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There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows - Jack GAVER
There's Laughter in the Air! Radio's Top Comedians and Their Best Shows - Jack GAVER
- Author: Jack GAVER
- Genre: Performing Arts
There's Laughter in the Air takes readers on a sidesplitting romp through the world of old-time radio comedy. It gives a brief history of the medium and brief but intimate accounts of some of the biggest acts from the 1930s and 1940s. Gaver and...
Tom Brown's School Days - Thomas HUGHES
Tom Brown's School Days - Thomas HUGHES
- Author: Thomas HUGHES
- Genre: School
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a novel by Thomas Hughes first published in 1857. The story is set at Rugby School, a public school for boys, in the 1830s. Hughes attended Rugby School from 1834 to 1842. The novel was originally published as being "by an...
The Adventures of Old Man Coyote - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Old Man Coyote - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Adventures of Old Man Coyote is another in the long list of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, the residents of The Green Pasture and The Green Forest are concerned about a strange newcomer, Old Man Coyote....
The Song of the Cardinal - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
The Song of the Cardinal - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Song of the Cardinal is about a big male Cardinal who lives in a tree near a farmer and his wife. The Cardinal immediately starts to sing to find himself a mate. Meanwhile the farmer and his wife enjoy watching this boisterous bird and seeing...
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1D - David Hume
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1D - David Hume
- Author: David Hume
- Genre: History / Early Modern
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His "The History of England from the Invasion of...
The Man Who Knew Too Much - G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Knew Too Much - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) was an influential and prolific English writer of the early 20th century. He was a journalist, a poet and a novelist. He wrote 80 books and 200 short stories in addition to his other work. He is perhaps best...
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Plays
Hedda Gabler is a play first published in 1890 by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. In it, Hedda Gabler, daughter of an aristocratic General, has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an aspiring young academic, reliable but not...
Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) - Howard R. Garis
Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The adventures of two little pig boys and their mom and dad. "Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, in the days when there were fairies and giants and all things like that, there lived in a little house, on the edge of a wood, a family of...
In the School Room - John S. HART
In the School Room - John S. HART
- Author: John S. HART
- Genre: Education
In the first place, teaching is not simply telling. A class may be told a thing twenty times over, and yet not know it. Talking to a class is not necessarily teaching. I have known many teachers who were brimful of information, and were good...
The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
The Glimpses of the Moon - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance
"The Glimpses of the Moon" (1922) is about Nick and Susy Lansing, both of whom live a decadent life in Europe by sponging off wealthy friends. They marry out of convenience and have an "open" relationship, but are unprepared for where their feelings...
The Zeit-Geist - Lily DOUGALL
The Zeit-Geist - Lily DOUGALL
- Author: Lily DOUGALL
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"When travelling in Canada, in the region north of Lake Ontario, I came upon traces of the somewhat remarkable life which is the subject of the following sketch.Having applied to the school-master in the town where Bartholomew Toyner lived, I...
Euthyphro - Plato
Euthyphro - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaimed authority on matters of piety and the will of the gods. Socrates, desiring instruction in these matters, converses with Euthyphro, but as usual,...
Bible (ASV) 25: Lamentations - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 25: Lamentations - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Book of Lamentations (Hebrew: אֵיכָה, Eikha, ʾēḫā(h)) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh. It is traditionally read by the Jewish people on Tisha B'Av, the fast day that commemorates the destruction of the Temple in...
Catharine de Bora; or, Social and Domestic Scenes in the Life of Luther - John G. MORRIS
Catharine de Bora; or, Social and Domestic Scenes in the Life of Luther - John G. MORRIS
- Author: John G. MORRIS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
"There are many interesting and characteristic incidents in the domestic life of Luther which are not found in biographies of the great Reformer. The character of his wife has not been portrayed in full, and who does not wish to become better...
The Life of Saint Macrina - GREGORY OF NYSSA
The Life of Saint Macrina - GREGORY OF NYSSA
- Author: GREGORY OF NYSSA
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The poignant biography of Saint Macrina, by her brother, Saint Gregory of Nyssa. (The Reader) “The use of the word "philosophy" to designate Christianity is common in the writings of the fourth century, ... It is employed in a twofold sense, of the...
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Middlemarch - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's religiously-motivated quest for...
The Two Bears, and Other Sermons for Children - J. C. Ryle
The Two Bears, and Other Sermons for Children - J. C. Ryle
- Author: J. C. Ryle
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Religion
”Let no one make you think that you are too young to serve God. That is not true. As soon as you know right from wrong, you are old enough to begin taking the right way. As soon as you are old enough to be punished for doing wrong, you are old...
Short Mystery Story Collection 005 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Anthologies
LibriVox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 005: a collection of 10 short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Seven Men - Max BEERBOHM
Seven Men - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
In order to liven up the literary history of Great Britain in the 1890s (as if Oscar Wilde, Stevenson, Kipling, Hardy, etc., were not lively enough) Max Beerbohm wrote short biographies of six imaginary writers. Though their works of course no...
No Surrender - Constance Elizabeth MAUD
No Surrender - Constance Elizabeth MAUD
- Author: Constance Elizabeth MAUD
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Written from the midst of the struggle for female suffrage, Constance Elizabeth Maud’s novel No Surrender (1911) is a Call to Arms. It is a dramatic narrative portraying key players and historical events in the battle for the Vote for Women in...
Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - James OTIS
Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony - James OTIS
- Author: James OTIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Historical Fiction
James Otis wrote a series of books depicting life in the new colonies, written from a child's point of view. Ruth of Boston is the story of 12 year old Ruth, coming from London to live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It gives accounts of what a...
Bible (DBY) NT 06: Romans - Darby Bible
Bible (DBY) NT 06: Romans - Darby Bible
- Author: Darby Bible
- Genre: Bibles
The Darby Bible consists of a translation of the New Testament by John Nelson Darby, originally published in 1867, and a translation of the Old Testament, included in later editions of the text, completed by Darby's students after his death. -...
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children - Charles Kingsley
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children - Charles Kingsley
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
The Heroes, or Greek Fairy Tales for my Children by Charles Kingsley is a collection of three Greek mythology stories: Perseus, The Argonauts, and Theseus. The author had a great fondness for Greek fairy tales and believed the adventures of the...
Better Angel - Richard MEEKER
Better Angel - Richard MEEKER
- Author: Richard MEEKER
- Genre: General Fiction
In 1933, Forman Brown wrote, under the pseudonym Richard Meeker, a controversial novel called Better Angel, about a young man coming to terms with his homosexuality. This novel is regarded as "the first American novel to present the 'gay' experience...
The Chartreuse of Parma (The Charterhouse of Parma) - STENDHAL
The Chartreuse of Parma (The Charterhouse of Parma) - STENDHAL
- Author: STENDHAL
- Genre: Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This book is more often called The Charterhouse of Parma in English, because "Charterhouse" is the English word for a Carthusian monastery, whereas "Chartreuse" is the French word. The book tells the life of a Lombard nobleman, born soon after the...
The Return of the Mucker
The Return of the Mucker
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
After being framed for a murder he didn’t commit, law enforcement arrests Billy Byrne…The Mucker… as he returns to the streets of Grand Avenue. Sentenced for the crime, he escapes custody en route to jail, and begins wandering America's roads as a...
Short Poetry Collection 145 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 145 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 30 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for June 2015....
Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
Through the Looking-Glass - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Through the Looking Glass, the sequel to Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, was written in 1872 and it finds Alice in a land when she walks through a mirror into the Looking-Glass House. The land is full of mythological creatures and...
Life of Prince Metternich - George Bruce MALLESON
Life of Prince Metternich - George Bruce MALLESON
- Author: George Bruce MALLESON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Klemens von Metternich (1773-1859) first foreign minister, and then chancellor of the Austrian Empire was a great diplomat: crafty, manipulative, and single-minded in his determination to overthrow Napoleon and his revolutionary ideals and to...
The Rose And The Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Rose And The Ring - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Victorian social satire hiding in a set of children's fairy tales by the author of the classic "Vanity Fair" - Summary by Stav Nisser...
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle - Charlotte Turner Smith
Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle - Charlotte Turner Smith
- Author: Charlotte Turner Smith
- Genre: Family Life
This book was written about 150 years ahead of its time. It tells the story of Emmeline Mobwray who grows up in a dysfunctional family and has to find herself against all odds. Orphaned at a young age, she has to stay alone in a remote castle under...
The Tosa Diary - no Tsurayuki KI
The Tosa Diary - no Tsurayuki KI
- Author: no Tsurayuki KI
- Genre: Memoirs / Middle Ages/Middle History
Ki no Tsurayuki was a Japanese waka poet of the Heian period. In 905, he was one of the poets ordered to compile the "Kokinshu - Collected Japanese Poems of Ancient and Modern Times". He is also one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals of Japan. The...
A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane - Oscar Wilde
A Florentine Tragedy and La Sainte Courtisane - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Tragedy
Two short fragments: an unfinished and a lost play. A Florentine Tragedy, left in a taxi (not a handbag), is Wilde’s most successful attempt at tragedy – intense and domestic, with surprising depth of characterisation. It was adapted into an opera...
Short Poetry Collection 028 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 028 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 028: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Emma (Version 6) - Jane Austen
Emma (Version 6) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. As in her other novels, Austen explores the concerns and difficulties of genteel women living in Georgian-Regency England; she also creates a lively...
The Devil's Pool - George SAND
The Devil's Pool - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: General Fiction
George Sand (the pen name of Amantine-Lucile-Aurore Dupin 1804-1876) is famous for flaunting the conventions of behavior expected of women of her standing in France at the time and for her numerous romantic liaisons including her long standing...
Handy Mandy in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Handy Mandy in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
On many a day had Handy, the Goat Girl of Mern, pursued her goats up and down the rocky eminences of her native mountain. And never—NEVER—in her fourteen or so years' experience had she been blown up by a mountain spring. But there comes, in every...
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight - Anna Katharine Green
The Staircase at the Heart's Delight - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Detective Ebenezer Gryce tells the story of the case with which he begun his career in 1840. Several wealthy men were drowned and washed ashore in New York City, and the first clue leads to a dubious money lender... (Summary by Carolin)...
Home Geography for Primary Grades - C. C. LONG
Home Geography for Primary Grades - C. C. LONG
- Author: C. C. LONG
- Genre: Science
Lessons and exercises for young children, exploring map and compass, mountains and rivers, trees and flowers, wind and rain, and more. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)...
Great Chicago Fire - Charles Cole HINE
Great Chicago Fire - Charles Cole HINE
- Author: Charles Cole HINE
- Genre: Single author / Modern (19th C)
Historical information relating the nature, extent, and consequences of The Great Chicago Fire of 1871, the insurance losses, and the relief costs. A brief interlude of comic relief is inserted midway in the form of a poem regarding the event.. -...
