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A Crystal Age - William Henry HUDSON
A Crystal Age - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Science Fiction
A Crystal Age is a utopian novel written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. The book has been called a "significant S-F milestone" and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later....
The Gate of the Giant Scissors - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Gate of the Giant Scissors - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This is the story of Joyce, an American girl who has been sent abroad to France to study, and of her adventures in France, - the wonderful house with the gate of The Giant Scissors, Jules, her little playmate, Sister Denis, the cruel Brossard, and...
History of New Brunswick - Peter FISHER
History of New Brunswick - Peter FISHER
- Author: Peter FISHER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Travel & Geography
Originally published in 1825 under the title: Sketches of New Brunswick : containing an account of the first settlement of the province, with a brief description of the country, climate, productions, inhabitants, government, rivers, towns,...
Loss of the Sultana - Chester D. BERRY
Loss of the Sultana - Chester D. BERRY
- Author: Chester D. BERRY
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
April, 1865. The country was in turmoil. The U.S. Civil War had come to an end, thousands of Union prisoners of war had recently been released, and President Lincoln had just been assassinated. The steamship 'Sultana' left New Orleans on April 21st,...
Slabs of the Sunburnt West - Carl Sandburg
Slabs of the Sunburnt West - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: Single author
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard...
Bible (ASV) 38: Zechariah - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 38: Zechariah - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
Zechariah’s ministry took place during the reign of Darius the Great (Zechariah 1:1), and was contemporary with Haggai in a post-exilic world after the fall of Jerusalem in 586/7 BC. Ezekiel and Jeremiah wrote prior to the fall of Jerusalem, while...
A Tale of Two Cities (version 4) - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (version 4) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A small group of people become embroiled in the tumultuous events of the French Revolution. - Summary by Brad Filippone...
The Saga of the Greenlanders (Reeves Translation) - Unknown
The Saga of the Greenlanders (Reeves Translation) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
The Saga of the Greenlanders is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, along with the Saga of Erik the Red. The two accounts describe many of the same events leading to Norse...
How to Sing (Meine Gesangskunst) - Lilli LEHMANN
How to Sing (Meine Gesangskunst) - Lilli LEHMANN
- Author: Lilli LEHMANN
- Genre: Education / Music / Self-Help
Lilli Lehmann, born Elisabeth Maria Lehmann, was a German operatic soprano of phenomenal versatility. She was also a voice teacher. She wrote: "Every serious artist has a sincere desire to help others reach the goal—the goal toward which all singers...
Flying for France - With the American Escadrille at Verdun
Flying for France - With the American Escadrille at Verdun
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
The experiences of American James R. McConnell, while flying with the French Flying Corp at Verdun during World War One. Sgt McConnell was a member of the Layfette Escadrille also called the American Escadrille from 1915 to 1917. McConnell...
Christie's Old Organ - Mrs. O. F. Walton
Christie's Old Organ - Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Author: Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family / Christian Fiction
Christie is all alone in the world after his mother dies. He lives in a boarding house and every night creeps up the attic stairs to hear an old barrel organ play. One night while he is listening, the organ stops and Christie hears a thump. What has...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest...
The Lost City - Harry HAZELTON
The Lost City - Harry HAZELTON
- Author: Harry HAZELTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Bruno and Waldo Gillespie are orphaned brothers living with the extremely eccentric Professor Phaeton Featherwit. One day they set off in one of the professor's machines to investigate a tornado at close range and accidentally get sucked into it!...
The Barbadoes Girl - Barbara Hofland
The Barbadoes Girl - Barbara Hofland
- Author: Barbara Hofland
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Matilda Sophia Hanson, whose father has recently died in their country of Barbadoes in the West Indies, must live for a time with family friends in England. The Harewood family is astonished at how spoiled, rude, and uneducated the child is....
The Fate of Fenella - Various
The Fate of Fenella - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
One book, twenty-four authors ... Fenella is the beautiful, girlish and headstrong heroine of a sensational Victorian novel which continually passes from one writer's cliffhanger to another's resolution. Fenella, with her young son Ronny, is...
Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope
Phineas Redux - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Phineas Finn is the fourth in Trollope's series of six Palliser novels. At the end of Phineas Finn, the second novel in the series, Phineas had returned to Ireland and married his childhood sweetheart after having left the House of Commons. As...
Romance - Andrew Lang
Romance - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 readings of Romance by Andrew Lang, probably best known as Edward Elgar's song My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land. Interestingly, Lang initially refused permission for his words to be used as lyrics, and Elgar's wife...
The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion - Frederick Milnes EDGE
The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion - Frederick Milnes EDGE
- Author: Frederick Milnes EDGE
- Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
Paul Morphy, born in New Orleans in 1837, was considered the greatest chess player of his era. He was a child prodigy who learned playing chess simply by watching family members play, and when he was only 9 years old, he was hailed as the best chess...
Five Beloved Stories by O. Henry - O. Henry
Five Beloved Stories by O. Henry - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
O. Henry wrote over 600 short stories. Naturally I have my personal top 20 stories that just seem to stand out because of their form, writing style and ability to convey real personalities in a very few words. From these 20 I've chosen five that...
South American Jungle Tales - Horacio QUIROGA
South American Jungle Tales - Horacio QUIROGA
- Author: Horacio QUIROGA
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Single Author Collections
The stories in South American Jungle Tales center on the relationships between people and the different creatures Quiroga came into contact with on his farm in Misiones, a region of jungle in Uruguay along the banks of the Upper Parana river. Each...
In these days . . . - Ebenezer ELLIOTT
In these days . . . - Ebenezer ELLIOTT
- Author: Ebenezer ELLIOTT
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of In these days . . . by Ebenezer Elliott. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 23rd, 2010....
The Mountain Girl - Payne Erskine
The Mountain Girl - Payne Erskine
- Author: Payne Erskine
- Genre: Romance
A delightful love-story, genuinely American in feeling and treatment. The story is stirring, the heroine is ideal. (Summary by the Chicago Tribune, from time of publishing)...
Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness - Evelyn UNDERHILL
Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness - Evelyn UNDERHILL
- Author: Evelyn UNDERHILL
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This classic gives a basic outline of Christian mysticism. (Summary by Joy)...
Short Poetry Collection 185 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 185 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2018....
Rosmersholm - Henrik Ibsen
Rosmersholm - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Rosmersholm is a play written in 1886 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In the estimation of many critics the piece is Ibsen's masterwork, only equalled by The Wild Duck of 1884. As expressed by the protagonist, Rosmer, the theme of the play is...
Peter Bell: A Tale - William Wordsworth
Peter Bell: A Tale - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Narratives
A ne'er-do-well's life is changed by an encounter with a stubborn animal. - Summary by Matthew Schneider...
The Turn of the Screw (version 2) - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw (version 2) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an isolated country estate, who believes they are being haunted. As the story progresses, the governess'...
The Pride of Jennico - Egerton CASTLE
The Pride of Jennico - Egerton CASTLE
- Author: Egerton CASTLE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
"The death of a patriarch, unexpected inheritance of a second son, dark and stormy castle, faithful retainers, scary governess who never speaks, star-crossed lovers -- I could go on, but that would involve spoilers! All you'd want and expect from a...
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Burmese Commisioner Nayland Smith and his faithful friend Dr Petrie continue their fight against the evil genius of Dr Fu-Manchu when they seek to save the good doctor's lost love and protect the British Empire from disaster when their malignant...
Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams - William Carlos Williams
Selected Early Poems of William Carlos Williams - William Carlos Williams
- Author: William Carlos Williams
- Genre: Single author
Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey, a community near the city of Paterson. His father was an English immigrant, and his mother was born in Puerto Rico. He attended public school in Rutherford until 1897, then was sent to study at Château de...
Knight of Molokai - Eva K. BETZ
Knight of Molokai - Eva K. BETZ
- Author: Eva K. BETZ
- Genre: Religion / Biography & Autobiography
Hurricane! Volcano eruptions and fire! Leprosy! Nothing deterred Father Damien from doing the work to which he had been called. Outstandingly big and strong as a boy, he was notably kind as a young man. He needed all his strength and kindness when...
The Sensitive Man - Poul William Anderson
The Sensitive Man - Poul William Anderson
- Author: Poul William Anderson
- Genre: Science Fiction
Poul Anderson delves into the realm of human potential in this exciting story and asks some penetrating questions for us to think about. What if psychology finally enabled people to even partially control all those automatic reactions of our minds...
The Sacred Herb - Fergus Hume
The Sacred Herb - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A rich playboy comes home from travels abroad and is bully-ragged by his eccentric aunt into finding meaning for his life. This he does by helping a school chum save his fiancée from the gallows and the playboy falls head over heels in love with the...
The Ambassadors - Henry James
The Ambassadors - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older, and some would say richer, culture that that of the United States, with...
The Strange Gentleman - Charles Dickens
The Strange Gentleman - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Comedy
Before he became a novelist, Dickens wrote several successful plays. This one from 1836, his first, he called, “A Comic Burletta in Two Acts”. Characters arrive at a village inn called “The St. James Arms” and much confusion ensues. (Summary by...
Short Story Collection Vol. 056 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 056 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 056: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Tolstoy, Gelett Burgess, Oscar Wilde, O. Henry and a number of American women writers....
In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Ambrose Bierce
In the Midst of Life; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
These stories detail the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War. This is the 1909 edition. The 1909 edition omits six stories from the original 1891 edition; these six stories are added to this LibriVox recording (from an...
King Henry IV, Part 2 - William Shakespeare
King Henry IV, Part 2 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
Henry IV, Part 2 is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed written between 1596 and 1599. It is the third part of a tetralogy, preceded by Richard II and Henry IV, Part 1 and succeeded by Henry V. The play picks up where Henry IV, Part 1...
The Titan - Theodore DREISER
The Titan - Theodore DREISER
- Author: Theodore DREISER
- Genre: General Fiction
Cowperwood moves to Chicago with his new wife Aileen. He decides to take over the street-railway system. He bankrupts several opponents with the help of John J. McKenty and other political allies. Meanwhile, Chicago society finds out about his past...
Tangled Trails - William MacLeod RAINE
Tangled Trails - William MacLeod RAINE
- Author: William MacLeod RAINE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns / Published 1900 onward
The aptly titled "Tangled Trails, A Western Detective Story" takes the listener through a web of curious incidents revolving around the murder of a prominent man in Denver. Kirby Lane was quite obviously the guilty party in the murder of his uncle....
