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Tours in the South Coast District - QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS
Tours in the South Coast District - QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS
- Author: QUEENSLAND RAILWAYS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
An early booklet, designed to encourage tourism in the northern parts of New South Wales, and the southern parts of Queensland, particularly the area now in the Gold Coast.(Introduction by Timothy Ferguson)...
Rock Crystal (Version 2) - Adalbert STIFTER
Rock Crystal (Version 2) - Adalbert STIFTER
- Author: Adalbert STIFTER
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
Lovely story of two children who get lost in a hazardous winter crossing of an Alpine pass after visiting their grandparents in a neighboring village. Full of beautiful details about the lives of the hardy villagers, and their love for their...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 043 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the role of "people of color" in New Orleans and Louisiana history, the question of voting rights for Blacks after the Civil War; W.E.B.Du Bois...
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension - George GRIFFITH
The Mummy and Miss Nitocris: A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension - George GRIFFITH
- Author: George GRIFFITH
- Genre: Science Fiction
" Certain it should be that, beyond and about this World of Length, and Breadth, and Thickness, there is another World, or State of Existence, consisting of these and another dimension of which only those beings who are privileged to enter or dwell...
On Anything - Hilaire Belloc
On Anything - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays
Long before I knew that the speech of men was misused by them and that they lied in the hearing of the gods perpetually, in those early days through which all men have passed, during which one believes what one is told, an old and crusty woman of...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 27 - The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 - Archibald MACMECHAN
Chronicles of Canada Volume 27 - The Winning of Popular Government: A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 - Archibald MACMECHAN
- Author: Archibald MACMECHAN
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
In the 1830's, Canada was a ideologically divided country. Political upheaval and even riots occurred over Canada's future. Would it remain a subsidiary of England? Would it form its own republic, or even merge with the United States? This work...
The Khaki Kook Book - Mary Kennedy CORE
The Khaki Kook Book - Mary Kennedy CORE
- Author: Mary Kennedy CORE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
We cannot ignore the fact that we must eat, and that much as we dislike to acknowledge it, we are compelled to think a great deal about filling our stomachs. This is especially true these days, when prices have soared and soared and taken along with...
The Book of Tea - Kakuzō OKAKURA
The Book of Tea - Kakuzō OKAKURA
- Author: Kakuzō OKAKURA
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
The Book of Tea was written by Okakura Kakuzo in the early 20th century. It was first published in 1906, and has since been republished many times. - In the book, Kakuzo introduces the term Teaism and how Tea has affected nearly every aspect of...
The Iron Horse - R. M. Ballantyne
The Iron Horse - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Children's Fiction
“Is that your bundle, sir?” repeated Mr Blunt a little louder. “Eh? yes, yes—all right,” replied Edwin, annoyed at the interruption, and thinking only of Emma Lee, to whom he turned, and went on—“Well, when Colonel Jones had scaled the first wall—”...
The Life of St. Teresa - Saint Teresa of Avila
The Life of St. Teresa - Saint Teresa of Avila
- Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Saint Teresa of Ávila, also called Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, (March 28, 1515, at Gotarrendura (Ávila), Old Castile, Spain – October 4, 1582, at Alba de Tormes, Salamanca, Spain) was a prominent Spanish...
The Girl Next Door - Augusta Huiell Seaman
The Girl Next Door - Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Author: Augusta Huiell Seaman
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Marcia Brett has noticed unusual activity at the ramshackle and seemingly abandoned mansion next door: a mysterious, veiled lady is seen coming and going out the front door, a different woman is glimpsed through a shuttered window, and most...
The Landleaguers - Anthony Trollope
The Landleaguers - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Near Galway, young Florian Jones has just converted to Catholicism when he witnesses the deliberate destruction of his English father’s land by the Catholic Landleaguers. The Irish Land War has commenced, with the boycotting of wealthy landowners...
The Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air - Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
In the final months of the American Civil War five Northerners find themselves trapped in the Southern capital of Richmond. They conceive of a plan to escape with a baloon kept nearby.However, not all goes as planned and as a powerful gale surprises...
Auguste Rodin - Rainer Maria Rilke
Auguste Rodin - Rainer Maria Rilke
- Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. (From the translators’ Preface)Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out...
Robert Falconer - George MacDonald
Robert Falconer - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: General Fiction / Christian Fiction
A Victorian novel devoted to beloved character first introduced to readers in MacDonald's David Elginbrod. (Summary by Kenneth R. Morefield)...
Jarwin and Cuffy - R. M. Ballantyne
Jarwin and Cuffy - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Jarwin is an English sailor who has been shipwrecked. He is stranded on a raft with only his dog Cuffy, and land is nowhere in sight. Their food and water is running out. What can Jarwin do to save his dog's (and his own) life? Summary by Esther ben...
Romeo and Juliet (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare's famous tragedy of two "star-crossed lovers" from rival houses. Romeo and Juliet meet at a party and fall instantly in love, realizing too late that their families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are mortal enemies....
Any Woman To A Soldier - Grace Ellery CHANNING
Any Woman To A Soldier - Grace Ellery CHANNING
- Author: Grace Ellery CHANNING
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / War & Military
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Any Woman To A Soldier by Grace Ellery Channing.This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 4, 2018. Grace Ellery Channing was a writer and poet who published often in The Land of Sunshine. Channing...
The Stolen White Elephant - Mark Twain
The Stolen White Elephant - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Single Author Collections
In this Mark Twain short story an Indian elephant, en route from India to Britain as a gift to Queen, disappears in New Jersey. The local police department goes into high gear to solve the mystery but it all comes to a tragic end. (Summary written...
Treasure Island (version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island (version 2) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
A mysterious map, pirates, and pieces of eight! When young Jim Hawkins finds a map to pirates’ gold he starts on an adventure that takes him from his English village to a desert island with the murderous Black Dog, half-mad Ben Gunn, and (of course)...
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University - Owen Wister
Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)...
Old and New Year Ditties - Christina ROSSETTI
Old and New Year Ditties - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 3 different recordings of Old and New Year Ditties by Christina Rossetti....
The Citizen's Almanac - Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Citizen's Almanac - Fundamental Documents, Symbols, and Anthems of the United States - UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Author: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Political Science / Modern (20th C)
New citizens of the United States were given this pamphlet when they became citizens. The Citizen's Almanac contains information on the history, people, and events that have brought us where we are today as a beacon of hope and freedom to the world....
A Philosophical Enquiry - Edmund BURKE
A Philosophical Enquiry - Edmund BURKE
- Author: Edmund BURKE
- Genre: Modern
Burke's A Philosophical Enquiry is an important treatise in the history of philosophical aesthetics, putting forth a theory of two concepts of central, perennial importance to the field of aesthetics, namely, the beautiful and the sublime. Written...
Ways of Wood Folk - William J. Long
Ways of Wood Folk - William J. Long
- Author: William J. Long
- Genre: Science / Animals
Late nineteenth-century naturalist William J. Long invites us in to the secret worlds of the woodland animals. Containing Long's own animal observations along with stories related to him by other humans who inhabit the woods, these stories give us...
Stolen Souls - William Le Queux
Stolen Souls - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
This is a collection of 14 of William le Queux' best mystery stories. (Summary by Carolin)...
A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A Study in Scarlet, a short novel published in 1887, was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story. At the beginning of the book, Dr. Watson meets the detective for the first time and we ride along with them to the scene of a murder. The...
The Range Dwellers - B. M. Bower
The Range Dwellers - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Westerns
Ellis Carleton, son of a rich and indulgent father, has enjoyed a wasteful and irresponsible young adulthood. But on reaching 25 it is time to grow up, so dad sends him off to dad’s ranch in outback Montana with instructions to the foreman to pay...
Chant of the Firemen - Francis William Lauderdale ADAMS
Chant of the Firemen - Francis William Lauderdale ADAMS
- Author: Francis William Lauderdale ADAMS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Francis William Lauderdale Adams was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life.A self-professed 'Child of his Age', Adams combined in his life and work many distinctive features of...
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson - Sæmund Sigfusson
Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson - Sæmund Sigfusson
- Author: Sæmund Sigfusson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The most complete set of the epic Norse eddas, or poems. It contains in beautiful verse the pagan beliefs of the Old Norse. Luckily in this work both the Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson are presented, and...
The New York Idea - Langdon MITCHELL
The New York Idea - Langdon MITCHELL
- Author: Langdon MITCHELL
- Genre: Plays
I find it very hard to classify "The New York Idea" under any of the established rubrics. It is rather too extravagant to rank as a comedy; it is much too serious in its purport, too searching in its character-delineation and too thoughtful in its...
The Prince (Version 4) - Niccolò Machiavelli
The Prince (Version 4) - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: *Non-fiction
This book is a five hundred year old manual for how to run a kingdom or principality. Written in 1513 but not published until 1532, "The Prince" generated controversy even before it got into print. Unlike the many previous "how-to" mamuals for new...
Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders - Baroness Orczy
Leatherface: A Tale of Old Flanders - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A romantic, political adventure story set in the late 1500's, during the Spanish rule over the Netherlands, in the city of Ghent. Leatherface is an Orangist and emerges to lead the Ghent citizens to rebel and win back their freedom....
My Flower - Ira TITUS
My Flower - Ira TITUS
- Author: Ira TITUS
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of title by My Flower by Ira Titus. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 19, 2012 A short and sweet poem about being happy with yourself. There is no information available about the author, Ira...
The Book of All Power - Edgar Wallace
The Book of All Power - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace is set in London at the beginning, and then the action moves to Russia. The story covers the period from 1910 to 1919 during which the Russian Revolution takes place and this results in drastic changes to...
The Pawns Count - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Pawns Count - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
"I am for England and England only," John Lutchester, the Englishman, asserted. "I am for Japan and Japan only," Nikasti, the Jap, insisted. "I am for Germany first and America afterwards," Oscar Fischer, the German-American pronounced. "I am for...
Moral Letters, Vol. I - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
Moral Letters, Vol. I - Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Author: Lucius Annaeus SENECA
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
"Among the personalities of the early Roman Empire there are few who offer to the readers of to-day such dramatic interest as does Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the author of the Epistles which are translated in this volume. ... In these letters, it is...
The Sun's Babies - Edith Howes
The Sun's Babies - Edith Howes
- Author: Edith Howes
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Charming stories and poems for young children about nature and the changes that occur with the seasons, weaving in life lessons throughout the stories. (Summary by Laura Victoria)...
Donal Grant
Donal Grant
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
After leaving home in search of work, Donal Grant accepts a position as tutor to a young boy who lives in a sprawling castle, which also houses an eccentric old man, a beautiful and troubled young woman, and an ancient family legend of a secret room...
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
An Old-Fashioned Girl (Dramatic Reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Family Life
When country girl Polly Milton comes to visit her friend Fanny Shaw, city life isn’t all she had hoped it would be. Thrown in the middle of a dysfunctional family, Polly remembers the teachings of her wise mother, and does her best to plant seeds of...
