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A Traveller from Altruria - William Dean Howells
A Traveller from Altruria - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Set in the early 1890s, at a fashionable summer resort somewhere on the East Coast of the United States, this book tells the story of Mr. Twelvemough, an author who has been selected to function as host to a visitor from the faraway island of...
The Future of the American Negro - Booker T. Washington
The Future of the American Negro - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
The history of African American enslavement, freedom from slavery, and the need for education as a prerequisite for success. - Summary by kirk202...
Stupidity - Amy Lowell
Stupidity - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Stupidity by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31st, 2010....
For Christ and the Church (dramatic reading) - Charles Monroe SHELDON
For Christ and the Church (dramatic reading) - Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Author: Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Plays
Rev. Mark Spencer is about to give up on writing his sermon one Saturday night when the Devil comes to him and tries to discourage him by reminding him how few of the people who have pledged themselves to make their motto, 'For Christ and the...
Daddy Takes Us Skating - Howard R. Garis
Daddy Takes Us Skating - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Family
Hal and Mabel's Daddy knows everything - how a thermometer works, what makes a car go, why we get warm when we run. It's a cold and icy evening after school and Daddy has a secret but what is it? And what is in the mysterious packages he has for the...
The Leavenworth Case (Version 2) - Anna Katharine Green
The Leavenworth Case (Version 2) - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Leavenworth Case is a gripping detective novel set in New York, and is one of the first detective fiction novels to be written by a female. Indeed, it was the first novel by Anna Katharine Green who came to be known as 'the mother of the...
Edward the First - Thomas Frederick TOUT
Edward the First - Thomas Frederick TOUT
- Author: Thomas Frederick TOUT
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Edward I of England (1239-1307) will always be remembered as the "Hammer of the Scots" who condemned William Wallace (Braveheart) to a traitor's death in 1297. But Edward was one of England's greatest statesman-kings. In this short biography the...
Short Poetry Collection 003 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 003: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Greater Inclination - Edith Wharton
The Greater Inclination - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
This is Edith Wharton's earliest published collection of short stories (1899). Like much of her later work, they touch on themes of marriage, male/female relationships, New York society, and the nature and purpose of art. One of the stories, "The...
Baseball Joe at Yale - Howard R. Garis
Baseball Joe at Yale - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Sports Fiction
"Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this volume, Joe follows the wishes of his parents and attends college, and seeks to...
Jerry - Jean Webster
Jerry - Jean Webster
- Author: Jean Webster
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jerry is the humorous story of a young man's attempt to win his lady. Jerry is waiting for his friends at a hotel in Italy, and is bored and lonely. When he hears that a beautiful American lady, Constance Wilder, is staying nearby, he tries to visit...
In the Days of the Comet - H. G. Wells
In the Days of the Comet - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
William ("Willie") is a student living in the British town of Clayton. As a Socialist, he tries to move power from the upper class to the working class. Interestingly, in a fictitious confrontation Britain declares war on Germany. Willie falls in...
Thais - Anatole France
Thais - Anatole France
- Author: Anatole France
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The fourth century ascetic Paphnuce, journeys from his remote desert hermitage to urban Alexandria determined to locate the stunningly beautiful and libertine actress, Thais. He earnestly desires that she convert to Christianity. Gaining an audience...
The City That Was - Stephen SMITH
The City That Was - Stephen SMITH
- Author: Stephen SMITH
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Modern (19th C)
This 1911 history of the public health revolution that transformed New York City in the nineteenth century is also about every city and town of the world and the sanitary challenges that each encountered. Stephen Smith (1823-1922) was an American...
Child-life in Art - Estelle M. HURLL
Child-life in Art - Estelle M. HURLL
- Author: Estelle M. HURLL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / History
The poetry of childhood is full of attractiveness to the artist, and many and varied are the forms in which he interprets it. The Christ-child has been his highest ideal. All that human imagination could conceive of innocence and purity and divine...
The Life of Charlemagne - NOTKER THE STAMMERER
The Life of Charlemagne - NOTKER THE STAMMERER
- Author: NOTKER THE STAMMERER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Notker's work consists of anecdotes relating chiefly to the Emperor Charlemagne and his family. It was written for Charles the Fat, great-grandson of Charlemagne, who visited Saint Gall in 883. Traditionally, it has been scorned by traditional...
Manners for Men - Mrs. HUMPHRY
Manners for Men - Mrs. HUMPHRY
- Author: Mrs. HUMPHRY
- Genre: Family & Relationships
Many men who go out into the world while still very young to earn their living have few opportunities of acquiring a knowledge of social observances. Should this little manual of manners be of use to any such in enabling them to master the theory,...
Randall Garrett: 3 Science Fiction stories - Randall Garrett
Randall Garrett: 3 Science Fiction stories - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
The irrepressible Science Fiction author Randall Garrett wrote a wide array of short stories for the SF magazines of his day poking fun at many of the then current cherished beliefs, but he had a habit of writing under many different names. These...
The Border Bandits - J. W. BUEL
The Border Bandits - J. W. BUEL
- Author: J. W. BUEL
- Genre: True Crime
''An authentic and thrilling history of the noted outlaws Jesse and Frank James and their bands of highwaymen.compiled from reliable sources and containing the latest facts in regard to these desperate freebooters.'' (from the author's sub-title)...
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front - E. W. Hornung
Notes of a Camp Follower on the Western Front - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Memoirs
In 1915 Oscar Hornung, son of the famous author E W Hornung, was killed at Ypres after less than a year as a soldier in Flanders. He was only 20. Two years later E W Hornung volunteered to help run one of the YMCA canteens close behind the front...
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick DOUGLASS
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick DOUGLASS
- Author: Frederick DOUGLASS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by famous orator and ex-slave, Frederick Douglass. It is generally held to be the most famous of a number of narratives written by former slaves during the...
Contra Gentes - Athanasius of Alexandria
Contra Gentes - Athanasius of Alexandria
- Author: Athanasius of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Contra Gentes is the first of a two volume work published by Athanasius of Alexandria prior to the outbreak of the Arian controversy (ca. 319). It focuses especially on pagan beliefs and worship concluding with a defense of the Christian view of God...
The Emperor's Candlesticks - Baroness Orczy
The Emperor's Candlesticks - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
When a group of Russian anarchists kidnap a Russian prince in Vienna there are repercussions. On learning that the Cardinal d'Orsay has agreed to convey some hollow candlesticks from the Emperor to the Princess Marionoff in St Petersburg, two spies...
The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys in New Mexico - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Westerns / Action & Adventure
Yee-Haw!! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again! This time they are on their way to Bluewater, New Mexico, ready for whatever adventure they can find. But this time, trouble spots them on the train. Will the Pony Rider Boys be able to handle...
The Dunwich Horror - H. P. LOVECRAFT
The Dunwich Horror - H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Author: H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Horror stalks the earth. There are many dimensions that coexist with our universe and, unfortunately, overlap it in very special places. The horrific beings that live in these other dimensions are ancient, terrifying and very malign. This story is...
That Pup - Ellis Parker BUTLER
That Pup - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A puppy, unanounced and unordered, arrives in a crate at Mr. Murchison's house. Humorous events follow. - Summary by david wales...
Short Poetry Collection 013 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 013 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 013: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
History of the United States, Vol. VII - Charles Austin Beard
History of the United States, Vol. VII - 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...
The Wallet of Kai Lung - Ernest Bramah
The Wallet of Kai Lung - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
The Wallet of Kai Lung is a collection of fantasy stories by Ernest Bramah, all but the last of which feature Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. The collection's importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by...
The Russian Storybook - Richard WILSON
The Russian Storybook - Richard WILSON
- Author: Richard WILSON
- Genre: Short works
Reverend Richard Wilson went to the heart of Russia to find stories from the eastern outposts of Christianity, untouched by the renaissance or reformation. He found the nature of the stories quite different from those of more western cultures. His...
Captain Jim - Mary Grant BRUCE
Captain Jim - Mary Grant BRUCE
- Author: Mary Grant BRUCE
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This book is about Norah Linton, her brother Jim, her father David and Jim's chum Wally from Australia. They all move to England during WWI because Jim and Wally want to fight in the war. When a Irish friend of the family dies, Norah inherits a big...
Come Rack! Come Rope! - Robert Hugh Benson
Come Rack! Come Rope! - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Religious Fiction
Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson, a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harboring a priest...
Bill Bolton and Hidden Danger - Noel E. SAINSBURY, JR.
Bill Bolton and Hidden Danger - Noel E. SAINSBURY, JR.
- Author: Noel E. SAINSBURY JR.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Third entry in series of mystery-adventures about Midshipman Bill Bolton, a 17-year-old US Navy pilot. - Summary by Matt Pierard...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 - Pathfinders of the Great Plains - Lawrence J. BURPEE
Chronicles of Canada Volume 19 - Pathfinders of the Great Plains - Lawrence J. BURPEE
- Author: Lawrence J. BURPEE
- Genre: Early Modern / Exploration
This is volume 19 of The Chronicles of Canada series. This is the account of La Verendryes' quest for an overland route to the Pacific Ocean. (Summary by Esther)...
Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems - Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
Songs of the Silent World, and Other Poems - Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
- Author: Elizabeth Stuart PHELPS
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by American poet and feminist social reformer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Many of the poems in this volume reflect the ideas Phelps advocated during her life, and are meant to encourage the reader to entertain them. - Summary...
The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Vol. I - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
The Promulgation of Universal Peace: Vol. I - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Author: Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Genre: Contemporary / Other religions
“Two years before the crash of world war shook the continents and upheaved oceans,” Howard MacNutt relates. “‘Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás visited the United States of America proclaiming the Glad-Tidings of Universal Peace and the oneness of the world of...
Politics - Aristotle
Politics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Political Science / Ancient
The Politics, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, is one of the most influential texts in political philosophy. In it, Aristotle explores the role that the political community should play in developing the virtue of its citizens. One of his...
Micrographia - Robert HOOKE
Micrographia - Robert HOOKE
- Author: Robert HOOKE
- Genre: Nature / Earth Sciences / Life Sciences
Published in 1665, this is the first publication of the Royal Society and considered to be the first scientific best-seller. As opposed to the Latin of other publications of the time like Newton's 'Principia Mathematica', it was written in English...
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4 - Eliza Haywood
The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless, Vol. 4 - Eliza Haywood
- Author: Eliza Haywood
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / Sagas
Betsy Thoughtless is about an intelligent and strong-willed woman who marries under pressure from the society in which she lives. Betsy learns that sometimes giving way to the role of women within a marriage can at times be fulfilling. This is the...
The Verge - Susan Glaspell
The Verge - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: Drama
This play is Glaspell’s recognition of the way in which Victorian society left some women feeling trapped in roles for which they were unsuited. Because of the play’s non-realistic speech patterns and expressionistic elements, it was dismissed by...
