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The Essays of Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon
The Essays of Francis Bacon - Francis Bacon
- Author: Francis Bacon
- Genre: Essays
Voltaire was an atheist. Diderot was Enlightened. But trite titles seldom encompass completely the beliefs of any individual. And this one fact is certainly true when dealing with Sir Francis Bacon.The youngest son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, Francis was...
Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking - Edmund BERT
Bert's Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking - Edmund BERT
- Author: Edmund BERT
- Genre: Animals / Sports & Recreation
An approved Treatise of Hawkes and Hawking. Divided into three Bookes. The first teacheth, How to make a short-winged Hawke good, with good conditions. The second, How to reclaime a Hawke from any ill condition. The third teacheth. Cures for all...
Short Story Collection Vol. 080 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 080 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. This time, we delve into the works of H.G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Lord Dunsany, Poe and others to bring you tales of mystery, horror, puzzling and the amusing. So...
Songs of Two - Arthur S. HARDY
Songs of Two - Arthur S. HARDY
- Author: Arthur S. HARDY
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by American engineer, educator, editor, diplomat, novelist, and poet Arthur Sherburne Hardy. All of the poems in this volume are short and expressive, touching upon many different subjects. - Summary by Carolin...
Orthodoxy - G. K. Chesterton
Orthodoxy - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
With his typical wit and erudition Chesterton presents Christianity as the best answer to a series of interlocking riddles that live in every human heart. - Summary by Pleonic...
The Adventures of Maya the Bee - Waldemar BONSELS
The Adventures of Maya the Bee - Waldemar BONSELS
- Author: Waldemar BONSELS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Action & Adventure
The Adventures of Maya the Bee is an exciting tale for children of all ages. Themes of growth and development of courage and wisdom are found, as well as the extreme joy and satisfaction that Maya experiences in the beauty of creation and all...
Whose Body? - Dorothy L. SAYERS
Whose Body? - Dorothy L. SAYERS
- Author: Dorothy L. SAYERS
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The novel begins with a telephone call to Wimsey from his mother, the Dowager Duchess of Denver, saying that her vicar’s architect has just found a dead body in his bath, wearing nothing but a pair of pince-nez. Whose body is it? Whodunnit? It’s up...
Bible (ASV) 39: Malachi - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 39: Malachi - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
Malachi (or Malachias, מַלְאָכִי, Malʾaḫi, Mál'akhî) is a book of the Bible Old Testament and Jewish Tanakh, written by the prophet Malachi. Possibly this is not the name of the author, since Malachi means 'my messenger' or 'my angel' in Hebrew....
Historical Tales, Vol IV: English - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Vol IV: English - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Volume IV of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This fourth volume covers the history of England from its conversion to Christianity up to the reign of Queen Victoria, describing...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 8: Part 3: The Marquise de Ganges - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
The assassination of Diane de Joannis de Chateaublanc (the Marquise de Ganges) is a fitting tale to conclude Dumas’ celebrated crimes series. This event was as gruesome as it was brazen and, before the final dagger strokes, both the assassins and...
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission - Candido Mariano da Silva RONDON
The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission - Candido Mariano da Silva RONDON
- Author: Candido Mariano da Silva RONDON
- Genre: Memoirs / Exploration
The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida ("River of Doubt") in the Amazon basin. The expedition was jointly led by Theodore Roosevelt, the former President of...
Monte-Cristo's Daughter - Edmund Flagg
Monte-Cristo's Daughter - Edmund Flagg
- Author: Edmund Flagg
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"Monte-Cristo's Daughter," a wonderfully brilliant, original, exciting and absorbing novel, is the Sequel to "The Count of Monte-Cristo," Alexander Dumas' masterwork, and the continuation and conclusion of that great romance, "Edmond Dantès." It...
Practical Instruction for Detectives - Emmerson W. MANNING
Practical Instruction for Detectives - Emmerson W. MANNING
- Author: Emmerson W. MANNING
- Genre: Law
Having been connected for many years with two of the largest and most successful private detective agencies in this country, both as an operator and as an official, and having been requested to outline briefly and concisely the most modern and...
Sir Dominick Ferrand - Henry James
Sir Dominick Ferrand - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London...
The Night Operator - Frank L. Packard
The Night Operator - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A collection of ten railroad short stories: "And so these are the stories of the Hill Division and of the men who wrought upon it; the stories of those days when it was young and in the making; the stories of the days when Carleton, 'Royal'...
Deep Lake Mystery - Carolyn Wells
Deep Lake Mystery - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Imagine, if you will, a murder committed in a sealed room. A room which has been sealed from the inside, that is, with no possible means of exit, excepting a dangerous plunge through a window into a deep, foreboding lake with swirling eddies and...
The Bab Ballads (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
The Bab Ballads (version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry / Ballads
The Bab Ballads are a collection of light verse by W. S. Gilbert, illustrated with his own comic drawings. Gilbert wrote the Ballads before he became famous for his comic opera librettos with Arthur Sullivan. In writing the Bab Ballads, Gilbert...
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 2 - Jules Verne
Celebrated Travels and Travellers, vol. 2 - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Exploration
This volume, entitled "The Great Navigators of the 18th century", forms the second of three volumes under the general title of "Celebrated Travels and Travellers". The first volume of the series, "Exploration of the World", covers a period in the...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 02 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 02 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 2 begins with the Norse or Danish invasion of the island and continues through the end...
Astounding Stories 02, February 1930 - Undefined
Astounding Stories 02, February 1930 - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction
This is the second issue of the classic science fiction Astounding Magazine. It contains the finale of The Beetle Horde by Victor Rousseau, as well as stories by Harl Vincent, Charles Willard Diffin, Hugh B. Cave, Sophie Wenzel Ellis, Sterner St....
Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism - Elisha GRAY
Nature's Miracles Volume 3: Electricity and Magnetism - Elisha GRAY
- Author: Elisha GRAY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in Highland Park, Illinois and is...
The Maker of Opportunities - George Gibbs
The Maker of Opportunities - George Gibbs
- Author: George Gibbs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
When you're tired only because you're bored; and you're bored only because it seems like there's really nothing worth doing; and you're so, so wealthy that one would think opportunity should be knocking at your door every day... you sometimes just...
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades - G. A. Henty
Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Set in the late twelfth century during the Third Crusade, the Norman Conquest having occured not much more than a hundred years ago, Winning His Spurs is a tale of Christian heroism. Cuthbert, a fifteen-year-old village boy whose life is rather...
Every Man Out of His Humour - Ben Jonson
Every Man Out of His Humour - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Plays
Every Man Out of His Humour followed Jonson's play Every Man In His Humour. "This play as a fabric of plot is a very slight affair; but as a satirical picture of the manners of the time, proceeding by means of vivid caricature, couched in witty and...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 05 (Fables 101-125) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare - David Cory
Little Jack Rabbit and Uncle John Hare - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. This is the fifth of the Little Jack Rabbit books. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Short Poetry Collection 084 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 084 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is an open collection of poems for the months of November and December 2009....
The Little Grey House - Marion Ames TAGGART
The Little Grey House - Marion Ames TAGGART
- Author: Marion Ames TAGGART
- Genre: Family
The Grey House is grey in color and is home to the Grey family. In this, the first of the Grey House books, we are introduced to the three Grey sisters, Oswyth, 17, Roberta, 16 and 14 year old Prudence, their sensible and down-to-earth mother and...
Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
Fairy Tales and Stories - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of fairy tales and stories by Hans Christian Andersen, selected and read by students from Hunter College High School. Enjoy! :) Summary by faith9p....
The A to Zed Collection - Various
The A to Zed Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Anthologies
A collection of pieces, both fiction and non-fiction, that have as its subject a word beginning with a specific letter of the English alphabet. Subjects can range from coffee to tea, animals to vampires, law to emotions....
Juju - Murray Leinster
Juju - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A 1919 pulp-press tale of deepest darkest Africa. - Summary by david wales...
The Daughter of the Commandant - Alexander Pushkin
The Daughter of the Commandant - Alexander Pushkin
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
"The Daughter of the Commandant" (better known as "The Captain's Daughter") is a historical novel by the Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, and is considered to be his finest prose work. The novel is a romanticized account of Pugachev's Rebellion in...
Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921) - Logan Pearsall SMITH
Trivia (1917) And More Trivia (1921) - Logan Pearsall SMITH
- Author: Logan Pearsall SMITH
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) was an American-born British essayist who was known for his epigrams and aphorisms, often humorous. This recording is of two of his collections of these bon mots. For example: “These pieces of moral prose have been...
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This novel consists of selections from the diary of an author, starting soon after his retirement and continuing until just before his death. There is very little in the way of plot, but a great deal of quiet musing about art, nature, society, and...
The Warden (version 3) - Anthony Trollope
The Warden (version 3) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
The Warden is the first novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", making fun of the Church of England of his time, together with the religious controversies, and the press. It was his fourth novel. The Warden...
The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke - Leonard COX
The Arte or Crafte of Rhethoryke - Leonard COX
- Author: Leonard COX
- Genre: Education
This text is a reprint of the first English-language book on rhetoric, including an introduction and notes from Frederic Ives Carpenter of the University of Chicago. Cox's original brief treatise covers various themes and topics related to oratory...
The Morgesons - Elizabeth STODDARD
The Morgesons - Elizabeth STODDARD
- Author: Elizabeth STODDARD
- Genre: General Fiction
Stoddard’s novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeson, is educated by a series of journeys she makes throughout her youth and early adulthood. Each new setting...
Coffee Break Collection 011 - Science
Coffee Break Collection 011 - Science
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
This is the eleventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only have...
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 5 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 5 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Author: Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Genre: Other religions
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well as support from Sikh scholars...
Robin - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Robin - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: General Fiction
Starting with a summary of the 1922 novel The Head of the House of Coombe, which followed the relationships between a group of pre-WWI English nobles and commoners, this sequel, called Robin, completes the story of Robin, Lord Coombe, Donal and...
