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Mrs. Peter Rabbit (version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
Mrs. Peter Rabbit (version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This charming story chronicles the life of Peter rabbit and the many other woodland creatures that live in and around the brier batch. Peter finds himself not wanting to eat and finding everyday activities of life a bore. As a result of this, he...
A Journal of Impressions in Belgium - May Sinclair
A Journal of Impressions in Belgium - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
In 1914, at the age of 51, the novelist and poet May Sinclair volunteered to leave the comforts of England to go to the Western Front, joining the Munro Ambulance Corps ministering to wounded Belgian soldiers in Flanders. Her experiences in the...
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill - Margaret Vandercook
The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill - Margaret Vandercook
- Author: Margaret Vandercook
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
Betty Ashton is so very bored! She is in her home, wanting something interesting to do, when she meets her new companion, Esther Clark. Esther has just arrived at the request of Mrs Ashton, to live with Betty and to help her in whatever way she...
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England - Charles McLean Andrews
The Chronicles of America Volume 06 - The Fathers of New England - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: History / Early Modern
This sixth installment in the series, as one would expect, deals with events in the northern settlements that were taking place at the same times as those in the southern. The opening passage explains: "The Pilgrims and Puritans, whose migration to...
Red Maples - Sara Teasdale
Red Maples - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Each week a poem is chosen to be recorded by as many LibriVox volunteers as possible!Thank you to RuthieG for the suggestion ....
India's Love Lyrics - Laurence Hope
India's Love Lyrics - Laurence Hope
- Author: Laurence Hope
- Genre: Single author
The poetry of Adela Florence Cory aka Violet Nicolson, is some of the most unique and passionate in the English language. Under the pen name of Laurence Hope, her works were extremely popular in the early years of the 20th century, inspiring popular...
The Deeper Christian Life - Andrew Murray
The Deeper Christian Life - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Christianity - Other
If you were put on trial for being a Christian, would you be convicted? Christians have asked themselves this question, or ones like it, for millennia. In his book, The Deeper Christian Life, Andrew Murray helps us come to grips with those nagging...
Manx Fairy Tales - Sophia Morrison
Manx Fairy Tales - Sophia Morrison
- Author: Sophia Morrison
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of fairy tales regarding myths and legends of the Isle of Man. Sophia was considered one of the key figures of the Manx cultural revival. - Summary by afutterer...
My Mark Twain - William Dean Howells
My Mark Twain - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
William Dean Howells (1837-1920) became fast friends with Mark Twain from the moment in 1869 when Twain strode into the office of The Atlantic Monthly in Boston to thank Howell, then its assistant editor, for his favorable review of Innocents...
Bits About Home Matters - Helen Hunt Jackson
Bits About Home Matters - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Self-Help
This book is a collection of short observations by Helen Hunt Jackson, several with children and parenting as the subject matter. (Summary by ashleighjane)...
Ten Days in a Madhouse - Nellie Bly
Ten Days in a Madhouse - Nellie Bly
- Author: Nellie Bly
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
In 1887 Nellie Bly, one of the first female newspaper writers, and a young reporter who would soon go on to make a career for herself as an investigative journalist and “stunt” reporter, had herself committed to the Blackwell’s Island Insane Asylum...
People Minus X - Raymond Z. Gallun
People Minus X - Raymond Z. Gallun
- Author: Raymond Z. Gallun
- Genre: Science Fiction
A disastrous experiment destroys the moon and kills millions on earth. The invention of artificial flesh lets them return to life as androids, a second and perhaps superior human species. Mounting tensions between the naturals and the “phonies”...
The Wine - Sara Teasdale
The Wine - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sara Teasdale (August 8, 1884 – January 29, 1933) was an American lyric poet.Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published that same...
The Princess Casamassima - Henry James
The Princess Casamassima - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary underground of London in the 1880s; secondly as a psychological study of such a movement on a young man (the...
Lodore - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Lodore - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Literary Fiction
The author of Frankenstein returns with her take on an Austen novel. The mother is proud, the father has many vices, yet the aristocratic name must be kept. Even more so when lord Lodore dies. His wife and daughter find themselves without...
A Deep-Sworn Vow - William Butler Yeats
A Deep-Sworn Vow - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry
This is the weekly poem for the week of 10.01.2016. Have fun. - Summary by Stav Nisser....
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate - Eliza P. Donner Houghton
The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate - Eliza P. Donner Houghton
- Author: Eliza P. Donner Houghton
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
The Donner Party was a group of California-bound American settlers caught up in the "westering fever" of the 1840s. After becoming snowbound in the Sierra Nevada in the winter of 1846–1847, some of the emigrants resorted to cannibalism. Although...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 064 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Eucken's "The Failure of Speculative Philosophy," is one of several essays devoted to timeless questions. Others are by James Howell on man, nature and the universe, Samuel Johnson on...
Byways Around San Francisco Bay - W. E. Hutchinson
Byways Around San Francisco Bay - W. E. Hutchinson
- Author: W. E. Hutchinson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature
California, the land of sunshine and roses, with its genial climate, its skies as blue as the far-famed skies of Venice, and its pure, life-giving air, invites the lover of nature to take long tramps over hill and dale, mountain and valley, and to...
The World of Sound - Sir William Henry Bragg
The World of Sound - Sir William Henry Bragg
- Author: Sir William Henry Bragg
- Genre: Science
The World of Sound consists of six lectures delivered before a juvenile audience at the Royal Institution, Christmas 1919. The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures are a series of lectures on a single topic, which have been held at the Royal...
The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare - G. K. Chesterton
The Man Who Was Thursday, A Nightmare - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
In a surreal turn-of-the-century London, Gabriel Syme, a poet, is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard. Lucian Gregory, an anarchist poet, is the only poet in Saffron Park, until he loses his temper in an argument over the...
Farm Ballads - Will Carleton
Farm Ballads - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Poetry
Farm Ballads is a rather influential volume of poetry by American poet Will Carleton. The poems are concerning rural life in Michigan, where the poet grew up and spent much of his life before eventually moving to Boston. - Summary by Carolin...
To His Mistress Going to Bed - John Donne
To His Mistress Going to Bed - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England.He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin...
The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan - Thomas Dixon, Jr.
- Author: Thomas Dixon Jr.
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel was the basis for the 1915 silent movie classic, "The Birth Of A Nation". Within a fictional story, it...
The Constant Couple - George Farquhar
The Constant Couple - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays / Satire
George Farquhar, the author of this comedy, was the son of a clergyman in the north of Ireland. He was born in the year 1678, discovered an early taste for literature, and wrote poetic stanzas at ten years of age. In 1694 he was sent to Trinity...
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon (version 2) - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 22: Song of Solomon (version 2) - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: *Non-fiction
The Song of Songs (Hebrew title שיר השירים, Shir ha-Shirim), is a book of the Hebrew Bible—Tanakh or Old Testament—one of the five megillot (scrolls). It is also known as the Song of Solomon or as Canticles, the latter from the shortened and...
Sanctuary - Edith Wharton
Sanctuary - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
Kate Orme, shocked by the discovery of her fiance's complicity in a tragedy, and by society's willingness to overlook such transgressions, nevertheless marries him. Years later, her son faces a moral crisis similar to the one that showed her his...
The Faerie Queene Book 2 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 2 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Second Booke of the Faerie Queene contayning The Legende of Sir Guyon or of Tempaurance. The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser wrote it as...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 9 - Samuel Richardson
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 9 - Samuel Richardson
- Author: Samuel Richardson
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
In Volume 9 Clarissa hastens to her fate and the various culprits reap the consequences of their crimes of indifference, cruelty and neglect. One of the earliest and certainly the longest novel in the English language, with a wide-ranging influence...
The Little Minister - J. M. Barrie
The Little Minister - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Family
Before "Peter Pan" came "The Little Minister", J.M. Barrie's first published novel. This is not a children's book, but reflections on life in a remote village in Scotland. The story opens with the minister and his mother moving into the village of...
The Faith of Men - Jack London
The Faith of Men - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories by author Jack London....
Canadian Fairy Tales - Cyrus Macmillan
Canadian Fairy Tales - Cyrus Macmillan
- Author: Cyrus Macmillan
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Professor Macmillan has placed all lovers of fairy tales under a deep debt of obligation to him. The fairy tale makes a universal appeal both to old and young; to the young because it is the natural world in which their fancy delights to range, and...
Masters of Space - Walter Kellogg Towers
Masters of Space - Walter Kellogg Towers
- Author: Walter Kellogg Towers
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
This is the story of talking at a distance, of sending messages through space. It is the story of great men—Morse, Thomson, Bell, Marconi, and others—and how, with the aid of men like Field, Vail, Catty, Pupin, the scientist, and others in both the...
Leaves - Sara Teasdale
Leaves - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Autumn, interchangeably known as fall in North America, is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, in September (Northern Hemisphere) or March (Southern Hemisphere), when the arrival of night becomes...
The Minister's Wooing - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Minister's Wooing - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Romance
Harriet Beecher Stowe is today best known for her classic novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. However, that book was certainly not her only remarkable anti-slavery work. In The Minister's Wooing, Stowe takes the reader into 18th century New England, and uses...
The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque - William Combe
The Tour of Dr. Syntax in Search of the Picturesque - William Combe
- Author: William Combe
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Poetry
“To bury these, to christen those, And marry such fond folks who chose To change the tenor of their life And risk the matrimonial strife.” This was the humdrum life of Dr. Syntax before he set out on his bizarre and hilarious adventures, presented...
Rainbow Valley (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rainbow Valley (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Published 1900 onward
Anne Shirley is grown up and married, and her six children are off having their own adventures with the Merediths - the four children of a widowed, absent-minded minister. Whether they're hiding a runaway home girl and plotting to save her from the...
The Hidden Hand - E.D.E.N. Southworth
The Hidden Hand - E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Author: E.D.E.N. Southworth
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
"If you will listen to this book, you will meet a cast of unforgettable characters, as different from one another as the sun and moon. But they have one thing in common - all of them hide many, many secrets. The plot of this book is full of twists...
The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables - Francis Bacon
The Wisdom of the Ancients, A Series of Mythological Fables - Francis Bacon
- Author: Francis Bacon
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Published before 1800
"Now I suppose most people will think I am but entertaining myself with a toy, and using much the same kind of licence in expounding the poets’ fables which the poets themselves did in inventing them; and it is true that if I had a mind to vary and...
Mrs. Warren's Daughter - Sir Harry Johnston
Mrs. Warren's Daughter - Sir Harry Johnston
- Author: Sir Harry Johnston
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Mrs. Warren's Daughter is a continuation, in novel form, of George Bernard Shaw's controversial play, Mrs. Warren's Profession. In the play, Vivie Warren, an emancipated young woman recently graduated from University, disavows her mother Kitty when...
