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The Garden of Eden - Max Brand
The Garden of Eden - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Westerns / Published 1900 onward
Ben Connor is a gambler who knows horses. He goes out west to get away from the gambling life he has been leading in New York. There he discovers a breed of grey horses that he thinks are the best horses he has ever seen. The problem is that these...
A Thousand Miles up the Nile - Amelia Ann Blanford EDWARDS
A Thousand Miles up the Nile - Amelia Ann Blanford EDWARDS
- Author: Amelia Ann Blanford EDWARDS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Travel & Geography
Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn't leave...
Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship - Robert SHERARD
Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship - Robert SHERARD
- Author: Robert SHERARD
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. The Story of an Unhappy Friendship was the first of his four biographies of the Irish playwright and wit. - Summary by Rob Board...
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children - Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels in Lilliput and Brobdingnag, Told to the Children - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This is a children's version of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels, from the Told to the Children Series (published in 1910). The children's adventure story covers Gulliver's visits to the lands of Lilliput and Brobdingnag. (Summary by Laurie...
Short Story Collection Vol. 071 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 071 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Romance and mystery abound in this, the seventy-first collection of short stories selected and read by Librivox volunteers....
Resurrection, Book 1 - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection, Book 1 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction
Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the...
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (version 2 dramatic reading) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (version 2 dramatic reading) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Mary Shelley's 1818 novel presents the Faustian story of a man who aspires to create life out of death, with disastrous results. The novel is constructed as a series of first-person narratives, delivered by Captain Robert Walton, Victor...
Mother Stories From the New Testament - Anonymous
Mother Stories From the New Testament - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Religion
A book of the best stories from the New Testament that mothers can tell their children. - Summary by Gutenberg.org...
The Life Triumphant: Mastering the Heart and Mind - James Allen
The Life Triumphant: Mastering the Heart and Mind - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Self-Help
Are you tired of ignoring your conscience? Do you want to to follow the inward guide to wherever it may lead? Are you ready to realise your full potential even though those around you may have no idea how to relate? Then The Life Triumphant is for...
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - Francis Fisher BROWNE
The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln - Francis Fisher BROWNE
- Author: Francis Fisher BROWNE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
This detailed biography covers the places in Lincoln's life: Indiana, Illinois, Washington. It also traces his various roles as storekeeper, serviceman, state legislator, lawyer, politician, Republican Party leader, and of course President. Along...
Short Story Collection Vol. 019 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 019 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 019: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2 - Mark Twain
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Volumes 1 & 2 - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / *Non-fiction
Mark Twain's work on Joan of Arc is titled in full "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, by the Sieur Louis de Conte." De Conte is identified as Joan's page and secretary. For those who've always wanted to "get behind" the Joan of Arc story and to...
The Day-Dream - Thomas Moore
The Day-Dream - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Day-Dream by Sir Thomas Moore. This was the fortnightly poetry project for July 12th, 2009....
A Story of Love - Francis CASSILLY
A Story of Love - Francis CASSILLY
- Author: Francis CASSILLY
- Genre: *Non-fiction
This is not a love story, but the story of love, a love which every man and woman was created to experience, a love so intense and fulfilling that it scarcely seems possible to grasp, yet one that is offered to every human person who opens his heart...
Poems - Sophia Margaretta Hensley
Poems - Sophia Margaretta Hensley
- Author: Sophia Margaretta Hensley
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of early poetry by Sophia Margaretta Hensley. - Summary by Carolin...
The Descent of Man and Other Stories - Edith Wharton
The Descent of Man and Other Stories - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Short Stories
This collection of ten stories, first published in 1904, shows Edith Wharton dissecting some of the customs, habits and vagaries of courtship and marriage, particularly as practiced in the upper reaches of New York society at the turn of the...
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty - Stephen COLERIDGE
Great Testimony against Scientific Cruelty - Stephen COLERIDGE
- Author: Stephen COLERIDGE
- Genre: Animals / Medical / Modern (19th C)
Vivisection is a pejorative term used by opponents of the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of physiological or pathological research. While opposition to the use of living animals for experimentation is most often...
The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman A.D. 1940 - Douglas Morey FORD
The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman A.D. 1940 - Douglas Morey FORD
- Author: Douglas Morey FORD
- Genre: Science Fiction
Britain is ruled by women who experience invasion and natural disasters. Men eventually figure out a plan to regain power to replace the government. - Summary by Kirk Z...
Bill & Doreen's Married Life - C. J. Dennis
Bill & Doreen's Married Life - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
"Bill & Doreen's Married Life (Selections from "Doreen")" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship" and "Bill & Doreen Get Hitched", the latter two being "Selections from 'The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke'"."The Songs of a Sentimental...
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
Pinocchio - Carlo Collodi
- Author: Carlo Collodi
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is the wonderful story of Pinocchio, the puppet who must learn many lessons before he can become a real boy. Carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a small Italian village, he dreamed of becoming a real boy but strays from the path of...
Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
Faery Tales from Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a 1910 edition of the Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. This volume is nicely mixed, containing both the most famous tales as well as some which are not quite as well-known. The translation is adapted for American readership and in...
Bilihild: A Tale of the Irish Missionaries in Germany, A.D. 703 - RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
Bilihild: A Tale of the Irish Missionaries in Germany, A.D. 703 - RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
- Author: RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY
- Genre: Christian Fiction
When the God-fearing Herzog of Thuringia dies, the Irish missionary settlements face the wrath of his bitterly heathen wife, Geila, and her son, now Herzog Hedan. But when Hedan falls in love with Bilihild, a young Christian maiden, he offers peace...
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 7 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 7 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
This recording, of the fragments which are extant of Book 7, of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 10:18 - 12:2. (Summary by the reader)...
The Colored Cadet at West Point - Henry Ossian FLIPPER
The Colored Cadet at West Point - Henry Ossian FLIPPER
- Author: Henry Ossian FLIPPER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Henry Ossian Flipper--born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia on March 21, 1856--did not learn to read and write until just before the end of the Civil War. Once the war had ended, Flipper attended several schools showing a great aptitude for...
Selected Works of E. Boyd Smith - E. Boyd SMITH
Selected Works of E. Boyd Smith - E. Boyd SMITH
- Author: E. Boyd SMITH
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A sampling of the children's books written and illustrated by E. Boyd Smith. The first story is Mr. Smith's version of the Story of Noah's Ark. He then tells us the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith. Next we join a hen as she hatches her...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 1-2 - National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 1-2 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 1 April 1890.: On the Telegraphic Determinations of Longitude by the Bureau of Navigation Report: Geography of the Land Report: Geography of the Air National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 2 May...
Cynthia Wakeham's Money - Anna Katharine Green
Cynthia Wakeham's Money - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A young lawyer is called to the house of a dying woman to draw up her will. While searching for her legal heirs, meets a beautiful woman with a mysterious scar. The lawyer soon finds that his search for the heirs leads to some very unusual...
From October to Brest-Litovsk - Leon TROTSKY
From October to Brest-Litovsk - Leon TROTSKY
- Author: Leon TROTSKY
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This account by Trotsky is of the events in Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 in Petrograd, to his signing of the Brest-Litovsk treaty with Germany on 3rd March 1918 which took Russia out of the First World War. The treaty exacted heavy...
Short Plays from Dickens - Horace Baker BROWNE
Short Plays from Dickens - Horace Baker BROWNE
- Author: Horace Baker BROWNE
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Plays
Here is a collection of 20 short plays drawn from various books by Charles Dickens such as Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend. "For the use of Amateur and School Dramatic Societies" - Summary by ToddHW Cast...
Lilith - George MacDonald
Lilith - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
Lilith, written by the father of fantasy literature, George MacDonald, was first published in 1895. Its importance was recognized in its later revival in paperback by Ballantine Books as the fifth volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy...
The Prospective Mother - J. Morris SLEMONS
The Prospective Mother - J. Morris SLEMONS
- Author: J. Morris SLEMONS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science / Self-Help
A Handbook for Women During Pregnancy. This book, written for women who have no special knowledge of medicine, aims to answer the questions which occur to them in the course of pregnancy. Directions for safeguarding their health have been given in...
The Kraken - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Kraken - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Kraken by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 28th, 2007....
Best Way to Read a Book - Edgar A. GUEST
Best Way to Read a Book - Edgar A. GUEST
- Author: Edgar A. GUEST
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Best Way to Read a Book by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 12th, 2010....
Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground - Ludvig, Baron HOLBERG
Niels Klim's Journey under the Ground - Ludvig, Baron HOLBERG
- Author: Ludvig Baron HOLBERG
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Satire / Science Fiction
Niels Klim's Underground Travels, originally published in Latin as "Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum" (1741) is a satirical science-fiction/fantasy novel written by Ludvig Holberg, a Norwegian-Danish dramatist, historian, and essayist, born in...
A History of American Christianity - Leonard Woolsey BACON
A History of American Christianity - Leonard Woolsey BACON
- Author: Leonard Woolsey BACON
- Genre: History / Christianity - Other
Published in 1897, this book describes the advent of Christianity in the United States from the landing of the first explorers with their mission to convert the natives to the time immediately following the Civil War. Bacon discusses the church's...
The Day Will Come - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Day Will Come - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
It is an ideal honeymoon of an ideal couple. But somehow, the wife cannot stop dreaming that her husband would be shot and killed. He dismisses her dreams until they come true. Who commited the murder? How would the wife take it? - Summary by Stav...
The Story of the Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit
The Story of the Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Action & Adventure
This is the story of the Bastable children and their attempts to help the family finances by searching for treasure. (Summary by Karen Savage)...
King Arthur and His Knights - Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
King Arthur and His Knights - Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
- Author: Maude L. RADFORD WARREN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
A collection of King Arthur's adventures, from his ascent to King of Britain to his death. This book includes some of the crucial Arthurian legends about Sir Lancelot, the Knights of the Round Table, Queen Guinevere, and the search for the Holy...
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts - Maurice MAETERLINCK
The Blue Bird: A Fairy Play in Six Acts - Maurice MAETERLINCK
- Author: Maurice MAETERLINCK
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Blue Bird is a 1908 play by Belgian author Maurice Maeterlinck. On the night of Christmas a boy and a girl, Tyltil and Mytil, are visited by Fairy Berilyuna. Fairy's granddaughter is sick and can only be saved by the Blue Bird. Thanks to the...
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories - Cal STEWART
Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories - Cal STEWART
- Author: Cal STEWART
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of comedic short stories from the perspective of an old country man. (Summary by Philip Martin)...
