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813 - Maurice Leblanc
813 - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
As usual, gentleman thief Arsène Lupin finds himself wrongfully accused of murder, and must find the real killer to clear his coloured name. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Greylorn (version 2) - Keith Laumer
Greylorn (version 2) - Keith Laumer
- Author: Keith Laumer
- Genre: Science Fiction
Earth is threatened with destruction by a deadly alien plague. The planet’s only hope: Get help from the long-lost Omega Colony, somewhere in space. The fate of the Earth is in the hands of Lieutenant Commander Greylorn in charge of the search for...
The Two Twilights - Henry A. BEERS
The Two Twilights - Henry A. BEERS
- Author: Henry A. BEERS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by American poet Henry Augustin Beers. Born in Buffalo, NY, Beers later became a Professor of English literature at Yale University. The poems of this volume were published late in his life, and are of varied nature,...
The Augsburg Confession - Philipp MELANCHTHON
The Augsburg Confession - Philipp MELANCHTHON
- Author: Philipp MELANCHTHON
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Augsburg Confession is the first and most fundamental Confession of the Lutheran Church. It was composed for a public reading at the Diet of Augsburg on June 25, 1530. Although written by Melanchthon, it was presented as the official answer of...
Beautiful Birds - Edmund Selous
Beautiful Birds - Edmund Selous
- Author: Edmund Selous
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction
In this volume, Edmund Selous explains the beauty of birds to children. We meet some of the most beautiful birds in the world, and learn about their lives. We also learn what to do when our mothers decide to wear hats with stuffed birds on them! -...
Short Poetry Collection 072 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 072 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of October 2008....
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences - Sir John BARROW
The Eventful History of the Mutiny and Piratical Seizure of H.M.S. Bounty: Its Cause and Consequences - Sir John BARROW
- Author: Sir John BARROW
- Genre: True Crime / Modern (19th C)
The mutiny on the Bounty occurred aboard a British Royal Navy ship on 28 April 1789. The mutiny was led by Fletcher Christian against the commanding officer, William Bligh. On 4 April 1789, after five months in Tahiti, the Bounty set sail with its...
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper - T. S. ARTHUR
Trials and Confessions of a Housekeeper - T. S. ARTHUR
- Author: T. S. ARTHUR
- Genre: General Fiction
Is housekeeping such a trial? Mrs. Smith thinks so and confesses all in this merry account of her escapades and near disasters! (Summary by Kehinde)...
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous - George Berkeley
Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous - George Berkeley
- Author: George Berkeley
- Genre: Religion / Early Modern
Berkeley uses Hylas as his primary contemporary philosophical adversary, John Locke. A Hylas is featured in Greek mythology and the name Hylas is derived from an ancient Greek word for "matter" which Hylas argues for in the dialogues. Philonous...
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7) - Mark Twain
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (version 7) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A slightly more complex sequel to Mark Twain's original book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, this book really shows the true side of racism in quite a different light. A brilliant masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows its...
Edison's Conquest of Mars - Garrett P. Serviss
Edison's Conquest of Mars - Garrett P. Serviss
- Author: Garrett P. Serviss
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
Edison's Conquest of Mars, by Garrett P. Serviss, is one of the many science fiction novels published in the nineteenth century. Although science fiction was not at the time thought of as a distinct literary genre, it was a very popular literary...
The Four Stragglers - Frank L. Packard
The Four Stragglers - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
This thrilling novel teems with intrigue and unforgettable characters. It opens during WWI with a few allied soldiers lost at night behind German lines. One of them shoots at another in the darkness. Members of a criminal gang before the war, the...
Bat Wing - Sax Rohmer
Bat Wing - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Private detective Paul Harley investigates a mysterious case involving voodoo, vampirism, and macabre murder in the heart of London. The first book in the Paul Harley series, written by Sax Rohmer, author of The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. (Summary by...
The Mountain Spring and Other Poems - Nannie Rebecca GLASS
The Mountain Spring and Other Poems - Nannie Rebecca GLASS
- Author: Nannie Rebecca GLASS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a little volume of poems of nature and religion by Virginia poet Nannie Rebecca Glass. - Summary by Carolin...
The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
The Yellow Sheet (LibriVox NaNoWriMo novel 2007) - LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Author: LIBRIVOX VOLUNTEERS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
An atomic bomb explodes in the mountains of Montana. But was there really a bomb? And was it really in Montana, or in Tokyo? Are Liz and Elizabeth the same woman, is she married with children, is her husband a spy? These and many other questions are...
The Pussycat Princess - Edward ANTHONY
The Pussycat Princess - Edward ANTHONY
- Author: Edward ANTHONY
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family Life
This pussycat is out to have some adventurous fun in this enjoyable fairy tale for boys, girls and parents. Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson...
Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
Cymbeline - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays
Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless...
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 6 - Famous Travels & Adventures - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Young Folks' Treasury, Volume 6 - Famous Travels & Adventures - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Travel Fiction
Historical vignettes of selected locations throughout the world and many of our early explorers as well. Fascinating travel adventures throughout Europe, Asia, America, etc. for young and old alike. Perfect for the armchair traveler who enjoys...
The Abominations of Modern Society - Thomas De Witt Talmage
The Abominations of Modern Society - Thomas De Witt Talmage
- Author: Thomas De Witt Talmage
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
The title gives an accurate description of the book! It is full of old and forgotten words and phrases, Amusing at times, but addressing the problems mentioned in the chapter titles in detail. The troubles of his times are the same as today's, and...
The New Colossus, Version 2 - Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus, Version 2 - Emma Lazarus
- Author: Emma Lazarus
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
My Grandma's father arrived in this country through New York City, and often spoke to my dad, when he was a boy, of what it was like to first see the Statue of Liberty. Most of my relatives arrived through Philadelphia or Boston, and didn't get to...
Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer - Sir Walter Scott
Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: General Fiction
Guy Mannering is a young astrologer, just down from Oxford. While travelling in Scotland, he loses his way and unexpectedly comes to stay at Ellangowan, just as the son of Godfrey Bertram is born. Guy Mannering consults the stars to tell the fortune...
Agnes Grey (version 2 dramatic reading) - Anne Brontë
Agnes Grey (version 2 dramatic reading) - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
Agnes Grey is the daughter of a minister, whose family comes to financial ruin. Desperate to earn money to care for herself, she takes one of the few jobs allowed to respectable women in the early Victorian era, as a governess to the children of the...
The Fairies and the Christmas Child - Lilian GASK
The Fairies and the Christmas Child - Lilian GASK
- Author: Lilian GASK
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman, and had a great gruff voice that came from his boots and was rather frightening, used to ask how I expected...
A Woman's Journey Round the World - Ida Laura Pfeiffer
A Woman's Journey Round the World - Ida Laura Pfeiffer
- Author: Ida Laura Pfeiffer
- Genre: Exploration
Ida Laura Pfeiffer was an Austrian traveler and travel book author, one of the first female explorers, whose popular books were translated into several languages. "The Woman's Journey Around the World, from Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China,...
Music Notation and Terminology - Karl Wilson GEHRKENS
Music Notation and Terminology - Karl Wilson GEHRKENS
- Author: Karl Wilson GEHRKENS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Music
Until relatively recently, music students at all levels of study—from the conservatories to public schools—had few resources available for the formal study of musical notation and terminology in the classroom. In fact, it was not until 1914, when...
Orchids - Theodore Wratislaw
Orchids - Theodore Wratislaw
- Author: Theodore Wratislaw
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection of verse was first published in 1896. (Newgatenovelist)...
A Prairie-Schooner Princess - Mary Katherine MAULE
A Prairie-Schooner Princess - Mary Katherine MAULE
- Author: Mary Katherine MAULE
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Christian Fiction
The story of a Quaker family's journey from Ohio to Nebraska beginning in 1856. They encounter a mystery which leaves them an orphan girl who will forever change their lives. Blizzard, the Civil War, and Indians and more Indians fill this great...
The Point of Honor - Joseph Conrad
The Point of Honor - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Set during the Napoleonic Wars, this story features two French Hussar officers, D'Hubert and Feraud. Their quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter, long-drawn out struggle over the following fifteen years, interwoven with the...
The Hate Disease - Murray Leinster
The Hate Disease - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Dr. Calhoun and his pet tormal Murgatroyd work for the Interstellar Medical Service making routine public health inspections on far-flung colonial planets. When they reach Tallien Three they are greeted with a rocket attack by the Paras, a mutated...
The Steam Man of the Prairies - Edward S. ELLIS
The Steam Man of the Prairies - Edward S. ELLIS
- Author: Edward S. ELLIS
- Genre: Science Fiction
Ethan Hopkins and Mickey McSquizzle-a "Yankee" and an "Irishman"-encounter a colossal, steam-powered man in the American prairies. This steam-man was constructed by Johnny Brainerd, a teenaged boy, who uses the steam-man to carry him in a carriage...
Devlin the Barber - B. L. FARJEON
Devlin the Barber - B. L. FARJEON
- Author: B. L. FARJEON
- Genre: General Fiction
The stabbing death of a beautiful young woman in a London park at night and the disappearance of her sister; a shocked and heartbroken young suitor; a terrified landlady and her simple husband; a recently unemployed man, the narrator, who is...
Mazarin - Arthur HASSALL
Mazarin - Arthur HASSALL
- Author: Arthur HASSALL
- Genre: War & Military
Guilio Raimondo (Cardinal Mazarin, 1602-1661), Richelieu's designated successor as chief minister of France, was a master of diplomacy. Though a cardinal, he was not a priest and was probably secretly married to the Queen-Mother, Anne of Austria....
Toni, the Little Woodcarver - Johanna Spyri
Toni, the Little Woodcarver - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: General
Toni is a little boy who discovers a love for woodcarving. When tragedy strikes and his father dies, Toni does all he can to help his mother Elsbeth. He sets his dream aside to become a woodcarver when the cost to pursue it is out of their means....
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 4: Imperial Antiquity - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 4: Imperial Antiquity - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Antiquity
Volume 4 discusses some of the key leaders of the ancient world, including Julius Caesar, Marcus Aurelius and Constantine, as well as important religious figures such as Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine. Summary by KHand...
Tudor and Stuart Love Songs - John Potter BRISCOE
Tudor and Stuart Love Songs - John Potter BRISCOE
- Author: John Potter BRISCOE
- Genre: Poetry
The spirit of reform which was developed during the early part of the sixteenth century brought about a desire on the part of young men of means to travel on the continent of Europe. This was for the purpose of making themselves acquainted with the...
The Tale of Nimble Deer - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Nimble Deer - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Family
Another Sleepy Time Tale from Arthur Scott Bailey, this time Nimble Deer is the focus of the story and how he was such a tiny, frail, spotted baby when he was born that his mother was worried that he might not survive life in the woods and swamps in...
Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940 - Various
Futuria Fantasia, Spring 1940 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction
A collection of short science fiction stories, edited by Ray Bradbury. Authors include Lyle Monroe, J. E. Kelleam, Hank Kuttner, J. H. Haggard, Ron Reynolds, Damon Knight, and Hannes V. Bok. (Summary by Lois Hill)...
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Henry Festing JONES
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler - Henry Festing JONES
- Author: Henry Festing JONES
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Memoirs
Early in his life Samuel Butler began to carry a note-book and to write down in it anything he wanted to remember; it might be something he heard some one say, more commonly it was something he said himself. In one of these notes he gives a reason...
Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I - Francis ASBURY
Journal of Francis Asbury, Volume I - Francis ASBURY
- Author: Francis ASBURY
- Genre: Memoirs / Christianity - Other
As one of the first two bishops of the Methodist church in America and one of the most well-known circuit riders during the spread of Methodism, Francis Asbury kept a journal of his travels and activities. His journal begins with his prayerful...
The World Set Free - H. G. Wells
The World Set Free - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
The World Set Free is a novel published in 1914 by H. G. Wells. The book is considered a prophetical novel foretelling the advent of nuclear weapons. A constant theme in Wells's work, such as his 1901 nonfiction book Anticipations, was the role of...
