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From The Temple - George Herbert
From The Temple - George Herbert
- Author: George Herbert
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
George Herbert was a country minister, and a protégé of the great metaphysical poet John Donne. In The Temple, Herbert combines these two aspects of his training in one of the greatest cycles of religious poetry ever written.The soloistreads us a...
Violet: A Fairy Story - Caroline Snowden GUILD
Violet: A Fairy Story - Caroline Snowden GUILD
- Author: Caroline Snowden GUILD
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A charming fairytale -- with realistic touches -- from the mid-19th Century.(Summary by BellonaTimes)...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 4 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 4 - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This, the fourth of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains 22 of his short stories. Warning: Section 7, "A Predicament," contains some racial stereotypes and a word describing the race of one of the characters that is unacceptable in today's...
Bushido: The Soul of Japan - Inazō NITOBE
Bushido: The Soul of Japan - Inazō NITOBE
- Author: Inazō NITOBE
- Genre: Modern
Bushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe was one of the first books on samurai ethics that was originally written in English for a Western audience, and has been subsequently translated into many other languages (also Japanese). Nitobe...
Epitome of the Formula of Concord - Jakob ANDREAE
Epitome of the Formula of Concord - Jakob ANDREAE
- Author: Jakob ANDREAE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Formula of Concord (1577) is an authoritative Lutheran statement of faith (called a confession, creed, or "symbol") that, in its two parts (Epitome and Solid Declaration), makes up the final section of the Lutheran Corpus Doctrinae or Body of...
Sandhya, Songs of Twilight - Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
Sandhya, Songs of Twilight - Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
- Author: Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
- Genre: Poetry
Dhan Gopal Mukerji wrote Sandhya, Songs of Twilight while in San Francisco, as a way to support himself and pay for his college education. This collection of poems has several references to his homeland, India. In 1928, Mukerji was awarded the John...
Anne's House of Dreams (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne's House of Dreams (version 3) (dramatic reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Romance
In the next installment of the Anne series, newlyweds Anne and Gilbert move to the harbor town of Four Winds. There they meet new friends and experience joy as well as heartbreak. (Summary by wildemoose) Cast: Anne/Narrator: Arielle Lipshaw Diana...
Home Songs - John Charles McNeill
Home Songs - John Charles McNeill
- Author: John Charles McNeill
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
McNeill died at an early age of 36 years, but during his brief life he established himself as the foremost literary figure of North Carolina and was hailed for many years by popular acclaim as the state's unofficial poet laureate. (David Lawrence...
Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period - Jean de la LACROIX
Manners, Customs and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period - Jean de la LACROIX
- Author: Jean de la LACROIX
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
A comprehensive and detailed account of medieval life and culture in France, with reference to other parts of Europe, including chapters on private life, food, hunting, games and pastimes, costume, privileges and rights, justice, commerce, finance,...
Poems of American History, The Period of Growth
Poems of American History, The Period of Growth
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of George Washington, the War of 1812, and the settling of the West, along with tales of Johnny Appleseed, the...
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Author: Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Genre: Political Science / Other religions
The Mysterious Forces of Civilization (Persian: Risálih-i-Madaníyyih) is a work written before 1875 by ‘Abbás Effendí, known as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (the Servant of Bahá) (1844-1921). The Persian text was first lithographed in Bombay in 1882 and printed in...
Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland - William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland - William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
- Author: William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among Saxon, British and Norse rulers. Thorstein, like his father Swein before him, is a peaceful Norse settler but...
An Old-Fashioned Girl (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
An Old-Fashioned Girl (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Country-girl Polly Milton visits her fashionable cousins in the city, who make fun of her old-fashioned values. Will Polly adapt to city life?A coming-of-age novel by Louisa May Alcott, published in 1870. (Summary by Gesine)...
The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
The Gift of the Magi - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
The Gift of the Magi is an O. Henry short story in which a young couple are very much in love with each other but can barely afford their one-room apartment. For Christmas, they each make a sacrifice to purchase a gift for the other, with ironic...
Inca Lands - Hiram Bingham
Inca Lands - Hiram Bingham
- Author: Hiram Bingham
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
Prof. Hiram Bingham of Yale Makes the Greatest Archaeological Discovery of the Age by Locating and Excavating Ruins of Machu Picchu on a Peak in the Andes of Peru.There is nothing new under the sun, they say. That is only relatively true. Just now,...
The Crocuses - Frances E. W. HARPER
The Crocuses - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which advocated the federal government...
Pagan Passions - Laurence M. Janifer
Pagan Passions - Laurence M. Janifer
- Author: Laurence M. Janifer
- Genre: Science Fiction
'Adult' Science Fiction? Well, why not? Science Fiction deals imaginatively with odd and unsettling subjects, why not sex? In this novel, the The Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Greece and Rome had returned to Earth—with all their awesome powers...
The Strange Story Book (version 2) - Leonora Blanche LANG
The Strange Story Book (version 2) - Leonora Blanche LANG
- Author: Leonora Blanche LANG
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical
This is the last book in the The Andrew Lang "Color" Fairy Books series published after his death by his wife. She wrote the stories and he had edited them before his demise. It is a collection of stories that are a bit different than the Fairy...
A Word Is Dead - Emily Dickinson
A Word Is Dead - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 different recordings of A Word Is Dead, by Emily Dickinson. This was the weekly poetry for the week of July 06, 2008. Version 4 read by Sean McGaughey and Rose 264....
George Frideric Handel - Herbert Francis Peyser
George Frideric Handel - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music
Handel’s long career resembles a gigantic tapestry, so bewilderingly crowded with detail, so filled with turmoil and vicissitude, with vast achievements, extremes of good and ill fortune, and unending comings and goings that any attempt to force...
Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2 - Rabindranath Tagore
Sadhana, The Realisation of Life, version 2 - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Religion
A collection of essays on the Hindu/Buddhist view of humankind's place in the universe. As the author says in his introduction: "in these papers, it may be hoped, western readers will have an opportunity of coming into touch with the ancient spirit...
Amy Foster - Joseph Conrad
Amy Foster - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Classic shortish story by Conrad that relates his self-thought alienation from British society, as a young foreign man survives a shipwreck off the coast of Kent, England only to be shunned by most of the townsfolk. The one exception is the loving,...
Visiting Stars - Michael Field
Visiting Stars - Michael Field
- Author: Michael Field
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As Field they wrote around 40 works...
A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy Of The Korosko - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Also published under the title The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898). A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko....
The Philosophy of Style - Herbert Spencer
The Philosophy of Style - Herbert Spencer
- Author: Herbert Spencer
- Genre: Writing & Linguistics
“The Philosophy of Style,” explored a growing trend of formalist approaches to writing. Highly focused on the proper placement and ordering of the parts of an English sentence, [Spencer] created a guide for effective composition. Spencer’s aim was...
Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear - Arthur Christopher BENSON
Where No Fear Was: A Book About Fear - Arthur Christopher BENSON
- Author: Arthur Christopher BENSON
- Genre: Psychology
Surely all of us know fear, and know the different types of fear we can experience. In this book, Arthur Christopher Benson walks us through these different types, going through a range of different topics, among others childhood fears many of us...
The Snow-Burner - Henry OYEN
The Snow-Burner - Henry OYEN
- Author: Henry OYEN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Snow-Burner is what the Native Americans called Reivers, and it was a rough and tumble life in the land where Reivers chose to live up to his name. The name was attributed to Reivers upon his proof after arriving in the north country because of...
Short Mystery Story Collection 007 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 007: a collection of 16 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox volunteers....
Appeal - Anne Brontë
Appeal - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Appeal by Anne Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 5, 2012. Appeal appears in 'Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell,' the first book ever published by the Bronte sisters. This...
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass - Frederick DOUGLASS
Collected Articles of Frederick Douglass - Frederick DOUGLASS
- Author: Frederick DOUGLASS
- Genre: *Non-fiction
These two articles were reproduced as an e-book by Project Gutenberg in 2008 to supplement "...several articles by Frederick Douglass, whose larger work was presented in book form as a January, 1993 Project Gutenberg Etext to commemorate Martin...
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 3 - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 3 - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Another wonderful compilation of stories edited by Hamilton Wright Mabie! This volume, the 3rd of 12, contains 2 main sections: Classic Tales and Old Fashioned Stories. Of the first section, assistant editor Daniel Edwin Wheeler says, "After our...
The Englishman and Other Poems - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Englishman and Other Poems - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of beautiful and evocative poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. - Summary by Carolin...
Essays on Prohibition - Various
Essays on Prohibition - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of essays regarding the pros and cons of prohibition of alcoholic beverages, principally in the United States. - Summary by KevinS...
Short Science Fiction Collection 031 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 031 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
A Short History of England - G. K. Chesterton
A Short History of England - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was a prolific writer on many topics. His views of history were always from the standpoint of men and their interactions, and it may fairly be said he saw all of history as a battle between civilization and barbarism. So it...
God's Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi - Sophie JEWETT
God's Troubadour, The Story of St. Francis of Assisi - Sophie JEWETT
- Author: Sophie JEWETT
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
Francis, a young Italian boy, is a merchant's son who is enthralled by the troubadour songs and tales of knights that his father brings back from his travels. He decides to become a knight, but after seeing the poor and suffering in the tragedies of...
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: General Fiction
This novel tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive heir to a tycoon's fortune; the relationship with his wife Gloria, his service in the army, and alcoholism. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Religious Affections - Jonathan EDWARDS
Religious Affections - Jonathan EDWARDS
- Author: Jonathan EDWARDS
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) was a pre-revolutionary American pastor and academic in Massachusetts, and is also widely considered to be both the last of the great Puritans, and a founder of modern evangelicalism. In 1732, his church and many...
The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton - Oliver Optic
The Boat Club; or, The Bunkers of Rippleton - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Bunkers are a group of rebellious boys who make life miserable for many on the shores of an upstate New York Lake. Captain Sedley's son, Frank, has a run in with the boys and decides to start a boat club for his son and his friends.They learn...
The Master of the World - Jules Verne
The Master of the World - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Science Fiction
Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is...
