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Elsie at Nantucket - Martha Finley
Elsie at Nantucket - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Family / Christian Fiction
Elsie and her family travel to Nantucket Island to spend the summer. The Raymond children and others learn important lessons. After a delightful summer, they journey on to Lansdale, Ohio to visit Aunt Wealthy. - Summary by Amy...
Moods - Louisa May Alcott
Moods - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue,and each shows us only what lies in its own focus." Emerson. This quote opens the story of...
London Lyrics - Frederick Locker-Lampson
London Lyrics - Frederick Locker-Lampson
- Author: Frederick Locker-Lampson
- Genre: Poetry
London is one of the most interesting cities in the world, and is inspiring poets until today. This particular volume on the charms of that metropolis is written by native Londoner Frederick Locker-Lampson, originally published in 1857. - Summary by...
Biltmore Oswald - J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
Biltmore Oswald - J. Thorne Smith, Jr.
- Author: J. Thorne Smith Jr.
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
The hilarious diary of a young man's recruitment into, and service in a navy, which, though well equipped and disciplined, remains woefully ill prepared for his arrival and dubious contribution. (Introduction by Nigel Boydell)...
Bible (KJV) 07: Judges - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 07: Judges - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The history of the judges of Israel. (Summary by Joy Chan)...
War Is Kind - Stephen Crane
War Is Kind - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This weekly poem commemorated the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, with βWar is Kindβ by Stephen Crane. The title takes on a gentle yet harrowing irony as this poem powerfully evokes the human costs of war, both the...
Short Poetry Collection 092 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 092 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems recorded by LibriVox volunteers for the month of November 2010....
The Belgian Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins
The Belgian Twins - Lucy Fitch Perkins
- Author: Lucy Fitch Perkins
- Genre: Children's Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This story is based upon the experiences of two Belgian refugees in World War I. When their parents are marched of by Germans, Jan and Marie are left alone. Now they, along with their dog, have to find their parents! (Summary by ashleighjane)...
Outlaws of Ravenhurst - Sister M. Imelda Wallace
Outlaws of Ravenhurst - Sister M. Imelda Wallace
- Author: Sister M. Imelda Wallace
- Genre: Religious Fiction / Action & Adventure / Historical
This exciting historical adventure depicts the last stand of the Gordons - God's "outlaws" - fighting for their Catholic Faith in the early days of the Protestant Revolution in seventeenth-century Scotland.Written for the children but enjoyed by...
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 4 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 4 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
- Author: Henry Gray
- Genre: Medical
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may...
The Slavery of Our Times - Leo Tolstoy
The Slavery of Our Times - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
This little book shows, in a short, clear, and systematic manner, how the principle of Non-Resistance, about which Tolstoy has written so much, is related to economic and political life. (Summary by Aylmer Maude, Translator)...
A Yorkshire Tragedy - Thomas Middleton
A Yorkshire Tragedy - Thomas Middleton
- Author: Thomas Middleton
- Genre: Tragedy
A Yorkshire Tragedy: Not So New as Lamentable and True (1619) tells the gruesome tale of Walter Calverly who stabbed his wife and killed his two young sons in April 1605. This recording is based on the text of the second quarto, which was attributed...
The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux
The Mystery of the Yellow Room - Gaston Leroux
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Genre: Detective Fiction
This crime novel was possibly the first to involve a 'locked room mystery', in which an attempted murder takes place, but with no obvious way for the perpetrator to have escaped. The author, Gaston Leroux, is better known as the author of The...
The Cloud of Unknowing - Anonymous
The Cloud of Unknowing - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Cloud of Unknowing (Middle English: The Cloude of Unknowyng) is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle...
Raiders of the Universes - Donald Wandrei
Raiders of the Universes - Donald Wandrei
- Author: Donald Wandrei
- Genre: Science Fiction
It was the 34th century and all five of the Federation of Planets around Sol were buzzing with their usual activity when the Raiders appeared. They were indeed Raiders of Universes because they had ravaged many systems before reaching Earth and...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Family
Rebecca goes to live with her two stern aunts in a village in Maine. Her joy for life ends up inspiring them. (summary from Wikipedia)...
The Men in the Walls - William Tenn
The Men in the Walls - William Tenn
- Author: William Tenn
- Genre: Science Fiction
There are giant, technologically superior aliens who have conquered Earth. People live like vermin in holes in the insulation material of the walls of the homes the monsters have built, sneaking out to steal food and other items from the aliens. A...
The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1) - John Galsworthy
The Man of Property (Forsyte Saga Vol. 1) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. The Man of Property is the first book in the saga. The 'man of property' of the title is Soames Forsyte, a partner in the...
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
Typhoon - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Typhoon is a short novel by Joseph Conrad, begun in 1899 and published in Pall Mall Magazine in 1902. It is a classic sea yarn that describes how Captain Macwhirr sails the Siamese steamer Nan-Shan into a typhoon. Other characters include the young...
Sunbeams - George Wilbur Peck
Sunbeams - George Wilbur Peck
- Author: George Wilbur Peck
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, "The Sun", as amusing and often critical comments on social and political subjects, typically current in the...
The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches - Cotton Mather
The Wonders of the Invisible World, and A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New England Witches - Cotton Mather
- Author: Cotton Mather
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion / Early Modern
Here are first hand accounts, published in 1692, of the infamous "Salem Witch Trials". In addition to Mather's interpretation of the Book of Revelations (which he calls "God's last letter to the people of earth"), included are explanations of what...
Warlord of Kor (version 2) - Terry Carr
Warlord of Kor (version 2) - Terry Carr
- Author: Terry Carr
- Genre: Science Fiction
GOD, MACHINE--OR LISTENING POST FOR OUTSIDERS?Horng sat opposite the tiny, fragile creature who held a microphone, its wires attached to an interpreting machine. He blinked his huge eyes slowly, his stiff mouth fumblingly forming words of a language...
The Book of Wonder - Lord Dunsany
The Book of Wonder - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
"Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here." - Lord Dunsany, the preface to "The Book of Wonder"...
Ulysses (version 2): Circe reader assignments
Ulysses (version 2): Circe reader assignments
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
The audio files for the Circe episode can be found on the Ulysses catalog page here. There are no audio files on this catalog page. It is maintained to preserve a record of the Circe reader assignments....
Short Story Collection Vol. 062 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 062 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, including George Gissing, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Anton Chekhov. (Summary by...
Irish Impressions - G. K. Chesterton
Irish Impressions - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Political Science
βFor the Irish Question has never been discussed in England. Men have discussed Home Rule; but those who advocated it most warmly, and as I think wisely, did not even know what the Irish meant by Home. Men have talked about Unionism; but they have...
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
A Short and Easy Method of Prayer - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
- Author: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Originally published in 1685, Madame Guyonβs A Short and Easy Method of Prayer is considered a classic of Christian mysticism, influencing great writers and speakers such as John Wesley and Charles Spurgeon. In it, Madame Guyon carefully and briefly...
The Shame of Going Back - Henry Lawson
The Shame of Going Back - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest...
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 - Various
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Fifteen short stories of 1919, winners of a rigorous competition. The extensive Introduction is omitted from this recording. ( david wales)...
Glengarry School Days - Ralph Connor
Glengarry School Days - Ralph Connor
- Author: Ralph Connor
- Genre: General Fiction
With international book sales in the millions, Ralph Connor was the best-known Canadian novelist of the first two decades of the Twentieth Century. Glengarry School Days (1902), hugely popular in its time, is based on his memories of growing up in...
The Waste Land (version 2) - T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land (version 2) - T. S. Eliot
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 different recordings of The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot....
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished - R. M. Ballantyne
Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Historical
A runaway carriage, a spunky little girl, and a street urchin combine on the first page of Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: a Tale of City Arab Life in a hilarious combination that you won't want to leave. This story shows first hand what 'city...
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2 - Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 2 - Walter Pater
- Author: Walter Pater
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Ancient
The conclusion of Pater's historico-philosophical novel about a young Roman nobleman's search for purpose and meaning. Set in the time of Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, the book traces its title character's encounters with the stoicism of...
An Elementary Study of Insects - Leonard Haseman
An Elementary Study of Insects - Leonard Haseman
- Author: Leonard Haseman
- Genre: Science
An overview of notable insect groups intended for the young reader. Focus is on economically important insects. (Summary by Jeffery Smith)...
Clear Crystals - Clara Frances McKee BEEDE
Clear Crystals - Clara Frances McKee BEEDE
- Author: Clara Frances McKee BEEDE
- Genre: Poetry
Book of 31 short poems dedicated to Soldierboys.(Summary by Jill Preston)...
The Street of Seven Stars - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Street of Seven Stars - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Published in 1914, this novel tells the story of Harmony Wells, an innocent and beautiful American in Austria to study violin. Harmony has talent and she dreams of a career in music. After her friends run out of money and return to the States,...
Jan Of The Windmill - Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
Jan Of The Windmill - Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Author: Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
- Genre: Family
There were two storms: one within and one without. The windmiller's wife was starting to be very unhappy, and the rain was pouring down as fast as her tears. So her husband brought Jan, a neglected child, for her to care for. This book is about his...
Charlotte Temple - Susanna Rowson
Charlotte Temple - Susanna Rowson
- Author: Susanna Rowson
- Genre: Romance
Charlotte Temple, a cautionary tale for young women, follows the unfortunate adventures of the eponymous heroine as she is seduced by a dashing soldier, Montraville. Influenced by both her lover and an unruly teacher at her boarding school, she is...
Tacitus' Histories - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Tacitus' Histories - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Genre: Antiquity
The Histories was written between 110 and 100 B.C. It covered the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, the rise of Vespasian, and the rule of the Flavian Dynasty up to the death of Domitian. Only the first four books and 26 chapters...
Friar Anselmo, and Other Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
Friar Anselmo, and Other Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr. - Summary by Carolin...
