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Madam How and Lady Why - Charles Kingsley
Madam How and Lady Why - Charles Kingsley
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- Genre: Science / Earth Sciences
Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers (at least all the ones that were known in 1869) and gives them in a pedagogical way. Listed...
The Seven Poor Travellers - Charles Dickens
The Seven Poor Travellers - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
One of Dickens' Christmas stories, this was first published as part of the Christmas number of Household Words for 1854. The first chapter relates Dickens' visit to the ancient Richard Watts's Charity at Rochester. The second chapter is the touching...
Nature and Art, Vol. VIII, No 1, June 1900 - Various
Nature and Art, Vol. VIII, No 1, June 1900 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt - Gaston Maspero
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt - Gaston Maspero
- Author: Gaston Maspero
- Genre: History / Science
A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Century. (Introduction by Timothy Ferguson)...
Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope
Lady Anna - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
When it appeared in 1874, Lady Anna met with little success, and positively outraged the conservative - `This is the sort of thing the reading public will never stand...a man must be embittered by some violent present exasperation who can like...
The Secret of the Ninth Planet (Version 2) - Donald WOLLHEIM
The Secret of the Ninth Planet (Version 2) - Donald WOLLHEIM
- Author: Donald WOLLHEIM
- Genre: Science Fiction
An alien race has put a station on Earth and other planets in order to steal the rays of the sun, possible causing the sun to nova within two years. Burl Denning, a high school student, is the only person who has the power to stop the alien project....
The Thirteenth Chair - Bayard VEILLER
The Thirteenth Chair - Bayard VEILLER
- Author: Bayard VEILLER
- Genre: Drama
Your best friend has been murdered, stabbed in the back, and the police haven't been able to solve the case. You have consulted with the best detective in the area. You have asked friends and neighbors about the crime. You have even offered a very...
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Prayer of Manasseh - King James Version
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Prayer of Manasseh - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The Prayer of Manasseh is a short work of only 15 verses that purports to be the penitential prayer of the Judean king Manasseh, who is recorded in the Bible as one of the most idolatrous (2 Kings 21:1-18). However, after having been taken captive...
The Reaper And The Flowers - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Reaper And The Flowers - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry / Lyric / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Reaper And The Flowers by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 8, 2012. Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and...
Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew - Matthew HENRY
Concise Commentary on the Bible - Book of Matthew - Matthew HENRY
- Author: Matthew HENRY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Spiritual and practical lessons are extracted from every verse of the Book of Matthew, as well as detailed explanation of the text. The Book of Matthew is part of the New Testament in the Holy Bible and is one of the four gospels. The other 3...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and the Cenci (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 1: The Borgias and the Cenci (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
Dumas's 'Celebrated Crimes' was not written for children. The novelist has spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time.In some instances facts appear distorted out of their true perspective, and in...
The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories - H. G. Wells
The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories by H. G. Wells, author of "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds". The science fiction master ranges over a variety of topics, each original and unexpected. Included in this collection is "The Country of the Blind"...
Anything You Can Do... - Randall Garrett
Anything You Can Do... - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
An alien crash lands on Earth, and for ten years terrorizes the planet, hiding, periodically killing and eating people and stealing materials for some unknown purpose. The only hope is Bart Stanton, a medically-engineered superman, designed for the...
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 3) - Alexandre Dumas
The Count of Monte Cristo (version 3) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo is an adventure novel and one of the author's most popular works. He completed the work in 1844. The story takes place in France, Italy, islands in the Mediterranean and in the Levant during the historical events of...
The Planet Mappers - Edward Everett EVANS
The Planet Mappers - Edward Everett EVANS
- Author: Edward Everett EVANS
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Carver family are out in space, travelling to new worlds to check them out for colonization. But, when Mr. Carver has an accident, and remains out of commission for the trip, his sons, Jon and Jak, step up and take over their trip. The boys use...
Lifted Masks - Susan Glaspell
Lifted Masks - Susan Glaspell
- Author: Susan Glaspell
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
In this collection of short stories, Susan Glaspell examines the unique character of America and its people. (Summary by wildemoose)...
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 - Edward WHYMPER
Scrambles Amongst the Alps in the Years 1860-69 - Edward WHYMPER
- Author: Edward WHYMPER
- Genre: Sports & Recreation / Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Scrambles Amongst the Alps is one the great classics (some would say the greatest) of early mountaineering literature, and Edward Whymper (1840-1911) one of the leading figures of the early years of Alpine climbing. He is best known, of course, for...
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Omar Khayyám
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Le Gallienne) - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry / Philosophy
Richard le Gallienne was an English poet and critic, who, although unfamiliar with the Persian language, had a profound interest in the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. In 1897 he published a collection of 211 quatrains, which was based on earlier English...
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz - HAFIZ
Poems from the Divan of Hafiz - HAFIZ
- Author: HAFIZ
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Hafiz was a Persian poet. His collected works (Divan) are regarded as a pinnacle of Persian literature. While influenced by Islam, his mystical works are highly regarded by Hindus, Christians and others, and his influence extends to several...
Being a Boy - Charles Dudley WARNER
Being a Boy - Charles Dudley WARNER
- Author: Charles Dudley WARNER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Warner's thoughtful and often humorous memoir of his life as a young farm-boy in Charlemont, Massachusetts. (Introduction by Mark Penfold)...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 23) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 5, Chapter 23) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is volume 5 chapter 23 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) and published after his death. To quote from the preface - 'I HAVE thought it right to publish that portion of the continuation of the "History of England"...
X Minus One Project - Various
X Minus One Project - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction
This is a collection of public domain science fiction stories which were turned into half-hour plays for the classic mid-1950's American radio series, X Minus One. All of these stories were added to Project Gutenberg via Greg Weeks and crew at...
The Life and Death of King John - William Shakespeare
The Life and Death of King John - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of John, King of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to have...
In Exile and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
In Exile and Other Stories - Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Author: Mary Hallock FOOTE
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
Six short stories by Mary Hallock Foote (1847–1938), an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West. She is famous...
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces - Thomas Hardy
Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous novels as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd. Similar to his novels, the underlying...
The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million - O. Henry
The Trimmed Lamp: and other Stories of the Four Million - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Born in 1862 and died in 1910, O. Henry’s birth name is William Sydney Porter; however, he adopted the pen name O. Henry while in prison. He published 10 collections and over 600 short stories during his lifetime. The Trimmed Lamp follows The Four...
The Love Affairs of Pixie - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
The Love Affairs of Pixie - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
This is the third book of the Pixie O’Shaughnessy trilogy. In a story of love lost and found, Pixie matures from an inexperienced young lass into a wise woman. - Summary by Judith Mason...
Mr. Harrison's Confessions - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Mr. Harrison's Confessions - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Memoirs
It is asserted that the inspiration for Elizabeth Gaskell's marvellous stories of Cranford was her childhood home of Knutsford, a small town in Cheshire and to where she returned for a while as a young woman. This assertion is born out by an essay...
Intelligence Tests and School Reorganisation - Lewis TERMAN
Intelligence Tests and School Reorganisation - Lewis TERMAN
- Author: Lewis TERMAN
- Genre: Education / Psychology
A collection of essays relating to the efforts to reorganise American schools to provide a more efficient and effective education system. Also includes discussions on adjustment rooms for students with special educational needs. Edited by Lewis...
Forgiveness (Whittier) - John Greenleaf Whittier
Forgiveness (Whittier) - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Forgiveness by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 2, 2013. What some of our readers thought..."The whole poem consists of just a single sentence, but a very complex...
The Belton Estate - Anthony Trollope
The Belton Estate - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Clara Amedroz is the virtuous, intelligent, and quick-witted heroine of this novel. Like all women of her time, she has few options other than to marry. She is lucky enough to have two eligible suitors, and chooses the more urbane and worldly of the...
Dawn of the Morning - Grace Livingston Hill
Dawn of the Morning - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's whom she has only met, but the wedding does not go as planned. Scared and confused, she runs away after the...
Short Poetry Collection 025 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 025 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 025: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Constitution of Athens - Aristotle
The Constitution of Athens - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Law / Antiquity
The Constitution of Athens (Greek: Ἀθηναίων πολιτεία) was written by Aristotle or his student. The text was lost until discovered in the late 19th century in Egypt. Topics discussed include Solon's legislative reforms abolishing debt slavery and the...
The Romantic - May Sinclair
The Romantic - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
As a simple story told, "The Romantic" is one of Sinclair’s tightest and most compelling. Charlotte Redhead, a young British secretary, finds herself in a degrading extra-marital affair with her boss. In reaction, she renounces Sex and links herself...
The Elusive Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
The Elusive Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
First Published in 1908, The Elusive Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy is the 4th book in the classic adventure series about the Scarlet Pimpernel. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
The rats and the mice thought that Miss Kitty Cat was a terrible person. She was altogether too fond of hunting them. They agreed, however, that in one way it was pleasant to have her about the farmhouse. When she washed her face, while sitting on...
Five Children and It (version 4) - E. Nesbit
Five Children and It (version 4) - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction
When four children (and their baby brother makes five) manage to uncover the long-dormant Psammead (in plain English, then, Sand-Fairy) in a gravel pit, they have the chance of one wish a day that lasts until sunset. But you should be careful what...
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition) - Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments (First Edition) - Adam Smith
- Author: Adam Smith
- Genre: Philosophy
"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1869 - 1876) - Ulysses S. Grant
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1869 - 1876) - Ulysses S. Grant
- Author: Ulysses S. Grant
- Genre: Literary Collections
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
