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Something New for my Little Friends - Unknown
Something New for my Little Friends - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of stories in verse for children. Published in 1866 by an author only known by the initials F.F., these poems teach children the virtues, their duties, and what happens to ill-behaving little boys and girls. - Summary by Carolin...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 019
Children's Short Works, Vol. 019
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 019: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Clog Shop Chronicles - John ACKWORTH
Clog Shop Chronicles - John ACKWORTH
- Author: John ACKWORTH
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
John Ackworth was the pen name of the Rev. Frederick R. Smith, a Methodist minister who was born in Snaith, Yorkshire, but spent much of his career as a circuit preacher in Lancashire. Clog Shop Chronicles was the first and most successful of his...
Bible (YLT) 21: Ecclesiastes - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 21: Ecclesiastes - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
The Book of Ecclesiastes ( /ɨˌkliːziˈæstiːz/; literally "Book of the Teacher"; Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת, Qoheleth), commonly referred to simply as Ecclesiastes (abbreviated "Ecc."), is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name derives from the Greek...
With Two Spoons For Two Spoons - Eugene Field
With Two Spoons For Two Spoons - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you nine readings of With Two Spoons For Two Spoons, by Eugene Field. This was the weekly poem for the week of December 7, 2014. Summary by Ann Boulais...
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora...
Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
Sherman’s Recollections of California, 1846-1848, 1855-1857, from his Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Author: William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This librivox recording comprises three chapters from American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. The chapters deal with a posting to California in his pre-Civil War military career in the years 1846-1848. While many of his...
Doctor Syn - Russell THORNDIKE
Doctor Syn - Russell THORNDIKE
- Author: Russell THORNDIKE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh is the first in the series of Doctor Syn novels by Russell Thorndike and inspired a Disney movie called the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh starring Patrick Patrick McGoohan. In this story we are introduced to the...
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 2 - J. C. Ryle
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. John Vol. 2 - J. C. Ryle
- Author: J. C. Ryle
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
The fourteen years which have "passed over" me since I first began writing on the Gospels, I humbly hope have not been thrown away. They have been to me years of many trials, and I may add of much work, much reading, much reflection, and not a...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 5 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 5 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 07) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 07) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This chapter begins with a description of William, Prince of Orange – his early life, personality, and political policies. It goes on to describe, among other things, the Declaration of Indulgence, an early step towards establishing religious...
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood - George MacDonald
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Children's Fiction
George MacDonald is mainly known for his fantasy works and fairy tales such as At the Back of the North Wind and the Princess and the Goblin. However, during his life he was more famous for many more realistic novels. . . among them the somewhat...
Stories of the Scottish Border - William PLATT
Stories of the Scottish Border - William PLATT
- Author: William PLATT
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Poetry
Nothing seems to be known about Mr and Mrs William Platt, the writers of Stories of the Scottish Border. What they produced is an eccentric guidebook and history, seen partly through the ballads of the region. The book recounts the military...
Bible (ASV) 21: Ecclesiastes - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 21: Ecclesiastes - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Ecclesiastes (or The Preacher) is the twenty-first book of The Bible. The author of this book is unknown but is considered by many biblical scholars to be Solomon.The author describes how all endeavors in life are in vain and a grasping for the...
Short Poetry Collection 117 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 117 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 21 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2013....
The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (Part 01 and 02) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society.The teeming St Petersburg...
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Captain Nemo, The Nautilus, and the mysterious depths of the ocean. Unforgettable. Come join an adventure that will roam among coral and pearls, sharks and giant squid, with wonders of biology and engineering that will thrust us from the Antarctic...
Malcolm Sage, detective - Herbert George Jenkins
Malcolm Sage, detective - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A collection of short stories that chronicles the first year of the Malcolm Sage Detective Bureau....
The Gold Hunters (Borthwick) - John David BORTHWICK
The Gold Hunters (Borthwick) - John David BORTHWICK
- Author: John David BORTHWICK
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
This is a robust, rough and tumble, first-hand account of the early California gold rush years 1851-1854 by a Scottish adventurer and artist J. D. Borthwick. The first edition, published in 1857 was called Three Years in California. Reprints have...
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life (Version 2) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
"Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life" was Mrs Gaskell's first full-length novel. It was published anonymously in that tumultuous year of political change, 1848 - only a few months after the Communist Manifesto co-authored by her fellow...
Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako - Robert W. Service
Selections from Ballads of a Cheechako - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Poetry
These twelve poems are taken from Ballads of a Cheechako which was Robert W. Service's third book of Yukon poems, published in 1909. The word Cheechako, from Chinook Jargon, originated in the United States (Alaska) and Canada (Yukon) and was...
The Daredevil - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Daredevil - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Roberta, daughter of an American soldier and a French marquise, is returning to the childhood home of her father after his death in the Great War. Upon reaching New York she realizes that her Uncle, a woman-hater, has confused the genders of her and...
Short Mystery Story Collection 001 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 001: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories - Giovanni VERGA
Under the Shadow of Etna: Sicilian Stories - Giovanni VERGA
- Author: Giovanni VERGA
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction
The short stories of Giovanni Verga, one of the leading authors of Italian verismo, or realism, tell mostly of working-class characters in rural, 19th-century Sicily. One of these stories, "Rustic Chivalry," or "Cavalleria rusticana," was the basis...
Petals - Amy Lowell
Petals - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Petals by Amy Lowell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 27, 2011. Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline,...
Wylder's Hand - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
Wylder's Hand - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The marriage of Mark Wylder and Dorkas Brenden is supposed to end a history of arguments between the two families. However, both people involved do not seem to like the idea. Before the wedding, Mark disappears. But to where? And how will the people...
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 1, Amiens - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 1, Amiens - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Author: John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Genre: War & Military
This is the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. After nearly 4 years of stalemate (trench...
Gypsy, the Talking Dog; a Story for Young Folks - Tudor JENKS
Gypsy, the Talking Dog; a Story for Young Folks - Tudor JENKS
- Author: Tudor JENKS
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Gypsy is a particularly smart little dog, who knows a lot of tricks which he performed with his owner, a street artist. But one day, he is stolen from this owner and kidnapped, and brought aboard a ship to be transported away. Luckily he gets to...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4 - National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 01 No. 4 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Earth Sciences
National Geographic Magazine Volume 1 Number 4 published in 1889. Topics of articles are: Irrigation in California Round about Asheville A Trip to Panama and Darien Across Nicaragua with Transit and Machéte (Summary by Rapunzelina)...
Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 different recordings of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 24th, 2007....
Peter and Wendy - J. M. Barrie
Peter and Wendy - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Family
Peter and Wendy tells the classic story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, the Indian princess Tiger Lily, and the...
The Leopard's Claw - George W. ELLIS
The Leopard's Claw - George W. ELLIS
- Author: George W. ELLIS
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
A love and adventure story with the West African jungle as the main backdrop. We gain some insight into the spiritual influence of African social institutions and conditions of African inner life. (kirk202)...
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
King Solomon’s Mines, first published in 1885, was a best-selling novel by the Victorian adventure writer H. Rider Haggard. It relates a journey into the heart of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain in search of the legendary...
A Poetical Cook-Book - Maria J. MOSS
A Poetical Cook-Book - Maria J. MOSS
- Author: Maria J. MOSS
- Genre: Poetry / Cooking
This is an interesting mix of recipes and poetry about cookery and food. The author has written this book during and in the aftermath of the civil war in the United States. The recipes are sound and can be used still today, and the poetry is an...
Light on Life’s Difficulties - James Allen
Light on Life’s Difficulties - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
When a man enters a dark room he is not sure of his movements, he cannot see objects around him, or properly locate them, and is liable to hurt himself by coming into sudden contact with them. But let a light be introduced, and immediately all...
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862 - Frederick Law OLMSTED
Hospital Transports; A Memoir Of The Embarkation Of The Sick And Wounded From The Peninsula Of Virginia In The Summer Of 1862 - Frederick Law OLMSTED
- Author: Frederick Law OLMSTED
- Genre: War & Military / Medical
In the American Civil War, The United States Sanitary Commission, staffed by volunteers, may be viewed as a precursor to The Red Cross. It supplemented the medical care of the armed services medical corps. Its doctors, nurses, administrators,...
Electra (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
Electra (Storr Translation) - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Tragedy
Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of...
Bible (ASV) 09: 1 Samuel - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 09: 1 Samuel - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Books of Samuel (Hebrew: Sefer Sh'muel ספר שמואל) are part of the Tanakh (part of Judaism's Hebrew Bible) and also of the Christian Old Testament. The work was originally written in Hebrew, and the Book(s) of Samuel originally formed a single...
Understanding Climatic Change - US COMM. FOR THE GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH PROG
Understanding Climatic Change - US COMM. FOR THE GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH PROG
- Author: US COMM. FOR THE GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH PROG
- Genre: Nature / Earth Sciences
Understanding Climatic Change - A Program for Action is a 1975 report by the US Committee for the Global Atmospheric Research Program. Already at this time, it was understood that a climate change was taking place, and that it was possibly happening...
The Inevitable - Louis COUPERUS
The Inevitable - Louis COUPERUS
- Author: Louis COUPERUS
- Genre: Romance
23 year old Cornélie de Retz is a Dutch Divorcee who goes to Italy to start a new life and most part of the novel is filled with the details of romantic conversations, emotions and finally the Inevitable follows. Find out what the Inevitable is and...
