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Earlier Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
Earlier Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of the earlier poems of Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin...
Martyred Armenia - Fa'iz El-Ghusein
Martyred Armenia - Fa'iz El-Ghusein
- Author: Fa'iz El-Ghusein
- Genre: Modern (20th C)
This is a first hand account of the Armenian Genocide written by a Syrian who had been a Turkish official for three and a half years. His accounts tell of the worst of humanity, and also of the noblest. The noble include families who courageously...
The Second Apology of Justin Martyr - Saint Justin Martyr
The Second Apology of Justin Martyr - Saint Justin Martyr
- Author: Saint Justin Martyr
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A defense of the Christian faith delivered by St. Justin Martyr to the Roman Senate in the second century AD (Summary by IWYLLPA)...
The Night Horseman - Max Brand
The Night Horseman - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Westerns
A man, a dog, and a horse. The call of the wild geese. A very smart doctor from the east who finds there is a lot to learn from these desert people. A woman loved by three men. A gunslinger who has a debt to settle. Max Brand brings them all...
The Biography of a Prairie Girl - Eleanor Gates
The Biography of a Prairie Girl - Eleanor Gates
- Author: Eleanor Gates
- Genre: Family Life
This book is a wonderful way to learn about how the prairies were years ago, but you will hardly feel you are learning because you will be caught up with the 'little girl', living with her as she grows up far away from any large city. Very well...
Old Peter's Russian Tales - Arthur Ransome
Old Peter's Russian Tales - Arthur Ransome
- Author: Arthur Ransome
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Arthur Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of children’s books. This is the only example of his fiction in the public domain. These stories are all from Russian folklore, some comparatively well-known, others less so. Ransome...
Short Poetry Collection 099 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 099 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2011....
On the Yukon Trail - Roy J. Snell
On the Yukon Trail - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
Curlie Carson and Joe Marion are chasing a radio outlaw across the frozen Alaska territory. It should be a simple dogsled trip, especially with hints from the mysterious “whisperer.” But wolves, blizzards, reindeer rustlers, and more say otherwise....
The Life of God in the Soul of Man - Henry Scougal
The Life of God in the Soul of Man - Henry Scougal
- Author: Henry Scougal
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Christianity - Other
Henry Scougal was born in Scotland in 1650. The son of the Bishop of Aberdeen, he flourished under rigorous teaching to become Professor of Philosophy at King's College, Aberdeen. In 1672, Scougal was ordained minister in Auchterless and, after a...
The Book of Lies - Aleister Crowley
The Book of Lies - Aleister Crowley
- Author: Aleister Crowley
- Genre: Other religions
The Book of Lies, or Liber 333, is a holy book in the Western occult tradition of Thelema, consisting of 91 short chapters of poems, aphorisms, rituals, and metaphysics. This recording is of the original 1913 publication, and thus omits the further...
The Heart's Kingdom - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Heart's Kingdom - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: General Fiction
Nickols Powers is in love with the beautiful Charlotte and desperate to marry her. Charlotte however, is independent and reluctant to accept his religious views as a good wife should. However, she may still be convinced by the charismatic preacher...
Behind the Green Door - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Behind the Green Door - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
Penny Parker is a teen-aged sleuth and amateur reporter with an uncanny knack for uncovering and solving unusual, sometimes bizarre mysteries. The only daughter of widower Anthony Parker, publisher of the "Riverview Star," Penny has been raised to...
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3 - Friedrich Schiller
History of the Thirty Years War, Volume 3 - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: War & Military / History
The History of the Thirty Years War is a five volume work, which followed his very successful History of the Revolt of the Netherlands. Written for a wider audience than Revolt, it is a vivid history, colored by Schiller’s own interest in the...
Mind Amongst the Spindles - Charles Knight
Mind Amongst the Spindles - Charles Knight
- Author: Charles Knight
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
Lowell Massachusetts was founded in the 1820s as a planned manufacturing center for textiles and is located along the rapids of the Merrimack River, 25 miles northwest of Boston. By the 1850s Lowell had the largest industrial complex in the United...
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
Castle Rackrent - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction / Satire
"One of the most inspired chronicles written in English" was the verdict of William Butler Yeats on the novel Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth which was first published in 1800. It is recognised as the first true historical novel in English as...
The Camera Fiend - E. W. Hornung
The Camera Fiend - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A London schoolboy playing hooky is drawn in to the clutches of a creature evil beyond imagining.(summary by Judi Mason)...
The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
The Legends of Genesis - Hermann Gunkel
- Author: Hermann Gunkel
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / *Non-fiction / History
The Legends of Genesis is the English translation of the introduction to Gunkel’s massive commentary, Genesis. Gunkel uses form critical analysis on the text of Genesis to determine the various genres of the biblical legends and their significance...
A Description of New England - Captain John Smith
A Description of New England - Captain John Smith
- Author: Captain John Smith
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Captain John Smith (c. January 1580 – June 21, 1631) Admiral of New England was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Bathory, Prince of Transylvania. He is remembered for his role in establishing...
Humility : The Beauty of Holiness - Andrew Murray
Humility : The Beauty of Holiness - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A book on the all importance of humility, how Jesus was humble, and how we also can become humble. Murray wrote "Without humility, there can be no true abiding in God's presence or experience of His favor and the power of His spirit. Without it...
The Hero - W. Somerset Maugham
The Hero - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
James Parsons comes home to Little Primpton after serving in the Boer War. The whole town is proud of their new hero, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for risking his life to save a fellow soldier. However, for Jamie, nothing is the same anymore....
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4 - Various
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 4 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first...
On Virginity (De Virginitate) - Saint Ambrose
On Virginity (De Virginitate) - Saint Ambrose
- Author: Saint Ambrose
- Genre: Christianity - Other
One favorite topic of his was the excellence of virginity, and so successful was he in persuading maidens to adopt the religious profession that many a mother refused to permit her daughters to listen to his words. The saint was forced to refute the...
Myths and Legends of All Nations - Logan Marshall
Myths and Legends of All Nations - Logan Marshall
- Author: Logan Marshall
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This excellent book contains many great stories from the various mythologies of man throughout the ages....
Joel, a Boy of Galilee - Annie Fellows Johnston
Joel, a Boy of Galilee - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Historical
Joel, a crippled boy, cannot play with the children and has nothing to care about. Rabbi Phineas helps him to find something he can do and tells him the reason that he is so kind is because of a boy from his hometown of Nazareth. Soon stories are...
Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Edition - Aesop
Aesop's Fables: A New Revised Edition - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Remember the story of the Ant and the Grasshopper? the Fox and the Sour Grapes? The Boy who Cried Wolf? These wonderful tales and hundreds more have been passed down to us over the centuries. The man credited with writing them, Aesop, was an Ancient...
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Written for the Atlantic magazine in 1877, this is a collection of stories about a trip Mark Twain made with some friends to Bermuda. (Summary by John Greenman)...
Sense and Sensibility (version 4) - Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility (version 4) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
When Mr Henry Dashwood dies, with his estate entailed to his son and grandson, his wife and three daughters are left in reduced circumstances. In their new home at Barton Cottage, the two older sisters, Elinor and Marianne, experience both romance...
The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Anna Harriette Leonowens
The English Governess at the Siamese Court - Anna Harriette Leonowens
- Author: Anna Harriette Leonowens
- Genre: History / Memoirs
In 1862 Anna Leonowens accepted an offer made by the Siamese consul in Singapore, Tan Kim Ching, to teach the wives and children of Mongkut, king of Siam. The king wished to give his 39 wives and concubines and 82 children a modern Western education...
The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Christmas Hirelings - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / General Fiction
It is the Christmas season once again and things are, well, boring for the adults at Penlyon Castle. "...if somehow or other I had a pack of children belonging to me, I would keep Christmas with the best — keep it as it ought to be kept." says Sir...
In a German Pension - Katherine Mansfield
In a German Pension - Katherine Mansfield
- Author: Katherine Mansfield
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
The first collected volume of short stories of the New Zealand modernist. Inspired by her own travels, Mansfield begins to refine her craft with a series of tales which depict German life at the brink of the first world war. (Introduction by S....
The Flaw in the Crystal - May Sinclair
The Flaw in the Crystal - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction
One of May Sinclair’s “uncanny” stories, this novella explores many of Sinclair’s most treasured themes: the bounds of marriage, the conflict between flesh and spirit, the complexity of human emotions in relation to other humans, the practical...
Just So Stories (version 3) - Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories (version 3) - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Animals & Nature
These whimsical short stories offer fanciful answers to a dozen of childhood's favorite "why" and "how" questions. With their generous sprinkling of nonsense words as well as a delightfully rhythmic storytelling feel, they seem to have been written...
Ghost Story Collection 004 - Various
Ghost Story Collection 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of...
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters - Susan Petigru King-Bowen
The Actress in High Life: An Episode in Winter Quarters - Susan Petigru King-Bowen
- Author: Susan Petigru King-Bowen
- Genre: Historical Fiction
1812 is the year and Portugal the location for this adventure. The characters for the most part are British officers. Lord Strathern sends for his daughter Lady Mabel Stewart presently in Scotland to join him in Elvas where he has stationed his...
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Adventures of Paddy Beaver is another in the long list of children’s books by the conservationist, Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, the industrious and clever Paddy Beaver, a newcomer to the Green Forest, has encounters with Sammy Jay, Jerry...
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer (Version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Lightfoot the Deer (Version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Lightfoot and his friends, Sammy Jay and Paddy Beaver, help each other through hunting season in the Green Forest. - Summary by Jude Somers...
The Night Club - Herbert George Jenkins
The Night Club - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This work of fiction by Herbert Jenkins (1876-1923) features one of his best-loved comic characters, the affable Cockney, Joseph Bindle. It was Bindle who conceived the idea of forming ”The Night Club”, where people from different walks of London...
The Pit Prop Syndicate - Freeman Wills Crofts
The Pit Prop Syndicate - Freeman Wills Crofts
- Author: Freeman Wills Crofts
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Seymour Merriman stops at the side of the road 26 miles outside Bordeaux, an action that will change his life forever. The events that follow lead him into mystery, smuggling, murder and love. Two amateur detectives try to unravel the mystery of...
The Story of a Stuffed Elephant - Laura Lee Hope
The Story of a Stuffed Elephant - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Story of a Stuffed Elephant is... well, the story of a Stuffed Elephant and the little boy who owns him, and his sister, and all their adventures. A delightful children's book by the author of The Bobbsey Twins series. (Summary by Vlooi and Kara)...
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare's earliest plays, believed to have been written between 1592 and 1594. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken...
