRADLAUGH
Ancient and Modern Celebrated Freethinkers - Charles BRADLAUGH
- Author: Charles BRADLAUGH
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Atheism & Agnosticism
This book presents a brief bio and a summary of important ideas & events in the lives of 23 great philosophers from ancient times through the 19th century. The book focuses on freethinkers, who are known to say things which upset those in power,...
Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest - Stewart Edward White
Conjuror's House, a Romance of the Free Forest - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
In the northern outreaches of the Canadian wilderness, it was understood that the Hudson Bay Company governed all trading, and one factor named Galen Albret took his position seriously. Free traders, or those who dared try to do their trading...
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher - Walter Savage Landor
Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher - Walter Savage Landor
- Author: Walter Savage Landor
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 1, 2011. Walter Savage Landor was an English writer and poet. His best known works were the...
King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714) - George Henry WAKELING
King and Parliament (A.D. 1603-1714) - George Henry WAKELING
- Author: George Henry WAKELING
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
This slim volume by the Oxford University lecturer, George Henry Wakeling, deals with the period in British history from the reign of King James I through the death of Queen Anne. The story begins with England, transformed by the Protestant...
Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories - Various
Grandma Janice's Poems and Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Poetry
The poems and stories in this collection were selected with the reader’s grandchildren in mind. “The Raggedy Man” and “Little Orphant Annie,” both by James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet were favorites of the reader when she was a child on a farm...
Write it Right - Ambrose Bierce
Write it Right - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Writing & Linguistics
Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, thought-provoking, occasionally outdated but so interesting to see how style and taste have changed. Summary by...
Short Science Fiction Collection 057 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 057 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The Machine that Saved the World - Murray Leinster
The Machine that Saved the World - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
They were broadcasts from nowhere--sinister emanations flooding in from space--smashing any receiver that picked them up. What defense could Earth devise against science such as this? In the far future of 1972, on a secret military installation,...
Tik-Tok of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Tik-Tok of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Betsy Bobbin encounters many strange and exciting adventures and people in the land of Oz; a side-plot is Queen Ann of Oogaboo's mission to take over Oz. (Summary by Ryan T.)...
King Henry IV, Part 1 - William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 1 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Drama
King Henry IV, Part 1 is the second of Shakespeare’s eight Wars of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II. As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingbroke) and Henry Percy (Hotspur) argue over the...
Erewhon - Samuel BUTLER
Erewhon - Samuel BUTLER
- Author: Samuel BUTLER
- Genre: Satire / Science Fiction
Erewhon, or Over the Range is a novel by Samuel Butler, published anonymously in 1872. The title is also the name of a country, supposedly discovered by the protagonist. In the novel, it is not revealed in which part of the world Erewhon is, but it...
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story - Henry MORGENTHAU
Ambassador Morgenthau's Story - Henry MORGENTHAU
- Author: Henry MORGENTHAU
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science / Modern (20th C)
Ambassador Morgenthau’s memoirs of his years in the service of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide....
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2) - Various
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3: Sorrow and Consolation (Part 2) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This is the third of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes a range of famous poems relating to such topics as comfort and cheer; death and bereavement; and...
The Mountains of California - John Muir
The Mountains of California - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature
John Muir (1838–1914) was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife, especially in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, were read by millions and are still...
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2) - Andrew Lang
Tales of King Arthur and the Round Table (version 2) - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The tales of King Arthur and his Knights are of Celtic origin. The Celts were the people who occupied Britain at the time when the history of the country opens, and a few words are necessary to explain why the characters in the stories act and speak...
