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Human Nature and Conduct - Part 4 Conclusion - John Dewey
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 4 Conclusion - John Dewey
- Author: John Dewey
- Genre: Early Modern / Modern
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist. This project encompasses Part 4 of 4 of his book Human Nature and Conduct, An Introduction to Social Psychology, published in 1922. Dewey's uses the words...
The Analects of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
The Analects of Confucius - Confucius 孔子
- Author: Confucius 孔子
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Analects, or Lunyu, also known as the Analects of Confucius, are considered a record of the words and acts of the central Chinese thinker and philosopher Confucius and his disciples, as well as the discussions they held. Written during the...
Wellington - George Hooper
Wellington - George Hooper
- Author: George Hooper
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, (1769-1852), was born in Dublin, the younger son of an Irish Protestant aristocrat. He served with his brother in India and rose to prominence during the Napoleonic Wars in the Peninsular Campaign. As a...
Poetic Duets - Various
Poetic Duets - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This selection of poems has many favourites from authors such as Edward Lear and Robert Browning, as well as less well known authors. We hope you enjoy the poems. Please note that sections 3 and 11 had two sources for the text of the poems; they are...
Walden, Version 2 - Henry David Thoreau
Walden, Version 2 - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Nature / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods) is an American book written by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence,...
Murder in the Gunroom - H. Beam Piper
Murder in the Gunroom - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Lane Fleming collection of early pistols and revolvers was one of the best in the country. When Fleming was found dead on the floor of his locked gunroom, a Confederate-made Colt-type percussion .36 revolver in his hand, the coroner's verdict...
The Lovels of Arden - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Lovels of Arden - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The novel traces the return of a young Englishwoman from several years of schooling abroad, to find that her life will not take up where she thought it would. Clarissa Lovel faced not only an emotionally and financially bereft father, but her first...
My Doves - Louisa May Alcott
My Doves - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you eleven readings of My Doves, by Louisa May Alcott. This was the fortnightly poem for December 21, 2014 - January 4, 2015 - Summary by Rachel...
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name - Thomas Moore
Oh, Call It by Some Better Name - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of "Oh, Call It by Some Better Name" by Thomas Moore. Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of The Minstrel Boy and The Last Rose of...
The Spirit of the Border - Zane Grey
The Spirit of the Border - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
This is an early novel by the phenomenally successful author of frontier, western and sports stories. It deals with historical characters and incidents in the Ohio Valley in the late 18th century, especially with the foundation of Gnaddenhutten, a...
The Story of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
The Story of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
- Author: Francis Archibald Bruton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
On 16th August 1819 around 60,000 people gathered at St. Peter’s Fields, Manchester, to rally for parliamentary reform. Shortly after the meeting began, a troop of Hussars and local yeomanry rode into the crowd, wielding clubs, swords and sabres,...
The Army of Death - Charles Hamilton Sorley
The Army of Death - Charles Hamilton Sorley
- Author: Charles Hamilton Sorley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Captain Sorley was among 16 Great War poets commemorated in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner. The inscription was written by Wilfred Owen. It reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." This is regarded as one of...
A Sailor's Lass - Emma Leslie
A Sailor's Lass - Emma Leslie
- Author: Emma Leslie
- Genre: Religion / Christian Fiction
On a dark and story night, the Coombers find a little girl. Who is she? - Summary by EstherbenSimonides Proof Listening provided by Fiddlesticks and Tawnya Roy...
The Witness for the Defence - A. E. W. Mason
The Witness for the Defence - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Part romance, part mystery, part courtroom and quasi-courtroom drama. Young love reignites itself after a hiatus of some years. Or does it? Much can change in that time -- both to the people themselves, and to the events that shape their lives. The...
Short Poetry Collection 176 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 176 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 27 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2018...
Tom Ossington's Ghost - Richard Marsh
Tom Ossington's Ghost - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Madge and Ella have lived at Clover Cottage for six weeks when a series of strange events begin to occur. A gentleman who arrives asking for a piano lesson from Madge, suddenly bolts out the back door and over the hedge when he sees a rough-looking...
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance
The story takes place in a small woodland village called Little Hintock, and concerns the efforts of an honest woodsman, Giles Winterborne, to marry his childhood sweetheart, Grace Melbury. Although they have been informally betrothed for some time,...
The Dawn Patrol, and Other Poems of an Aviator - Paul Bewsher
The Dawn Patrol, and Other Poems of an Aviator - Paul Bewsher
- Author: Paul Bewsher
- Genre: Single author
Paul Bewsher writes poems of a wartime aviator from his heart and soul. His heart longs for an end to the perils of war and the forced destruction meted out by him and his fellow soldiers while yearning for a return to the serenity of home. His soul...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 03 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 03 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
National Geographic Magazine Volume 3, articles published in 1891 and 1892. South America: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard Geography of the Land: Annual Report by Vice-President Herbert G. Ogden Geography of the Air: Annual...
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers - John Burroughs
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes, and Other Papers - John Burroughs
- Author: John Burroughs
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Probably no other American writer has a greater sympathy with, and a keener enjoyment of, country life in all its phases—farming, camping, fishing, walking—than has John Burroughs. His books are redolent of the soil, and have such "freshness and...
Bible (KJV) 18: Job (Dramatic Reading) - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 18: Job (Dramatic Reading) - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The Book of Job is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. It relates the story of Job, his trials at the hands of Satan, his theological discussions with friends on the origins and nature of his suffering, his challenge to God, and finally a response...
Fancies Versus Fads - G. K. Chesterton
Fancies Versus Fads - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A Collection of 31 essays from G.K. Chesterton. “I have strung these things together on a slight enough thread; but as the things themselves are slight, it is possible that the thread (and the metaphor) may manage to hang together. These notes range...
The Man Who Lost Himself - H. De Vere Stacpoole
The Man Who Lost Himself - H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Author: H. De Vere Stacpoole
- Genre: General Fiction
Best known for his literary work The Blue Lagoon, which has been made into film several times over, H. De Vere Stacpoole’s first publication was a book titled The Intended in 1894. Stacpoole was disappointed at its lack of commercial success, and...
Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It - William Walker Atkinson
Memory: How to Develop, Train and Use It - William Walker Atkinson
- Author: William Walker Atkinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Science
An in-depth series of chapters devoted to the use of our memory system; as the title suggests, how to develop our memory system, how to train it to improve it, and how to make the best use of it in our everyday lives, and to improve our positions in...
A Bunch of Everlastings - Frank W. Boreham
A Bunch of Everlastings - Frank W. Boreham
- Author: Frank W. Boreham
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Commentary
A collection of brief biographies and the text from scripture that was significant in the life of each. It is biography and devotional Bible study expertly woven together to produce interesting and inspirational stories. (Summary by Tim Bower)...
Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English (version 2) - Henry Stanton
Sex: Avoided Subjects Discussed in Plain English (version 2) - Henry Stanton
- Author: Henry Stanton
- Genre: Family & Relationships
Henry Stanton was appalled at the shocking lack of information given to young people about sex and reproduction in his time. He felt this was a crime that needed to be fixed and so he wrote this book explaining sex for young and old. Ignorance of...
Bible (ASV) 18: Job - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 18: Job - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Book of Job (American Standard Version) is presented in forty-two chapters and is one of the Old Testament Wisdom Books. The narrative chronicles the trials of Job as he is brought low from a comfortable and exalted position in his community to...
Shadows in Zamboula - Robert E. Howard
Shadows in Zamboula - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Despite a warning received in the Suq by an elderly desert nomad, Conan stays the night in a cheap tavern in Zamboula, run by Aram Baksh. As night falls, a black Darfarian cannibal enters to drag him away to be eaten. All of the Darfar slaves in the...
Mountain Song - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Mountain Song - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine recordings of "Mountain Song” by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson. The Weekly Poem for August 31, 2014 takes us up to the mountain heights of Norway. (Summary by MaryAnn)...
Pragmatism - William James
Pragmatism - William James
- Author: William James
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
'Pragmatism' contains a series of public lectures held by William James in Boston 1906–7. James provides a popularizing outline of his view of philosophical pragmatism while making highly rhetorical and entertaining lashes towards rationalism and...
The Mintage - Elbert Hubbard
The Mintage - Elbert Hubbard
- Author: Elbert Hubbard
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Elbert Hubbard is best known as the author of the "Little Journeys To The Homes of Famous People". These 11 short stores show the side of him that celebrated caring, friendship love among humans. The first describes how 5 frightened orphan children...
The Uttermost Farthing - R. Austin Freeman
The Uttermost Farthing - R. Austin Freeman
- Author: R. Austin Freeman
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Humphrey Challoner is a solitary old man who spent a lifetime collecting for his private museum, primarily mammals exhibiting osteological abnormalities but also 24 articulated human skeletons without any apparent defect. His friend, Dr. Wharton, is...
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Ulysses S. Grant
- Genre: Memoirs
In preparing these volumes for the public, I have entered upon the task with the sincere desire to avoid doing injustice to any one, whether on the National or Confederate side, other than the unavoidable injustice of not making mention often where...
Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers - David Cory
Little Jack Rabbit and the Squirrel Brothers - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. This is the third of the Little Jack Rabbit books. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 15, Feb. 10, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 15, Feb. 10, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, poetry, and more. This 15th issue of the serial, published on February 10, 1880, features...
A Reading of Life, with Other Poems - George Meredith
A Reading of Life, with Other Poems - George Meredith
- Author: George Meredith
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by George Meredith. The first four poems are the cycle A Circle of Life, the rest of the poems are miscellaneous collected poems. - Summary by Carolin...
The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence
The Practice of the Presence of God - Brother Lawrence
- Author: Brother Lawrence
- Genre: Religion
The Practice of the Presence of God is a collection of letters and transcriptions of conversations, compiled by a disciple of Brother Lawrence. Brother Lawrence was a Carmelite monk and head cook in his monastery's kitchens. He quickly gained an...
The Priest's Brother - Dora Sigerson Shorter
The Priest's Brother - Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Author: Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon and writer, and Hester (née Varian),...
Dreams - Olive Schreiner
Dreams - Olive Schreiner
- Author: Olive Schreiner
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
Olive Schreiner was a South African writer and intellectual born in 1855 to missionary parents in the Eastern Cape. She was one of the earliest campaigners for women's rights. She was also very critical of British Imperialism in her homeland and...
Lad: A Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
Lad: A Dog - Albert Payson Terhune
- Author: Albert Payson Terhune
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Lad: A Dog is a 1919 American novel written by Albert Payson Terhune and published by E. P. Dutton. Composed of twelve short stories first published in magazines, the novel is based on the life of Terhune's real-life rough collie, Lad. Born in 1902,...
