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A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: Psychology
These twenty-eight lectures to laymen are elementary and almost conversational. Freud sets forth with a frankness almost startling the difficulties and limitations of psychoanalysis, and also describes its main methods and results as only a master...
The Prince and the Pauper (version 3) - Mark Twain
The Prince and the Pauper (version 3) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Prince and the Pauper tells the story of two young boys who are identical in appearance: Tom Canty, a pauper who lives with his abusive father in Offal Court off Pudding Lane in London, and Prince Edward, son of King Henry VIII. (wikipedia)...
The Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays - Brander MATTHEWS
The Tocsin of Revolt, and other Essays - Brander MATTHEWS
- Author: Brander MATTHEWS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This is a volume of essays by American author Brander Matthews. Matthews is today mostly remembered for his short pieces of speculative fiction, but his essays are also of enduring interest. This volume contains 15 essays on different topics,...
Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Peace on Earth, Good-Will to Dogs (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Family
If you don't like Christmas stories, don't read this one!And if you don't like dogs I don't know just what to advise you to do!For I warn you perfectly frankly that I am distinctly pro-dog and distinctly pro-Christmas, and would like to bring to...
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a historical novel by Charles Dickens; it is moreover a moral novel strongly concerned with themes of guilt, shame, redemption and patriotism. The plot centers on the years leading up to French Revolution and...
The Castle-Builder - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Castle-Builder - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Castle-Builder by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 3, 2019. ------ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul...
The Awful German Language - Mark Twain
The Awful German Language - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Education
If you’ve ever studied German (and maybe even if you haven’t), you’re likely to find this short essay to be hilarious. Published as Appendix D from Twain’s 1880 book A Tramp Abroad, this comedic gem outlines the pitfalls one will encounter when...
The Woodlanders (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
The Woodlanders (version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
The Woodlanders is one of Hardy's later novels, although he originally intended it as a successor to Far From The Madding Crowd. It concerns the life and loves of Giles Winterborne, Grace Melbury, Edred Fitzpiers, Felice Charmond and Marty South....
A Book of Old English Ballads - George Wharton EDWARDS
A Book of Old English Ballads - George Wharton EDWARDS
- Author: George Wharton EDWARDS
- Genre: Poetry
In this selection... the aim has been to bring within moderate compass a collection of these songs of the people which should fairly represent the range, the descriptive felicity, the dramatic power, and the genuine poetic feeling of a body of verse...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: by T. S. Eliot (Tradition and Individual Talent), Stephen Leacock (The Decline of the Drama), Carlyle (The...
The Carved Lions - Mary Louisa Molesworth
The Carved Lions - Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Author: Mary Louisa Molesworth
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
When two life sized carved lions from the east are given as a gift to an English household, the children of the house are enchanted, especially when the lions come to life and help take care of them. This is a delightful book for young girls but...
Bible (KJV) 01-03: Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 01-03: Genesis, Exodus and Leviticus - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and first published in 1611 by the Church of England. In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from the Textus...
Short Poetry Collection 071 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 071 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems for the month of September 2008...
The Persians - Aeschylus
The Persians - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
This is one of the few Greek tragedies that deals with historical events rather than mythological ones. The elders of the Persian court await new of the outcome of the Battle of Salamis, and mourn when they find that their king, Xerxes, has lost to...
Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus - Thomas Nelson Page
Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus - Thomas Nelson Page
- Author: Thomas Nelson Page
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A charming tale about an Tommy, affluent Virginia boy who always gets what he wants at Christmas, only to discover his toys never make him quite happy. He begins to take pity on his poor neighbor Johnny, and slowly understands than only by giving...
Rock Crystal - Adalbert STIFTER
Rock Crystal - Adalbert STIFTER
- Author: Adalbert STIFTER
- Genre: General Fiction
On Christmas Eve, two children, a brother and sister, leave their grandmother's house in an Alpine village and get lost in the mountain snow. They become trapped among the rock crystals of the frozen glacier. This short and gripping novel, by 19th...
My Lady's Money - Wilkie Collins
My Lady's Money - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
Lady Lydiard has an uncomfortable bit of business to settle, and intends to do so with a five hundred pound note. But just as she is about to complete the letter with which she is to send the note off, an emergency occurs in the house, and for a...
The New-York Gardener - P. AGRICOLA
The New-York Gardener - P. AGRICOLA
- Author: P. AGRICOLA
- Genre: Gardening
A series of twelve letters from a proud father to a son who has just bought his own farm. The author instructs "my dear son" not to overlook the kitchen garden, and writes one letter for each month of the year, instructing him on the importance and...
The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen - Osmund AIRY
The English Restoration and Louis XIV: From the Peace of Westphalia to the Peace of Nimwegen - Osmund AIRY
- Author: Osmund AIRY
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
In this trim volume the British historian, Osmund Airy writes of the period between 1648 and 1679 when Cardinal Mazarin, having concluded the masterly Peace of Westphalia for France, confronts the rebellions of the nobility known as the Fronde. By...
Quo Vadis - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
Quo Vadis - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Author: Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Sienkiewicz’s epic novel of ancient Rome finds the Empire at the height of her power and splendor, but struggling with the madness and cruelty of the Emperor Nero. A new religion is sweeping across the world, causing many Romans to wonder and...
The Frost Spirit - John Greenleaf Whittier
The Frost Spirit - John Greenleaf Whittier
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Frost Spirit by John Greenleaf Whittier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 28, 2012. John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet. He is considered one of the...
The Flight of the Shadow - George MacDonald
The Flight of the Shadow - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
A fantastical story of personal growth and a warning against the dangers of keeping secrets. This novel by George MacDonald is a deceptively easy read aimed to be accessible to teens, but the ideas will remain in your mind long afterwards....
The Fairyland of Science - Arabella B. Buckley
The Fairyland of Science - Arabella B. Buckley
- Author: Arabella B. Buckley
- Genre: Science
"I have promised to introduce you today to the fairy-land of science, -- a somewhat bold promise, seeing that most of you probably look upon science as a bundle of dry facts, while fairy-land is all that is beautiful, and full of poetry and...
Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World - John TIMBS
Mountain Adventures in the Various Countries of the World - John TIMBS
- Author: John TIMBS
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Mountains have always been fascinating as places of special adventure. This book. first published in 1869, collects true stories of real-life adventurers climbing the world's most famous and most challenging mountains, without modern equipment to...
A Match - Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Match - Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Author: Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2019. ------ Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several...
Candide (version 2) - Voltaire
Candide (version 2) - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: General Fiction
Candide is a relentless, brutal assault on government, society, religion, education, and, above all, optimism. Dr. Pangloss teaches his young students Candide and Cunegonde that everything in this world is for the best, a sentiment they cling to as...
Meno - Plato
Meno - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Meno (Ancient Greek: Μένων) is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato. Written in the Socratic dialectic style, it attempts to determine the definition of virtue, or arete, meaning in this case virtue in general, rather than particular virtues, such...
The Ascent of Denali - Hudson STUCK
The Ascent of Denali - Hudson STUCK
- Author: Hudson STUCK
- Genre: Sports & Recreation / Modern (20th C) / Exploration
The story of the First Ascent of Denali by Hudson Stuck, Harry Karstens, Walter Harper and Robert Tatum in 1913, recorded in celebration of the restoration of the mountain's original name. ( summary by Fritz)...
The Ghost Ship - John C. HUTCHESON
The Ghost Ship - John C. HUTCHESON
- Author: John C. HUTCHESON
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
This book intentionally veers in and out of the supernatural, as the title implies. The officers get more and more bewildered as they work out their position, and yet again encounter the same vessel going in an impossible direction. Having warned...
Short Story Collection Vol. 034 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 034 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 034: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
The US Government is very smartly letting Tom Swift Jr. handle the recovery of its probe to Jupiter. But a mystery missile suddenly intercepts the probe and splashes it in the South Atlantic. Faced with a huge search task to find the probe on the...
Against Indifference - Charles WEBBE
Against Indifference - Charles WEBBE
- Author: Charles WEBBE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 different recordings of Against Indifference by Charles Webbe. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 20th, 2008....
The Welsh And Their Literature - George BORROW
The Welsh And Their Literature - George BORROW
- Author: George BORROW
- Genre: Literary Criticism
Originally an article in the US Edition of the London Quarterly Review, George Borrow offers a sweeping history of Welsh literature, beginning with the legendary origin of the Welsh people, then their major bards and poets, and then their works of...
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects - Edward J. RUPPELT
The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects - Edward J. RUPPELT
- Author: Edward J. RUPPELT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
'Straight from the horse's mouth', as they say. Edward Ruppelt was the first head of the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book, the official project initiated to investigate UFO reports beginning in 1952. This report from 1956 takes us inside these...
Brood of the Dark Moon - Charles Willard Diffin
Brood of the Dark Moon - Charles Willard Diffin
- Author: Charles Willard Diffin
- Genre: Science Fiction
Once more Chet, Walt and Diane are united in a wild ride to the Dark Moon—but this time they go as prisoners of their deadly enemy Schwartzmann.(Summary by Charles Diffin)...
The Sleeper Awakes - H. G. Wells
The Sleeper Awakes - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest, he has become the richest man in the world. He has been the famous Sleeper for...
The Angel of Terror - Edgar Wallace
The Angel of Terror - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Detective Fiction
When this was written, literary traditions still decreed beauty to be the outward sign of inner saintliness, whereas evil characters tended to be “ugly as sin.” Jean Briggerland defies these expectations by being every bit as angelically beautiful...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 3: Mary Stuart - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The contents of these volumes of 'Celebrated Crimes', as well as the motives which led to their inception, are unique. They are a series of stories based upon historical records, from the pen of Alexandre Dumas, pere, when he was not "the elder,"...
The Children's Life of the Bee - Maurice MAETERLINCK
The Children's Life of the Bee - Maurice MAETERLINCK
- Author: Maurice MAETERLINCK
- Genre: Science
Buzz, buzz, buzz. A fascinating and beautifully written explanation of the life of the honey bee. Maeterlinck, who won the Noble Prize for Literature, wrote a more scholarly work called The Life of the Bee but then rewrote it in simpler terms so...
The Fortunes of Philippa - Angela BRAZIL
The Fortunes of Philippa - Angela BRAZIL
- Author: Angela BRAZIL
- Genre: General Fiction
The Fortunes of Philippa is based on the author's mother, Angelica Brazil, who had grown up in Rio de Janeiro and attended an English boarding school at the age of 10, finding the English culture, school life and climate confronting. (Summary by...
