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This Simian World - Clarence DAY
This Simian World - Clarence DAY
- Author: Clarence DAY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
Clarence Day, Jr., best known for his work Life with Father, presents a satirical speculation on how the world might be different if we apes had not risen to prominence, but rather one of the other species had become dominant in our place. (summary...
Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses - Andrew Barton Paterson
Rio Grande's Last Race, and Other Verses - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by Australian poet Banjo Paterson. This collection contains some of Paterson's most famous poems, such as Rio Grande's Last Race, and poems featuring Saltbush Bill. - Summary by Carolin...
The Fairy Ring - Kate Douglas Wiggin
The Fairy Ring - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Fairy Ring, originally published in 1910, is a collection of 63 fairy tales from around the globe. It includes such well-known favorites as "History of Jack the Giant-Killer", "The Frog Prince","Rumpel-stilts-ken", and "Snow-white and Rose-red",...
The Odd Women - George Gissing
The Odd Women - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: General Fiction
George Gissing's 1893 novel takes on the 19th century "Woman Question" by looking at themes of feminism, marriage, and love. The novel raises these issues through the lives of several contrasting women: Mary Barfoot, a feminist philanthropist who...
The Octopus
The Octopus
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Frank Norris based his 1901 novel The Octopus (A Story of California) on the Mussel Slough Tragedy of 1880, a bloody conflict between ranchers and agents of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The central issue was over the ownership of the ranches,...
Beowulf - Unknown
Beowulf - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Poetry
Beowulf. [Translated by Francis Barton Gummere].This is a short but beautiful book, and the Gummere translation really captures the feel of the Old English. Beowulf tells the story of a mysterious young warrior who saves the Spear-Danes from the...
Bible (YLT) 09: 1 Samuel - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 09: 1 Samuel - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Bibles
The First Book of Samuel ushers in the era of kings, notably Saul and David, who represent the battle between the kingdoms of law and grace, between flesh and spirit, between disingenuous apology for sins and Godly repentence. The imperfect, but...
The Glugs of Gosh - C. J. Dennis
The Glugs of Gosh - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Satire
First published in 1917, The Glugs of Gosh satirizes Australian life at the start of the twentieth century - but the absurdities it catalogs seem just as prevalent at the start of the twenty-first. The foolishness of kings, the arrogance of the...
The Autobiography of George Dewey - George DEWEY
The Autobiography of George Dewey - George DEWEY
- Author: George DEWEY
- Genre: Memoirs
Admiral George Dewey, United States Navy, is best remembered for his victory over the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War (1898). Written when Dewey was seventy-five years old and had served fifty-nine years in...
The Texan Star - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Texan Star - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the first story in the Texan series by Joseph Altsheler. The Texan Star outlines the great Texan struggle for freedom, following the adventures of the main character, Ned Fulton. (Summary by Edmonds)...
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society - Thomas HOBBES
Philosophical Rudiments Concerning Government and Society - Thomas HOBBES
- Author: Thomas HOBBES
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
De Cive ("On the citizen") is one of Thomas Hobbes's major works. "The book was published originally in Latin from Paris in 1642, followed by two further Latin editions in 1647 from Amsterdam. The English translation of the work made its first...
Security - Poul William Anderson
Security - Poul William Anderson
- Author: Poul William Anderson
- Genre: Science Fiction
“Security”, tells the story of a compartmentalized government physicist ordered by secret police to complete experiments aimed at developing a new weapon. He is brought to a hidden space station and put in charge of the project but there are many...
Wild Wales - George BORROW
Wild Wales - George BORROW
- Author: George BORROW
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Wild Wales: Its People, Language and Scenery is a travel book by the English Victorian gentleman writer George Borrow (1803–1881), first published in 1862 and now a classic travel text on Wales and the Welsh. The book recounts Borrow's experiences,...
Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester - William ATHERTON
Narrative of the Suffering and Defeat of the North-Western Army, Under General Winchester - William ATHERTON
- Author: William ATHERTON
- Genre: Memoirs
This memoir dating from 1812ff, but only published in 1840s is a strikingly profound contrast with our modern materialism and comfort. It is personal and at the same time very formal and reserved. As a foot soldier traipsing about the wild...
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Extreme busyness…is a symptom of deficient vitality; and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.”What comforting words for the idle among us! Like many of the best essayists, Stevenson is very...
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VACA
The Journey of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca - Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VACA
- Author: Alvar Núñez Cabeza de VACA
- Genre: History / Travel & Geography
Few stories of shipwreck and survival can equal that of the 16th century Spaniard Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca who, cast ashore near present day (USA) Tampa Bay, Florida, in 1528, survived eight years of hand-to-mouth existence among the Indians of...
Epilogue - Bliss Carman
Epilogue - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In 1904, Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems. While of little to no scholarly value, Carman's translations brought...
Short Poetry Collection 054 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 054 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 054: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Book of Stories for the Storyteller - Fanny COE
The Book of Stories for the Storyteller - Fanny COE
- Author: Fanny COE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This group project is a collection of 43 fairy tales (both old and new), folk lore, myths and real life stories by a variety of authors, brought together by writer Fanny E Coe. They are mostly short and are fun to read and tell to children and most...
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories - Lord Dunsany
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Single Author Collections
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories is the third book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin and others. It was first published in hardcover by...
Making a Rock Garden - Henry Sherman ADAMS
Making a Rock Garden - Henry Sherman ADAMS
- Author: Henry Sherman ADAMS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Gardening
A short look at building a rock garden, right from the rocks themselves and how to arrange them, to choosing and placing the plants, touching wall and bog gardens, too. In this little monograph, the author is trying to draw the eyes of U.S....
Mrs. Dymond - Anne Isabella Thackeray RITCHIE
Mrs. Dymond - Anne Isabella Thackeray RITCHIE
- Author: Anne Isabella Thackeray RITCHIE
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
Susanna Holcombe, a very sensitive and free spirited young lady, tries to fit in to society. But it is very hard for a Victorian woman to carve her own path, and she is almost forced to marry colonel Dymond. This book tells about her trials and...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 004 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 004: a collection of 11 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Hotel D'Angleterre And Other Stories - Mary Elizabeth Hawker
The Hotel D'Angleterre And Other Stories - Mary Elizabeth Hawker
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Hawker
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Five short stories by Lanoe Falconer which is the pseudonym of the English writer, Marie Elizabeth Hawker (1848 - 1908). Her works, though few, were well received. Never married, her health was precarious, preventing her from writing more, though...
The Lock and Key Library - Various
The Lock and Key Library - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A collection of classic mystery and detective stories, collected and edited by Julian Hawthorne. Note: the second chapter of Dickens’ The Haunted House is not included in this edition. (Summary by Julie VW)...
The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat - Rudyard Kipling
The Village That Voted The Earth Was Flat - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Possibly as relevant today as it ever was, this story tells the tale of an English village, Huckley, that is beguiled into voting the Earth was flat. How? And why? That is what this beguiling tale of Kipling's sets out to tell us; how the local...
Death Be Not Proud - John Donne
Death Be Not Proud - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Poetry
This week we’re marking the American Memorial Day with eleven readings of a John Donne poem. Memorial Day was conceived as a time to remember military men and women who had lost their lives in war. Kings and presidents come and go and some of the...
Among the Night People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Night People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Single Author Collections
No need to be afraid of the dark - here is a wonderful collection of stories about the creatures and personalities who live at night and sleep in the day. - Summary by Jude Somers...
Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp - Jack Boyle
Boston Blackie: Stories Around the Opium Lamp - Jack Boyle
- Author: Jack Boyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Boston Blackie had his birth in the imagination of a self confessed “opium eater.” Jack Boyle was a San Francisco newspaper man who became dependent upon the drug to make his deadlines, lost his job, and turned to crime to support his habit. He...
An American Idyll: The Life of Carlton H. Parker - Cornelia Stratton PARKER
An American Idyll: The Life of Carlton H. Parker - Cornelia Stratton PARKER
- Author: Cornelia Stratton PARKER
- Genre: Memoirs
In a memoir marked by joy, love, and an unbending sense of adventure, Cornelia Stratton Parker reveals the heart of a unique man and their life together. As a member of California's turn-of-the-20th-century Immigration and Housing Commission,...
From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts - Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Author: Bruce BAIRNSFATHER
- Genre: War & Military / Humor
This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's recuperation from injuries suffered in the Second Battle of Ypres and ends with the Armistice. In this phase of...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 08. August 1896 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 08. August 1896 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the August Number. It includes the following articles: The Work of the National Geographic Society Eighth Annual Field Meeting of the National Geographic Society Geographic History of the...
Bible (ASV) 27: Daniel - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 27: Daniel - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Book of Daniel (דניאל), originally written in Hebrew and Aramaic, is a book in both the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) and the Christian Old Testament. The book is set during the Babylonian Captivity, a period when Jews were deported and exiled to...
A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 3 - Justin McCarthy
A History of the Four Georges, and of William IV, Volume 3 - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: Early Modern
In Volume III of this series on the Hanoverian Kings, Justin McCarthy is joined by his son, Justin Hartly McCarthy, a liberal Irish MP like his father. Together they bring to life, poor stubborn George III, the outrageous radical, John Wilkes, the...
The Red Hand - Arthur Machen
The Red Hand - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Two London gentlemen ponder the evolution of humankind as they investigate a modern-day murder committed with an ancient tool. - Summary by Wanda White...
Aunt Jo's Scrapbag - Louisa May Alcott
Aunt Jo's Scrapbag - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short works
A collection of short stories by Louisa May Alcott that were written with the intent to entertain the whole family and to fill children's heads with wonder and delight. (Summary by Jennifer Stearns)...
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Tobias - Douay-Rheims Version
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Tobias - Douay-Rheims Version
- Author: Douay-Rheims Version
- Genre: Douay-Rheims Version
Tobias is the 17th book of the Bible and one of the historical books in the Old Testament. In the text, Raphael, after revealing his angelic nature, commanded both father and son to tell all the wonders that God had done to them and write it in a...
The Lord of the Isles - Sir Walter Scott
The Lord of the Isles - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Narratives
In stunning narrative poetry, the story begins during the time when Robert Bruce, Earl of Carrick has been hunted out of Scotland into exile by the English and their allies. Bruce returns over sea from the Island of Rachrin: but is forced to land...
Essays book 3 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Essays book 3 - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Author: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
- Genre: Essays / Early Modern
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne is one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. He is also known as the father of Modern Skepticism. His pieces became famous for his apparent...
The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
"All the four-footed folk in the neighborhood agreed that Dickie Deer Mouse was well worth knowing. Throughout Pleasant Valley there was no one else so gentle as he . . . He was always tastefully dressed in fawn color and white. And except sometimes...