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On A Shadow In A Glass - Jonathan Swift
On A Shadow In A Glass - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet and cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.Swift is remembered for works such as Gulliver's Travels, A...
The Law Against Lovers - William DAVENANT
The Law Against Lovers - William DAVENANT
- Author: William DAVENANT
- Genre: Comedy
The Law Against Lovers was a dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare, arranged by Sir William Davenant and staged by the Duke's Company in 1662. It was the first of the many Shakespearean adaptations staged during the Restoration era. Davenant was not...
The War That Will End War - H. G. Wells
The War That Will End War - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: *Non-fiction
.About the First World War, and the author's conclusions. Whether or not you agree with these articles/essays, H G Wells does make many valid points about the war, and it's effect on people, especially in Britain. I suppose he cannot be blamed for...
The Parables - Lyman ABBOTT
The Parables - Lyman ABBOTT
- Author: Lyman ABBOTT
- Genre: Christian Fiction / Christianity - Other
This is a collection of the parables of the new testament. - Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson...
The Financier - Theodore DREISER
The Financier - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe &...
The Trail to Yesterday - Charles Alden Seltzer
The Trail to Yesterday - Charles Alden Seltzer
- Author: Charles Alden Seltzer
- Genre: General Fiction / Westerns
A girl from the East finds herself confronted with a strange type of man with an ancient grudge. Dakota, the man, first convinces her that he is a brute beyond redemption and then gradually wins her back. Before this happens there has been an...
Short Science Fiction Collection 029 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 029 - 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...
Funeral Oration on Meletius - GREGORY OF NYSSA
Funeral Oration on Meletius - GREGORY OF NYSSA
- Author: GREGORY OF NYSSA
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Saint Meletius was Patriarch of Antioch from 360 until his death in 381. One of his last acts was to preside over the First Council of Constantinople, held in 381. Saint Gregory of Nyssa, renown as one of the Cappadocian Fathers, was in attendance,...
A Picture - Victor DALEY
A Picture - Victor DALEY
- Author: Victor DALEY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Victor James William Patrick Daley was an Australian poet.He was born in Ireland, and was educated at the Christian Brothers at Devonport in England. He arrived in Australia in 1878, and became a freelance journalist and writer in both Melbourne and...
Their Yesterdays - Harold Bell WRIGHT
Their Yesterdays - Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Author: Harold Bell WRIGHT
- Genre: General Fiction
The story of a man and a woman, as they experience The Thirteen Truly Great Things of Life: Dreams, Occupation, Knowledge, Ignorance, Religion, Tradition, Temptation, Life, Death, Failure, Success, Love, and Memories.(Introduction by Megan Kunkel)...
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault - Charles Perrault
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault - Charles Perrault
- Author: Charles Perrault
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book is an early collection of ten well-known fairy tales. It is thought to have begun the genre of fairy tales.(Summary by A.L. Gramour)...
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook - Maria MONTESSORI
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook - Maria MONTESSORI
- Author: Maria MONTESSORI
- Genre: Education / Psychology
This is the authoritative book written by Montessori to describe her methods. It gives an overview of the Montessori Method as developed for 3 to 6 year olds. It is a short work, intended as a manual for teachers and parents, detailing the materials...
Greener Than You Think - Ward MOORE
Greener Than You Think - Ward MOORE
- Author: Ward MOORE
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Satire / Science Fiction
Do remember reading a panic-mongering news story a while back about genetically engineered “Frankengrass” “escaping” from the golf course where it had been planted? That news story was foreshadowed decades previously in the form of prophetic fiction...
Lydia is gone this many a year - Lizette Woodworth REESE
Lydia is gone this many a year - Lizette Woodworth REESE
- Author: Lizette Woodworth REESE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of 'Lydia is gone this many a year' by Lizette Woodworth Reese. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 8th, 2010....
An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
An Essay on Man - Alexander Pope
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being.Each of the poem’s four Epistles takes a different perspective, presenting Man in...
Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony - James OTIS
Richard of Jamestown: A Story of the Virginia Colony - James OTIS
- Author: James OTIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
Richard of Jamestown by James Otis was written for children with the purpose to show them the daily home life of the Virginia colonists. It is written from the viewpoint of a young boy named Richard Mutton. (summary by Laura Caldwell)...
The Lost World (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Lost World (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Lost World is a novel released in 1912 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin in Brazil that encountered prehistoric animals. It has been the inspiration for subsequent fiction, including Michael...
The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
The Willows - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A tale of horror in which a pleasant sojourn down the Danube tumbles terrifyingly awry as the veil between this world and an unfathomably weird dimension is inadvertently pierced by an innocent pair of vacationers, "The Willows", arguably Algernon...
Wanting is - What? - Robert Browning
Wanting is - What? - Robert Browning
- Author: Robert Browning
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social commentary, historical settings, and...
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6 - Various
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 6 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first...
Dodo Wonders - E. F. Benson
Dodo Wonders - E. F. Benson
- Author: E. F. Benson
- Genre: General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
"Dodo Wonders" is the third and last of the "Dodo" novels by E.F. Benson, author of the "Mapp and Lucia" series as well as numerous stand-alone novels and short stories. Dodo was rumored to be based on Lady Margot Asquith; when questioned about it,...
The Italian - Ann Radcliffe
The Italian - Ann Radcliffe
- Author: Ann Radcliffe
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The love story between a nobleman and a beautiful lady whom he meets in church leads both of them to unexpected places, as many people would not put up with their love. This novel is considered to be one of the best Gothic novels ever written, by...
Five Children and It (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - E. Nesbit
Five Children and It (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Finding a Psammead (sand-fairy) to grant any wish your heart desires seems like the beginning of endless delights, but as Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane soon discover, being beautiful, wealthy and popular can have surprising pitfalls! When it comes...
Philip Dru: Administrator - Edward M. HOUSE
Philip Dru: Administrator - Edward M. HOUSE
- Author: Edward M. HOUSE
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Political Science
Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book's hero leads the...
The Tower Of London - Arthur POYSER
The Tower Of London - Arthur POYSER
- Author: Arthur POYSER
- Genre: History / Travel & Geography
Description. History. “… those who read this book and have no opportunity of visiting the Tower expect that the characters in the moving drama of its history shall have some semblance of life as they walk across the stage…. My wish has been to...
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort - Edith Wharton
Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (20th C)
American novelist Edith Wharton was living in Paris when World War I broke out in 1914. She obtained permission to visit sites behind the lines, including hospitals, ravaged villages, and trenches. Fighting France records her travels along the front...
The Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old - Various
The Junior Classics Volume 5: Stories That Never Grow Old - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General
A selection of famous tales selected and re-worked for a junior audience. Stories are taken from Arabian Nights, Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, Shakespearean plays, Pilgrim's Progress, Ivanhoe, and The Startling Adventures Of Baron Munchausen...
The Impromptu of Versailles - Molière
The Impromptu of Versailles - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they had prepared, the King has just asked for an entirely new piece - to be ready later that same day! So all the...
The Blockade Runners - Jules Verne
The Blockade Runners - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Writing at the end of the American Civil War, Verne weaves this story of a Scottish merchant who, in desperation at the interruption of the flow of Southern cotton due to the Union blockade, determines to build his own fast ship and run guns to the...
The Silent Rifleman: A Tale of the Texan Prairies - Henry William HERBERT
The Silent Rifleman: A Tale of the Texan Prairies - Henry William HERBERT
- Author: Henry William HERBERT
- Genre: Westerns
"Two, four, six, eight," he muttered to himself at intervals. "Yes, there are eight of them."Again he laid his ear to the ground and listened."Yes, there are eight of them, sure enough," he again muttered; and then, after a pause, he added: "But two...
Catherine De' Medici - Honoré de Balzac
Catherine De' Medici - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Early Modern
The Philosophical Studies from The Human Comedy (La Comedie Humaine) are a series of works that are intended as a reflection on history in part through the use of fiction. 'Catherine de Medici' is one such 'study', and features, alongside detailed...
One-Act Play Collection 003 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
This collection of ten one-act dramas features plays by Edward Goodman, Alice Gerstenberg, Arnold Bennett, John Galsworthy, Anton Chekhov, Frank Wedekind, Moliere, Theresa Helburn, John Kendrick Bangs, and Harold Brighouse. (Summary by wildemoose)...
The Heath Hover Mystery - Bertram MITFORD
The Heath Hover Mystery - Bertram MITFORD
- Author: Bertram MITFORD
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A stranger appears in the middle of the night at Heath Hover while John Seward Mervyn is tending the modest location in a wooded area near a pond. Legends abound regarding Heath Hover; legends such as one's inability to spend a full night at the...
Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms - Thomas Moore
Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 14th, 2010....
A Summer Morning - Robert F. MURRAY
A Summer Morning - Robert F. MURRAY
- Author: Robert F. MURRAY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
He was young in years, and younger in heart, a lover of youth; and youth, if it could learn and could be warned, might win a lesson from his life. Many of us have trod in his path, and, by some kindness of fate, have found from it a sunnier exit...
From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian - Charles Alexander Eastman
From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian - Charles Alexander Eastman
- Author: Charles Alexander Eastman
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
From the Deep Woods to Civilization is the sequel to Indian Boyhood. Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa) gives his account of what it was like to transition from the ways of his Inidan life to that of the white man. His father, long thought dead, had...
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
Doctor John Dolittle is the central character of a series of children's books by Hugh Lofting. He is a doctor who shuns human patients in favour of animals, with whom he can speak in their own languages. He later becomes a naturalist, using his...
A Kiss for Cinderella - J. M. Barrie
A Kiss for Cinderella - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Plays
This play does have Cinderella and a Godmother, Royalty, and glass slippers, but it takes place in WW1 and is certainly not your typical fairy tale! Produced on Broadway in 1916, it was made into a silent movie in 1925. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list...
My Life in Christ: Extracts from the Diary of Saint John of Kronstadt - Saint John OF KRONSTADT
My Life in Christ: Extracts from the Diary of Saint John of Kronstadt - Saint John OF KRONSTADT
- Author: Saint John OF KRONSTADT
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God....
Christmas Holidays at Merryvale - Alice Hale BURNETT
Christmas Holidays at Merryvale - Alice Hale BURNETT
- Author: Alice Hale BURNETT
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / House & Home
“Toad” Brown, his brother, and their friends have a jolly time at the Christmas holidays. They daydream at a toyshop window, chop down a Christmas tree, have a grand snowball fight, and plan a surprise for a friend in this charming tale of early...
