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All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
All's Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Despite its optimistic title, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well has often been considered a "problem play." Ostensibly a comedy, the play also has fairy tale elements, as it focuses on Helena, a virtuous orphan, who loves Bertram, the haughty...
The Secret Garden (version 2) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden (version 2) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Orphaned Mary Lennox is sent to live with her uncle in Yorkshire, and finds herself in a house full of secrets and mysteries....
Black Amazon of Mars - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Black Amazon of Mars - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
Carrying out the last wishes of a comrade, mercenary Eric John Stark takes on the task of returning a stolen talisman to a walled city near the Martian pole; a city that guards the mysterious Gates of Death. Now all he has to do is get past the...
The French Revolution - Hilaire Belloc
The French Revolution - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
“It is, for that matter, self-evident that if one community decides in one fashion, another, also sovereign, in the opposite fashion, both cannot be right. Reasoning men have also protested, and justly, against the conception that what a majority in...
Moonfleet - John Meade FALKNER
Moonfleet - John Meade FALKNER
- Author: John Meade FALKNER
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The novel is set in a fishing village in Dorset during the mid 18th century. The story concerns a 15 year old orphan boy, John Trenchard, who becomes friends with an older man who turns out to be the leader of a gang of smugglers.One night John...
The Letter Of Credit - Susan Warner
The Letter Of Credit - Susan Warner
- Author: Susan Warner
- Genre: Religious Fiction
"Rotha is a poor American girl who has to see both her parents die. All that time, she is comforted by an English friend of the family, Mr. Digby-Southwode. Mr. Digby-Southwode thinks he does the right thing by committing Rotha to the care of her...
Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles - HESIOD
Works and Days, The Theogony, and The Shield of Heracles - HESIOD
- Author: HESIOD
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
Works and Days provides advice on agrarian matters and personal conduct. The Theogony explains the ancestry of the gods. The Shield of Heracles is the adventure of Heracles accepting an enemy's challenge to fight. - Summary by Arthur Krolman...
Stories in the Dark - Barry Pain
Stories in the Dark - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
This is a collection of some of Barry Pain's finest horror stories and weird fiction. - Summary by Carolin...
The Mansion of Mystery - Chester K. STEELE
The Mansion of Mystery - Chester K. STEELE
- Author: Chester K. STEELE
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Mr. and Mrs. Langmore were found mysteriously murdered in their mansion one morning. Their daughter Margaret, who was at home at the time of the deaths, is quickly suspected of having committed the crime. However, her fiance Raymond Case will not...
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice - James Branch CABELL
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice - James Branch CABELL
- Author: James Branch CABELL
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Jurgen, A Comedy of Justice is a fantasy book by James Branch Cabell, which gained fame (or notoriety) shortly after its publication in 1919. It is a humorous romp through a medieval cosmos, including a send-up of Arthurian legend, and excursions to...
The Mentor: Famous English Poets - Hamilton Wright Mabie
The Mentor: Famous English Poets - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is Vol. 1, No. 44, Serial No. 44 of The Mentor, published in 1913.This edition of the Mentor Magazine focuses on six of England's most well-known poets - Lord Byron, John Keats, Percy Shelley, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson and Robert...
The Goop Directory - Frank Gelett BURGESS
The Goop Directory - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Poetry
In this DIRECTORY you'll see just what you never ought to be; and so, it should direct your way to Good Behavior, every day. The children of whose faults I tell are known by other names, as well, so see that you aren't in this group of Naughty Ones....
The Finding of Jasper Holt - Grace Livingston Hill
The Finding of Jasper Holt - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Christian Fiction
Jasper Holt was a neglected child. As a consequence, he grew up to be angry and independent - generally good, but not caring what others thought of him... until he met Jean Grayson, the first truly good person he ever met. He knew she was out of...
Unsung Heroes - Elizabeth Ross HAYNES
Unsung Heroes - Elizabeth Ross HAYNES
- Author: Elizabeth Ross HAYNES
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This book consists of 17 biographies of remarkable men and women who, in 1921, were "unsung." Some of them are now pretty well known while others are still, sadly, rather unrecognized. Written by Elizabeth Ross Haynes (herself a African American...
The Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales - Joseph BAUDIS
The Key of Gold: 23 Czech Folk Tales - Joseph BAUDIS
- Author: Joseph BAUDIS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Not your common fairy tales, this collection is a mixture of morals, quirkiness, and sarcasm. In it one finds ironic derivatives (if not roots) of well known fairy tales such as “The Brave Little Taylor” and “Beauty and the Beast,” as well as some...
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 3, The Place of Intelligence In Conduct
Human Nature and Conduct - Part 3, The Place of Intelligence In Conduct
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
John Dewey, an early 20th Century American philosopher, psychologist, educational theorist, saw Social Psychology as much a physical science (with rules and predictive power) as Biology and Chemistry. This project encompasses Part 3 of 4 of his book...
George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband - Molière
George Dandin: or The Abashed Husband - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
"The treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle having been ratified ... and peace being assured ... Louis XIV resolved to give a festival in his favorite gardens of Versailles. Moliere's comedy, George Dandin, formed the chief entertainment." The plot: A wife comes...
The Confessions (Pusey translation) - Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Confessions (Pusey translation) - Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Confessions outlines Augustine's sinful youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is widely seen as the first Western autobiography ever written, and was an influential model for Christian writers throughout the following 1,000 years, through...
Christmas Outside Of Eden - Coningsby Dawson
Christmas Outside Of Eden - Coningsby Dawson
- Author: Coningsby Dawson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A delightful Christmas fantasy told with inimitable charm and delicate humor. It is "the story the robins tell as they huddle beneath the holly on the Eve of Christmas"—the sensation created by the birth of the first baby, among the animals on...
Evolution Creatrice - Henri BERGSON
Evolution Creatrice - Henri BERGSON
- Author: Henri BERGSON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Contemporary / Life Sciences
Creative Evolution (French: L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation appeared in 1911. The book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that...
Flower Fables - Louisa May Alcott
Flower Fables - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Flower Fables is Louisa May Alcott's first book, penned at 16 for Ralph Waldo Emerson's daughter, Ellen.(Summary by Clarica)...
Hawk of Egypt - Joan CONQUEST
Hawk of Egypt - Joan CONQUEST
- Author: Joan CONQUEST
- Genre: General Fiction
A tragic love triangle between a beautiful English girl, an English gentleman, and a half-English, half-Egyptian plays out among the ruins and under the desert stars of 1920s era Egypt. The saga ends, as all love triangles must, in tragedy upon the...
Beyond the Black River - Robert E. Howard
Beyond the Black River - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Science Fiction
Conan the Barbarian is employed by one of the civilized countries to help in it's push to claim lands from the primitive Picts. The Picts are not excited about the idea however. Old gods and mythical creatures are called up by the Pict witches to...
The Great Stone of Sardis - Frank R. Stockton
The Great Stone of Sardis - Frank R. Stockton
- Author: Frank R. Stockton
- Genre: General Fiction / Science Fiction
The home of Roland Clewe, a small house plainly furnished, but good enough for a bachelor's quarters, stood not half a mile from the station, and near it were the extensive buildings which he called his Works. Here were laboratories, large...
The Sea Fairies - L. Frank Baum
The Sea Fairies - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Action & Adventure
In 1910, Baum hoped to end the Oz series and follow with a new series about a little girl named Trot and her sailor companion, Cap'n Bill. The Sea Fairies (1911) was the first book in the projected series and took Trot and Cap'n Bill under the sea...
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - Various
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Collections
Charles W. Eliot, 21st President of Harvard University, edited this volume of prefaces ... authored by a Who's Who of World Literature: Bacon, Calvin, Caxton, Condell, Copernicus, Dryden, Fielding, Goethe, Heminge, Hugo, Johnson, Knox, Newton,...
Train Window - Lola RIDGE
Train Window - Lola RIDGE
- Author: Lola RIDGE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Train Window by Lola Ridge. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 8, 2019. ------ Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of...
Tiny Story Book - Anonymous
Tiny Story Book - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Short works
Short and sweet stories for children. (Summary by Dr. Heather A. D. Mbaye)...
Coffee Break Collection 20 -- Old Age - Various
Coffee Break Collection 20 -- Old Age - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The Librivox Coffee Break Collections are themed anthologies, selected and read by Librivox readers. Each short piece is fifteen minutes long, or less -- perfect for coffee breaks, commutes and work outs. Essays, prose, fiction, non-fiction, poetry...
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Poetry
Perhaps Edgar Allen Poe's most famous poem, the "Raven" is a macabre exploration of a man, his memories of Lenore, and the black bird that interrupts his studies on a dark December night, with tap-tap-tapping at his chamber door. (Summary by Hugh)...
David Elginbrod - George MacDonald
David Elginbrod - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Historical Fiction
David Elginbrod was George Macdonald's first real success, a novel of Scottish country life. Published in 1862, it was dedicated to the memory of Lady Noel Byron.(Summary from wikipedia)...
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
A Woman of No Importance is a play by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde. The play premièred on 19 April 1893 at London's Haymarket Theatre. It is a testimony of Wilde's wit and his brand of dark comedy. It looks in particular at English upper class...
Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
Shirley - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: General Fiction
Shirley is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in the period 1811–1812,...
Garden Fairies - Philip Bourke MARSTON
Garden Fairies - Philip Bourke MARSTON
- Author: Philip Bourke MARSTON
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of Garden Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 30th, 2007....
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century - Thomas Henry Huxley
The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century - Thomas Henry Huxley
- Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Thomas H. Huxley, an English biologist and essayist, was an advocate of the theory of evolution and a self-proclaimed agnostic. A talented writer, his essays helped to popularize science in the 19th century, and he is credited with the quote, "Try...
Around The Campfire - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
Around The Campfire - Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Author: Sir Charles G. D. ROBERTS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction / Short Stories
Action and adventure short stories of men and animals in the wild. - Summary by David Wales...
De Vulgari Eloquentia - Dante ALIGHIERI
De Vulgari Eloquentia - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
De vulgari eloquentia (On Eloquence in the vernacular) is a short essay written by Dante Alighieri in Latin. The work remains incomplete; only one and a half books are extant. It is believed to have been composed during Dante's exile, probably at...
My Little Book of Prayer - Muriel STRODE
My Little Book of Prayer - Muriel STRODE
- Author: Muriel STRODE
- Genre: Single author / Free Verse
A number of what we might call epigrams concerning one's will, determination, spirituality, and other foci of interest. - Summary by KevinS...
Kept for the Master's Use - Frances Ridley Havergal
Kept for the Master's Use - Frances Ridley Havergal
- Author: Frances Ridley Havergal
- Genre: Memoirs / Christianity - Biographies
The memoirs of Frances Ridley Havergal, a great missionary and hymn writer. - Summary by PamC...
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume III: Egypt, Africa and Arabia - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Poetry / *Non-fiction
This is the third volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
