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Struwwelpeter (version 2) - Heinrich Hoffmann
Struwwelpeter (version 2) - Heinrich Hoffmann
- Author: Heinrich Hoffmann
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Poetry
Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for...
The English Constitution - Walter Bagehot
The English Constitution - Walter Bagehot
- Author: Walter Bagehot
- Genre: Law / Political Science
The English Constitution is an extremely accessible work of political and legal science by Walter Bagehot, first published in serialized form in 1865-7. While some of his observations on the English system no longer apply to the modern...
Mollie of the Movies - Kenneth McGaffey
Mollie of the Movies - Kenneth McGaffey
- Author: Kenneth McGaffey
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is a story of a girl who tries to make it big in the world of show business. McGaffey gives us the heroine's first-person account. He writes in an epistolary style and gives us a comic, slice-of-life look at a girl's attempts to become a film...
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
Utilitarianism - John Stuart Mill
- Author: John Stuart Mill
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
John Stuart Mill's book Utilitarianism is one of the most influential and widely-read philosophical defenses of utilitarianism in ethics. The essay first appeared as a series of three articles published in Fraser's Magazine in 1861; the articles...
Ballad of Another Ophelia - D. H. Lawrence
Ballad of Another Ophelia - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of the haunting Ballad of Another Ophelia by D. H. Lawrence. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 24, 2013....
The Dutch Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins
The Dutch Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins
- Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This book is the first of a series of stories for supplementary reading the purpose of which is to give children a correct idea of life in different countries, both in the spirit and atmosphere of the story, and in the actual descriptions. These...
No Clue! A Mystery Story - James Hay
No Clue! A Mystery Story - James Hay
- Author: James Hay
- Genre: Detective Fiction
“No Clue! A Mystery Story” finds detective Jefferson Hastings at the home of wealthy but eccentric Arthur Sloane one hot summer night, when two other guests at Sloanehurst stumble across the body of young Mildred Brace lying dead on the lawn....
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Howard Pyle
Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Swashbuckling tales of legendary pirates, buccaneers, and marooners, terrors of the Spanish Main.(Summary by Epistomolus)...
Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tales of the Jazz Age - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: General Fiction
Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"....
Short Poetry Collection 061 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 061 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's New Short Poetry Collection 061: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
What Diantha Did - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What Diantha Did - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: General Fiction
Charlotte Perkins Gilman opens a window of history through which we can see a small part of the determined efforts made by women to elevate the circumstances of women in the early 20th century.Diantha Bell is a normal young woman desiring marriage...
The Underground Railroad, Part 2 - William Still
The Underground Railroad, Part 2 - William Still
- Author: William Still
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
"This is one of the most remarkable volumes of the century. Its publication has only been made possible by a combination of circumstances which seldom attend the birth of a book. Before emancipation, and while the bane of slavery was on the country,...
Bible (YLT) 24: Jeremiah - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 24: Jeremiah - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version) - Oscar Wilde
The Picture Of Dorian Gray (1891 Version) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / General Fiction
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised this edition, making several...
The Zeppelin's Passenger - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Zeppelin's Passenger - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
The Zeppelin’s Passenger is a tale of German espionage in England during World War I. Dreymarsh is a fictional “backwater” area in England with no apparent military value. The story begins with Dreymarsh residents discovering an observation car from...
Short Science Fiction Collection 027 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 027 - 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...
Paul Jones - Alexandre Dumas
Paul Jones - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Plays / Biography & Autobiography
Dumas's play talks of American Naval Hero John Paul Jones's romantic entanglements and affairs of honor ashore in France. He later converted it to a novel. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: The Marquis D'Auray: Amy Gramour The Marchioness, his wife:...
To The Fighting Weak - Margaret Steele Anderson
To The Fighting Weak - Margaret Steele Anderson
- Author: Margaret Steele Anderson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Margaret Steele Anderson was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1867 and was educated in the public school of Louisville, with special courses at Wellesley College. From 1901 Miss Anderson was Literary Editor of the `Evening Post' of Louisville,...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 03. March 1896 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 03. March 1896 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles: The So-Called Jeannette Relics, by Professor William H. Dall Nansen's Polar Expedition, by General A. W. Greely The Submarine Cables of...
The Flaming Forest - James Oliver Curwood
The Flaming Forest - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Romance
A tale of mystery, romance, and honor, as David Carrigan must choose between his duty as an officer of the law and a girl who holds him captive; a girl who Carrigan thinks he may have fallen in love with no less! Who is this strange girl Jean-Marie,...
Stories of Inventors - Russell Doubleday
Stories of Inventors - Russell Doubleday
- Author: Russell Doubleday
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Science
Doubleday chronicles the history of everyday inventions that form the foundation of technology now common through the world. While some of the inventions are no longer used, each example shows how inventors contributed to technology through...
Mad Barbara - Warwick Deeping
Mad Barbara - Warwick Deeping
- Author: Warwick Deeping
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
It is the last quarter of the eighteenth century and a young woman discovers the body of her murdered father. In her grief, she tries to make sense of why this sweet man, beloved by all, was struck down and, unlike her mother, is unable to put the...
Jock of the Bushveld - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
Jock of the Bushveld - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Author: Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Animals
Jock of the Bushveld is a true story by South African author Sir Percy Fitzpatrick when he worked as a storeman, prospector's assistant, journalist and ox-wagon transport-rider. The book tells of Fitzpatrick's travels with his dog, Jock, during the...
The Red Cross Girls With The Russian Army - Margaret Vandercook
The Red Cross Girls With The Russian Army - Margaret Vandercook
- Author: Margaret Vandercook
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Red Cross girls Nona, Mildred, and Barbara continue their nursing on the unfamiliar Russian frontier. In the course of their work, Mildred encounters a distinguished Russian general, while Barbara battles homesickness and her growing longing for...
Short Poetry Collection 183 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 183 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2018....
British & American Periodical Articles 1852-1905 - Various
British & American Periodical Articles 1852-1905 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Collections
A dozen assorted articles from British and American periodicals, including The Atlantic Monthly, Punch, The Chicago Record-Herald, Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, The Library, St. Nicholas,...
Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
Little Fuzzy - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Jack Holloway, a prospector on the planet Zarathustra discovers small furry creatures. These creatures are obviously intelligent, but are they animals or are they sapient? If they are sapient the planet will be declared a protected zone and the...
Memoir of Washington Irving - Charles Adams
Memoir of Washington Irving - Charles Adams
- Author: Charles Adams
- Genre: Memoirs
Arguably one of America's greatest writers, Washington Irving is the author of such classics as "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "Bracebridge Hall," and "Knickerbocker's History of New York." This book is a concise and extremely entertaining biography of...
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field - Sir Walter Scott
Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Ballads
Marmion is an epic poem in six cantos, written in emulation of the ancient Scottish minstrel style which was of such great interest to Scott. Unlike its predecessor, The Lay of the Last Minstrel, this one contains "introductions" to each canto, in...
Essays and Dialogues - Giacomo Leopardi
Essays and Dialogues - Giacomo Leopardi
- Author: Giacomo Leopardi
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
"We would no more choose to feed the minds of our countrymen and women with the despairing utterances of the pessimist poet, than we would their bodies with hasheesh. Such melancholy as his clothed in such eloquent words may be the luxury of the...
Unleavened Bread - Robert Grant
Unleavened Bread - Robert Grant
- Author: Robert Grant
- Genre: General Fiction
A businessman's selfish wife forces her way into upper society. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
The House on the Borderland - William Hope Hodgson
- Author: William Hope Hodgson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
In 1877, two gentlemen, Messrs Tonnison and Berreggnog, head into Ireland to spend a week fishing in the village of Kraighten. While there, they discover in the ruins of a very curious house a diary of the man who had once owned it. Its torn pages...
Null-ABC - H. Beam Piper
Null-ABC - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
"There's some reaction these days that holds scientists responsible for war. Take it one step further: What happens if "book-learnin'" is held responsible ...?"(quote from Astounding Science Fiction, Feb 1953)...
Candide - Voltaire
Candide - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Candide, ou l’Optimisme, (“Candide, or Optimism”) (1759) is a picaresque novel by the Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire. Voltaire never openly admitted to having written the controversial Candide; the work is signed with a pseudonym: “Monsieur le...
The Case of Jennie Brice - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Case of Jennie Brice - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The flood brings in not only the muddy waters but a series of suspicious clues that convinced Mrs. Pitman, a boarding house keeper, that a murder has been committed at her boarding house. Jennifer Ladley aka Jennie Brice is missing and with the help...
A Versailles Christmas-Tide - Mary Stuart Boyd
A Versailles Christmas-Tide - Mary Stuart Boyd
- Author: Mary Stuart Boyd
- Genre: Memoirs
The Boy has fallen ill with scarlet fever while at school in France. His parents rush to his side. A touching memoir. - Summary by david wales...
Short Poetry Collection 060 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 060 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 060: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War - G. A. Henty
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The story of the war in which the power of the great Mahratta confederacy was broken ended in the firm establishment of the British Empire the Indian Peninsula. When the struggle began, the Mahrattas were masters of no small portion of India; their...
The Homing Bee - E. Pauline Johnson
The Homing Bee - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she was buried in Stanley Park, Vancouver's beautiful heritage of the forest primeval. A simple stone surrounded by...
The Tale of Rusty Wren - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Rusty Wren - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects to entertain. The Tale of Rusty Wren is one of 16 stories of his Tuck-Me-In Tales series. - Summary by Larry...
