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The Fourth Dimension - Charles Howard HINTON
The Fourth Dimension - Charles Howard HINTON
- Author: Charles Howard HINTON
- Genre: Mathematics
"Mr Hinton tries to explain the theory of the fourth dimension so that the ordinary reasoning mind can get a grasp of what metaphysical mathematicians mean by it. If he is not altogether successful, it is not from want of clearness on his part, but...
The Rustlers of Pecos County - Zane Grey
The Rustlers of Pecos County - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Westerns
The town of Linrock, located in Pecos Couty is south Texas has fallen under the control of a gang of rustlers. Two Texas Lone Star Rangers are sent to Linrock to clean up the town .They soon fall in love with two girls who may be related to the...
Stories of Animal Sagacity
Stories of Animal Sagacity
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
300+ short stories of how smart and savvy various individual animals have been seen to be, and in most cases a little moral is drawn from the story. (Summary by Allyson Hester)...
A Collection of Ballads - Andrew Lang
A Collection of Ballads - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Ballads
This is a collection of ballads, edited, with an introduction and notes by Andrew Lang. The ballads range widely in style, from the historic to the romantic, from the short to the epic, from Scotland to France. Some of the material is the fabric of...
Space Viking - H. Beam Piper
Space Viking - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
A galactic war has left the Terran Federation in ruins. Formerly civilized planets have decivilized into barbarism. Space Vikings roam the wreckage, plundering and killing for gain. Lord Lucas Trask of Traskon was no admirer of the Space Vikings,...
A Deal With The Devil - Eden PHILLPOTTS
A Deal With The Devil - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
A Deal with the Devil is a classic tale with a humorous twist. We find that on the night preceeding his 100th birthday Grandpapa, a cantankerous yet loveable sort, has made a deal with the devil, which his granddaughter, in part, will pay. - Summary...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The book is noted for its colorful description of people and places along the Mississippi River, and its sober and often scathing look at entrenched attitudes, particularly racism. The drifting journey of Huck and his friend Jim, a runaway slave,...
Short Poetry Collection 018 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 018 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 018: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
War and Women - Mabel Annie STOBART
War and Women - Mabel Annie STOBART
- Author: Mabel Annie STOBART
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
"The sending of a Women’s Convoy Corps to the Balkans was the result of Mrs. Stobart’s keen desire to demonstrate the ability of women to render signal service under war conditions and without the direction and assistance of men. This record of...
The Confessions of Arsene Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
The Confessions of Arsene Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A collection of nine stories - or confessions - of the celebrated gentleman thief Arsene Lupin. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches, news items and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, philosophy, nature...
The Concept of Nature - Alfred North WHITEHEAD
The Concept of Nature - Alfred North WHITEHEAD
- Author: Alfred North WHITEHEAD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Science
In The Concept of Nature, Alfred North Whitehead discusses the interrelatedness of time, space, and human perception. The idea of objects as 'occasions of experience', arguments against body-mind duality and the search for an all-encompassing...
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Thuvia, Maid of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction
John Carter's son, Carthoris, falls in love with his father's true friend, Thuvia of Ptarth, but she has been promised to another and is kidnapped by a third! Carthoris, suspected of the crime, spends the entire novel in efforts to rescue her and...
The Elements of Geology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Geology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: Education / Science / Modern (19th C)
Elements of Geology is one in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1846 presents an introduction to geology. The information, albeit not current, is still...
The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure Reason - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781 with a second edition in 1787, has been called the most influential and important philosophical text of the modern age. Kant saw the Critique of Pure Reason as an attempt to bridge the gap between...
Women of Achievement - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
Women of Achievement - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Author: Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This volume, published in 1919 by the American Women's Baptist Home Mission Society, opens with an introduction spelling out the important work done by African American women. It speaks both to the "invisible work" of as mothers and wives, and the...
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup (Dramatic Reading) - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Historical Fiction
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers...
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
Helping Himself, or Grant Thornton's Ambition deals with the grit and determination of Grant, a 15 year old farmer's boy whose father is dead and in order to pay his minister father's debts, and to help his mother deal with their abject poverty...
The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour - Sir Alfred Edward EAST
The Art of Landscape Painting in Oil Colour - Sir Alfred Edward EAST
- Author: Sir Alfred Edward EAST
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Crafts & Hobbies / Nature
Sketching from Nature, Equipment, Colour, Composition, Trees, Skies, Grass, Reflections, Distance -- chapters rich with timeless oil painting advice by a master landscape artist, Sir Alfred East. East had an exceptional ability to capture the...
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup - John Kendrick Bangs
Peeps at People - Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Written by a fictitious first-person narrator, this book puts a humorous spin on encounters with several famous people of the time. "I set forth from my office in London upon my pilgrimage to the shrines of the world's illustrious. Readers...
The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
The Late Mattia Pascal - Luigi Pirandello
- Author: Luigi Pirandello
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Mattia Pascal grew up in a small Italian town not dissimilar to that of the author's upbringing. Pascal leads a somewhat feckless boyhood, allowing opportunities to slip away from him and living on the accumulated but dwindling resources of his...
The Story of Wool - Sara Ware BASSETT
The Story of Wool - Sara Ware BASSETT
- Author: Sara Ware BASSETT
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Mr. Clark and Donald spend a year out west to the Crescent Ranch in Idaho learning about raising sheep. (summary by David O)...
According to Promise, or The Lord’s Method of Dealing with His Chosen People - Charles H. Spurgeon
According to Promise, or The Lord’s Method of Dealing with His Chosen People - Charles H. Spurgeon
- Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher and is still known today as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in...
The Lost House - Richard Harding Davis
The Lost House - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second Secretary, when suddenly a note is brought in. This note is an appeal for help, found in the gutter in a dark...
The Star-Treader and Other Poems - Clark Ashton SMITH
The Star-Treader and Other Poems - Clark Ashton SMITH
- Author: Clark Ashton SMITH
- Genre: Single author
Clark Ashton Smith, referred to as one of the big three of Weird Tales, was a romantic-style poet, a Lovecraftian-style writer and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a poet, he was considered one of the last great West Coast Romantics. The...
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) - William BLACKSTONE
Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765) - William BLACKSTONE
- Author: William BLACKSTONE
- Genre: Law / Political Science
The Commentaries on the Laws of England are an influential 18th century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone, originally published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford, 1765-1769. The Commentaries were long regarded as the...
Bible (WNT) NT 08: 2 Corinthians - Weymouth New Testament
Bible (WNT) NT 08: 2 Corinthians - Weymouth New Testament
- Author: Weymouth New Testament
- Genre: Bibles
This second letter from the Apostle Paul to the congregation of believers in the bustling port city of Corinth gives us a much more personal understanding of Paul's apostleship. He defends it rigorously, convincing his followers of his authority...
Robinson Crusoe's Story - Charles Edward Carryl
Robinson Crusoe's Story - Charles Edward Carryl
- Author: Charles Edward Carryl
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 different recordings of Robinson Crusoe's Story by Charles Edward Carryl, published in "Modern American Poetry" in 1919....
Diversions in Sicily - Henry Festing JONES
Diversions in Sicily - Henry Festing JONES
- Author: Henry Festing JONES
- Genre: Sports & Recreation / Travel & Geography
Samuel Butler's biographer dedicates his urbane account of the culture and entertainments of rural Sicily to the unborn son of his guide to them. (Summary by R. S. Steinberg)...
Four Science Fiction Stories - Alan E. NOURSE
Four Science Fiction Stories - Alan E. NOURSE
- Author: Alan E. NOURSE
- Genre: Science Fiction
Four Science Fiction stories published in Science Fiction Adventures Magazine and Galaxy Science Fiction, written by Alan Edward Nourse (August 11, 1928 – July 19, 1992). He was an American science fiction writer and physician. He wrote both...
In Spring - Aline KILMER
In Spring - Aline KILMER
- Author: Aline KILMER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Aline Murray Kilmer (August 1, 1888 – October 1, 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of poet and journalist Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).Aline attended the Rutgers College Preparatory School with her...
The Riddle of the Universe - Ernst HAECKEL
The Riddle of the Universe - Ernst HAECKEL
- Author: Ernst HAECKEL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Riddle of the Universe is the philosophical work of Ernst Haeckel, eminent biologist, in which he explores the meaning of life, the nature of reality, and the connection between physiology and thought. (Summary by A. Gramour)...
Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
Looking for a replacement to Sherlock Holmes after the author had killed him off in 1894, Doyle wrote this murder mystery in the dying years of the 19th century. Set in Napoleon's era, it involves a Frenchman returning to his native land to join the...
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
On Liberty - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: Philosophy
Published in 1859, On Liberty details Mill's view that individuals should be left wholly free to engage in any activity, thought or belief that does not harm others. Simple though it sounds, it is a position that challenges our ideas on the very...
The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 - John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, Volume 2 - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Travel & Geography
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in...
A Wall - Robert Browning
A Wall - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Browning, when at his best in vigor, clearness, and beauty, is peculiarly a poet for young people. His freedom from sentimentality, his liveliness of conception and narration, his high optimism, and his interest in the things that make for the life...
Farewell - Honoré de Balzac
Farewell - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
In his startling and tragic novella Farewell (‘Adieu’), Balzac adds to the 19th century’s literature of the hysterical woman: sequestered, confined in her madness; mute, or eerily chanting in her moated grange. The first Mrs Rochester lurks in the...
Third Class in Indian Railways - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Third Class in Indian Railways - Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Author: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869 – 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, a philosophy firmly...
Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
Varieties of Religious Experience - William James
- Author: William James
- Genre: Psychology / Modern / Christianity - Other
The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by the Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James that comprises his edited Gifford Lectures on "Natural Theology" delivered at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland...
Cathay - Ezra POUND
Cathay - Ezra POUND
- Author: Ezra POUND
- Genre: Poetry
The Cathay poems appeared in a slim volume in 1915. They are, in effect, Ezra Pound’s English translations/interpretations from notebooks written by the Japanese scholar Ernest Fenollosa. Pound, not knowing any Chinese or Japanese at all, promptly...
