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Short Poetry Collection 128 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 128 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2014....
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 11 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 11 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Early Modern
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 11 subtitled “From the Accession of George I to the Legislative Union of England and...
Tommy and the Wishing Stone - Thornton W. Burgess
Tommy and the Wishing Stone - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This is the story about Tommy and how he came to better understand the animals around him. Tommy has a favourite stone that he likes to sit upon to think about his day and ponder his troubles. He comes to name this stone the wishing-stone, as it...
Tremendous Trifles - G. K. Chesterton
Tremendous Trifles - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“None of us think enough of these things on which the eye rests. But don't let us let the eye rest. Why should the eye be so lazy? Let us exercise the eye until it learns to see startling facts that run across the landscape as plain as a painted...
Captain Cook - Walter Besant
Captain Cook - Walter Besant
- Author: Walter Besant
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Nature
James Cook (1728-1779), British explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the Royal Navy was the son of a farm laborer. Apprenticed to a grocer, he ran away to sea. He saw hard service in the Baltic as a merchant seaman, while applying...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 046 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include meteor showers, smallpox inoculation, telegraphy, fear of death, church bell change-ringing , painting as a pastime, prejudice against Jews from...
Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written in the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far...
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1 - John Lloyd STEPHENS
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1 - John Lloyd STEPHENS
- Author: John Lloyd STEPHENS
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. Their guide, slashing through the rampant growth with his machete,...
A Bullet for Cinderella - John D MACDONALD
A Bullet for Cinderella - John D MACDONALD
- Author: John D MACDONALD
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
HER VENEER WAS BIG CITY ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders...
The Clue of the Twisted Candle - Edgar Wallace
The Clue of the Twisted Candle - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Well-known mystery writer John Lexman is charged with murder and sent to Broadmoor Prison. His friend T.X., head of a special branch of Scotland Yard, tries to prove his innocence. (Summary by Gesine)...
The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - Victor G. Durham
The Submarine Boys' Trial Trip - Victor G. Durham
- Author: Victor G. Durham
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The torpedo submarine's inventor, Jack Farnum, is looking for investors to help him kick his new shipyard into high gear. He already has his crew set, with sixteen year old Jack Benson as the captain, and his friend Hal Hastings running the engines....
Mother Nature (MacDonald) - George MacDonald
Mother Nature (MacDonald) - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Mother Nature by George MacDonald. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 3, 2013. George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet and Christian minister. He inspired J. R. R. Tolkien and other...
The Hexaemeron - BASIL OF CAESAREA
The Hexaemeron - BASIL OF CAESAREA
- Author: BASIL OF CAESAREA
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary / Christianity - Other
The Hexaemeron is the title of nine homilies delivered by St. Basil on the the cosmogony of the opening chapters of Genesis. When and where they were delivered is quite uncertain. They are Lenten sermons, delivered at both the morning and evening...
Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination - Catherine Grace Frances GORE
Mrs. Armytage, or Female Domination - Catherine Grace Frances GORE
- Author: Catherine Grace Frances GORE
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
Mrs Armytage is a widowed landowner, spirited, independent and very much used to having her own way and exercising total dominance over her family. She is acutely aware of social distinctions, proud of her power and prestige, and stands on her...
The String of Pearls - Unknown
The String of Pearls - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
The tale of Sweeney Todd has had many incarnations, most famously the stage and movie musical by Stephen Sondheim. But it all started in 1846 with a serialized telling of the story titled “The String of Pearls” in the weekly magazine “The People's...
Contending Forces - Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
Contending Forces - Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- Author: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, despite an impressive record of productivity and creativity as a novelist, playwright, short fiction writer, editor, actress, and singer, is an African-American woman writer who has essentially been consigned to the...
Euthydemus - Plato
Euthydemus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Euthydemus (Εὐθύδημος) and Dionysodorus the sophists discuss the meaning of words with Socrates. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
The Book of the Cat - Mabel HUMPHREY
The Book of the Cat - Mabel HUMPHREY
- Author: Mabel HUMPHREY
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Stories of kittens and cats who have a variety of adventures. This book is aimed at children, but adults (especially those who love cats!) will enjoy it just the same. - Summary by Foon...
Selected Lullabies of Eugene Field - Eugene Field
Selected Lullabies of Eugene Field - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
The sweetest songs the world has ever heard are the lullabies that have been crooned above its cradles. The music of Beethoven and Mozart, of Mendelssohn and Schumann may perish, but so long as mothers sing their babies to sleep the melody of cradle...
Uganda's White Man of Work: A Story of Alexander M. Mackay - Sophia Lyon FAHS
Uganda's White Man of Work: A Story of Alexander M. Mackay - Sophia Lyon FAHS
- Author: Sophia Lyon FAHS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
When Henry Stanley (the famous journalist who went to find David Livingstone) was in Africa , he met a king named Mutesa. This king had started believing his tribe's Ugandan traditions about spirits and devils. Then some Arabs came through and...
The Magic Skin - Honoré de Balzac
The Magic Skin - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Something along the lines of Dorian Gray as part of the Comedies Humane Philosophique, this is Balzac's first successful novel. He even wrote "criticisms" of the writing himself in promotion of the book, in addition to hyping the work before it even...
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang
Letters to Dead Authors - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
With twenty two letters, addressed to various already deceased authors, Andrew Lang discusses literary subjects with his usual humour and acidity. The impulse for the writing of the letters came, almost as a joke, from the editor of the 'St. James's...
The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies is the first book in the 12 part series by Frank Gee Patchin. (Summary by ashleighjane) Next book in the series: The Pony Rider Boys Texas...
Topsy-Turvy - Jules Verne
Topsy-Turvy - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
Topsy Turvy is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889) . This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890). We meet our old friends Barbicane and J.T. Maston from “Earth to the Moon” who now give us their own...
The Life of Saint Monica - Frances Alice Forbes
The Life of Saint Monica - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
This book is above all things the story of a mother. But it is also the story of a noble woman—a woman who was truly great, for the reason that she never sought to be so. Because she understood the sphere in which a woman's work in the world must...
From Dictatorship to Democracy - Gene Sharp
From Dictatorship to Democracy - Gene Sharp
- Author: Gene Sharp
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
From Dictatorship to Democracy, A Conceptual Framework for Liberation is a book-length essay on the generic problem of how to destroy a dictatorship and to prevent the rise of a new one. The book was written in 1993 by Gene Sharp (b. 1928), a...
Bible (KJV) 18: Job (version 2) - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 18: Job (version 2) - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
Job was a prosperous landowner who encountered a series of misfortunes, leading him to question himself and his relation to his God. A grand sweep of ecclesiastical argument brings Job to a new level of insight and acceptance. - Summary by Peter...
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons - James Francis THIERRY
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons - James Francis THIERRY
- Author: James Francis THIERRY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons: Being one of the Exciting Episodes in the Career of the Famous Detective Hemlock Holmes as Recorded by his Friend Dr. Watson is a parody of the Sherlock Holmes stories. "...there in the same old den, at...
The Rock of Chickamauga - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Rock of Chickamauga - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Action & Adventure
"The Rock of Chickamauga," presenting a critical phase of the great struggle in the west, is the sixth volume in the series, dealing with the Civil War, of which its predecessors have been "The Guns of Bull Run," "The Guns of Shiloh," "The Scouts of...
Tip Lewis and His Lamp - Pansy
Tip Lewis and His Lamp - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Religion / Christian Fiction
Tip Lewis is a mischievous, unpromising scamp. One Sunday, a visiting Sunday school teacher tells his mission class how her minister had grown up in similarly bad circumstances, but had decided to follow God and had never regretted it. Tip decides...
Johnny Crow's Garden - L. Leslie Brooke
Johnny Crow's Garden - L. Leslie Brooke
- Author: L. Leslie Brooke
- Genre: Animals & Nature
A beautifully illustrated children’s picture book featuring Johnny Crow who made a garden in which a variety of animals do bizarre things in rhyme.Listen to the audio while you view the pictures on gutenberg.org (Summary by Jim)...
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War - Various
Famous Adventures And Prison Escapes Of The Civil War - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Seven narratives published in the late nineteenth century and assembled in this 1913 collection. - Summary by david wales...
A Laodicean - Thomas Hardy
A Laodicean - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
The Laodicean (someone whose religious beliefs are “lukewarm”) of the title is Paula Power who bought the ancient castle De Stancy which she is determined to restore. Being of a modern frame of mind, she has the telegraph connected to the castle –...
Catholic and Anti-Catholic History - Various
Catholic and Anti-Catholic History - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Modern / Christianity - Other
G.K. Chesterton and James Walsh join Hilaire Belloc in an energetic rollout of the means by which history becomes propaganda, to the damage, not only to truth, but to the human soul. (Summary by Jan Baker)...
History of a Life - Barry CORNWALL
History of a Life - Barry CORNWALL
- Author: Barry CORNWALL
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of History of a Life by Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall). This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 18th, 2009....
The Web of the Golden Spider - Frederick O. BARTLETT
The Web of the Golden Spider - Frederick O. BARTLETT
- Author: Frederick O. BARTLETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Web of the Golden Spider is a tale of mystery, intrigue and adventure that begins in the city, progresses to a mutinous open sea voyage, eventually leading to the remotest areas on the slopes of the Andes of South America. Wilson, our hero,...
Triplanetary, First in the Lensman Series - E. E. Smith
Triplanetary, First in the Lensman Series - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Science Fiction
Triplanetary was first serialized in Amazing Stories in 1934. After the Lensman series became popular, Smith took his Triplanetary story and turned it into the first of the Lensman series, using it as a prequel to give the back story for the...
Songs, Merry and Sad - John Charles McNeill
Songs, Merry and Sad - John Charles McNeill
- Author: John Charles McNeill
- Genre: Poetry
This is the only volume of poetry published during John Charles McNeill's lifetime, containing 59 of his 400+ poems. McNeill was considered the unofficial poet laureate of his home state North Carolina until this position was established officially...
Short Science Fiction Collection 028 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 028 - 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...
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
Martin Chuzzlewit was Dickens 6th novel, serially published in 1843 - 44. Irrespective of the fact that Dickens considered - "Chuzzlewit is in 100 points immeasurably the best of my stories"- it failed to resonate with, or capture the public's...
