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Sun and Saddle Leather - Charles Badger CLARK
Sun and Saddle Leather - Charles Badger CLARK
- Author: Charles Badger CLARK
- Genre: Single author
Cowboy Poetry began as a 19th Century Performance Art staged around a crackling campfire, referencing tall tales and personal stories, lost girlfriends, and love of the vast unboundaried West. It was best accompanied by a hot tin cup of boiled...
Bible (YLT) 10: 2 Samuel - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 10: 2 Samuel - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Bibles
The Second Book of Samuel tells us of this David---the son of Jesse, a common shepherd as a boy, a ruddy youth trying to prove his courage and fighting spirit, and now a man with sons of his own---as king of Israel, the man after God's heart,...
Because I Could Not Stop For Death - Emily Dickinson
Because I Could Not Stop For Death - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Because I Could Not Stop For Death by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 12, 2013. Despite Dickinson's prolific writing, fewer than a dozen of her poems were published during...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 5 - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 5 - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Single author / Single Author Collections
This, the last of 5 volumes containing Poe's works, contains a collection of both prose and poetry. (Summary by TriciaG) Cast List for Section 42: Narrator / Stage Directions: Ellen Preckel Alessandra: Amanda Friday Castiglione: Phil Schempf...
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors - George ILES
Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors - George ILES
- Author: George ILES
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The playwright gives a play its plot, characters, dialog and form, but its sense of living reality is conveyed by the art of the actor. This fascinating collection of perspectives on acting is taken from biographies and autobiographies of American,...
The Royal Book of Oz (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Royal Book of Oz (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Action & Adventure
When the professor decides to outline the ancestry of the eminent people of Oz, Scarecrow feels left out. He doesn't have a family tree - unless you count the bean pole on which he had been placed when the farmer put him in the cornfield! So he...
The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Exemplary Novels of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Originally compiled by Cervantes himself in 1613 as a collection of "exemplary" stories, this translated version from 1881 brings these stories to the English reader. Included in the collection are twelve stories selected by Cervantes, including "A...
Short Science Fiction Collection 048 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 048 - 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 authorβs contemporary world. The stories often represent...
The Gay Lord Quex - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Gay Lord Quex - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays
Lord Quex, after a life of philandering, has decided to reform and marry. But he is not believed, particularly by the guardian of his intended. The play shows the difficulties in shaking a discreditable past - and how it is different for a male Lord...
Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas - Various
Travel Stories Retold From St. Nicholas - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Exploration
St. Nicholas was a popular magazine aimed at young folks in the late nineteenth β early twentieth century. Its articles were usually well-written and often by authors who became famous later on. This collection of articles published in 1920, aimed...
The Side of the Angels - Basil KING
The Side of the Angels - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book is set in New England in the early 20th century in an old established community where times are rapidly changing but nonetheless the rules of a hierarchical society still hold good. Thor, a rich doctor from an old family, in trying to help...
Short Story Collection Vol. 052 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 052 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVoxβs Short Story Collection 052: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
A Garland for Girls - Louisa May Alcott
A Garland for Girls - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
"These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and pleasure suggested titles for the tales and gave an interest to the work.If my girls find a little beauty or sunshine in...
Prairie Poems from the Sunflower State - Lottie Brown ALLEN
Prairie Poems from the Sunflower State - Lottie Brown ALLEN
- Author: Lottie Brown ALLEN
- Genre: Poetry
Poems written by Kansas native Lottie Brown Allen expressing her love of her home state. - Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker...
On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation) - Titus Lucretius Carus
On the Nature of Things (Leonard translation) - Titus Lucretius Carus
- Author: Titus Lucretius Carus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Poetry / Ancient
On the Nature of Things, written in the first century BCE by Titus Lucretius Carus, is one of the principle expositions on Epicurean philosophy and science to have survived from antiquity. Far from being a dry treatise on the many topics it covers,...
Leviathan (Books I and II) - Thomas HOBBES
Leviathan (Books I and II) - Thomas HOBBES
- Author: Thomas HOBBES
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil, commonly called Leviathan, is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes. It is titled after the biblical Leviathan. The book concerns the structure of society (as...
Coningsby, or The New Generation - Benjamin DISRAELI
Coningsby, or The New Generation - Benjamin DISRAELI
- Author: Benjamin DISRAELI
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Coningsby is the first of trilogy of political novels that Disraeli published in the 1840s, and gives an insight into his views of the political turmoil following the passage of the Great Reform Bill by the Whigs in 1832 (a second Reform Bill was...
Songs of Action - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Songs of Action - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems by Arthur Conan Doyle centering around the theme of war, action and adventure. - Summary by Carolin...
Five Children and It (Version 2) - E. Nesbit
Five Children and It (Version 2) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to...
Heart: a Schoolboy's Journal - Edmondo de AMICIS
Heart: a Schoolboy's Journal - Edmondo de AMICIS
- Author: Edmondo de AMICIS
- Genre: School
Little Enrico Bottini is a ten year-old third grade student in Italy who keeps a diary for one whole school year. It records the general problems, excitements, and successes any third grader might deal with, all explained from Enrico's point of...
Historic Adventures: Tales from American History - Rupert S. HOLLAND
Historic Adventures: Tales from American History - Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Author: Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Genre: General
This is a collection of early American stories, interesting read. (Summary by sidhu177)...
Bible (ASV) 35: Habakkuk - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 35: Habakkuk - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
Practically nothing is known about Habakkuk's personal history, except for what can be inferred from the text of his book, which consists of five oracles about the Chaldeans (Babylonians) and a song of praise to God. Since the Chaldean rise to power...
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln - Charles Watts WHISTLER
Havelok the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln - Charles Watts WHISTLER
- Author: Charles Watts WHISTLER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Troy, Athens, Rome... each has its founding legend. So too does the Lincolnshire town of Grimsby, once the largest fishing port in the world. Havelok the Dane probably derives from a folk-tale, orally passed down before assuming written form - first...
Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 3, October 1902 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. XII, No 3, October 1902 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
The Logic of Vegetarianism - Henry SALT
The Logic of Vegetarianism - Henry SALT
- Author: Henry SALT
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
With clear logic and entertaining dialogues, the author presents many reasons for a vegetarian rather than a βflesh-eatingβ diet, and his arguments for not eating meat are as compelling today as when they were written. (Lee Smalley )...
War and Peace Vol. 2 (Dole Translation) - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace Vol. 2 (Dole Translation) - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
I am inclined to rank Count Tolstoy not among the realists or naturalists, but rather as an impressionist. He is often careless about accuracy. Numberless incongruities can be pointed out. He is as willing to adopt an anachronism as a medieval...
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.1 - Alexander von Humboldt
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Years 1799-1804, Vol.1 - Alexander von Humboldt
- Author: Alexander von Humboldt
- Genre: Exploration
In 1799, with extensive travel permissions from the Spanish government, Alexander von Humboldt and the botanist AimΓ© Bonpland departed for the Americas on a journey of exploration that would last well into 1804. In writing the βPersonal Narrativeβ¦β,...
Bible (KJV) NT 01: Matthew - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 01: Matthew - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The Gospel According to Matthew is one of the four canonical gospels, one of the three synoptic gospels, and the first book of the New Testament. It tells of the life, ministry, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. (introduction by...
History of the Britons - NENNIUS
History of the Britons - NENNIUS
- Author: NENNIUS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, and embellisher, of historic characters and events; but his book is notable as one of the earliest that...
Easter Gleams - Lucy LARCOM
Easter Gleams - Lucy LARCOM
- Author: Lucy LARCOM
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of Easter poems by Lucy Larcom. The poems cover the entire circle of religious holidays, customs, and bible verses around Easter. - Summary by Carolin...
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Charles Darwin
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals - Charles Darwin
- Author: Charles Darwin
- Genre: Animals / Science
The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is a book by Charles Darwin, published in 1872, concerning genetically determined aspects of behaviour. It was published thirteen years after On the Origin of Species and alongside his 1871 book The...
The Ordeal of Elizabeth - Anonymous
The Ordeal of Elizabeth - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: General Fiction
An unforgettable family saga which revolves around the beautiful young Elizabeth. Elizabeth is orphaned and raised by her spinster aunts. As an adult, she finds herself trapped in a loveless marriage and ultimately falls in love with another man....
The Great Apostasy: Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History - James E. TALMAGE
The Great Apostasy: Considered in the Light of Scriptural and Secular History - James E. TALMAGE
- Author: James E. TALMAGE
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Elder James E. Talmage, an apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, makes a survey of the Latter-day Saint view of the Great Apostasy. The book's subtitle states that it is a study "considered in the light of scriptural and...
Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales - Elliott O'DONNELL
Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales - Elliott O'DONNELL
- Author: Elliott O'DONNELL
- Genre: Psychology
Old buildings necessarily have a history. It is not always a happy history and folklore abounds. Sometimes unhappy souls come back to haunt the current residents or their guests. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, these narratives provide a...
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (version 3) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Comedy
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is subtitled "A Trivial Comedy for Serious People," and has proved immensely popular since its first performance in 1895. The play certainly has its farcical and comic elements, such as the witty banter...
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 11 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 11 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Book 11 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 16:14 - 18:23. - Summary by the Reader...
At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern - Myrtle Reed
At The Sign of The Jack O'Lantern - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This begins with an odd inheritance at the end of a honeymoon, both parties being inexperienced. Then someone comes to visit, then another, until we've got a chaotic bedlam of New England's tragically off the wall odd-ball relations. Our...
2 B R 0 2 B (Dramatic Reading) - Kurt VONNEGUT, JR.
2 B R 0 2 B (Dramatic Reading) - Kurt VONNEGUT, JR.
- Author: Kurt VONNEGUT JR.
- Genre: Science Fiction
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. was a prolific and genre-bending American novelist known for works blending satire, black comedy, and science fiction, such as Slaughterhouse-Five, Cat's Cradle, and Breakfast of Champions. 2 B R 0 2 B is a satiric short story...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 06 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 06 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
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 6 subtitled the Native, the Naturalized, and βThe English Interestβ, covers the 14th and...
Merry Autumn - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Merry Autumn - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Merry Autumn by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 10th, 2010....
