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Heidi (version 3) - Johanna Spyri
Heidi (version 3) - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Family
Johanna Spyri’s classic story of a 5 year old little Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city. It was written as a...
Light and Peace: Instructions for Devout Souls to Dispel Their Doubts and Allay Their Fears - Carlo Giuseppe QUADRUPANI
Light and Peace: Instructions for Devout Souls to Dispel Their Doubts and Allay Their Fears - Carlo Giuseppe QUADRUPANI
- Author: Carlo Giuseppe QUADRUPANI
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Padre Quadrupani was an Italian priest and member of the Clerics Regular of St. Paul, also known as the Barnabites, from their association with St. Barnabas Catholic Church in Milan, Italy. Quadrupani's spirituality is based on that of the...
Ten Days in the Light of Acca - Julia M. GRUNDY
Ten Days in the Light of Acca - Julia M. GRUNDY
- Author: Julia M. GRUNDY
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Other religions
This work is the story of a pilgrimage made over a hundred years ago by a group of American pilgrims. They were not headed for Canterbury, Rome or Jerusalem. Rather, they were headed for an historical but remote prison-city in a far corner of the...
Little Eve Edgarton - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Little Eve Edgarton - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Eve Edgarton is not who she seems she is. A short encounter with Mr. Barton show that first impressions are not always right or indicative of one's seemingly obvious preference or one's proclivity. (Summary by Kehinde)...
The Princess Zoubaroff - Ronald FIRBANK
The Princess Zoubaroff - Ronald FIRBANK
- Author: Ronald FIRBANK
- Genre: Comedy
The Princess Zoubaroff is a witty, subversive, and unbelievably suggestive play, far ahead of its time. Through razor-sharp dialogue and outrageous scenarios, Ronald Firbanks takes aim at all of the sacred cows of polite English society: matrimony,...
Jezebel's Daughter - Wilkie Collins
Jezebel's Daughter - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A brilliant chemist and a shrewd businessman — die on the same day. The widow of the chemist, Mrs. Fontaine, is left with the poisons he was researching , while Mrs. Wagner is left with her husband's mental health institution reforms and his plans...
Supreme Cases from 1803-2018 - United States Supreme Court
Supreme Cases from 1803-2018 - United States Supreme Court
- Author: United States Supreme Court
- Genre: Law / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
These cases involved questions that came before the Supreme Court that needed answers. The questions in order of appearance in this project are as follows.Does Congress have the power to pass laws that override the Constitution? What shall we do...
Policy and Passion - Rosa Campbell Praed
Policy and Passion - Rosa Campbell Praed
- Author: Rosa Campbell Praed
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Sagas
"Policy and Passion, a Novel of Australian Life" tells the story about a father and daughter, torn between the policy of the country in which they live and the passions both have. The father, Thomas, is a rising politician until his love for a...
Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue - Frank L. Packard
Jimmie Dale and the Phantom Clue - Frank L. Packard
- Author: Frank L. Packard
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Jimmie Dale, alias The Gray Seal, alias Smarlinghue, is back in the criminal underworld of New York. He is desperately trying to find the criminal called the Phantom, alias Gentleman Laroque, in order to protect Marie, alias The Tocsin, the love of...
Coffee Break Collection 21 -- Fairy Tales, Tall Stories and Scams - Various
Coffee Break Collection 21 -- Fairy Tales, Tall Stories and Scams - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Undefined
This is the twenty-first Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (also sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is an 1888 collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde. It is most famous for The Happy Prince, the short tale of a metal statue who befriends a...
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I - John Locke
An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding Book I - John Locke
- Author: John Locke
- Genre: Philosophy
John Locke's essays on human understanding answers the question “What gives rise to ideas in our minds?”. In the first book Locke refutes the notion of innate ideas and argues against a number of propositions that rationalists offer as universally...
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Ambrose Bierce's collection of short parables, published under the pen name of Dod Grile, is similar to Aesop's Fables. This compilation is comprised of "Fables of Zambri, the Parsee," "Brief Seasons of Intellectual Dissipation" and the "Divers...
Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה) - Various
Yiddish Tales (יידיש מעשה) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A collection of 48 wonderful English language stories from Sholem Alechem, I. L. Perez, Shalom Asch, and others. Tales of humour and drama, tragedy and pathos set mostly in the Jewish communities of 19th-century eastern Europe, Russia, and the...
The Wonderful Visit - H. G. Wells
The Wonderful Visit - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Satire / Science Fiction
An other-worldly creature visits a small English village, and H. G. Wells uses humour and satire to convey some of the imperfections of Victorian society, as ‘angel’ and humans view each other with equal incomprehension.( summary by Mary Bard)...
Prehistoric Men - Robert J. BRAIDWOOD
Prehistoric Men - Robert J. BRAIDWOOD
- Author: Robert J. BRAIDWOOD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Earth Sciences
This little book, first published in 1948, is part of the Chicago Natural History Popular History series that explains difficult subjects in ways and terms we all can understand. It was published at a time in Anthropology when exciting things like...
Five Little Peppers Abroad - Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers Abroad - Margaret Sidney
- Author: Margaret Sidney
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This book is the next in the series of the Five Little Peppers, by Margaret Sidney, after Five Little Peppers and How They Grew and Five Little Peppers Midway. It continues the series where Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie get to travel abroad...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 7 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
The Absentee - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Published in 1812, “The Absentee” by Maria Edgeworth examines social injustice in 19th-century Britain. At that time, the management of many Irish estates suffered from the absenteeism of their Anglo-Irish landlords. We meet Lord and Lady Clonbrony....
Saved at Sea - Mrs. O. F. Walton
Saved at Sea - Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Author: Mrs. O. F. Walton
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Christian Fiction
Alick was born in a lighthouse during a storm, and raised in the same lighthouse. He used to wish something would change, and one day something did. In an attempt to rescue a ship in distress, Alick and his grandfather end up with a baby girl. Who...
Precious Bane
Precious Bane
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Published in 1924, Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb (1881 - 1927) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power of love. Prue Sarn is a farm girl in rural Shropshire during the period of the Napoleonic Wars and is viewed...
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor - Thomas W. HANSHEW
The Riddle of the Purple Emperor - Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Author: Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Orphan Lady Margaret Cheyne returns home on her eighteenth birthday to live with her embittered maiden aunt and to take up her inheritance of the family jewels. The Cheyne jewels include a pendant featuring the Purple Emperor, a priceless jewel...
My Bible History: Old Testament - Louis Laravoire MORROW
My Bible History: Old Testament - Louis Laravoire MORROW
- Author: Louis Laravoire MORROW
- Genre: Religion / Christianity - Other
A short, simple Old Testament Bible History for children, but which can also be enjoyed by adults alike. Starting with Creation, the sections cover Adam and Eve, Abraham, Moses, etc. up to the promise of a Redeemer. The same format continues in the...
The Scottish Fairy Book - Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
The Scottish Fairy Book - Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
- Author: Elizabeth W. GRIERSON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book of Scottish fairy tales tells of brownies, fairies, and apparitions, bogies, witches, kelpies, and tales told about a mysterious region under the sea, "far below the abode of fishes," where the Mermaids and Mermen live. There are stories...
In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing
In the Year of Jubilee - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Jubilee depicts the harsh and disreputable conditions of lower-middle class life at the end of the 19th century. (Introduction by S....
Driftwood - Sara Teasdale
Driftwood - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. This poem is taken from her 1920 collection Flame and Shadow. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet "that is they are constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6, with however a halfline tailpiece...
Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned - Christopher Morley
Plum Pudding: Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Chrisopher Morley was an American literary luminary whose prolific writings included novels, essays, poetry, plays and great journalistic output. This collection of essays is wide ranging in topics, many with his characteristic wit. - Summary by...
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2 - Arthur L. Hayward
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Vol 2 - Arthur L. Hayward
- Author: Arthur L. Hayward
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
This is the second volume in this collection of reports and newspaper stories regarding notorious criminals and their punishment, assembled by prison inspector Arthur Hayward from original sources originally published in 1735.Please note that some...
Second Variety - Philip K. DICK
Second Variety - Philip K. DICK
- Author: Philip K. DICK
- Genre: Science Fiction
Early victories by the USSR in a global nuclear war cause the United Nations government to retreat to the moon leaving behind troops and fierce autonomous robots called “Claws”, which reproduce and redesign themselves in unmanned subterranean...
Hard Times (version 2), Locked Out and On Strike - Charles Dickens
Hard Times (version 2), Locked Out and On Strike - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Hard Times was Dickens's shortest novel and the only one to be set in the industrial north of England. A fast moving story with a typical cast of larger than life characters, the novel is a vehicle for a humanist critique of both utilitarian...
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ - Anne Catherine EMMERICH
The Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ - Anne Catherine EMMERICH
- Author: Anne Catherine EMMERICH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774-1824) was a German Augustinian nun who had visions about Christ's life and death. This book relates her visions regarding the Blessed Virgin Mary, from her marriage to St. Joseph to the events surrounding the birth of...
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse - Thornton W. Burgess
Whitefoot the Wood Mouse - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This is the story of Whitefoot the wood mouse, the most timid and shy creature in all the Green Forest. You see, Whitefoot has many enemies who would love nothing more than to make him their dinner. Despite the many perils Whitefoot often faces, he...
Songs for the Millions, and other poems - Benjamin STOTT
Songs for the Millions, and other poems - Benjamin STOTT
- Author: Benjamin STOTT
- Genre: Single author
Born in Manchester, and a bookbinder by trade, Benjamin Stott was an active trade unionist and member of the Chartist movement. Songs of the Millions, a suite of seventeen short poems in which Stott experimented with a variety of forms, was his best...
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles - Herman Melville
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: General Fiction
The Encantadas or Enchanted Isles is a novella by American author Herman Melville. First published in Putnam's Magazine in 1854, it consists of ten philosophical "Sketches" on the Encantadas, or Galápagos Islands. It was collected in The Piazza...
The History of Emily Montague Vol 1 (Dramatic Reading) - Frances Moore BROOKE
The History of Emily Montague Vol 1 (Dramatic Reading) - Frances Moore BROOKE
- Author: Frances Moore BROOKE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Epistolary Fiction
The novel takes place 10 years after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759 when Quebec becomes a British colony. Written as a collection of letters, the story follows the relationships between Edward Rivers (a British soldier), his friend,...
The Sleeper - Edgar Allan Poe
The Sleeper - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and...
Cottage Poems - Patrick BRONTË
Cottage Poems - Patrick BRONTË
- Author: Patrick BRONTË
- Genre: Single author
Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and teacher, but he also was a poet and a novelist. Cottage Poems, his first published work, he gives gentle spiritual advice...
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt - R. Talbot KELLY
Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt - R. Talbot KELLY
- Author: R. Talbot KELLY
- Genre: Travel & Geography
A short travelogue of Egypt, this book was written as part of an early 20th century series of travelogues on exotic destinations. (Summary by Sibella Denton)....
The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Green Flag and Other Stories of War and Sport - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
Arthur Conan Doyle was deeply affected by the many wars fought during his lifetime. As many other writers, he used the material for short stories, a collection of which is presented here. - Summary by Carolin...
