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Short Mystery Story Collection 004 - Various
Short Mystery Story Collection 004 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Mystery Story Collection 004: a collection of ten short works of mysterious fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 2 - Arthur Griffiths
The Chronicles of Newgate Vol 2 - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: True Crime
Good against evil; right versus wrong; the judicial system against the criminal world. The struggle is as old as mankind. Sometimes the lines are blurred as the 'good' punish the 'bad' - the warriors against crime have resorted not only to killing...
The Gentle Art of Faking - Riccardo NOBILI
The Gentle Art of Faking - Riccardo NOBILI
- Author: Riccardo NOBILI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
IIn analysing the Faker one must dissociate him from the common forger; his semi-artistic vocation places him quite apart from the ordinary counterfeiter; he must be studied amid his proper surroundings, and with the correct local colouring, so to...
Neighbors - Florence Morse Kingsley
Neighbors - Florence Morse Kingsley
- Author: Florence Morse Kingsley
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
The final story featuring the inhabitants of the growing township of Innisfield: Mrs Philura Pettibone’s story reaches its long-awaited conclusion and Miss Malvina’s life is changed forever by the arrival of various ”fur’ners”. Published in 1917,...
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection - Various
United Kingdom House of Lords Speeches Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
This collection comprises recordings of seven historic speeches given to the UK House of Lords between 1641 and 1945. Readings are of speeches origninally given by the 1st Earl of Strafford (Thomas Wentworth), the 1st Earl of Chatham (William Pitt...
From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Science Fiction
From the Earth to the Moon (French: De la Terre à la Lune) is a humorous science fantasy story written in 1865 by Jules Verne and is one of the earliest entries in that genre. It tells the story of three well-to-do members of a post-American Civil...
Young Adventure, A Book of Poems - Stephen Vincent BENÉT
Young Adventure, A Book of Poems - Stephen Vincent BENÉT
- Author: Stephen Vincent BENÉT
- Genre: Poetry
Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a...
Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading) - Rupert Hughes
Excuse Me! (Dramatic Reading) - Rupert Hughes
- Author: Rupert Hughes
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Humorous Fiction
What happens when a mix of lovers get stuck together on a coast-to-coast train? Mainly hilarity. There is every kind of couple imaginable. One serviceman and his bride-to-be are trying desperately to get married but can't find a clergyman to perform...
True Bear Stories - Joaquin MILLER
True Bear Stories - Joaquin MILLER
- Author: Joaquin MILLER
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Animals
Joaquin Miller dedicated this book to "my dear little daughter...for whose pleasure and instruction I have many times dug up the most of these stories from out the days of my boyhood." In his preface he claims to prefer true stories to made-up ones....
Forty-Two Poems - James Elroy FLECKER
Forty-Two Poems - James Elroy FLECKER
- Author: James Elroy FLECKER
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems by James Elroy Flecker. - Summary by Carolin...
In the Nursery of My Bookhouse - Various
In the Nursery of My Bookhouse - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the "My Bookhouse" series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Olive...
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
The Phenomenology of Mind, Volume 1 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Genre: Early Modern
Phänomenologie des Geistes (1807) is Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's most important and widely discussed philosophical work. Hegel's first book, it describes the three-stage dialectical life of Spirit. The title can be translated as either The...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 02 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the second volume, 44 short stories and poems have been gathered from 31 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel)) The Wit and Humor od America series...
The Elements of Ornithology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Ornithology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals / Science
The Elements of Ornithology is one of seven in a Series of First Books of Natural History Prepared for the Use of Schools and Colleges. This succinct little textbook from 1845 presents an introduction to ornithology. The information, albeit not...
The King of Ireland's Son - Pádraic Colum
The King of Ireland's Son - Pádraic Colum
- Author: Pádraic Colum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The King of Ireland's Son is a children's novel published in Ireland in 1916 written by Padraic Colum, and illustrated by Willy Pogany. It is the story of the eldest of the King of Ireland's sons, and his adventures winning and then finding Fedelma,...
A Slave Is a Slave - H. Beam Piper
A Slave Is a Slave - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Galactic Empire is slowly 'welcoming' into the family of civilized worlds those systems so far off in the backwater of the galaxy that they have been overlooked and ignored for the past 500 years or so. This is purely routine work because every...
The Double: A Petersburg Poem - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Double: A Petersburg Poem - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This is the story of a mild-mannered civil servant, Mr. Golyadkin, who begins to see his "doppelganger" appearing in his life (at work, in society, etc). This "double" has all the qualities that the protagonist lacks. His "double" bullies and...
The Rubinstein Staccato Etude - R. Nathaniel DETT
The Rubinstein Staccato Etude - R. Nathaniel DETT
- Author: R. Nathaniel DETT
- Genre: Single author
This poem, read by 16 Librivox Volunteers, describes the ups and downs and emotional frenzy of The Rubinstein Staccato Etude. The author, R. Nathaniel Dett, was a composer, organist, pianist and music professor. While born in Canada, he spent most...
The Love-Tiff - Molière
The Love-Tiff - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
"The characters are well delineated, and fathers, lovers, mistresses, and servants all move about amidst a complication of errors from which there is no visible disentangling. The conversation between Valère and Ascanio in man's clothes, the mutual...
The Story of the Three Little Pigs - L. Leslie Brooke
The Story of the Three Little Pigs - L. Leslie Brooke
- Author: L. Leslie Brooke
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This version of the classic tale of the three pigs, their houses and a wolf, published in 1904, has a new twist in its second half. This recording can be enjoyed by itself, or you can read along with the Library of Congress facsimile version from...
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
Rob Roy - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
Rob Roy is a historical novel by Walter Scott. It is narrated by Frank Osbaldistone, the son of an English merchant who travels first to the North of England, and subsequently to the Scottish Highlands to collect a debt stolen from his father. On...
Critias - Plato
Critias - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
This is an incomplete dialogue from the late period of Plato's life. Plato most likely created it after Republic and it contains the famous story of Atlantis, that Plato tells with such skill that many have believed the story to be true. Critias, a...
At A Lunar Eclipse - Thomas Hardy
At A Lunar Eclipse - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of At A Lunar Eclipse by Thomas Hardy. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 27, 2019. ------ While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first...
Under the Witches' Moon - Nathan GALLIZIER
Under the Witches' Moon - Nathan GALLIZIER
- Author: Nathan GALLIZIER
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The scene is Rome, 935 A.D. Thirty-year-old Tristan, dressed as a pilgrim, overhears a conversation between Basil, the Grand Chamberlain, and Il Gobbo, his assistant. After the two have left, Tristan continues to observe the revelry on the Eve of...
Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton
Wild Animals I Have Known - Ernest Thompson Seton
- Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction
Wild Animals I Have Known is an 1898 book by naturalist and author Ernest Thompson Seton. The first entry in a new genre of realistic wild-animal fiction, Seton's first collection of short stories quickly became one of the most popular books of its...
Brewster's Millions - George Barr McCutcheon
Brewster's Millions - George Barr McCutcheon
- Author: George Barr McCutcheon
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The story revolves around Montgomery Brewster, a poor man who inherits a large sum of money. However, there is a catch — he has to spend every penny within 30 days, and end up with nothing at that time. Should he make the deadline, he stands to gain...
Studies in Love and in Terror - Marie Belloc LOWNDES
Studies in Love and in Terror - Marie Belloc LOWNDES
- Author: Marie Belloc LOWNDES
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
This is a collection of five stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes. The stories are neither love stories nor ghost and horror stories but they each combine elements of both. In this way, they can be enjoyed by a large variety of readers and listeners. -...
Through the Magic Door - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Through the Magic Door - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Memoirs
I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are...
Bunyan Characters Volume I - Alexander WHYTE
Bunyan Characters Volume I - Alexander WHYTE
- Author: Alexander WHYTE
- Genre: Christian Fiction
This is the first volume of four which goes into the details of Characters from John Bunyan's books. This one is about characters of Pilgrims Progress. - Summary by fiddlesticks...
Four Science Fiction Stories by G.L.Vandenburg - G. L. VANDENBURG
Four Science Fiction Stories by G.L.Vandenburg - G. L. VANDENBURG
- Author: G. L. VANDENBURG
- Genre: Science Fiction
G.L.Vandenburg wrote quirky and funny Science Fiction stories for Amazing Science Fiction Stories, and similar magazines in the 1950's. These four are a selection that give a good taste of his offbeat approach, strange sense of humor and relaxed...
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I - Edward Gibbon
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Vol. I - Edward Gibbon
- Author: Edward Gibbon
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, a major literary achievement of the 18th century published in six volumes, was written by the celebrated English historian Edward Gibbon. Volume I was published in 1776, and went through six...
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 - Abraham TOMLINSON
The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 - Abraham TOMLINSON
- Author: Abraham TOMLINSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"Perceiving that much of the intrinsic value of these Journals would consist in a proper understanding of the historical facts to which allusions are made in them, I prevailed upon Mr. LOSSING, the well-known author of the "_Pictorial Field-Book of...
Tristan and Iseult - Joseph BÉDIER
Tristan and Iseult - Joseph BÉDIER
- Author: Joseph BÉDIER
- Genre: Romance
This is the Arthurian legend of Tristan and Iseult. It is a tale of love, honour, intrigue, betrayal and jealousy, ending ultimately in tragedy. This story predates that of Lancelot and Guinevere, and is one of the most influential romances of the...
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1 - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection Vol. 1 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Short non-fiction
The Charles Dickens 200th Anniversary Collection comprises short works previously unrecorded for LibriVox - fiction, essays, poetry, letters, magazine articles and speeches - and each volume will be a pot pourri of all genres and periods of his...
The Coming People - Charles F. DOLE
The Coming People - Charles F. DOLE
- Author: Charles F. DOLE
- Genre: Philosophy
Dole briefly sketches the history of life, and shows how it has a definite direction - toward the survival of the kind and gentle people. It's a challenging, and quite persuasive argument, and also a much needed one in light of the dog-eat-dog...
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
It is a loss to American literature that so much of the legendary history of these Indian tribes has gone, beyond hope of recovery. Exquisite in color, poetical in feeling, these legends of sun, moon, and stars, of snow, ice, lightning, thunders,...
Sonnet 073 - William Shakespeare
Sonnet 073 - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
To celebrate Shakespeare’s birthday, LibriVox volunteers bring you ten different recordings of Sonnet 73. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 23rd, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Gladiator - Philip WYLIE
Gladiator - Philip WYLIE
- Author: Philip WYLIE
- Genre: Science Fiction
Gladiator by Philip Wylie is the story of a man who although normal in all other ways, through the genius of his Father a biologist attains the strength and impregnability of a superman. The problems he encounters in trying to fit into a society of...
Eudemian Ethics - Aristotle
Eudemian Ethics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Ancient
Eudemian Ethics (Greek: ΗΘΙΚΩΝ ΕΥΔΗΜΙΩΝ Latin: ETHICA EUDEMIA) discusses topics including virtue, friendship, happiness and God. It is believed to have been written before Nicomachean Ethics and to be named after Eudemus of Rhodes. Books IV, V, and...
A Christmas Carol - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This very special abridged version was written and performed by Dickens himself during his American Tour of 1862. Without the more terrifying and dark elements of the full length novel, its hour and a half length, and its lighter, comedic style...
