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The Old Man and the Ass - Jean de La FONTAINE
The Old Man and the Ass - Jean de La FONTAINE
- Author: Jean de La FONTAINE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of The Old Man and the Ass by Jean de La Fontaine. (There was no translator acknowledged in the text.) This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 7, 2013. Jean de La Fontaine was the most famous French...
Of Holy Virginity - Saint Augustine of Hippo
Of Holy Virginity - Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Genre: Christianity - Other
St. Augustine wrote in his Retractions 2:23: "After I had written 'on the Good of Marriage,' it was expected that I should write on Holy Virginity; and I did not delay to do so: and that it is God's gift, and how great a gift, and with what humility...
Facing the Flag - Jules Verne
Facing the Flag - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Like The Begum's Millions, which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally overcome through the force of...
Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - Alice B. EMERSON
Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall - Alice B. EMERSON
- Author: Alice B. EMERSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure / School
In this, the second book of the Ruth Fielding series, Ruth goes to boarding school with her best friend Helen. When they get there, Ruth starts her own sorority called the SweetBriars for the new girls. Her sweet group of girls conflicts with the...
The Rocket Book - Peter NEWELL
The Rocket Book - Peter NEWELL
- Author: Peter NEWELL
- Genre: Poetry
The Rocket Book can be listened to while viewing a beautiful facscimile edition at the International Children's Digital Libarary (ICDL): http://childrenslibrary.org/ The Rocket Book begins when the son of a building superintendent sets a match to a...
Naudsonce - H. Beam Piper
Naudsonce - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Naudsonce? What does THAT mean? Well, to find out you will need to listen to this story where Piper's unique mind explores what we mean by 'communication' and how it happens. The joint Space Navy-Colonial Office expedition was looking for new...
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2) - Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories (version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Mysterious Stranger-A Romance- is the final novel attempted by Mark Twain. It was worked on periodically from roughly 1890 up until 1910. The body of work is a serious social commentary by Twain addressing his ideas of the Moral Sense and the...
Hurlbut’s Bible Lessons - Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
Hurlbut’s Bible Lessons - Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
- Author: Jesse Lyman Hurlbut
- Genre: Religion
Questions and answers on The Old Testament and The New Testament comprising a complete course of study designed to carry on through the Old Testament in one year and through the New Testament in one year. (Summary from title page) Read by Diana...
The Life of Charlemagne (Einhard) - EINHARD
The Life of Charlemagne (Einhard) - EINHARD
- Author: EINHARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Einhard was employed by Charlemagne as a court historian. At the request of Charlemagne's son and successor Louis the Pious, he wrote a biography of Charlemagne, the Vita Karoli Magni or Life of Charlemagne (c. 817–830), which provides much direct...
Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Peter Pan is the well-loved story of three children and their adventures in Neverland with the boy who refuses to grow up. Swashbuckling, fairy dust, and flight; mermaid lagoons, ticking crocodiles, and Princess Tiger Lily; second to the right and...
Ballads of a Bohemian - Robert W. Service
Ballads of a Bohemian - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Ballads of a Bohemian is a collection of poems tied together by the narration of the "author" Stephen Poore. The poems speak of bohemian life in Paris before the war, his experiences during World War I and its aftermath. (Summary by Kristin Hughes)...
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI - Diogenes LAERTIUS
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book VI - Diogenes LAERTIUS
- Author: Diogenes LAERTIUS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Ancient
There are 10 divisions in this title. This project is a recording of book 6. There is a number of interesting anecdotes on the lives of Antisthenes, Diogenes of Sinope, Monimus, Onesicritus, Crates of Thebes, Metrocles, Hipparchia, Menippus and...
I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon - Richard SABIA
I Was a Teen-Age Secret Weapon - Richard SABIA
- Author: Richard SABIA
- Genre: Science Fiction
Poor Dolliver Wims is a terribly misunderstood teen age boy from the backwoods. Is he mean or evil? Quite the opposite: He does nothing wrong, hurts no one and wants only to be liked and to help, yet he seems to be blamed for every accident that...
Bible (KJV) NT 27: Revelation (Version 2) - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 27: Revelation (Version 2) - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Book of Revelation, often known simply as Revelation or the Apocalypse, is the final book of the New Testament and occupies a central place in Christian eschatology. Written in Koine Greek, its title is derived from the first word of the text,...
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography - Clifford Whittingham BEERS
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography - Clifford Whittingham BEERS
- Author: Clifford Whittingham BEERS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
At twenty-four, Clifford Beers, Yale graduate and son of an old New England family, was confined to a mental institution, where he experienced and saw terrible mistreatment of patients. Eight years later, after his time in another institution, he...
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mark Twain: A Biography - Volume III - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Humor / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This work has been considered the "go-to" bio of Mark Twain for over a hundred years. Albert Bigelow Paine (July 10, 1861 – April 9, 1937) was an American author and biographer best known for his work with Mark Twain. These recordings of Paine's...
Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production - Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics, Book 4: The Agents of Production - Alfred Marshall
- Author: Alfred Marshall
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it. His plan for the work gradually extended...
The Ladies' Paradise - Émile Zola
The Ladies' Paradise - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Zola's original French publication, Au Bonheur des Dames ("The Ladies' Delight"), published 1882, is the eleventh novel in his Rougon-Macquart series. This English translation by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, was published in 1886. It's a glitzy, fast...
Who Burnt Columbia? - Augustine T. SMYTHE
Who Burnt Columbia? - Augustine T. SMYTHE
- Author: Augustine T. SMYTHE
- Genre: War & Military
This Librivox reading consists of selections from depositions in a lawsuit brought after the end of the American Civil War by some businessmen of the former Confederacy. This reading focuses on the sworn statements of General William Tecumseh...
Swamp Island - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
Swamp Island - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
Late entry in the Penny Parker teen girl mystery series (1939-47) by one of the early ghostwriters (as Carolyn Keene) of Nancy Drew concerns an escaped embezzler, his revenge on the reporter whose articles helped convict him, and a long missing $50...
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
The Mysterious Stranger - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Mark Twain wrote this fairytale style story about 3 boys who meet Satan's cousin and they experience many things during this time. The story is narrated by one of the boys many years later. Mark Twain ends the story expressing the idea that will...
Fruitionless - Ina COOLBRITH
Fruitionless - Ina COOLBRITH
- Author: Ina COOLBRITH
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Fruitionless by Ina Coolbrith. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 11, 2019. ------ A wistful poem, capturing in a few lines the joy and industry of 3 of natures creations (flowers,...
The Andes and The Amazon - James ORTON
The Andes and The Amazon - James ORTON
- Author: James ORTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
This book, with the subtitle "Across the Continent of South America" describes the scientific expedion of 1867 to the equatorial Andes and the Amazon. The route was from Guayaquil to Quito, over the Cordillera, through the forest to Napo, and,...
The Efficiency Expert - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Efficiency Expert - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: General Fiction
Our hero, Jimmy Torrance, Jr., has a hard time finding suitable employment after a brilliant (athletically, at least) college career, despite all kinds of assistance from his friends in the underworld and the wealthy and sophisticated young woman...
Three Accounts of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
Three Accounts of Peterloo - Francis Archibald Bruton
- Author: Francis Archibald Bruton
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
A companion volume to F.A. Bruton's 'The Story of Peterloo', the full title of this short collection is 'Three Accounts of Peterloo by Eyewitnesses, Bishop Stanley, Lord Hylton, John Benjamin Smith with Bishop Stanley's Evidence at the Trial'. The...
The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
The People of the Mist - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Penniless Leonard Outram attempts to redress the undeserved loss of his family estates and fiancee by seeking his fortune in Africa. In the course of his adventures he and his Zulu companion Otter save a young Portuguese woman, Juanna Rodd, together...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 034 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 034 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder. You may also feel more jumpy tonight...
I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia - Mary Heaton VORSE
I've Come to Stay: A Love Comedy of Bohemia - Mary Heaton VORSE
- Author: Mary Heaton VORSE
- Genre: Romance
An iconoclast in many fields herself, Mary Heaton Vorse was fascinated with Bohemia, the colorful unboundaried land of poets and artists and philosophers, a place whose denizens lived by their own rules without regard for the conventions of...
John Caldigate - Anthony Trollope
John Caldigate - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
After a rather dissolute youth and having been disowned by his father, John Caldigate sets sail for Australia with his friend Dick Shand hoping to make his fortune in the goldfields in New South Wales. On the voyage, he meets Euphemia Smith and they...
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Aeneid - Virgil
- Author: Virgil
- Genre: Epics
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of...
The Dance of Death - August Strindberg
The Dance of Death - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: Plays
The Dance of Death is a play in two parts by the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, written in 1900. It depicts the dissolution of a marriage between Edgar, an artillery captain, and Alice, a former actress. Increasingly isolated in their...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 015 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 030 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 030 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon - Laura E. Howe Richards
Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: Family / General
There are five of these children, and I call them my Five Mice; and the queer house that they live in I call the Mouse-trap. They are such funny children! I watch them sometimes all day long, their pranks are so amusing; and then when night comes, I...
Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen - Bliss Carman
Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of some of Bliss Carman's most beautiful narrative poems. All of the poems share a rather melancholy tone, which Carman uses to bring out beautiful images of feeling. - Summary by Carolin...
The Sorrows of a Show Girl - Kenneth McGaffey
The Sorrows of a Show Girl - Kenneth McGaffey
- Author: Kenneth McGaffey
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Plays
Originally printed in The Morning Telegraph in New York, this is the story of Miss Sabrina, the show girl, and her ups and downs with the unpredictable theatrical industry and the Great White Way, the lights and glamour of Broadway. "In order to set...
The Practice of the Presence of God (version 2) - Brother Lawrence
The Practice of the Presence of God (version 2) - Brother Lawrence
- Author: Brother Lawrence
- Genre: Religion / Christianity - Other
Brother Lawrence was born Nicholas Herman around 1610 in Herimenil, Lorraine, a Duchy of France. His birth records were destroyed in a fire at his parish church during the Thirty Years War, a war in which he fought as a young soldier. It was also...
Short Works on Sports Collection 01 - Various
Short Works on Sports Collection 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Sports Fiction / Sports & Recreation
A miscellany of poetry and short works of fact and fiction on the topic of sports from North America, Great Britain and Australasia. The collection includes pieces on baseball, cricket, lacrosse, cycling, athletics, fishing, polo, fencing, marbles...
Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces In Society - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction / Action & Adventure
Written under pseudonym of Edith Van Dyne. The story continues the adventures of three cousins, Louise, Patsy and Beth,with their debuts in society and the appearance of suitors, one of whom is rejected and kidnaps Louise. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
The Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow - A Tale of the Two Roses - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Black Arrow tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton. Outlaws inTunstall Forest organized...
