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O Pioneers! (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
O Pioneers! (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
O Pioneers! tells the story of the Bergsons, a family of Swedish immigrants in the farm country near the fictional town of Hanover, Nebraska, at the turn of the 20th century. The main character, Alexandra Bergson, inherits the family farmland when...
The Story Book of Science - Jean-Henri FABRE
The Story Book of Science - Jean-Henri FABRE
- Author: Jean-Henri FABRE
- Genre: Nature
The famed French naturalist Fabre covers a large variety of subjects in these 70 short but fascinating essays about insects, animals and nature in general. The translator explains in her foreword, "The young in heart and the pure in heart of...
Mis' Smith - Albert Bigelow Paine
Mis' Smith - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Mis' Smith,/em>, by Albert Paine. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 7th, 2013....
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Baruch - Douay-Rheims Version
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Baruch - Douay-Rheims Version
- Author: Douay-Rheims Version
- Genre: Douay-Rheims Version
The Book of Baruch consists of exhortation to Jews in exile to accept exile, hope for the mercy of God, and resist the temptation to worship idols of the nations. The Book of Baruch, occasionally referred to as 1 Baruch, is called a deuterocanonical...
The Harbor of Doubt - Frank WILLIAMS
The Harbor of Doubt - Frank WILLIAMS
- Author: Frank WILLIAMS
- Genre: General Fiction
Young Code Schofield had lost his schooner May Schofield in an Atlantic gale a few months ago, and now the townspeople on the small island of Grande Mignon off the coast of New Brunswick were beginning to talk suspiciously of the events surrounding...
The History of Genghis Khan - Jacob Abbott
The History of Genghis Khan - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Antiquity
This book provides the history of one of the most renowned emperors of all time. The Great Khan. This was a man born Temujin to a clan leader father who was later poisoned. The family was left unprotected and without power to fend for themselves on...
Venus Transiens - Amy Lowell
Venus Transiens - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 different recordings of Venus Transiens by Amy Lowell. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of February 10th, 2008....
Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 - Various
Short Stories from Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Anthologies
These short stories are taken from the Locomotive Engineers Journal, Volume 52 which covers the year, 1918. Don't expect any trains -- these are short works on many subjects, including romance, adventure, humor, etc. -- of 5 to 15 minutes in length,...
The House by the Side of the Road - Sam Walter FOSS
The House by the Side of the Road - Sam Walter FOSS
- Author: Sam Walter FOSS
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The House by the Side of the Road by Sam Walter Foss. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 15, 2012. Sam Walter Foss was an American librarian and poet whose works included The House by...
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
On the Duty of Civil Disobedience - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Civil Disobedience is an essay by Henry David Thoreau. Published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government, it expressed Thoreau’s belief that people should not allow governments to overrule or atrophy their consciences, and that people...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 021 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 021 - 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....
Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name - Émile Gaboriau
Monsieur Lecoq Part 2: The Honor of the Name - Émile Gaboriau
- Author: Émile Gaboriau
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story: Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of...
The Tale of Snowball Lamb - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Snowball Lamb - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Another Tuck-Me-In book from Arthur Scott Bailey. This time still in Pleasant Valley, we find ourselves on the Green Farm where Johnnie got a lamb from his father. The regular cast of animals and birds from the "Tales" books are still to be found...
The Witches' Brew (MacBeth Act IV Scene I) - William Shakespeare
The Witches' Brew (MacBeth Act IV Scene I) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of The Witches' Brew from Act IV Scene I of MacBeth, by William Shakespeare. This was the weekly poetry project for October 26, 2014....
The Mother's Dream, and Other Poems - Hannah Flagg Gould
The Mother's Dream, and Other Poems - Hannah Flagg Gould
- Author: Hannah Flagg Gould
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Hannah Flagg Gould. Ms Gould was an immensely popular author of children's poetry during her lifetime, and her poems will still be enjoyed by children as well as adults today. - Summary by Carolin...
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 - William Harrison Ainsworth
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 1 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
A romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could or would not do so....
Short Poetry Collection 111 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 111 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for August 2012....
Damn! A Book of Calumny - H. L. Mencken
Damn! A Book of Calumny - H. L. Mencken
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (1880 – 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the...
That Affair at Elizabeth (version 2) - Burton Egbert Stevenson
That Affair at Elizabeth (version 2) - Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Author: Burton Egbert Stevenson
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A bride-to-be vanishes and mystery is born. Before it is solved, its pursuers uncover madness, treachery, and a grave in a cellar. Summary by Jacquerie...
The Life of Anthony (Version 2) - Athanasius of Alexandria
The Life of Anthony (Version 2) - Athanasius of Alexandria
- Author: Athanasius of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Biographies
The Life Of St. Anthony the Great....
Birds in the Calendar - Frederick G. AFLALO
Birds in the Calendar - Frederick G. AFLALO
- Author: Frederick G. AFLALO
- Genre: Animals / Nature
Delightful sketches of British wild birds - a bird for every month of the year from the pheasant in January to the robin in December. This collection of articles, reprinted in book form from the periodical The Outlook, is full of fascinating...
Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido) - James Weldon Johnson
Sonnet (From the Spanish of Plácido) - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
James Weldon Johnson was an American author, educator, lawyer, diplomat, songwriter, and civil rights activist. Johnson is best remembered for his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), where he started...
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality - Stuart MASON
Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality - Stuart MASON
- Author: Stuart MASON
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
“Who can help laughing when an ordinary journalist seriously proposes to limit the subject-matter at the disposal of the artist?” “We are dominated by journalism.... Journalism governs for ever and ever.”[/i] One of the nastiest of the British...
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
In the unsettled years of England's War of the Roses, where a man stood on the issue of kingship could make his fortune... or end his life. Dick Shelton, a nobly-born lad, is on the cusp of manhood, and he is thrust bodily into this stew where...
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation - Owen Wister
Padre Ignacio, Or The Song Of Temptation - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Westerns / *Non-fiction
Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a novel. (Summary by David Wales)...
The Way of the World - William CONGREVE
The Way of the World - William CONGREVE
- Author: William CONGREVE
- Genre: Plays
The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as being one of the best Restoration comedies written and is still performed...
Metaphysics - Aristotle
Metaphysics - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Science
Metaphysics (Ancient Greek: ΜΕΤΑ ΤΑ ΦΥΣΙΚΑ; Latin: METAPHYSICA; English: After the Physics) discusses topics including substance, accident, causation and God. The text was lost in Western Europe during the Dark Ages. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
The Jesus of History - Terrot R. GLOVER
The Jesus of History - Terrot R. GLOVER
- Author: Terrot R. GLOVER
- Genre: Antiquity / Christianity - Biographies
A collection of a series of lectures delivered while Glover was in India setting the life of Jesus into its historical context and seeing what lessons might be drawn from it. - Summary by SkyRider...
The Reconciliation of Races and Religions - Thomas Kelly CHEYNE
The Reconciliation of Races and Religions - Thomas Kelly CHEYNE
- Author: Thomas Kelly CHEYNE
- Genre: Other religions
“The primary aim of this work is twofold,” writes Thomas K. Cheyne. “It would fain contribute to the cause of universal peace, and promote the better understanding of the various religions which really are but one religion. The union of religions...
The Usher's Charge - W. S. Gilbert
The Usher's Charge - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan. The most famous of these...
Market Women's Cries - Jonathan Swift
Market Women's Cries - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Market Women's Cries by Jonathan Swift. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 23, 2019. ------ Here is another Jonathan Swift poem, this time he reflects on the old English Market and...
Hero Tales from American History - Theodore Roosevelt
Hero Tales from American History - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Its purpose … is to tell in simple fashion the story of some Americans who showed that they knew how to live and how to die; who proved their truth by their endeavor; and who joined to the stern and manly qualities which are essential to the...
The Witches of New York - Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
The Witches of New York - Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
- Author: Q. K. Philander DOESTICKS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A humorous account of visits to various fortune tellers, card readers, seers, and other "witches" of New York. Written by Q.K. Philander Doesticks (a.k.a. Mortimer Thomson)....
At the End of the Feast - Anonymous
At the End of the Feast - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of At the End of the Feast by Anonymous. A traditional English Christmas Carol, first published in New Christmas Carols in 1642. This poem was the Weekly Poetry Project for the week beginning December 25th...
Maria Theresa - James Franck BRIGHT
Maria Theresa - James Franck BRIGHT
- Author: James Franck BRIGHT
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
By the time of his death in 1740, the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles VI, had done everything possible to secure the succession to the throne of his daughter, Maria Theresa, but practically nothing to train her how to rule. Nevertheless, Maria Theresa...
Miss Maitland, Private Secretary - Geraldine BONNER
Miss Maitland, Private Secretary - Geraldine BONNER
- Author: Geraldine BONNER
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Semi-retired sleuth Molly Morgenthau Babbitts goes undercover as a governess to investigate a robbery at the aristocratic Janney mansion on Long Island. Before Molly can crack the case, a more shocking crime is perpetrated and more mysteries...
Vagabonding Down The Andes - Harry A. FRANCK
Vagabonding Down The Andes - Harry A. FRANCK
- Author: Harry A. FRANCK
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Sometime in the latter half of 1911, Harry A. Franck jumped out of a box-car and crossed the Rio Grande, from Laredo. Thus began a journey, often afoot, that Harry estimated would take him 8 months. It ended up occupying four years of his life. The...
In Ghostly Japan - Lafcadio HEARN
In Ghostly Japan - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
This collection of 14 stories collected by Lafcadio Hearn, contains Japanese ghost stories, but also several non-fiction pieces. Hearn tries to give a glimpse into the customs of the Japanese, by giving examples of Buddhist Proverbs and explaining...
The Exploits Of Elaine - Arthur B. Reeve
The Exploits Of Elaine - Arthur B. Reeve
- Author: Arthur B. Reeve
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Exploits of Elaine It tells the story of a young woman named Elaine who, with the help of a detective, tries to find the man, known only as "The Clutching Hand", who murdered her father. (Wikipedia)...
The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel RICHARDSON
The Getting of Wisdom - Henry Handel RICHARDSON
- Author: Henry Handel RICHARDSON
- Genre: General Fiction
The Getting of Wisdom tells the story of Laura Rambotham, a 12-year-old girl who is just starting at her boarding school. This is based on Henry Handel Richardson's experiences of her own school, the Prebysterian Ladies College in central Melbourne....
