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Bible (ERV) 01: Genesis - ENGLISH REVISED VERSION
Bible (ERV) 01: Genesis - ENGLISH REVISED VERSION
- Author: ENGLISH REVISED VERSION
- Genre: Bibles
The Book of Genesis (transliterated from Greek γένεσις, meaning "origin") is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament. Tradition credits Moses as the author of Genesis, as well as Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and most of...
Armand Durand - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
Armand Durand - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Author: Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Armand Durand, published in 1868, was written by Rosanna Leprohon, an English-speaker with an insider’s knowledge of French Canada, thanks to her Montreal education and marriage to a man from an old Québécois family. Paul Durand, a prosperous...
The Red House Mystery - A. A. MILNE
The Red House Mystery - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Antony Gillingham arrives at the Red House moments after a gunshot is heard. The room is locked, the murderer has disappeared and, in Antony's opinion, the police are going about it the wrong way. Antony, who was looking for a new profession anyway,...
Short Poetry Collection 024 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 024 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 024: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
A Study in Scarlet (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which was first published in 1887. It is the first story to feature the character of Sherlock Holmes, who would later become one of the most famous literary detective...
Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
Mowgli: All of the Mowgli Stories from the Jungle Books - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Animals & Nature
In the Jungle Books, Kipling tells 9 wonderful and exciting tales about Mowgli, the human baby raised by a pack of wolves in the jungles of India. His exploits and adventures are many and varied especially his dealing with the other animals such as...
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 - Various
The Wit and Humor of America, Vol 03 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Wit and Humor of America is a 10 volume series. In this, the third volume, 45 short stories and poems have been gathered from 33 authors. This volume is sure to delight listeners. (Summary by Linette Geisel) The Wit and Humor of America series...
The Orange Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Orange Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Andrew Lang's Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books constitute a twelve-book series of fairy tale collections. Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had...
Psalms of David - Isaac WATTS
Psalms of David - Isaac WATTS
- Author: Isaac WATTS
- Genre: Single author
Isaac Watts was a poet, hymn-writer and musician. He wrote many of what we regard as "classical hymns" such as "Joy to the World" and "When I survey the wondrous cross". His translations of the Psalms are therefore poetical and musical, as they were...
The Path of Light - The Bodhi-Charyavatara of Santi-Deva - SHANTIDEVA
The Path of Light - The Bodhi-Charyavatara of Santi-Deva - SHANTIDEVA
- Author: SHANTIDEVA
- Genre: Other religions
Shantideva is particularly renowned as the author of the Bodhicaryavatara (sometimes also called the Bodhisattvacaryavatara). An English translation of the Sanskrit version of the Bodhicaryavatara is available online, as well as in print in a...
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1E - David Hume
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, Volume 1E - David Hume
- Author: David Hume
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and renown; his historical writing earned his bread and butter. His "The History of England from the Invasion of...
Among the Meadow People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Meadow People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Lovely book of nature written for children by teacher and naturalist Clara Dillingham Pierson. This book in the "Among the People" series explores the animal inhabitants of the meadow and garden. The charming prose shrinks us down and puts us in the...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 04 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 04 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine Volume 4, articles published in 1892 and 1893. The Evolution of Commerce: Annual Address by the President, Gardiner G. Hubbard Studies of Muir Glacier, Alaska Geography of the Air: Annual Report by Vice-President...
Weird Tales - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Weird Tales - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
This recording includes both volumes of E. T. A. Hoffmann's Weird Tales, a collection of gothic novellas set in Germany, Italy, and some of the wilder parts of Europe. What there is of the supernatural in these tales is introduced with great...
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific - Friedrich Engels
- Author: Friedrich Engels
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
The main idea of "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" (1880) was distinguishing scientific socialism and utopian socialism. Engels begins by chronicaling the thought of utopian socialists, starting with Saint-Simon. He then proceeds to Fourier and...
Boy Scouts Handbook
Boy Scouts Handbook
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
The Boy Scouts of America was founded over a hundred years ago to serve the young men of the United States of America and give them the same oppurtunities that Boy Scouts all over the world were receiving. Modeled after Robert Baden-Powell's...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians - Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians - Elbert Hubbard
- Author: Elbert Hubbard
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of...
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3 - Robert BURTON
The Anatomy of Melancholy Volume 3 - Robert BURTON
- Author: Robert BURTON
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Psychology
The Anatomy of Melancholy is a book by Robert Burton, first published in 1621. On its surface, the book is a medical textbook in which Burton applies his large and varied learning in the scholastic manner to the subject of melancholia (which...
Bible (Fenton) 08, 13-14, 16-22, 25, 27: Holy Bible in Modern English, The: Psalms to 2 Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible
Bible (Fenton) 08, 13-14, 16-22, 25, 27: Holy Bible in Modern English, The: Psalms to 2 Chronicles - Ferrar Fenton Bible
- Author: Ferrar Fenton Bible
- Genre: Bibles
The Holy Bible in Modern English, commonly known as the Ferrar Fenton Bible, was one of the earliest translations of the Bible into "modern English" (i.e., English as spoken and written in the 19th and 20th centuries). Work on the translation was...
Dombey and Son (version 3) - Charles Dickens
Dombey and Son (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
To Paul Dombey, the business is everything, and he must have a son who will learn the business and eventually inherit it. Will his newborn, but sickly son be the fulfilment of his hopes and dreams? And what about his daughter Florence, who made the...
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
Written by Baroness Orczy and first published in 1919, The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a sequel book to the classic adventure tale, The Scarlet Pimpernel. The book consists of eleven short stories about Sir Percy Blakeney's exploits in...
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches - Mark Twain
The Curious Republic of Gondour and Other Whimsical Sketches - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
As the title reveals, these stories are a collection of some of Mark Twain's more fanciful and eccentric works. They run the gamut from political commentary to our species' need to "be remembered" somehow. Taken as a whole the stories are...
Grim Tales - E. Nesbit
Grim Tales - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of gentle stories that draw us into that hidden world where fear is just around the next corner, and where loving hands can touch across the boundaries of death. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)...
A Divine Cordial (All Things for Good) - Thomas WATSON
A Divine Cordial (All Things for Good) - Thomas WATSON
- Author: Thomas WATSON
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This book is an exposition of Romans 8:28: "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." It was written in 1663, one year after Thomas Watson and many other Puritan...
Links in Rebecca's Life - Pansy
Links in Rebecca's Life - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
Rebecca Harlowe is a young woman who strives to apply Christ's instructions in the Bible to her daily life and relationships. In this book we witness some of her successes and failures and the effect of her example on those around her. (Summary by...
Travels to Oaxaca - Nicolas-Joseph THIÉRY DE MENONVILLE
Travels to Oaxaca - Nicolas-Joseph THIÉRY DE MENONVILLE
- Author: Nicolas-Joseph THIÉRY DE MENONVILLE
- Genre: Memoirs / Life Sciences
Botanical Piracy! A French botanist plots to steal red dye cochineal insects from Spanish Mexico and transplant them and their cacti hosts to the French Caribbean. The year is 1776. Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville is a fast talker and a quick...
A Little Book of Profitable Tales - Eugene Field
A Little Book of Profitable Tales - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Short works
An anthology of charming short stories, written by the poet for his only daughter Mary. The style is simple and conversational, sometimes dealing with the difficult subjects confronting children of the day, including poverty, discrimination and...
Legacy - James H. SCHMITZ
Legacy - James H. SCHMITZ
- Author: James H. SCHMITZ
- Genre: Science Fiction
Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them—then disappeared. Trigger Argee was his closest associate—she means to find...
Short Story Collection Vol. 055 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 055 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 055: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by J. M. Barrie, O. Henry, Jerome, Joyce, London, Saki, R. L. Stevenson, Trollope, Wilde and...
The Dude Wrangler - Caroline LOCKHART
The Dude Wrangler - Caroline LOCKHART
- Author: Caroline LOCKHART
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Spoiled, handsome, 24 year old Easterner meets pretty, no-nonsense gal from Wyoming, is instantly smitten and does a sea-change to try and impress her in this genial romantic comedy. - Summary by BellonaTimes...
Godliness - Catherine BOOTH
Godliness - Catherine BOOTH
- Author: Catherine BOOTH
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Catherine Booth and William Booth were a ministry team founding the Salvation Army, which has spread from its humble beginnings in England to a global church with a presence in 131 countries and a membership of 1.7 million. Although best known to...
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Vegetable; or, From President to Postman - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Comedy / Satire
” “Any man who doesn’t want to get on in the world, to make a million dollars, and maybe even park his toothbrush in the White House, hasn’t got as much to him as a good dog has—he’s nothing more or less than a vegetable.” Such is the preface of F....
The Aliens - Murray Leinster
The Aliens - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. When two expanding empires meet ... war is inevitable. Or is it ...? (Summary from Gutenberg text)...
The Presence of Love - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Presence of Love - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He wrote the poems The Rime of the Ancient...
Molly Brown's Junior Days - Nell Speed
Molly Brown's Junior Days - Nell Speed
- Author: Nell Speed
- Genre: Action & Adventure
This novel is the third in a series of eight books written about Miss Molly Brown of Kentucky during her education at Wellington College in the early years of the 1900's. (Debbie R. Baker Robinson )...
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
Women in Love - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: General Fiction
Women in Love is a novel by British author D. H. Lawrence published in 1920. It is a sequel to his earlier novel The Rainbow (1915), and follows the continuing loves and lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Gudrun Brangwen, an artist,...
Tales of Terror and Mystery - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Tales of Terror and Mystery - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his detective stories, he also wrote other short stories which are masterpieces of mystery and suspense. In some of the stories in "Tales of Terror and Mystery", a suppressed uneasiness gradually...
The Randolphs - Pansy
The Randolphs - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
The Randolphs is the sequel to Household Puzzles, and opens shortly after the previous book ends. It follows the "leadings of the Randolph family", as Tom puts it in the last chapter. Helen's discontent with life, Grace's ill-matched engagement, and...
The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Possessed - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Although titled The Possessed in the initial English translation, Dostoyevsky scholars and later translations favour the titles The Devils or Demons. An extremely political book, Demons is a testimonial of life in Imperial Russia in the late 19th...
Endymion - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Endymion - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Single author
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of Endymion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. ------ In classical mythology, Endymion was a young man who, while sleeping in the mountains, was...
