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The Bourgeois Gentleman - Molière
The Bourgeois Gentleman - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
The Bourgeois Gentleman of the title is a middle-class social climber, assured that by learning all the arts of a true and noble gentleman, he shall truly become one. This enables Moliere to satire both the pretentious middle class and the snobbish...
The Judas Valley - Robert Silverberg
The Judas Valley - Robert Silverberg
- Author: Robert Silverberg
- Genre: Science Fiction
Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri...
Short Science Fiction Collection 014 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 014 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected...
Walking Up A Hill At Dawn - Edward Powys MATHERS
Walking Up A Hill At Dawn - Edward Powys MATHERS
- Author: Edward Powys MATHERS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Walking Up A Hill At Dawn by Edward Powys Mathers. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 18, 2019. ------ This poem is taken from The Garden Of Bright Waters - One Hundred And Twenty Asiatic...
Doctor Izard - Anna Katharine Green
Doctor Izard - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The opening scene takes place in a hospital ward where two patients lie, apparently dying, when a man enters and offers a proposition to one of them. The story then shifts to another town where, years earlier, Polly Earle’s mother died of unknown...
Old Boats
Old Boats
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
There is little information on Theodosia Garrison available. This poem is taken from The Dreamers and Other Poems, George H. Doran Company, 1917. (David Lawrence)...
Selected Classics of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
Selected Classics of Washington Irving - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Washington Irving is one of early America's most treasured writers. He is best known for his wit and satirical voice. Irving had the extraordinary ability to paint a picture in words on the canvas of the printed page. Irving spent time in England...
Running Fox - Elmer Russell GREGOR
Running Fox - Elmer Russell GREGOR
- Author: Elmer Russell GREGOR
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Having reached the age of sixteen winters, Running Fox, the son of Black Panther, a famous Delaware war-chief, determined to establish his reputation as a warrior. He knew, however, that before he could gain admission into the gallant company of...
Americans and Others - Agnes Repplier
Americans and Others - Agnes Repplier
- Author: Agnes Repplier
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of sometimes biting, always clever commentaries on some of life's foibles -- as apt today as when Ms. Repplier wrote them in 1912. Though less know to modern readers, Repplier was in her prime ranked among the likes of Willa Cather....
Short Poetry Collection 187 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 187 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 32 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2018....
Fishing with a Worm - Bliss PERRY
Fishing with a Worm - Bliss PERRY
- Author: Bliss PERRY
- Genre: Contemporary
Fishing with a Worm by Bliss Perry includes the poignant and philisophical observations of a fly fisherman lured by the worm. Bliss Perry was a professor of literature at Princeton and Harvard Universities and spent time in Vermont writing and fly...
Mother - Kathleen NORRIS
Mother - Kathleen NORRIS
- Author: Kathleen NORRIS
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction
With seven children and a home to take care of, Margaret wondered how her Mother could be so happy living a life that seemed all drudgery. As Margaret has new experiences, she comes to realize that "her mother was not only the truest, the finest,...
Troubled About Many Things - Emily Dickinson
Troubled About Many Things - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"—something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. A recluse...
Snowdrift - James B. HENDRYX
Snowdrift - James B. HENDRYX
- Author: James B. HENDRYX
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The story revolves around Carter Brent, an alcoholic and gambler who had struck gold many times in the Yukon, but gambled and drank it away in Dawson; and Snowdrift, the half-breed who had spent her life with a wandering band of Indians in the...
The Game - Jack London
The Game - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Sports Fiction
Jack London wrote at least four stories about boxing; A Piece of Steak (1909), The Mexican (1911), The Abysmal Brute (1911), and The Game (1905). The Game is told, in part, from the point of view of a woman, the fiancée of one of the competitors....
Tales from Jókai - Mór JÓKAI
Tales from Jókai - Mór JÓKAI
- Author: Mór JÓKAI
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Móric Jókay de Ásva, known as Mór Jókai or Maurus Jokai, was a Hungarian dramatist and novelist. He was a very prolific writer from an early age and wrote hundreds of novels, novellas, and short stories in his lifetime. The nine stories in this...
The Valley of Decision - Edith Wharton
The Valley of Decision - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Odo Valsecca, a promising nobleman, inherits a dukedom at a young age and, over the course of his young life, must quickly learn the politics of royalty as he deals with other nobles, the church, the free-thinking movement, and, of course, his...
A Chesterton Calendar - G. K. Chesterton
A Chesterton Calendar - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
Go through the year, day by day, with the wit and wisdom of G.K. Chesterton! Compiled from the writings of 'G.K.C', both in verse and in prose, each day of the year is provided with a generally short quotation from one of his many works. Also...
Confessions, volumes 5 and 6 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confessions, volumes 5 and 6 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Author: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Genre: Psychology / Memoirs
"She was more to me than a sister, a mother, a friend, or even than a mistress, and for this very reason she was not a mistress; in a word, I loved her too much to desire her..." More of the amours of the twentysomething Jean-Jacques: here initiated...
The Paying Guest - George Gissing
The Paying Guest - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: General Fiction
George Gissing was one of the most accomplished writers of realism in the Victorian Era. Also The Paying Guest is a great example of realism, which closely pictures the class struggles of the time. The Novel opens at the breakfast table of the...
Missing: Page Thirteen - Anna Katharine Green
Missing: Page Thirteen - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
Violet Strange, a clever petite detective, is called upon to solve the mystery of a page gone missing from an important document. The futures of several people, including an eccentric misanthrope, a chemical scientist, a bride and groom, depend on...
Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters - Thomas Hardy
Life's Little Ironies; A Set Of Tales With Some Colloquial Sketches Entitled A Few Crusted Characters - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Eighteen short stories by a master story teller. - Summary by david wales...
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne - William John Locke
The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Marcus Ordeyne is a middle aged bachelor schoolmaster who has inherited both money and a title and thus is able to lead a life of leisure. One day, he encounters a young girl in a London park who has escaped from a Turkish harem and has come to...
Kitty McCrae - A Galloping Rhyme - Barcroft BOAKE
Kitty McCrae - A Galloping Rhyme - Barcroft BOAKE
- Author: Barcroft BOAKE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of Kitty McCrae - A Galloping Rhyme by Barcroft Henry Boake. This was the fortnightly poetry project for April 19th, 2009....
Further Chronicles of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Further Chronicles of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
Further Chronicles of Avonlea is a collection of short stories by L.M. Montgomery and is a sequel to Chronicles of Avonlea. Published in 1920, it includes a number of stories relating to the inhabitants of the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea...
Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
Secret history revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Author: Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Genre: General Fiction
"If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn’t wanted money to buy a white frock with roses on it, which I saw in Selfridge’s window, a secret crisis between the United States and Mexico would have been avoided; and the career of a splendid...
A Cruise in an Opium Clipper - Lindsay ANDERSON
A Cruise in an Opium Clipper - Lindsay ANDERSON
- Author: Lindsay ANDERSON
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Eamont was an opium clipper built in Cowes. It was the subject of an 1891 book, A cruise in an opium clipper, by Captain Lindsay Anderson. Eamont was involved in the opening of Japan to foreigners in 1858, serving as a dispatch boat between Nagasaki...
Short Poetry Collection 154 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 154 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 35 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2016....
Pearl (Jewett translation) - The Gawain Poet
Pearl (Jewett translation) - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Elegies & Odes
Written in the 14th century by the Gawain poet, 'Pearl' is an elegiac poem reflecting on the death of a young daughter, pictured as a pearl lost in a garden. It is considered a masterpiece of Middle English verse, incorporating both the older...
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - September - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - September - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Poetry
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs' poems for each day. This project covers the month of September. - Summary by Carolin...
In the Rain - William Wetmore STORY
In the Rain - William Wetmore STORY
- Author: William Wetmore STORY
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of In the Rain by William Wetmore Story. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 29th, 2009....
Carpenter's geographical reader: South America - Frank G. Carpenter
Carpenter's geographical reader: South America - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: Reference / Travel & Geography
In this book the children are taken by the author upon a personally conducted tour through the most characteristic parts of the South American continent. The book will, it is believed, aid in putting flesh and blood on the bones of the geographies,...
Love Poems and Others - D. H. Lawrence
Love Poems and Others - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by DH Lawrence. Most of the poems concern love and neighboring emotions, but some poems also concern other themes. - Summary by Carolin...
The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
The Man in the Iron Mask - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In this, the last of the Three Musketeers novels, Dumas builds on the true story of a mysterious prisoner held incognito in the French penal system, forced to wear a mask when seen by any but his jailer or his valet. If you have skipped the novels...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 15 - The War Chief of the Ottawas: A Chronicle of the Pontiac War
Chronicles of Canada Volume 15 - The War Chief of the Ottawas: A Chronicle of the Pontiac War
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
This is the history of Pontiac's Conspiracy, 1763-1765. It includes the siege of Detroit and his ultimate defeat. Summary by Esther....
Poetry Everywhere - W. S. Gilbert
Poetry Everywhere - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these...
Pollyanna (version 4) - Eleanor H. Porter
Pollyanna (version 4) - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Family
Spinster Polly Harrington is perfectly content to be in control of her comfortable life, even if is she alone in a big house. But then a letter arrives informing her she is the guardian to her young orphaned niece, and she as well as the whole town...
Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Poetry
William Blake’s volume of poetry entitled Songs of Innocence and Experience is the embodiment of his belief that innocence and experience were “the two contrary states of the human soul,” and that true innocence was impossible without experience....
Round the Moon - Jules Verne
Round the Moon - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Science Fiction
Around the Moon, Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, is a science fiction novel continuing the trip to the moon which left the reader in suspense after the previous novel. It was later combined with From the Earth to the Moon to...
The Black Star Passes - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
The Black Star Passes - John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Author: John Wood CAMPBELL. JR.
- Genre: Science Fiction
A sky pirate armed with superior weapons of his own invention... First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets... The arrival of an unseen dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end of...
