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The Misanthrope - Molière
The Misanthrope - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Alceste, the misanthrope, hates everyone including himself. But unlike in many pure farces with their cliche stock characters, the characters here are much more well rounded, and who knows - Alceste might actually grow and change throughout the...
From Dawn to Noon: Poems - Violet FANE
From Dawn to Noon: Poems - Violet FANE
- Author: Violet FANE
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by Violet Fane, pseudonym of Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie. The poems convey a lot of emotion, feeling, and sympathy. - Summary by Carolin...
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3) - Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Literary Fiction
An adventure story for children, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a fun-filled book that shows life along the Mississippi River in the 1840s. Written by Mark Twain, the book shows masterfully-done satire, racism, childhood, and the importance of...
Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf - Rennell RODD
Rose Leaf and Apple Leaf - Rennell RODD
- Author: Rennell RODD
- Genre: Poetry
This is the first volume of poetry published by Rennell Rodd, British diplomat, poet and politician. Rodd received help publishing this volume from his friend Oscar Wilde, who also wrote the introduction for this volume. - Summary by Carolin...
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
Lady Susan - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and...
Love-Songs of Childhood - Eugene Field
Love-Songs of Childhood - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Poetry
This book contains verse for young and old. It is full of fantastic stories, breathtaking images, and brilliant rhymes. Including classics from "The Duel" to "The Delectable Ballad of Walter Lot," the author, a devout Christian, keeps his religious...
Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4 - Walt Whitman
Song of the Broad-Axe - stanza 4 - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This Weekly Poem is an excerpt from Song of the Broad-axe (4th Stanza) by Walt Whitman, who was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in...
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4 - Marguerite of Navarre
The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4 - Marguerite of Navarre
- Author: Marguerite of Navarre
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published before 1800
THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity,...
Fatherland - Sir Henry PARKES
Fatherland - Sir Henry PARKES
- Author: Sir Henry PARKES
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 4 recordings of Fatherland by Sir Henry Parkes. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23rd, 2011. Sir Henry Parkes, GCMG (27 May 1815 – 27 April 1896) was an Australian statesman, the "Father of Federation." As...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
History of the United States, Vol. II: Conflict & Independence - Charles Austin Beard
History of the United States, Vol. II: Conflict & Independence - Charles Austin Beard
- Author: Charles Austin Beard
- Genre: History
Charles Beard was the most influential American historian of the early 20th century. He published hundreds of monographs, textbooks and interpretive studies in both history and political science. He graduated from DePauw University in 1898, where he...
To Sleep
To Sleep
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of To Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23, 2014.Sir Philip Sidney (30 November 1554 – 17 October 1586) was an English poet, courtier and soldier, who is remembered...
As a Man Thinketh (version 4) - James Allen
As a Man Thinketh (version 4) - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Self-Help
This book is about our thoughts and how they determine our actions and very being. A few quotes will give a good taste of the riches in this book:"A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.""Cherish...
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - C. J. Dennis
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The book sold over 60,000 copies in nine editions within the first year, and is probably one of the highest selling verse novels ever published in...
Interrupted - Pansy
Interrupted - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Alternately titled Out in the World. Claire Benedict is a capable, responsible, solid young Christian woman. Everyone leans on her for support and depends on her to do much that needs to be done in her church and social circle. But then her...
Opticks - Sir Isaac NEWTON
Opticks - Sir Isaac NEWTON
- Author: Sir Isaac NEWTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
The famous physicist Sir Isaac Newton lectured on optics from 1670 - 1672. He worked on refraction of light into colored beams using prisms and discovered chromatic aberration. He also postulated the corpuscular form of light and an ether to...
The Holy Koran - QURAN
The Holy Koran - QURAN
- Author: QURAN
- Genre: Other religions
The Koran is divided into 114 Surahs. It re-tells the stories of most of the previous prophets. It also covers Marriages, Inheritance, Banning, Pilgrimage, etc. Special thanks to catharmaiden (Sandra Schmit) for Proof-Listening some of the Surahs....
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights - Howard Pyle
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Masterful artist, illustrator, and storyteller Howard Pyle brings new life to the legends of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. The first in Pyle's series of four books about King Arthur, this volume takes readers to the very beginning...
King Lear - William Shakespeare
King Lear - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
King Lear is widely held as the greatest of Shakespeare's tragedies; to some, it is the greatest play ever written. King Lear abdicates the British throne, to divide his kingdom among his three daughters in proportion to their professed love of him....
Salome - Oscar Wilde
Salome - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Plays
The original 1891 version of the play was in French. Three years later an English translation was published. The play tells in one act the Biblical story of Salome, stepdaughter of the tetrarch Herod Antipas, who, to her stepfather's dismay but to...
Near and Far - Florence Earle COATES
Near and Far - Florence Earle COATES
- Author: Florence Earle COATES
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Near and Far by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 20, 2011....
Yet Again - Max BEERBOHM
Yet Again - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such famous men as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. The essays vary considerably in character and subject. They include,...
In Search of the Castaways - Jules Verne
In Search of the Castaways - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland decide to launch a rescue expedition....
Talks To Farmers - Charles H. Spurgeon
Talks To Farmers - Charles H. Spurgeon
- Author: Charles H. Spurgeon
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This is a collection of nineteen sermons given by the Baptist preacher, Charles Spurgeon, using illustrations from rural settings. (Summary by Lauren Randall)...
Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Edgewater People - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of interrelated short stories concerning the townfolk of a few small New England villages at the turn of the last century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
And Even Now - Max BEERBOHM
And Even Now - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
This is a diverse collection of essays by English writer Max Beerbohm, whose circle included such notables as Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Ezra Pound, and Somerset Maugham. Much of Beerbohm's work was humorous, including parodies of various...
The Scarecrow of Oz - L. Frank Baum
The Scarecrow of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Fantastic Fiction
The Scarecrow of Oz is the ninth book set in the Land of Oz written by L. Frank Baum. Published on July 16, 1915, it was Baum's personal favorite of the Oz books and tells of Cap'n Bill and Trot journeying to Oz and, with the help of the Scarecrow,...
A Little Servant - Grace Livingston Hill
A Little Servant - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Religion
A short story of a little girl who is Jesus' servant and how she won the heart of an unbelieving gardener. Summary by Esther...
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 1 - Washington Irving
Knickerbocker's History of New York, Vol. 1 - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: Satire / Early Modern
Washington Irving, an author, biographer, historian, and diplomat, completed his first major work, a satire of contemporary local history and politics entitled A History of New-York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty, by...
Crystal Crypt, the & Beyond the Door - Philip K. DICK
Crystal Crypt, the & Beyond the Door - Philip K. DICK
- Author: Philip K. DICK
- Genre: Science Fiction
Two early science fiction stories by the wonderful craftsman, Philip K. Dick. In the Crystal Crypt, taken from the 1954 Planet Stories, the war between Mars and Terra is about to erupt and earth has only merchants and salesmen to fight; can they...
Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose - Grant Allen
Hilda Wade, A Woman With Tenacity of Purpose - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"In this early detective novel, the detective is Hilda Wade. She is a very capable nurse, but there is something mysterious about her from the moment she arrives at the hospital. Upon meeting her, Dr. Hubert Cumberledge greatly admires her and...
Wives and Daughters (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and Daughters (version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel was serialized in Cornhill Magazine from 1864 to 1866, and completed by her editor posthumously. It looks at English life in the 1830s through the experiences of Molly Gibson, the daughter of a widowed doctor growing...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 026 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 026 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 026: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
A Selection of Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh - Sir Walter RALEIGH
A Selection of Poems by Sir Walter Raleigh - Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Author: Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Genre: Poetry
Sir Walter Raleigh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618) was an English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer. He is also well known for popularising tobacco in England. Raleigh's poetry is written in the relatively straightforward,...
The Sacred Fount - Henry James
The Sacred Fount - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the country. Regarding himself as a master of human psychology, the narrator watches the goings-on of the other...
Short Story Collection Vol. 069
Short Story Collection Vol. 069
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
O. Henry, P.G. Wodehouse, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dorothy Parker and Jack London were among the authors selected by Librivox readers for this, the 69th volume of short stories. Sit back and enjoy!...
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom of Solomon - King James Version
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom of Solomon - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
In the Orthodox Church, during the Great Vespers of celebrated Saints, such as Saint Nicholas the Wonder-worker and the Holy Great Martyr Euphemia, selected passages are read from The Wisdom of Solomon, from the deuterocanonical books of the Holy...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion - Sir Joseph POPE
Chronicles of Canada Volume 29 - The Day of Sir John Macdonald: A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion - Sir Joseph POPE
- Author: Sir Joseph POPE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
A biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. It was written by the man who served as Macdonald's private secretary from 1882 to 1891. - Summary by TriciaG...
New Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit
New Treasure Seekers - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Oswald, Dora, Dicky, Alice, H.O, and Noel fill their free time with entertainments that don't always turn out as they plan. But whether telling fortunes at a fete, unwittingly assisting an elopement, reforming their nasty cousin Archibald or even...
The Soul or Rational Psychology - Emanuel SWEDENBORG
The Soul or Rational Psychology - Emanuel SWEDENBORG
- Author: Emanuel SWEDENBORG
- Genre: Psychology / Religion / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Swedenborg, Emanuel, 1688-1772, was born in Stockholm, Sweden and died in London, England. He was a voluminous writer of scientific treatises as well as prophetic works such as Archana Caelestia and The Divine Providence. He said he had encountered...
