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The Enterprise of the ''Mayflower'' - Amice MACDONELL
The Enterprise of the ''Mayflower'' - Amice MACDONELL
- Author: Amice MACDONELL
- Genre: Plays / Historical
"Welcome to all! We show the story of how, nearly three hundred years ago, when this country was not so happy as it is now, some people driven by persecution out of England went on a long and dangerous voyage in a ship called the Mayflower, and made...
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada - Francis Parkman, Jr.
The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada - Francis Parkman, Jr.
- Author: Francis Parkman Jr.
- Genre: Early Modern
"The Conspiracy of Pontiac" was Parkman's first history book and first published in 1851. It covers the Indian wars of 1763 to 1769. Pontiac, an Ottawa chief, put together a coalition of Indian tribes from around the Great Lakes region and the...
Love's Bitterest Cup - E.D.E.N. Southworth
Love's Bitterest Cup - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: General / Published 1800 -1900
The sequel to "Her Mother's Secret". A wedding between Le and Odalite is rudely interrupted by Angus Anglesea, coming to claim his bride, or at least to keep her from marrying another. The Forces struggle to find justice against Angus Anglesea, even...
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume II - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
Volume II of this popular history opens in the revolutionary year, 1848, with the Chartist movement for manhood suffrage and with the rise of Young Ireland. Next we join the crowds in 1851 at the opening of the Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, of...
Symbols - John DRINKWATER
Symbols - John DRINKWATER
- Author: John DRINKWATER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others. - Summary by...
The Castle of the Carpathians - Jules Verne
The Castle of the Carpathians - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The Castle stood above the quiet little town for as long as folks remembered: barren, deserted, lonely and frightening to the townsfolk. Until one day, smoke began to ascend from the dunjon. They were warned not to go near, and when intrepid souls...
Bible (KJV) 24: Jeremiah - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 24: Jeremiah - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, following the book of Isaiah and preceding Ezekiel and the Book of the Twelve. (The order is somewhat different in the Christian Old Testament). It derives its name from,...
The Three Mulla-mulgars - Walter De la Mare
The Three Mulla-mulgars - Walter De la Mare
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
Three monkey brothers, Thumb, Thimble, and Nod, are Mulla-mulgars or royal monkeys. As she dies, their mother gives them the enchanted Wonderstone for protection, and tells them to follow their father. They embark on a journey of fantastical...
Business - Ambrose Bierce
Business - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Poetry / Satire / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Business by Ambrose Bierce. This was the weekly poetry project for August 2nd, 2009....
Strangers at Lisconnel - Jane BARLOW
Strangers at Lisconnel - Jane BARLOW
- Author: Jane BARLOW
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Strangers at Lisconnel is a sequel to Jane Barlow’s Irish Idylls. The locations and most of the characters are common to both. There is great humor and concomitantly a certain melancholy in most of these stories of the most rural of rural places in...
Anne of the Island - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Romance / School
This is the continuing story of Anne Shirley and the third book in the Anne of Green Gables series. In it Anne attends Redmond College where she is studying for her BA. She has many trials and tribulations along the way, including some romance. In...
Carpenter's geographical reader: North America - Frank G. Carpenter
Carpenter's geographical reader: North America - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: Reference / Travel & Geography
The purpose of this book is to give to its readers a living knowledge of some of the wonders of the country and continent in which they live. Upon a personally conducted tour they are taken by the author through the most characteristic parts of the...
The Treasure - Selma Lagerlöf
The Treasure - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Treasure (Herr Arnes penningar) is a fairly short...
Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast - George SUTHERLAND
Twentieth Century Inventions: A Forecast - George SUTHERLAND
- Author: George SUTHERLAND
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
This work from 1901 predicts what technological developments will manifest in the twentieth century. The author, a technical journalist, presents ideas for inventions and new developments in the areas of power, transportation, agriculture, mining,...
The Young Diana - Marie Corelli
The Young Diana - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Poor Diana May. Her fiancé has jilted her, her parents think she is an encumbrance and no one recognises her intelligence. She seems destined to remain unloved, unappreciated and unpaid - until she decides to take control of her life. It all begins...
Abigail Adams and Her Times - Laura E. Howe Richards
Abigail Adams and Her Times - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is a young person's biography of Abigail Adams that will appeal to readers of all ages. In the author's own words, "I am not writing a history; far from it. I am merely throwing on the screen, in the fashion of today, a few scenes to make a...
The Hermit of ---- Street - Anna Katharine Green
The Hermit of ---- Street - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Delight Hunter spends her days looking out of her window at her handsome but very mysterious and reclusive next door neighbor. She walks straight into a mystery when one day a fire starts in one of the upper rooms of his house and she dashes over to...
The Constant Lover - Sir John SUCKLING
The Constant Lover - Sir John SUCKLING
- Author: Sir John SUCKLING
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sir John Suckling (1609-42) was one of the Cavalier poets at the court of King Charles I of England. He took up arms in the conflicts of that era but was said to be more fit for the boudoir than the battlefield. He was a prolific lover, a sparkling...
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 2, Arras - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 2, Arras - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Author: John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Genre: War & Military
This is Part Two of Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. After nearly 4 years of...
The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story - Undefined
The Monitor and the Merrimac: Both sides of the story - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
The American Civil War lasted four years, from 1861 to 1865. It included some iconic battles that have maintained enough interest to merit recounting the events in countless books. One such seminal battle was that of the USS Monitor versus the USS...
The Chessmen of Mars (version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Chessmen of Mars (version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
In the fifth book in the Barsoom series, Tara of Helium, daughter of John Carter, becomes lost in an unknown area of Mars when her single-seat flier is caught in a rare Martian hurricane. She is first captured by the bizarre and hideous Kaldanes,...
The Story of King Arthur, in Twelve Tales - Winona Caroline MARTIN
The Story of King Arthur, in Twelve Tales - Winona Caroline MARTIN
- Author: Winona Caroline MARTIN
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Of all the legends of bygone ages which we in the foremost ranks of time may call our own perhaps none have come to us so fraught with the spirit of lofty idealism as those which cluster about the figure of King Arthur of Britain and the mystic...
Rivers to the Sea - Sara Teasdale
Rivers to the Sea - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry
This is Sara Teasdale's third published collection of poetry. The collection was published in 1915, and contains the famous poem "I Shall Not Care", the melancholy and dark tone of which is often connected with her suicide in 1933. - Summary by...
The Watchman and Other Poems - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Watchman and Other Poems - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Poetry
While L. M. Montgomery is better known for her novels, such as Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon, she also wrote hundreds of poems. Her love of beauty, nature, and the sea is evident in this, the only volume of her poetry published during...
The Long Run - Edith Wharton
The Long Run - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance
A wealthy bachelor businessman looks back on the romance that he fumbled with a beautiful married woman he and his college buddy both had crushes on when younger. ( Matt Pierard)...
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 2) - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Shakespeare's festive comedy combines classical Athenian characters (Duke Theseus and his conquered Amazonian bride Hippolyta) with four contentious lovers, a forest full of quarreling and mischievous fairies and adds a dose of amateur theatre for...
Bible (ASV) 01: Genesis - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 01: Genesis - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
"Genesis (Greek: "birth", "origin") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible, and the first of five books of the Pentateuch or Torah. It recounts the world from creation to the descent of the children of Israel into Egypt, and contains some of the...
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John CLELAND
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John CLELAND
- Author: John CLELAND
- Genre: Erotica / Romance
Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1749) was the first widely-read English novel in the genre “Erotica.” It was written by John Cleland as he was serving hard time at a debtor’s prison in London. Over the centuries, the novel has been...
Alice in Wonderland (Drama) - Lewis Carroll
Alice in Wonderland (Drama) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Comedy
A dramatization of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass for the stage. In this version, Alice goes through the looking glass and encounters a variety of strange and wonderful creatures from favorite scenes...
The Enchanted Barn - Grace Livingston Hill
The Enchanted Barn - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
The Hollisters, a bright, spirited, wholesome family, are compelled to move into the country. After many efforts to secure a home, Shirley, eldest of the Hollisters, contrives a way out by renting a magnificent old stone barn at a ridiculously low...
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Matthew - J. C. Ryle
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Matthew - J. C. Ryle
- Author: J. C. Ryle
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
“Expository Thoughts” divides the Gospels into sections of about twelve verses each, from which J. C. Ryle selects two or three prominent points to dwell on and bring to the reader’s attention. In Ryle’s day, there were many detailed commentaries...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 4) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 4) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 4 chronicles Lincoln's life from April...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 01, Nov. 4, 1879 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 01, Nov. 4, 1879 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short works / General
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories,fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, and more for children. Published by Harper...
Farewells - Abram Joseph RYAN
Farewells - Abram Joseph RYAN
- Author: Abram Joseph RYAN
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Farewells by Abram Joseph Ryan. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 26, 2019. ------ Abram Joseph Ryan was an American poet, an active proponent of the Confederate States of America, and a...
Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01 - Various
Poems and Prose for the Departed Vol. 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of short poems and readings, both religious and secular, on death and bereavement. (Summary by Ruth Golding)...
Tales from the Works of G.A.Henty - G. A. Henty
Tales from the Works of G.A.Henty - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
George Alfred Henty was an English newspaper correspondent who became a prolific author of, predominantly, adventure stories for boys. Most were based on true historical events. In this volume, published posthumously, we are presented with thirteen...
The Kybalion (version 2) - The Three INITIATES
The Kybalion (version 2) - The Three INITIATES
- Author: The Three INITIATES
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
The Kybalion: Hermetic Philosophy is a 1908 book claiming to be the essence of the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, published anonymously by a group or person under the pseudonym of "the Three Initiates". The Kybalion was first published in 1908 by...
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This is Stowe's second book, another one depicting the horrors of southern slavery, published 4 years after Uncle Tom's Cabin and 5 years before the commencement of the Civil War, when new territories wanting admittance into the US (Texas, Oklahoma,...
Short Poetry Collection 039 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 039 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 039: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Modern Monologues - Marjorie Benton COOKE
Modern Monologues - Marjorie Benton COOKE
- Author: Marjorie Benton COOKE
- Genre: Plays
The monologue is a character study in little; the apotheosis of a chosen individuality. All the little studies in this book have stood the test of trial before varied audiences. - Summary by Marjorie Benton Cooke, Author Edited by: Eva Davis and...
