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Elsie's Children - Martha Finley
Elsie's Children - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Family Life / Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
This book continues the delightful "Elsie Dinsmore" series. Elsie's children, introduced in the previous volume, live life, grow up, and encounter various problems of their own. - Summary by GabrielleCAdditional Proof Listeners: AlaynaMay &...
The School For Scandal - Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
The School For Scandal - Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
- Author: Richard Brinsley SHERIDAN
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
Richard Brinsley Sheridan's comedy was first performed in 1777 and focuses on the intrigues and scandals of the British upper classes. Lady Sneerwell wants to marry Charles Surface, while Joseph Surface wants to marry Maria, an heiress and ward of...
Pitching in a Pinch - Christy MATHEWSON
Pitching in a Pinch - Christy MATHEWSON
- Author: Christy MATHEWSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs
In this book Mathewson is telling the reader of the game as it is played in the Big Leagues.... Itβs as good as his pitching and some exciting things have happened in the Big Leagues, stories that never found their way into the newspapers. Matty has...
The Wanderer's Necklace - H. Rider Haggard
The Wanderer's Necklace - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Wandererβs Necklace is classic Haggard, filled with adventure, intrigue, and steadfastness in the face of overwhelming obstacles. βThe Editor" recalls his past life as Olaf, an 8th century Norseman. Olaf opens the ancient tomb of the Wanderer...
Short Story Collection Vol. 041 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 041 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVoxβs Short Story Collection 041: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson
Ramona - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Ramona, a novel written by Helen Hunt Jackson (1884), is the story of a part-Scottish and part-Native American orphan girl growing up and getting married in Southern California, suffering racial discrimination and hardship. Originally serialized in...
Walking-Stick Papers
Walking-Stick Papers
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Robert Cortes Holliday (1880 β 1947) was an American writer and literary editor. Writer and friend, Christopher Morley, wrote of Holliday: "[he] has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." This is a 1918...
A Horse's Tale - Mark Twain
A Horse's Tale - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Soldier Boy is the top steed at Fort Paxton. He is Buffalo Billβs favorite horse and has led a life of glory and honor. One day General Alisonβs orphaned niece arrives and proceeds to charm every man, woman, and beast for miles around including...
The Monk: A Romance - Matthew LEWIS
The Monk: A Romance - Matthew LEWIS
- Author: Matthew LEWIS
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
Matthew Gregory Lewis's The Monk: A Romance is a story of frustrated and unrequited desire between mentor and pupil mixed with elements of the supernatural. It includes several subplots: rape, torture and incest. It is the old story of the forces of...
The Englishwoman in America - Isabella L. BIRD
The Englishwoman in America - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Isabella Bird travels abroad in Canada and the United States in the 1850s. As an Englishwoman and a lone female, she travels as far as Chicago, Prince Edward Island, and Cincinatti. Her observations on the trials and tribulations of the journeys are...
Bible (ABU) NT 01-27: The New Testament - AMERICAN BIBLE UNION
Bible (ABU) NT 01-27: The New Testament - AMERICAN BIBLE UNION
- Author: AMERICAN BIBLE UNION
- Genre: Bibles
This Revised Testament has been prepared under the auspices of the American Bible Union, by the most competent scholars of the day. No expense has been spared to obtain the oldest translations of the Bible, copies of the ancient manuscripts, and...
Five Stories by Alan Nourse - Alan Edward NOURSE
Five Stories by Alan Nourse - Alan Edward NOURSE
- Author: Alan Edward NOURSE
- Genre: Science Fiction
These Five Stories were written by Alan Edward Nourse, an American science fiction (SF) author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His SF works generally focused on...
The Purple Cow - Frank Gelett BURGESS
The Purple Cow - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different versions of this famous nonsense rhyme, the weekly poem of April 2nd, 2006. The April Fool's Day spirit was slow to leave us this spring, so as you listen, watch out for mischief! (Summary by Laura Fox)...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 011 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 011 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
The Fold - Alice Meynell
The Fold - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.At the end of the 19th century, in conjunction with uprisings against the British (among them the Indians', the Zulus', the...
Tarzan the Untamed - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Untamed - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This book follows Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar chronologically. The action is set during World War I. While away from his plantation home in East Africa, invading German troops destroy it and kill his wife Jane and the Waziri warrior Wasimbu who is...
The American Egypt - Channing ARNOLD
The American Egypt - Channing ARNOLD
- Author: Channing ARNOLD
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen on Yucatanβthat Egypt of the New World, where, it is now generally admitted, Central American Civilisation...
Won by Crime - A. Frank PINKERTON
Won by Crime - A. Frank PINKERTON
- Author: A. Frank PINKERTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Originally included with the published edition of Dyke Darell, this is an unrelated novella. Portuguese Viceroy to Goa, Don Garcia brought his daughter and nephew to the wild island. Adventure and melodrama ensue! (Summary by Sibella Denton)....
Buster the Big Brown Bear - George Ethelbert Walsh
Buster the Big Brown Bear - George Ethelbert Walsh
- Author: George Ethelbert Walsh
- Genre: Animals & Nature
In the seventh volume of the Twilight Animal series, we meet Buster the Bear, a cub who lives in a cave the woods with his mother. After an encounter with an unfriendly forest animal, he gets lost and captured, and has some marvelous adventures with...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 06 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 06 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
National Geographic Magazine Volume 6, articles published from January, 1894, to May, 1895. Geographic Progress of Civilization - Annual Address by the President Honorable Gardiner G. Hubbard Shawangunk Mountain, by N. H. Darton Weather Making,...
Answer to a Child's Question - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Answer to a Child's Question - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Answer to a Child's Question by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 6, 2013. (Summary by Diana Majlinger)...
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace - John M. BURKE
Buffalo Bill from Prairie to Palace - John M. BURKE
- Author: John M. BURKE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody is one of the legends of the American western frontier. As a teen he rode for the pony expressed and then drove for the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War. He later rejoined the army as a scout and was awarded...
The Last Egyptian - L. Frank Baum
The Last Egyptian - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Romance
Published anonymously during Baum's lifetime as he did not want his adult adventure stories to detract from his children's fantasy stories, the story takes the limited points of view of three protagonists in the field of Egyptology. A complex tale...
All That Matters - Edgar A. GUEST
All That Matters - Edgar A. GUEST
- Author: Edgar A. GUEST
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems about life. Written in an easy and interesting style this book includes poems about many parts of family life, motherhood, babies, dads, and youth. None of them long, they focus the listener on the blessings of life. - Summary...
Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Philosophy
Nature is a short essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentalism is put forth, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature. Recent advances in...
Custer, and Other Poems - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Custer, and Other Poems - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The final poem of this volume is an epic narrative poem glorifying the life and deeds of George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), who served in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars. -...
Art and Heart - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Art and Heart - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This special poetry collection was assembled to celebrate the first anniversary of the creation of LibriVox. LibriVox volunteers bring you 38 different recordings of Art and Heart, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This poem, originally suggested by Betsie...
Shawl-Straps: A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag - Louisa May Alcott
Shawl-Straps: A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Unlike the other volumes in this series, which are books of childrens' stories, Shawl-Straps is a novel. It is the story of Amanda, Matilda, and Lavinia, three sisters who are travelling in Europe. The book is based on Louisa May Alcott's own...
Three Things - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Three Things - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Her final words in her autobiography The Worlds and I: "From this mighty storehouse (of God, and the hierarchies of Spiritual Beings) we may gather wisdom and knowledge, and receive light and power, as we pass through this preparatory room of earth,...
The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles - Various
The Forbidden Gospels and Epistles - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This is a compilation of ancient books attributed to the writings of the apostles of Jesus Christ and their disciples. These books were once regarded with reverence by the early Christian Church during the first four centuries. After violent...
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest - William Henry HUDSON
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Romance
"Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a wealthy young man, he meddled in politics to the extent of provoking a revolution... which failed. Escaping into the...
At the Time Appointed - Anna Maynard BARBOUR
At the Time Appointed - Anna Maynard BARBOUR
- Author: Anna Maynard BARBOUR
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"Those who remember that excellent detective story, That Mainwaring Affair will expect to find plenty of mystery and exciting incidents in A. Maynard Barbour's latest novel, called At the Time Appointed, and they will realize their expectations.The...
Frost at Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Frost at Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the...
England Since Waterloo - John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
England Since Waterloo - John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
- Author: John Arthur Ransome MARRIOTT
- Genre: War & Military / Law / Political Science
"England Since Waterloo" by Sir John Arthur Ransome Marriott (1859-1945) was first published in 1913 and went through many editions. The author taught history at Worcester College, Oxford for thirty-six years and served as a Conservative member of...
Bible (YLT) 28: Hosea - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 28: Hosea - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
The Road to Oz (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
The Road to Oz (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Fantasy Fiction
Dorothy and Toto set out to help the Shaggy Man (who really is quite shaggy) and end up lost, following a strange road. Along the way they meet Button Bright, a little boy who is not really very bright at all, The Rainbow's Daughter, the Fox King...
Bible (YLT) 18: Job - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 18: Job - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
Little Men (Version 3, Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Men (Version 3, Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical
Jo March's dreams of opening a home for boys comes true as she finds herself the mistress of Plumfield, a boarding school for children -- who have all stumbled in from various backgrounds. When new students arrive at her doorstep, they bring their...
Vegetarianism and Occultism - C. W. Leadbeater
Vegetarianism and Occultism - C. W. Leadbeater
- Author: C. W. Leadbeater
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
How does occultism regard vegetarianism? It regards it very favorably, and that for many reasons. These reasons may be divided into two classes: those which are ordinary and physical, and those which are occult or hidden. Let us see in detail why a...
The Romance of Missionary Heroism - John C LAMBERT
The Romance of Missionary Heroism - John C LAMBERT
- Author: John C LAMBERT
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Travel & Geography / Christianity - Other
The title page gives this book the subtitle, βTrue stories of the intrepid bravery and stirring adventures of missionaries with uncivilized man, wild beasts, and the forces of nature in all parts of the world.β The thrilling accounts in this...
