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The Annals Vol 3 - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Annals Vol 3 - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Genre: Antiquity
The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius and books...
The Empty Sack - Basil KING
The Empty Sack - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book follows the fortunes of Jennie Follett, a New York artist’s model, and Teddy, her brother. After their father’s dismissal from his lowly position in the bank and his subsequent death, the family struggles financially. In desperation, Teddy...
Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error - Matthew LEWIS
Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error - Matthew LEWIS
- Author: Matthew LEWIS
- Genre: Tragedy
The second original tragedy written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, Adelgitha; or, The Fruits of a Single Error is a markedly more serious affair than his melodramatic output, dealing as it does with a fallen woman who is mercilessly blackmailed by...
Short Poetry Collection 193 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 193 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 45 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for June 2019....
Selected Riley Child-Rhymes - James Whitcomb Riley
Selected Riley Child-Rhymes - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
Riley was an American writer known as the "Hoosier poet", and made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875. His favorite authors were Burns and Dickens. This collection of poems is a romanticized and...
Last Enemy - H. Beam Piper
Last Enemy - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
An undercover Paratimer has disappeared on assignment while in an alternate time line, and it’s up to Verkan Vall of the Paratime Police to save her. To do so, he must infiltrate a universe in which assassination is an honorable profession, and...
Four Weird Tales - Algernon Blackwood
Four Weird Tales - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
Four stories: The Insanity of Jones, The Man Who Found Out, The Glamour of the Snow, and Sand. Tales by one the greatest practitioners of supernatural literature. Reincarnation, the Occult, and mystery. (Summary by Stephen Harris)...
Short Poetry Collection 100 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 100 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Anthologies
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2011....
Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes - Maria Parloa
Chocolate and Cocoa Recipes and Home Made Candy Recipes - Maria Parloa
- Author: Maria Parloa
- Genre: Cooking
A selection of chocolate recipes which were produced for Walter Baker & Co, the oldest producer of chocolate in the United States. Advertisements used by Walter Baker & Co can be found in Section 7. They are read by: Cori Samuel, Peter Why,...
The Joss: a Reversion - Richard Marsh
The Joss: a Reversion - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Mary Blyth, a sales clerk who is robbed, nearly murdered and then fired from her job, thinks her luck has changed when she inherits an old house from a distant relation, Benjamin Batters. This house holds dark secrets. Murderous thugs, a mysterious...
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - October - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - October - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Poetry
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs' poems for each day. This project covers the month of October. - Summary by Carolin...
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Peter Cottontail (version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This is the story of Peter Rabbit, a mischievous, but cautious, lagomorph who lives in the Green Meadows. Peter Rabbit begins his adventures with a quest for a new name, since his name is far too common for his taste. Having a new name is not quite...
To His Coy Mistress - Andrew MARVELL
To His Coy Mistress - Andrew MARVELL
- Author: Andrew MARVELL
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you eleven different recordings of To His Coy Mistress, by Andrew Marvell, one of the greatest seduction speeches of all time. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of July 23th, 2006....
Through East Anglia In A Motor Car - James Edmund VINCENT
Through East Anglia In A Motor Car - James Edmund VINCENT
- Author: James Edmund VINCENT
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The beginning of the last century saw an increasing popularity of the motor car as a viable method of transport for a significant number of the more affluent sections of the population.The freedom, flexibility and speed (!) that this modern...
Heroines Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Heroines Every Child Should Know - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: General
The companion volume to Heroes Every Child Should Know, this volume looks at 13 famous and heroic women from history. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein; or The Modern Prometheus (1818) - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Literary Fiction
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley. Shelley wrote the novel when she was 18 years old. The first edition was published anonymously in London in 1818, and this audiobook is read from that...
The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster
The Machine Stops - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by...
Rhyme? And Reason? - Lewis Carroll
Rhyme? And Reason? - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Poetry
"I have had nor rhyme nor reason" is inscribed on the cover page of this book. These poems are then also some of the most phantastic poems published by Lewis Carroll, including such famous verses as Phantasmagoria and The Hunting of the Snark. -...
Snowflakes - Esther Nelson KARN
Snowflakes - Esther Nelson KARN
- Author: Esther Nelson KARN
- Genre: Poetry
A collection of poems with varying subjects. (Summary by Ann Boulais)...
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) - Hyakuzō KURATA
The Priest and His Disciples (Shaw Translation) - Hyakuzō KURATA
- Author: Hyakuzō KURATA
- Genre: Drama / Modern / Other religions
At the age of twenty-six (at the height of the Great War in Europe), the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" ("Shukke to sono deshi"). This stage play is based...
The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 - John Ruskin
The Stones of Venice, Volume 3 - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Travel & Geography
The Stones of Venice is a three-volume treatise on Venetian art and architecture by English art historian John Ruskin, first published from 1851 to 1853. Intending to prove how the architecture in Venice exemplified the principles he discussed in...
The I.W.W. - Its History, Structure, and Method - Vincent ST. JOHN
The I.W.W. - Its History, Structure, and Method - Vincent ST. JOHN
- Author: Vincent ST. JOHN
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“We must inscribe on our banner the revolutionary watchword, ‘Abolition of the wage system’” The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), members of which are commonly termed "Wobblies," is an international labor union that was founded in 1905. The...
I Am The World - Dora Sigerson Shorter
I Am The World - Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Author: Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was a major figure of the Irish Literary Revival, publishing many collections of poetry from 1893. Her friends...
With Her in Ourland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
With Her in Ourland - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Third in the trilogy of the feminist classics, after Moving the Mountain and Herland. It was published serially in Perkins Gilman's periodical The Forerunner. In Herland, three American young men discover a country inhabited solely by women, who...
The Story of H.M.S. Pinafore - W. S. Gilbert
The Story of H.M.S. Pinafore - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened in London, England, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest...
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine CHILDERS
The Riddle of the Sands - Erskine CHILDERS
- Author: Erskine CHILDERS
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story.It was one of the early...
Five Little Peppers Midway - Margaret Sidney
Five Little Peppers Midway - Margaret Sidney
- Author: Margaret Sidney
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family
Five Little Peppers Midway is the joyous continuation of the Pepper family's story. A snooty cousin comes to stay with the Peppers, and yet even this can't dampen the joy the Pepper children feel about the wonderful prospect of Mamsie's upcoming...
The Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History - Charles Foster KENT
The Making of a Nation: The Beginnings of Israel's History - Charles Foster KENT
- Author: Charles Foster KENT
- Genre: Antiquity / Other religions
Charles Foster Kent was one of the premier scholars in Jewish Studies at the turn of the century. He was particularly well-known for his comparisons of early Christianity to its Jewish roots. He also wrote several distinguished histories of Israel,...
A Master of Mysteries - L. T. Meade
A Master of Mysteries - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
"It so happened that the circumstances of fate allowed me to follow my own bent in the choice of a profession. From my earliest youth the weird, the mysterious had an irresistible fascination for me. Having private means, I resolved to follow my...
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl - John Greenleaf Whittier
Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Elegies & Odes
A 750-line idyllic poem about a snow-storm from the narrator's childhood.(Summary by Paul Tremblay)...
Finnish Legends - R. EIVIND
Finnish Legends - R. EIVIND
- Author: R. EIVIND
- Genre: Sagas
One dark winter's day in the north of Finland, Father Mikko seeks shelter in an isolated cabin till a storm abates. After dinner the family sit around the fire, and the daughter asks him to tell them "all the stories he had ever heard from the very...
The Incubator Baby - Ellis Parker BUTLER
The Incubator Baby - Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Author: Ellis Parker BUTLER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Marjorie Fielding is born premature and spends her first months of life in an incubator. Her mother is a modern, broad-minded woman eschewing old fashioned views of childrearing to embrace a scientific method. Science has its place but can it be...
Selections from Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys - Unknown
Selections from Gems of Poetry, for Girls and Boys - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Poetry
A short volume of poetry for children. All the selected poems were written by an unknown author. - Summary by Rachel...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 017 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 017 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works / Anthologies
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 017: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Ragged Dick - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Ragged Dick - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Horatio Alger, Jr. was well known for his best-selling series of books highlighting “the American Dream” of poor boys making good and becoming rich and successful through “luck and pluck”. Ragged Dick was the first in this niche, and follows the...
Teddy's Button, Version 2 - Amy LE FEUVRE
Teddy's Button, Version 2 - Amy LE FEUVRE
- Author: Amy LE FEUVRE
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Teddy loves to tell the story of how his father heroically died on the battlefield and guards his button jealously. But this brings contention and strife when a new girl comes to town. Teddy begins to learn what it means to be a soldier under...
The Nomad of the Nine Lives - Abby Frances FRIEBE
The Nomad of the Nine Lives - Abby Frances FRIEBE
- Author: Abby Frances FRIEBE
- Genre: General Fiction
Tales of a cat's life told by the cat in hopes of saving cats from death by animal shelters or abandonment. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)...
Erema - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Erema - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: General Fiction
A few years before the great Civil War, a young English woman and her father, having left the security of their wagon train, are lost in the unforgiving Californian desert, looking in vain for the landmark that marks the short-cut across those last...
Brazilian Tales - Various
Brazilian Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
"Brazilian Tales" is a collection of six short stories selected by Isaac Goldberg as best representative of the Brazilian Literature of his period - the end of the 19th century. His comprehensive preface aims at familiarizing the reader with a...
The Story of the Amulet - E. Nesbit
The Story of the Amulet - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The third of the series featuring Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane: four children who are, as they often say, "the sort of people that wonderful things happen to". In 'Five Children and It' they were lucky enough to meet the magical, wish-granting...
