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Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter - Sir Grafton Elliot SMITH
Tutankhamen: and the Discovery of His Tomb by the Late Earl of Carnarvon and Mr. Howard Carter - Sir Grafton Elliot SMITH
- Author: Sir Grafton Elliot SMITH
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Other religions
(From the Introduction) “Never before in the history of archaeological inquiry has any event excited such immediate and world-wide interest as Mr. Howard Carter's discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. It gives us a new revelation of the...
A House to Let - Undefined
A House to Let - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A House to Let is a short story originally published in 1858 in the Christmas edition of Dickens' Household Words magazine. Each of the contributors wrote a chapter (stories within a story, or, in the case of Adelaide Anne Procter, poetry) and the...
Kepler - Walter W. BRYANT
Kepler - Walter W. BRYANT
- Author: Walter W. BRYANT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
This biography of Johannes Kepler begins with an account of what the world of astronomy was like before his time, then proceeds to a look at his early years. Two chapters deal with his working relationship with Tycho Brahe. These are followed by a...
Constance Dunlap - Arthur B. Reeve
Constance Dunlap - Arthur B. Reeve
- Author: Arthur B. Reeve
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Constance Dunlap is a young woman who in Chapter 1 turns amateur criminal in order to to save her husband from disgrace and imminent arrest. When this sadly doesn't work out exactly as planned, Constance goes on to embrace a new life. More...
Barks and Purrs (Dramatic Reading) - COLETTE
Barks and Purrs (Dramatic Reading) - COLETTE
- Author: COLETTE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction
Barks and Purrs is a collection of seven episodes in the lives of Toby-Dog, a French Bulldog, and Kiki-the-Demure, a Maltese cat, living in a comfortable household. The episodes cover a hot afternoon, a train ride, and what happened when dinner was...
Mary Broome - Allan MONKHOUSE
Mary Broome - Allan MONKHOUSE
- Author: Allan MONKHOUSE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
Before Downton Abbey, there was Mary Broome. In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values. (Summary by wildemoose) Cast:...
Fraternity - John Galsworthy
Fraternity - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A satire of middle-class complacency and artistic aspiration. It is the story of a strange bohemian upper-class love triangle, and of a mystic tract.(Summary by Simon Evers)...
The Court and Character of King James whereunto Is Now Added the Court of King Charles: Continued unto the Beginning of These Unhappy Times: with Some Observations upon Him Instead of a Character - Anthony WELDON
The Court and Character of King James whereunto Is Now Added the Court of King Charles: Continued unto the Beginning of These Unhappy Times: with Some Observations upon Him Instead of a Character - Anthony WELDON
- Author: Anthony WELDON
- Genre: Early Modern
Gossipy exposés of shenanigans at the heart of government are nothing new. The author, Sir Anthony Weldon (1583–1648), was a courtier of years of experience and standing; his account of court intrigues around the Stuart Kings James I (1603-1625) and...
At the Piano - Anna Katharine Green
At the Piano - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been called "the mother of the detective...
The Adventures of a Suburbanite - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Adventures of a Suburbanite - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, this is suburbia... much the same today as it was in 1911. - Summary by Sarah Jennings...
Tarrano the Conqueror - Ray Cummings
Tarrano the Conqueror - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Science Fiction
In "Tarrano the Conqueror" is presented a tale of the year 2430 A.D.--a time somewhat farther beyond our present-day era than we are beyondColumbus' discovery of America. My desire has been to create for you the impression that you have suddenly...
The Characters Of Theophrastus - THEOPHRASTUS
The Characters Of Theophrastus - THEOPHRASTUS
- Author: THEOPHRASTUS
- Genre: Psychology / Ancient
Theophrastus ( c. 371 – c. 287 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic School. He wrote on many topics: biology, geology, physics, metaphysics, psychology, ethics, logic – and more. His book Characters…...
Pomona's Travels - Frank R. Stockton
Pomona's Travels - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: General Fiction
Pomona and Jone of Rudder Grange fame travel to England and Scotland. Along the way, Pomona tangles with wild pigs, haymaking, hotels great and small, Pullman cars, comparison-makers, and a Duchess. She makes two matches and - in her usual,...
Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
This work was originally a four-act play written by Maurice Leblanc and Francis de Croisset, later novelized by Leblanc himself, translated by detective fiction writer Edgar Jepson and published in English, in 1909, under the simple title of Arsène...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 04 (Fables 76-100) - 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...
The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
The Invisible Man - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Invisible Man (1897) is one of the most famous science fiction novels of all time. Written by H.G. Wells (1866-1946), it tells the story of a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and uses it on himself. The story begins as the...
The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Author: Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This volume contains, among other poems, the famous poems The Valley of the Shadow and Lazarus. - Summary by Carolin...
Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble - Howard R. Garis
Lulu, Alice and Jimmie Wibblewobble - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Wibblewobble family of ducks appear in a series of 31 bedtime stories - one for each day of the month - written by Howard R. Garis. Each story is an adventure featuring the ducks and their neighbors, including Uncle Wiggily Longears, the famous...
The Call of the Wild (Version 2) - Jack London
The Call of the Wild (Version 2) - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the story of Buck, dog napped from sunny California to snowy Arctic during the Alaska gold rush. This deservedly famous book has been already recorded by LibriVox and downloaded more than 100,000 times. Why, then, would anyone suggest...
John Gabriel Borkman - Henrik Ibsen
John Gabriel Borkman - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Drama
John Gabriel Borkman is the penultimate play of the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, written in 1896. The Borkman family fortunes have been brought low by the imprisonment of John Gabriel who used his position as a bank manager to illegally...
Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection - Various
Christmas Poetry and Hymn Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
This collection includes 40 different Christmas carols collected and read by Douglas D. Anderson, the creator of The Hymns and Carols of Christmas website, a public-domain collection of Christmas music containing over 2,600 hymns, carols and songs....
Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot
Scenes of Clerical Life - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: General Fiction
Scenes of Clerical Life, which appeared in book form in 1858 (after serial publication in the previous year), was the first published fiction by George Eliot, the pen name for Mary Anne Evans. It consists of three novellas based on the lives of...
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today - Evelyn UNDERHILL
The Life of the Spirit and the Life of Today - Evelyn UNDERHILL
- Author: Evelyn UNDERHILL
- Genre: Modern
Underhill emphasizes the practical, here-and-now nature of spiritual life. She argues that spirituality is a genuine and abiding human fact, and that any complete description of human life must find room for the spiritual factor, and for the...
Anna Karenina, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 3 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage to follow her heart and must endure the hypocrisies of society....
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World - Ignatius Loyola DONNELLY
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World - Ignatius Loyola DONNELLY
- Author: Ignatius Loyola DONNELLY
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a book published during 1882 by Minnesota populist politician Ignatius L. Donnelly, who was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during 1831. Donnelly considered Plato's account of Atlantis as largely factual and...
Sermons on Several Occasions, First Series - John WESLEY
Sermons on Several Occasions, First Series - John WESLEY
- Author: John WESLEY
- Genre: Literary Collections / Christianity - Commentary / Christianity - Other
John Wesley, along with his brother Charles, are credited with founding the Methodist denomination. "The following Sermons contain the substance of what I have been preaching for between eight and nine years last past. Every serious man who peruses...
The Tempest - John Dryden
The Tempest - John Dryden
- Author: John Dryden
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
John Dryden and William D'Avenant's Restoration adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest preserves the main plot and characters of the original. Prospero, the former Duke of Milan, lives on an isolated island with his daughter Miranda, and plans to...
The Birthplace - Henry James
The Birthplace - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to his plot. The story has to do with Mr. and Mrs. Gedge, tempted away from a dreary northern town library,...
The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Music
A collection of three of Nietzsche's writings concerning the music of Wagner. In particular, he relates Wagner's music as degenerate, unrefined and unintelligent and relates it to a gradually degenerating German culture and society. The translator...
Peasant Tales of Russia - Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
Peasant Tales of Russia - Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
- Author: Vasily NEMIROVICH-DANCHENKO
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
Collection of Russian peasant tales: "The Deserted Mine" - The key to saving the trapped miners is held by a man who hasn't spoken a word in 10 years. "Mahmoud's Family" - Escaping prisoners of war should be shot, but Mahmoud has a family. "A...
Divers Women - Pansy
Divers Women - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: General Fiction / Christian Fiction
A collection of short stories, highlighting some of the best and worst characteristics we women are capable of in our Christianity and in our home life. (Summary by TriciaG)...
I'm Nobody - Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of I’m Nobody, by Emily Dickinson. Dickinson’s text of this poem contains two possible versions of it. There is a great deal of discussion among academics as to which she preferred. Only one...
The Prayers of St Paul - William H. Griffith THOMAS
The Prayers of St Paul - William H. Griffith THOMAS
- Author: William H. Griffith THOMAS
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
William Griffith Thomas was a pastor, teacher and co-founder of the Dallas Theological Seminary. This book contains nine devotional commentaries on prayers from Paul's letters to the churches at Thessalonica, Colossi and Ephesus. Thomas is...
The Memoirs of a White Elephant - Judith GAUTIER
The Memoirs of a White Elephant - Judith GAUTIER
- Author: Judith GAUTIER
- Genre: Animals & Nature
"We are told by writers of antiquity that elephants have written sentences in Greek, and that one of them was even known to speak. There is, therefore, nothing unreasonable in the supposition that the White Elephant of this history, the famous...
The Business of Being a Woman - Ida M. TARBELL
The Business of Being a Woman - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
How were women's roles changing in the 1900's? Ida Tarbell explores this in a well written, witty and insightful series of essays. "The object of this little volume is to call attention to a certain distrust, which the author feels in the modern...
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865) - Charles Todd QUINTARD
Doctor Quintard, Chaplain C.S.A. And Second Bishop Of Tennessee Being His Story Of The War (1861-1865) - Charles Todd QUINTARD
- Author: Charles Todd QUINTARD
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
Charles Quintard (1824-1898) was an Episcopal priest who, in spite of his pro-Union stance, volunteered to be a chaplain in the Confederate army in the American Civil War. A sympathetic, warm, intellectual man loved by soldier and civilian alike, he...
The Last Trail - Zane Grey
The Last Trail - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: Westerns
Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear as Mike Vendetti narrates this early Zane Grey novel of hardy pioneers taming the wild west. Yes, despite the difficult times, romance flourishes and the bad guys are eliminated almost single...
Hero and Leander (version 2) - Christopher Marlowe
Hero and Leander (version 2) - Christopher Marlowe
- Author: Christopher Marlowe
- Genre: Erotica / Poetry
Two young people, the epitome of young masculine and feminine beauty, fall in love at first sight, but their union is forbidden by the tyranny of their guardians and of geography itself, for they live on opposite sides of the Hellespont. To enjoy...
Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 4, April 1902 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 4, April 1902 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
The Song of the Wave, and Other Poems - George Cabot LODGE
The Song of the Wave, and Other Poems - George Cabot LODGE
- Author: George Cabot LODGE
- Genre: Poetry
This is an 1898 volume of poetry by American poet George Cabot Lodge. Its title-poem refers to the Sea, and the Sea does seem to be the main character of this book, making its appearance in many of the poems throughout the first part of the volume....