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La Grande Bretèche - Honoré de Balzac
La Grande Bretèche - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
La Grande Bretèche is an addendum to Balzac's Another Study of Woman, and is the final of a set of stories told around a dinner table. This one, given to the guests at about two in the morning, is tale of marital infidelity and revenge,and perhaps...
The Master's Indwelling - Andrew Murray
The Master's Indwelling - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Christianity - Other
In all the writings of the late nineteenth century minister and writer Andrew Murray, we see his passion for reality in the lives of Christian believers. In this series of addresses he explains how, in various areas of the spiritual life, one may...
The Adventures of Prickly Porky - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Prickly Porky - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Animals & Nature
A stranger from the North Woods has just arrived in the Green Forest causing a great stir among the woodland creatures who live there. They quickly discover that this odd fellow with the barbed spikes in his fur is the loyal and brave Prickly Porky...
1916: First Chapters Collection - Various
1916: First Chapters Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
These are first chapters to books first published in 1916. Readers, following is a tentative list culled from Wikipedia's article on the year in Literature; most of the works are to be found on Project Gutenberg. - Summary by Matt Pierard...
William Again - Richmal Crompton
William Again - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Family / General
Fourteen more stories about William Brown. William is a mischievous eleven year old who is puzzled by the adult world, which is no less puzzled by him. The humor is gentle and pleasing in this 1923 publication. The series of books is better known in...
Wheels - A Third Cycle - Undefined
Wheels - A Third Cycle - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Anthologies
A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The third volume, published in 1918, contains poems by Aldous Huxley, Arnold James, Iris Tree, Sherard Vines, and Edith, Osbert and...
Dr. Sam - Eugene Field
Dr. Sam - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem "Christmas Treasures" appeared in A Little Book of Western Verse. Over a dozen volumes of...
Sonnets to a Lover - Myrtle Reed
Sonnets to a Lover - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Sonnets
This is a book of poetry by Myrtle Reed. Ms. Reed is most famous for her love stories such as A Spinner in the Sun and Old Rose and Silver, and these sonnets are an exploration of the same theme through a different medium. - Summary by Carolin...
The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Poor Mrs. Quack - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
"Hello, Jerry Muskrat! We'd forgotten all about you," said Mrs. Quack. "What was that you said?" Jerry good-naturedly repeated what he had said. Mrs. Quack's face brightened. "Do you really mean it?" she asked eagerly. "Do you really mean that you...
Order Number 11 - Caroline Abbot STANLEY
Order Number 11 - Caroline Abbot STANLEY
- Author: Caroline Abbot STANLEY
- Genre: Historical Fiction
General Order No. 11 has been issued by Union General Thomas Ewing in 1863. The goal was to deprive pro-Confederates in western Missouri of power and resources. The consequences are far reaching, still affecting the four counties until this very...
Short Poetry Collection 184 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 184 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 38 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for September 2018....
Simon the Jester - William John Locke
Simon the Jester - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Simon de Gex, a wealthy and successful MP, is diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to use his last few months using his wealth and influence to do good. In particular, he determines to guide his protégé and friend, Dale, away from an...
The Third Miss Symons - F. M. MAYOR
The Third Miss Symons - F. M. MAYOR
- Author: F. M. MAYOR
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Miss Mayor tells this story with singular skill, more by contrast than by drama, bringing her chief character into relief against her world, as it passes in swift procession. Her tale is in a form becoming common among our best writers; it is...
The Warlord of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Warlord of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction
In this third installment of the adventures of John Carter on Mars, our hero labors under sentence of death (for having returned from the land of the dead) in a heroic struggle to recover the beautiful Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium. He scours the...
Among the Tibetans - Isabella L. BIRD
Among the Tibetans - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: Nature / Memoirs / Exploration
Isabella L. Bird was an English traveller, writer and natural historian. She was travelling in the Far East alone at a time when such endeavours were risky and dangerous even for men and large, better equipped parties. In "Among the Tibetans", Bird...
The Valley of the Moon - Jack London
The Valley of the Moon - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
The novel Valley of the Moon is a story of a working-class couple, Billy and Saxon Roberts, struggling laborers in Oakland at the Turn-of-the-Century, who left the city life behind and searched Central and Northern California for a suitable farmland...
The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1 - Ida M. TARBELL
The History of Standard Oil: Volume 1 - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics / History
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a book written by journalist Ida Tarbell in 1904. It was an exposé of the Standard Oil Company, run at that time by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller the richest figure in America's history. Originally...
The Ghost of Guir House - Charles Willing BEALE
The Ghost of Guir House - Charles Willing BEALE
- Author: Charles Willing BEALE
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Do you think you understand ghosts? Now you will. Paul Henley, seemingly summoned to a mysterious rural Virginia mansion from his home in New York, finds himself as a guest at a remote, dilapidated colonial house with a host and a hostess every bit...
On the Future of our Educational Institutions - Friedrich Nietzsche
On the Future of our Educational Institutions - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Philosophy
Nietzsche gives a series of lectures in Bale, Germany on the subject of German educational institutions, and what the best way forward. Summary by Aaron....
Time and Death and Love - Madison Cawein
Time and Death and Love - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Madison Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. His output was thirty-six books and 1,500 poems. His writing earned the nickname the "Keats of Kentucky". This Weekly poem was published in his book "Shapes and Shadows". (1898) (Summary from...
The Story of a Woolly Dog - Laura Lee Hope
The Story of a Woolly Dog - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Story of a Woolly Dog is the 12th and last book in the series of Make Believe Stories by Laura Lee Hope. All of the dolls and toys live in the toy section of a big department store, and at night, when no humans are around to hear or see them,...
The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore - Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Family
In this third volume of the “Bobbsey Twin Series”, the twins – Nan and Bert and Freddie and Flossie – go with their family to visit relatives at the seashore. Excitement and adventure are sure to abound! (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Martin Luther - Carl E. KOPPENHAVER
Martin Luther - Carl E. KOPPENHAVER
- Author: Carl E. KOPPENHAVER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Christianity - Biographies
This short, engaging volume summarizes the life of a priest who, intending to spark a lively academic debate by nailing 95 theses on a church door, unwittingly sets the continent aflame with the 1517 Reformation of the Catholic Church. - Summary by...
Satan's Diary - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
Satan's Diary - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
"Satan's Diary", Andreyev's last work, was completed by the great Russian a few days before he died in Finland, in September, 1919. But a few years ago the most popular and successful of Russian writers, Andreyev died almost penniless, a sad, tragic...
The Virginian - Owen Wister
The Virginian - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Westerns
Ostensibly a love story, the novel really revolves around a highly mythologized version of the Johnson County War in 1890's Wyoming ... The novel takes the side of the large ranchers, and depicts the lynchings as frontier justice, meted out by the...
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War - Eugenia Dunlap POTTS
Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War - Eugenia Dunlap POTTS
- Author: Eugenia Dunlap POTTS
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (19th C)
While claiming to be historical papers on the causes of the United States Civil War, the author indulges in some Slavery Apologetics. An interesting view from a southern lady on what caused the war and why the south was the underdog. (Summary by FNH)...
New Grub Street - George Gissing
New Grub Street - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
"The story deals with the literary world that Gissing himself had experienced. Its title refers to the London street, Grub Street, which in the 18th century became synomynous with hack literature; as an institution, Grub Street itself no longer...
Dog-Watches At Sea - Stanton Henry KING
Dog-Watches At Sea - Stanton Henry KING
- Author: Stanton Henry KING
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
Stanton H. King was from Barbados and followed his brothers to sea at the age of twelve in 1880. He spent only twelve years at sea for reasons given in this book. Thereafter, he became associated with the Sailors' Haven, Boston, Massachusetts and...
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases - Grenville KLEISER
Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases - Grenville KLEISER
- Author: Grenville KLEISER
- Genre: Reference / Language learning
A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of Those Persons Who Read, Write, and...
The Great Impersonation - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Great Impersonation - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: General Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
E. Phillips Oppenheim, an English novelist created well in excess of 100 novels and 30 plus collections of short stories. Most of his tales are thrillers and espionage. The Great Impersonation was written following World War I and is considered by...
Cinderella - George CALDERON
Cinderella - George CALDERON
- Author: George CALDERON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
If you are expecting glass slippers and pumpkin coaches, look elsewhere... This is "a pantomime as Ibsen would have written it, if only it had occurred to him to write one." Set on a "bleak and cheerless heath overlooking the fjord" we meet...
The Filigree Ball - Anna Katharine Green
The Filigree Ball - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
[The Moore House] was standing when Washington was a village. It antedates the Capitol and the White House. Built by a man of wealth, it bears to this day the impress of the large ideas and quiet elegance of colonial times; but the shadow which...
The Castle Spectre - Matthew LEWIS
The Castle Spectre - Matthew LEWIS
- Author: Matthew LEWIS
- Genre: Romance
Written by Gothic writer Matthew Lewis, whose novel The Monk is one of the most enduring Gothic works from the eighteenth century, The Castle Spectre is one of Lewis' earliest forays into drama, and a strong indication of his talents as a...
Song: Eternity of Love Protested - Thomas CAREW
Song: Eternity of Love Protested - Thomas CAREW
- Author: Thomas CAREW
- Genre: Poetry
Thomas Carew (pronounced "Carey") (1595 - 1640) was one of the Cavalier poets, a group associated with the unfortunate King Charles I, who was a notable connoisseur of poetry. Other poets in this school included Robert Herrick, Richard Lovelace....
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome - E. M. BERENS
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome - E. M. BERENS
- Author: E. M. BERENS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
This is a comprehensive collection of all the major and minor gods of Rome and Greece, with descriptions of festivals and retellings of major mythological stories. (Summary by Sibella)...
The Dead - James JOYCE
The Dead - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Short Stories
A group of Dubliners gather together for a Christmas celebration in James Joyce's transcendent tale of the mundanity and magic in life and death. "The Dead" is taken from Joyce's collection of short stories Dubliners. (summary by Iremonger)...
The Variable Man - Philip K. DICK
The Variable Man - Philip K. DICK
- Author: Philip K. DICK
- Genre: Science Fiction
Predictability has come a long way. The computers of the future can tell you if you’re going to win a war before you fire a shot. Unfortunately they’re predicting perpetual standoff between the Terran and Centaurian Empires. What they need is...
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2) - Baroness Orczy
The Scarlet Pimpernel (Version 2) - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republic when the guillotine begins to be repeatedly cheated of aristocratic victims due to a series of daring...
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Wireless Message - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Tom Swift & friends decide to trial an experimental airship near the New Jersey coast, and are unexpectedly swept out to sea by hurricane winds. Unable to steer or navigate without tearing the airship apart, the hapless crew must simply let the...
Summa Theologica - 05 Pars Prima, On the Divine Government - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 05 Pars Prima, On the Divine Government - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
