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Henry D. Thoreau - Franklin Benjamin SANBORN
Henry D. Thoreau - Franklin Benjamin SANBORN
- Author: Franklin Benjamin SANBORN
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A biography of the famous and popular poet-naturalist, author, philosopher, historian, written by a family friend who spent time with Thoreau almost daily during the last seven years of his life and who knew and talked with members of his family....
Doxie Dent - John ACKWORTH
Doxie Dent - John ACKWORTH
- Author: John ACKWORTH
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Following the short story collections, Clog Shop Chronicles and Beckside Lights, John Ackworth completed the adventures of clogger Jabez Clegg and his Beckside cronies with a novel. Jabez's niece, the young and vivacious Doxie Dent, has grown up in...
This Country of Ours, Part 4 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This Country of Ours, Part 4 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Reference / Modern (19th C)
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall’s book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. This is Part 4: Stories...
Of the Shortness of Life - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
Of the Shortness of Life - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Author: Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Seneca the Younger wrote the moral essay "De Brevitate Vitae" — "On the Shortness of Life" — to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic principles on the nature of time, namely that men waste much of it in meaningless pursuits....
The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Young Trailers: A Story of Early Kentucky - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Historical
This is the story of Henry Ware, a young boy living in the wilds of the Kentucky frontier of the 1700's. The story follows Henry as he helps to establish a frontier outpost, is captured by an Indian tribe, and ultimately ensures the safety and...
Mrs. Mulligatawny - Arthur MACY
Mrs. Mulligatawny - Arthur MACY
- Author: Arthur MACY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of those who bought Nantucket from...
The Regent - Arnold Bennett
The Regent - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
'The Regent' is, if not a sequel to 'The Card', then a 'Further Adventures of' the eponymous hero of that novel. Denry Machin is now forty-three and begins to feel that he is getting old, that making money and a happy home life are not enough and...
Sentry of the Sky - Evelyn E. SMITH
Sentry of the Sky - Evelyn E. SMITH
- Author: Evelyn E. SMITH
- Genre: Science Fiction
There had to be a way for Sub-Archivist Clarey to get up in the world—but this way was right out of the tri-di dramas. - Summary by original text...
The Legend of Heinz von Stein - Charles Godfrey Leland
The Legend of Heinz von Stein - Charles Godfrey Leland
- Author: Charles Godfrey Leland
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Legend of Heinz von Stein by Charles Godfrey Leland. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 11, 2012. Charles Godfrey Leland was an American humorist who traveled extensively throughout...
The Science - History of the Universe, Vol. 5: Biology - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
The Science - History of the Universe, Vol. 5: Biology - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Author: Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Genre: Life Sciences
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The fifth volume is on Biology written by Caroline E. Stackpole. It discusses biology being the science of life and life’s nature and origins. It furthers explains functions and processes...
Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 2, September 1900 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and 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 published...
The Trial of Callista Blake - Edgar PANGBORN
The Trial of Callista Blake - Edgar PANGBORN
- Author: Edgar PANGBORN
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
In 1959, in the state of New Essex, a witch was on trial. Or so she seemed to many of the jurors who would ultimately decide her fate, and to the people who thronged the crowded courtroom, many of them friends of the murdered woman. On trial for...
Flower of the North - James Oliver Curwood
Flower of the North - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Flower of the North finds Philip Whittemore on an adventure which takes him up the Churchill River of northern Canada to a land which he thought he knew. However, tucked in among the rocks and hills lies an unfamiliar outpost which he's been told is...
History of the World War - Francis Andrew MARCH
History of the World War - Francis Andrew MARCH
- Author: Francis Andrew MARCH
- Genre: War & Military
This is a popular narrative history of the world's greatest war. Written frankly from the viewpoint of the United States and the Allies, it visualizes the bloodiest and most destructive conflict of all the ages from its remote causes to its glorious...
The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children - Kenneth Grahame
The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Anthologies
A collection of poems, many well-known or by famous writers for children, celebrating the joys of life for children and avoiding the all-too-common subject of death. Selected and edited by Kenneth Grahame. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
The Seven Sleuths' Club - Grace May North
The Seven Sleuths' Club - Grace May North
- Author: Grace May North
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Some girls from a day school started a club called Spread Sunshine Club, but change the name when they decide to find some mysteries to solve. They add another girl to their club and before they realize a mystery has began! This is a book by the...
The Damnation of Theron Ware - Harold FREDERIC
The Damnation of Theron Ware - Harold FREDERIC
- Author: Harold FREDERIC
- Genre: General Fiction
The Damnation of Theron Ware (published in England as Illumination) is an 1896 novel by American author Harold Frederic. It is widely considered a classic of American realism. The novel reveals a great deal about turn-of-the-century provincial...
Dooryard Stories - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Dooryard Stories - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Animals & Nature
A collections of stories about the animals around our houses, the birds, the cats, and even the bugs! Written in a humorous and very interesting style, the animals sound almost human, and you can learn along with them. You'll learn what happens to a...
The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 1 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This Autobiography of Goethe has a lengthy introduction and short biography of Goethe's life by Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and was translated by John Oxenford (1812-1877) in 1848, which was a year of revolutions in Europe. Johann Goethe was a...
English as She is Spoke - Pedro CAROLINO
English as She is Spoke - Pedro CAROLINO
- Author: Pedro CAROLINO
- Genre: Humor / Writing & Linguistics
English as She is Spoke is a 19th century Portuguese-to-English phrasebook that has become a classic of absurdist humor, owing chiefly to the apparent fact that its writer had absolutely no knowledge of English. It is thought that for utterly...
The Story of a Lamb on Wheels - Laura Lee Hope
The Story of a Lamb on Wheels - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Lamb on Wheels is the third in the series of Make Believe Stories, about toys and dolls, made in the North Pole workshop of Santa Claus, who find themselves in toy stores, where they "make believe come to life," have games and adventures, and...
The Indian Serenade - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Indian Serenade - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Romance
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Indian Serenade, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 8, 2019. ------ From Wikipedia, Shelley's short life spanned from August 1792 – 8 July 1822 and after...
Short Poetry Collection 017 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 017 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox's Short Poetry Collection 017: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Miss Billy Married - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy Married - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
At the opening to this second sequel to Miss Billy (Miss Billy, Miss Billy's Decision, Miss Billy Married), we find Bertram and Billy finally at the altar. Will wedded bliss ensue and are the patter of little feet on the horizon? Or is...
Beckside Lights - John ACKWORTH
Beckside Lights - John ACKWORTH
- Author: John ACKWORTH
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Beckside Lights is the sequel to his popular collection of...
Bible (ASV) NT 07: 1 Corinthians - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 07: 1 Corinthians - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The First Epistle to the Corinthians is a book of the Bible in the New Testament. 1 Corinthians is a letter from Paul of Tarsus and Sosthenes to the Christians of Corinth, Greece. This epistle contains some of the best-known phrases in the New...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The story involves a German professor (Otto Lidenbrock in the original French, Professor Von Hardwigg in the most common English translation) who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel (Harry),...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 013 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 013 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works / Anthologies
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 013: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Robert Browning - G. K. Chesterton
Robert Browning - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Literary Criticism
There is an old anecdote, probably apocryphal, which describes how a feminine admirer wrote to Browning asking him for the meaning of one of his darker poems, and received the following reply: "When that poem was written, two people knew what it...
Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800 - François-René de Chateaubriand
Memoirs of Chateaubriand 1768 to 1800 - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Memoirs
This is the first volume of Chateaubriand's Memoires d'Outre Tombe, in a Victorian translation. It covers the period from his birth, including the extraordinarily evocative childhood years and his travels in America, the source of some of his later...
House of the Trees and Other Poems - Ethelwyn WETHERALD
House of the Trees and Other Poems - Ethelwyn WETHERALD
- Author: Ethelwyn WETHERALD
- Genre: Single author
Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald was a Canadian poet and journalist, published across Canada and the United States. She also worked as an editor for the Globe and was part of the editorial staff for The Advertiser in London, Ontario. This collection of...
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
This is the story of Peter Rabbit, a mischievous, but cautious, lagomorph who lives in the Green Meadows. Peter Rabbit begins his adventures with a quest for a new name, since his name is far too common for his taste. Having a new name is not quite...
Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty - Imbert de SAINT-AMAND
Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty - Imbert de SAINT-AMAND
- Author: Imbert de SAINT-AMAND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Paris in 1792 is no longer what it was in 1789. In 1789, the old French society was still brilliant. The past endured beside the present. Neither names nor escutcheons, neither liveries nor places at court, had been suppressed. The aristocracy and...
Jean Valjean; or, The Shadow of the Law - Harry Clifford FULTON
Jean Valjean; or, The Shadow of the Law - Harry Clifford FULTON
- Author: Harry Clifford FULTON
- Genre: Drama / Romance
A late 19th-century stage adaptation of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables in English, The Shadow of the Law dramatizes the struggles of Hugo's legendary characters: Jean Valjean, the former convict; his relentless pursuer, Javert; Fantine, the tragic...
The Man Without A Country And Other Tales - Edward Everett HALE
The Man Without A Country And Other Tales - Edward Everett HALE
- Author: Edward Everett HALE
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Edward Everett Hale (1822 – 1909) was an American author, historian and Unitarian clergyman. Hale first came to notice as a writer in 1859, when he contributed the short story "My Double and How He Undid Me" to the Atlantic Monthly. He soon...
Clara Vaughan, Vol. II - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Clara Vaughan, Vol. II - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Detective Fiction
CLARA VAUGHAN, the young heroine, narrator, and namesake for R. D. Blackmore’s early detective novel, is determined to solve the mystery of her father’s murder—a crime that occurred when she was only 10 years of age. Volume II of the trilogy...
The Divine Comedy - Dante ALIGHIERI
The Divine Comedy - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Poetry
The Divine Comedy (Italian: Commedia, later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, the last great work of...
Imaginary Conversations (Dramatic Reading) - Walter Savage Landor
Imaginary Conversations (Dramatic Reading) - Walter Savage Landor
- Author: Walter Savage Landor
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical Fiction
This is a group of Imaginary Conversations by Walter Savage Landor. It is a series of dialogues of historical and mythical characters. Marcellus and Hannibal, Queen Elizabeth and Cecil, Peter the Great and Alexis, Louis XIV and Father La Chaise,...
Has a Frog a Soul? - Thomas Henry Huxley
Has a Frog a Soul? - Thomas Henry Huxley
- Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Philosophy
Thomas Huxley, known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his championing and development of Darwinism, was perhaps the most important Victorian biologist after Darwin himself. This speech to the Metaphysical Society in 1870 is one of Huxley’s best known texts...
Lectures on Tropical Diseases - Patrick MANSON
Lectures on Tropical Diseases - Patrick MANSON
- Author: Patrick MANSON
- Genre: Medical
This short volume consists of the ten lectures which Sir Patrick Manson, medical adviser to the Colonial Office, delivered in San Francisco in 1905. Valuable to this day are his clinical descriptions: the three foot Guinea worm, still treated by...
