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The Minor Works of St Teresa of Avila - Saint Teresa of Avila
The Minor Works of St Teresa of Avila - Saint Teresa of Avila
- Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The prayer and Exclamations, or Meditations, of St Teresa of Avila, recorded in honor of the 500th anniversary of the Saint's birth (March 28, 2015). - Summary by Ann Boulais...
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood ANDERSON
Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood ANDERSON
- Author: Sherwood ANDERSON
- Genre: Short Stories
Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a fictional Midwestern town that together...
Echoes of the War - J. M. Barrie
Echoes of the War - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Short stories with dramatic parts about civilian life in London during the First World War. Some humorous moments. By the author of "Peter Pan". ( Summary by JCarson )...
A Winter Day - Lucy Maud Montgomery
A Winter Day - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Montgomery's poem on winter is an analogy for life, symbolizing the three life stages of youth, adulthood and old age....
Stepping Heavenward - Elizabeth Prentiss
Stepping Heavenward - Elizabeth Prentiss
- Author: Elizabeth Prentiss
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Stepping Heavenward is the journal of a girl named Katherine Mortimer. Katy meets a young man who she loves & wants to marry but her mother is very much against their plans. But Katy’s life goes on through her marriage & motherhood and many...
Bible (ASV) NT 06: Romans - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 06: Romans - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Epistle to the Romans is one of the letters of the New Testament canon of the Christian Bible. In the words of N.T. Wright, the Book of Romans is "neither a systematic theology nor a summary of Paul's lifework, but it is by common consent his...
Gorgias - Plato
Gorgias - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Satire / *Non-fiction
This dialogue brings Socrates face to face with the famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of "Republic" and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in...
A Little Bit of Fluff - Walter W. ELLIS
A Little Bit of Fluff - Walter W. ELLIS
- Author: Walter W. ELLIS
- Genre: Plays
According to the website www.stagebeauty.net, this is the 5th longest running play ever, with over 1200 original performances. Like Charley's Aunt (number 2 on the list and released by Librivox earlier in 2018), this also is a farce. An insurance...
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
Mother Goose in Prose (Version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he explains their meaning and fascinating history. What is the true story of Little Boy Blue? Why was Mary...
Shapes and Shadows - Madison Cawein
Shapes and Shadows - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Madison Julius Cawein. This collection contains many examples of Cawein's own particular style of dreamy poetry, strongly characterised by references to mythology and romance. At the same time, there is no shortage of...
Lady Into Fox (Version 2) - David GARNETT
Lady Into Fox (Version 2) - David GARNETT
- Author: David GARNETT
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
An everyday tale of a young Victorian housewife who turns into a fox and the troubles her husband then has in dealing with her increasingly wild antics, that is, her essential fox nature. A unique take on the perennial tale of the troubles that must...
Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own - Thomas Moore
Oh! Had We Some Bright Little Isle Of Our Own - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer".Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to...
Afternoon - Emile VERHAEREN
Afternoon - Emile VERHAEREN
- Author: Emile VERHAEREN
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Belgian poet Émile Verhaeren, skillfully rendered into English verse by Charles Murphy. Although the English translation was published during World War I, the French original was published in 1905, and the topic of the...
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2 - Francis Marion Crawford
Katharine Lauderdale Volume 2 - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Katherine Lauderdale would be a New York society belle, if it were not for her miserly father. Her older sister has escaped the unhappy parental home by marrying and Katherine plans to do the same, but her father has already refused to sanction her...
Easter, 1916 - William Butler Yeats
Easter, 1916 - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 4 recordings of Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats. This was the fortnightly poetry project for April 5th, 2009....
Father Sergius - Leo Tolstoy
Father Sergius - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fiancé and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath it, Father Sergius struggles to find peace and, if not happiness, then at least contentment. But he is always...
The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
The Girls of Friendly Terrace (or Peggy Raymond's Success) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Peggy Raymond and her friends, Amy, Priscilla and Ruth, encounter a new neighbour, Elaine, and her family. While Peggy, in her usual cheerful and practical manner, welcomes them into the neighbourhood of Friendly Terrace, a variety of mysteries...
This Country of Ours, Part 6 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
This Country of Ours, Part 6 - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Reference / Early Modern
Another fine history book for children! Published in 1917, Marshall's book of stories from the history of the United States begins with accounts of exploration and settlement, and ends with the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. This is Part 6: Stories...
The Spoilers - Rex Beach
The Spoilers - Rex Beach
- Author: Rex Beach
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
Rex Beach was born in Atwood, Michigan to a prominent family and pursued a career as a lawyer before being drawn to Alaska at the time of the Klondike Gold Rush. After five years of unsuccessful prospecting, he turned to writing. His first novel,...
White Dandy: A Horse's Story - Velma Caldwell MELVILLE
White Dandy: A Horse's Story - Velma Caldwell MELVILLE
- Author: Velma Caldwell MELVILLE
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This book is written from the horse's point of view, much as Black Beauty was. Indeed, it is intended to be a companion book to Black Beauty, filling in more background as seen by the horse. The title is actually White Dandy or Master and I: A...
Christmas Under Three Flags - Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
Christmas Under Three Flags - Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
- Author: Mary Emily Donelson WILCOX
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Memoirs
This work details personal memories of Mary Emily Donelson Wilcox, adopted granddaughter (acutally grand niece) of Rachel Donelson Jackson, wife of President Andrew Jackson, and assumed to be the first baby born in the White House. The book focuses...
Welcome to Spring - Ring Lardner
Welcome to Spring - Ring Lardner
- Author: Ring Lardner
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf and F. Scott Fitzgerald,...
Goin' Home To-Day - Will Carleton
Goin' Home To-Day - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life."What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer, Will Carleton has done for the...
Cupid's Whirligig - Edward SHARPHAM
Cupid's Whirligig - Edward SHARPHAM
- Author: Edward SHARPHAM
- Genre: Comedy
Cupid's Whirligig is a city comedy: a play in colloquial language dealing with the everyday life of London's citizens. A knight, Sir Timothy Troublesome, suspects his wife of cheating on him and, to prove that any children she bears are not his own,...
Baseball Joe on the School Nine - Howard R. Garis
Baseball Joe on the School Nine - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Sports Fiction / Action & Adventure
"Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to go to boarding school and play on the school team, in this second volume of the Baseball Joe series. Joe is a wide-awake country boy who enjoys playing baseball. We follow his career in the series, and...
Mathilda - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Mathilda - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Erotica
The finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father's incestuous love for his daughter and its consequences, meant that the manuscript was suppressed by Shelley's own father, and not published until 1959, more...
History of Julius Caesar - Jacob Abbott
History of Julius Caesar - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The book chronicles the extraordinary life and leadership of Rome’s Emperor Julius Caesar, from his early years to his assassination. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
A Summer Night in the Beehive - Charles Tennyson TURNER
A Summer Night in the Beehive - Charles Tennyson TURNER
- Author: Charles Tennyson TURNER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you ten recordings of "A Summer Night in the Beehive." The Weekly Poem for August 24, 2014 brings us the night sounds of the meadow in summer....
Columbus - Joaquin MILLER
Columbus - Joaquin MILLER
- Author: Joaquin MILLER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / History / Exploration
This week, to celebrate Columbus Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six recordings of Columbus by Joaquin Miller. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of October 8th, 2006....
Short Story Collection Vol. 003 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 003: a collection of 20 short fictional works in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Twin-Rivals - George Farquhar
The Twin-Rivals - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays
"This comedy was produced at Drury Lane on December 14, 1702. It is the most accurate of all Farquhar's productions. The plot, though improbable, is well constructed and sustained, the dialogue lively and entertaining, whilst the characters of the...
Morning, Noon and Night - James Weldon Johnson
Morning, Noon and Night - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 14 readings of Morning, Noon and Night by James Weldon Johnson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 14th, 2014. James Weldon Johnson served as U. S. Consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, was an...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 5, May 1900 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 5, May 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...
Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) - William Morris
Prose Romances from the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (1856) - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
William Morris initiated the genre of high fantasy in a number of short novels written toward the end of his life. But he had already experimented with the genre much earlier in stories written for the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, which he...
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy - G. A. Henty
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Like all Henty books, this one centers around a young English lad whose courtesy and courage win the day. Harry Sandwith travels to France to serve a French Marquis, despite the rumblings of a revolution. Follow along to benefit from a wholesome...
Bethink Yourselves! - Leo Tolstoy
Bethink Yourselves! - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
As Russia goes to war against Japan, Tolstoy urges those at all levels of society, from the Tsar down to the common soldier, to consider their actions in the light of Christ's teaching. "However strange this may appear, the most effective and...
Michael Strogoff - Jules Verne
Michael Strogoff - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This is the account of the perilous mission of Michael Strogoff, courier for Czar Alexander II, who is sent from Moscow to the besieged city of Irkutsk, where the governor, brother of the Czar, has taken his last stand against a Tartar rebellion led...
Bible (ASV) NT 12: Colossians - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 12: Colossians - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Epistle to the Colossians is a book of the Bible New Testament. The book is a letter from Paul to the church in Colossae. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 3, March 1900 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 3, March 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...
He and She - Rachel CROTHERS
He and She - Rachel CROTHERS
- Author: Rachel CROTHERS
- Genre: Drama
A feminist drama that gained considerable critical and commercial success when it originally ran on Broadway. The play is about a husband and wife who also happen to be artists. A socially conscious battle of the sexes ensues over professional...
