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In Search of the Unknown - Robert W. Chambers
In Search of the Unknown - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
Robert Chambers was a contemporary of Lovecraft, and this book consists of "weird supernatural tales" in a somewhat similar manner, except that the emphasis is on humor rather than horror. The narrator works for the newly opened Bronx Zoo in New...
Apis Mellifica - C. W. Wolf
Apis Mellifica - C. W. Wolf
- Author: C. W. Wolf
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Science
Wolf's essay considers the homeopathic medicine Apis Mellifica, or the poison of the honey bee, as a therapeutic agent based on his experience as a practicing physician. (Summary by Marie Daum)...
Travel Collection: Short Non-fiction - Various
Travel Collection: Short Non-fiction - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Travel & Geography
A collection of short, non-fiction travel memoirs or guides written in, or translated into, English. Material covered might be a museum, a village or town, or a particular voyage or train journey, or other travelogues of potential interest to...
Fanny Herself - Edna Ferber
Fanny Herself - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction
Fanny Herself is the story of Fanny Brandeis, a young girl coming of age in the Midwest at the turn of the 20th century. It is generally considered to have been based on Ferber’s own experiences growing up in Appleton, Wisconsin. Regarded by many as...
Esther Waters - George Moore
Esther Waters - George Moore
- Author: George Moore
- Genre: Romance
“She stood on the platform watching the receding train. A few bushes hid the curve of the line; the white vapour rose above them, evaporating in the pale evening. A moment more and the last carriage would pass out of sight. The white gates swung...
Eirik the Red's Saga - Anonymous
Eirik the Red's Saga - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Poetry
In this saga, the events that led to Eirik the Red's banishment to Greenland are chronicled, as well as Leif Eirikson's discovery of Vinland the Good (a place where wheat and grapes grew naturally), after his longboat was blown off-course. By...
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Philosophy / Modern
Bertrand Russell wrote 'Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy' while imprisoned for protesting Britain's involvement in World War I. Russell summarizes the significance of the momentous work of mathematicians in the late nineteenth-century. He...
One of Ours - Willa Sibert Cather
One of Ours - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
This 1923 Pulitzer Prize winning novel was written by Willa Cather. This work had been inspired by reading her cousin G.P. Cather's wartime letters home to his mother. He was the first officer from Nebraska killed in World War I. Claude Wheeler, the...
Christy and The Pipers - Jean McKishnie Blewett
Christy and The Pipers - Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Author: Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Christy and The Pipers by Jean McKishnie Blewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 4, 2018. ------ This poem, set in Scotland, tells of a woman's reaction to the Pipes . ( David...
Pixie O'Shaughnessy - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Pixie O'Shaughnessy - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Genre: School
The first of a trilogy for girls which introduces Pixie O'Shaughnessy. She is sent to boarding school in England from her native Ireland, full of mischief and inventions. Summary by Judith Mason....
A Student's History of American Literature - William Simonds
A Student's History of American Literature - William Simonds
- Author: William Simonds
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Engaging history of American Lit from the 1600's up through the late 1890's. The author, who was a professor at Knox College, really put a lot into this, combining national history with his love for literature. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
Black Beauty (version 2) - Anna Sewell
Black Beauty (version 2) - Anna Sewell
- Author: Anna Sewell
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Black Beauty is a fictional autobiographical memoir told by a horse, who recounts many tales, both of cruelty and kindness. The title page of the first edition states that it was "Translated from the Original Equine by Anna Sewell." It was composed...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 16, Feb. 17, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 16, Feb. 17, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People was an illustrated weekly publication for children includes delightful serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, poetry, puzzles and fun. This 16th issue of the serial, published on February 17, 1880, features...
Poetry Miscellany 01 - Various
Poetry Miscellany 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Anthologies
As we get older, many of us return to youthful memories of poems once significant to us. Outside their association with our youth, we may wonder what significance they have to us now. There were other poems we've met along the way as well: some held...
Lectures on Landscape - John Ruskin
Lectures on Landscape - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
A series of lectures on landscape painting delivered at Oxford in 1871, by artist, critic, and social commentator, John Ruskin....
The Mastery of Destiny - James Allen
The Mastery of Destiny - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
James Allen's inspirational and thought-provoking books have inspired millions. In The Mastery of Destiny, he instructs readers on developing self-control, willpower, concentration, and motivation. Through discipline and mindfulness, we can create a...
The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope
The Small House at Allington - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Romance / Satire
Fifth novel in the Barsetshire series, The Small House at Allington is largely focused on the Small House's inhabitants, Mrs. Dale and her two marriageable daughters, Lily and Bell. The two girls, of course, have suitors: their cousin, Bernard Dale,...
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Pitts Sanborn
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Pitts Sanborn
- Author: Pitts Sanborn
- Genre: Music
The late Pitts Sanborn wrote this booklet under the title Beethoven and his Nine Symphonies... I have left Mr. Sanborn’s pages on the symphonies virtually intact and have only expanded the work a little by incorporating here and there matter about...
The Pirates Own Book - Charles Ellms
The Pirates Own Book - Charles Ellms
- Author: Charles Ellms
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers....
Songs Before Sunrise - Algernon Charles Swinburne
Songs Before Sunrise - Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of some particularly beautiful poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. This collection is connected by the Italian theme, as Swinburne was inspired to write most of them after learning of the Italian struggle for unification. -...
Selections from Harris's Cabinet - William Roscoe
Selections from Harris's Cabinet - William Roscoe
- Author: William Roscoe
- Genre: Single author
In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to entertain. One of these books, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by William Roscoe, reprinted from...
Phaedo - Plato
Phaedo - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / History
Plato's Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo, which depicts the death of Socrates, is also Plato's seventh and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days (the...
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians - Polycarp
The Epistle of Polycarp to the Philippians - Polycarp
- Author: Polycarp
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Polycarp's Letter to the Philippians (often simply called To the Philippians) composed around 110 to 140 AD is described by Irenaeus as follows: "There is also a forceful epistle written by Polycarp to the Philippians, from which those who wish to...
Paradise Regained - John Milton
Paradise Regained - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Epics
Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes. Based on the Gospel of...
When a Man Marries - Mary Roberts Rinehart
When a Man Marries - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
A divorced playboy hosts a dinner party complete with a stand in wife to placate his aunt who financially supports him. When his chef is hospitalized with smallpox symptoms, the fun begins. Throw in an ex-wife, a mystery, and a little romance and...
A Daughter Of The Vine - Gertrude Atherton
A Daughter Of The Vine - Gertrude Atherton
- Author: Gertrude Atherton
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, including the lovely Nina Randolph. Is this the start of something special? Dudley thinks so, but what about...
Mr Scarborough's Family - Anthony Trollope
Mr Scarborough's Family - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
MR SCARBOROUGH, wealthy owner of Tretton Park in Staffordshire, is dying. His eldest son and heir Mountjoy has gambled away his inheritance to avaricious money-lenders who hold post-obits to the entire value of the estate.Then Mr. Scarborough...
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock - Anna Katharine Green
The Doctor, his Wife, and the Clock - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A man has been shot dead in his house. Ebenezer Gryce is on the case, but he has no leads, no witnesses, no evidence -- until he decides to talk to the neighbors of the victim, a blind doctor and his beautiful wife.. - Summary by Carolin...
The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge - Jean M. Thompson
The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge - Jean M. Thompson
- Author: Jean M. Thompson
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Twenty-four delightful tales for children. Meet Timothy Mouse, Little Red Doe, Dame Woodchuck, King Moose and Unk-Wunk the Porcupine with their friends. Adventure and humor are skillfully wrapped around these lovable characters. - Summary by Larry...
Summa Theologica - 06 Pars Prima Secundae, On the Last End, On Human Acts - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 06 Pars Prima Secundae, On the Last End, On Human Acts - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written between 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas, even though it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals - Various
Coffee Break Collection 008 - Animals - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Short Stories / Animals
This is the eighth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
When Your Pants Begin To Go - Henry Lawson
When Your Pants Begin To Go - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest...
Phoebe Daring - L. Frank Baum
Phoebe Daring - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure / General
A headstrong female detective strives to clear a good man's name in this children's mystery by Oz author L. Frank Baum. Summary by Miriam Esther Goldman...
Agamemnon (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
Agamemnon (Browning Translation) - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Tragedy
The play Agamemnon details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia, and...
Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation - Maria Parloa
Canned Fruit, Preserves, and Jellies: Household Methods of Preparation - Maria Parloa
- Author: Maria Parloa
- Genre: Cooking
Fruit is a favourite with many of us. But if you have fruit in your garden or collect it otherwise, you know that the season ends too soon. Preserving fruit is the key to being able to enjoy it year round! - Summary by Carolin...
The Man-Eater - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Man-Eater - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Africa: The land of savagery and splendor. Where a marriage between an adventurer and a missionary's daughter is cut short by invading locals. A wife, forced to flee with her newborn daughter to the only family left. Young Virginia grows up until...
The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries - L. T. Meade
The Miss Florence Cusack Mysteries - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Miss Florence Cusack was featured as an amateur detective who assists in solving crimes in five short stories authored by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace that appeared in Harmsworth/London Magazine. Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will, 1899 The Arrest of...
Van Dyck - Percy M. Turner
Van Dyck - Percy M. Turner
- Author: Percy M. Turner
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
A biography and critique of Van Dyck in The Masterpieces in Colour series. The Plates of the paintings are fully described and the artistic periods in his life's work are given as well as his place in history. (Summary by Susan Morin)...
The Foolish Dictionary - Charles Wayland Towne
The Foolish Dictionary - Charles Wayland Towne
- Author: Charles Wayland Towne
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"The Foolish Dictionary" was written by "Gideon Wurdz" (the pen name for Charles Wayland Towne) and was published in 1904. According to the beginning of the book, it is "An exhausting work of reference to un-certain English words, their origin,...
England and the Hundred Years' War - Charles William Chadwick Oman
England and the Hundred Years' War - Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Author: Charles William Chadwick Oman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
This little book by the British military historian, Charles Oman, begins with the accession of the warrior king, Edward III, to the English throne in 1327 and ends with the downfall of Richard III at Bosworth Field in 1485. By carrying the story of...
