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Home Sweet Home - John Howard PAYNE
Home Sweet Home - John Howard PAYNE
- Author: John Howard PAYNE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Originally from the Opera 'Clari, Maid of Milan,' 'Home! Sweet Home!' is John Howard Payne's most famous work. Written in 1823 it has been widely quoted and referenced in other works ever since.This is the LibriVox Weekly Poetry project for the week...
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
Heidi - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: General
Hear Heidi if you’ve ever longed to see the Swiss mountain slopes. This story transports the listener from the fine air and freedom of the mountaintop to the confines of Frankfurt, back to the peaks again, bounding in flowered fields with goats at...
Redburn: His First Voyage - Herman Melville
Redburn: His First Voyage - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Melville wrote of some of his earliest experiences at sea in the story of Wellingborough Redburn, a wet-behind-the-ears youngster whose head was filled with dreams of foreign travel and adventure. In Redburn, the protagonist enlists for a stint as a...
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen - Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of American Statesmen - 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...
Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Tom Swift flies his airship to the mountain tops of Colorado to seek for the secret of the Diamond Makers: criminal scientists who have figured out the formula of manufacturing a limitless fortune in diamonds. But these rogues will stop at nothing...
Our Journey to Sinai - Agnes von Blomberg BENSLY
Our Journey to Sinai - Agnes von Blomberg BENSLY
- Author: Agnes von Blomberg BENSLY
- Genre: Science / Travel & Geography
Fortress-walled Saint Catherine's monastery on the Sinai peninsula has been a pilgrimage site since its founding by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian in the 6th century. According to tradition, the monastery sits at the base of the mountain where...
The Untroubled Mind - Herbert J. HALL
The Untroubled Mind - Herbert J. HALL
- Author: Herbert J. HALL
- Genre: Religion / Self-Help
A very wise physician has said that “every illness has two parts—what it is, and what the patient thinks about it.” What the patient thinks about it is often more important and more troublesome than the real disease. What the patient thinks of life,...
Other People's Money - Louis D. BRANDEIS
Other People's Money - Louis D. BRANDEIS
- Author: Louis D. BRANDEIS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Business & Economics / Essays & Short Works
Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It is a collection of essays written by Louis Brandeis published as a book in 1914. The book attacked the use of investment funds to promote the consolidation of various industries under the control of a...
Sir Gibbie - George MacDonald
Sir Gibbie - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Historical
These are the adventures of Sir Gibbie through the Scotland moors. Not being able to read or speak, Gibbie survives on the streets without a mother and having an alcoholic father. Yet, he wins the hearts of his neighbors and helps others. Children...
Our Little English Cousin (Version 2) - Blanche McManus
Our Little English Cousin (Version 2) - Blanche McManus
- Author: Blanche McManus
- Genre: Family
Find out about the life of Edith, a little English child living at the turn of the last century. This is a fictionalised account of her daily life and also relates special events including visits to Windsor Castle, Kew Gardens and many other...
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - John Donne
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Essays / Early Modern / Christianity - Other
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English writer John Donne. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness, believed to be either typhus or relapsing fever. (Donne does not...
The Grey Woman - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
The Grey Woman - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
A "Bluebeard" story in which a young woman marries a man whom she discovers has killed his previous wives and is trying to kill her as well. (Summary by Jane Greensmith)...
Exposition of the Apostles' Creed - James DODDS
Exposition of the Apostles' Creed - James DODDS
- Author: James DODDS
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Rev. James Dodds, D.D. was a noted religious writer, educated in Edinburgh, joining the Free Church, serving in Dunbar for most of his career. In this exposition, he writes primarily to a lay audience to make the fundamental beliefs of the Apostles'...
Rootabaga Stories - Carl Sandburg
Rootabaga Stories - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Carl Sandburg is beloved by generations of children for his Rootabaga Stories and Rootabaga Pigeons (which is not in the public domain), a series of whimsical, sometimes melancholy stories he originally created for his own daughters. The Rootabaga...
The Opal Serpent - Fergus Hume
The Opal Serpent - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: General Fiction
An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beautiful daughter who is apparently the heir of his large estate. But another claimant has made herself known as the actual daughter of the...
The Gentle Grafter - O. Henry
The Gentle Grafter - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
If Jefferson "Parleyvoo" Pickens had appeared in print just a few years later, he might have been the "Gentle Grifter" instead of the "Gentle Grafter", the name O. Henry picked for him. His situation as an ethical graft artist gives Jeff an extra...
The Democracy of the Constitution, and other Addresses and Essays - Henry Cabot LODGE
The Democracy of the Constitution, and other Addresses and Essays - Henry Cabot LODGE
- Author: Henry Cabot LODGE
- Genre: History / Political Science
Henry Cabot Lodge was a popular American Senator from Massachusetts. He did not only make a name for himself as a politician, but also as an essayist, combining his personal experience as Senator with a study of the philosophical and historical...
Tristram and Iseult & Sohrab and Rustum - Matthew Arnold
Tristram and Iseult & Sohrab and Rustum - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
Tristam & Iseult is a narrative poem containing strong romantic and tragic themes: and was first published in 1852 by Matthew Arnold. This poem draws upon the Tristam and Iseult legends: which were popular with contemporary readers. The poem...
The Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov
The Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Plays
Three Sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and...
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm - Laura Lee Hope
Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue on Grandpa's Farm - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Animals & Nature
"Bunny! Bunny Brown! Where are you?" Bunny's mother stood on the front porch, looking first in the yard, then up and down the street in front of the house. But she did not see her little boy. "Sue! Sue, dear! Where are you, and where is Bunny?"Again...
The Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism - Various
The Junior Classics Volume 7: Stories of Courage and Heroism - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General
The stories in this volume are true stories, and have been arranged in chronological order, an arrangement that will aid the reader to remember the times to which the stories relate.Almost any encyclopedia can be consulted for general details of the...
The American Girl - Alexander Hamilton LAIDLAW
The American Girl - Alexander Hamilton LAIDLAW
- Author: Alexander Hamilton LAIDLAW
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw was born in Scotland. He graduated from Philadelphia Central High School in 1845. He practiced medicine from 1856-1905 and published some works including Soldier Songs and Love Songs, 1898, from which our Fortnightly Poem...
Horror Story Collection 001 - Various
Horror Story Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
An occasional collection of 10 horror stories by various readers. We aim to unsettle you a little, to cut through the pink cushion of illusion that shields you from the horrible realities of life. Here are the walking dead, the fetid pools of slime,...
The Star of Gettysburg - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Star of Gettysburg - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Army of Northern Virginia, still victorious after three hard years of fighting, capitalize on their victories at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, and a young Harry Kenton, is an eyewitness to the Confederate invasion of the north,...
The Bat - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Bat - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The novelization of the play of the same name that had an initial run of 867 shows on Broadway and has been performed all over the world and been made into three movies over a span from 1926 to 1959. An intricate mystery, with a wide cast of...
A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells
A Hazard of New Fortunes - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Howell’s novel is set in New York of the late nineteenth century, a city familiar to readers of Edith Wharton and Henry James. Basil March, a businessman from Boston of a literary bent, moves with his family to New York to edit a new journal founded...
Trailin'! - Max Brand
Trailin'! - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Westerns
“Max Brand", the most used pseudonym of Frederick Schiller Faust (1892-1944), is best known today for his western fiction. Faust began in the early twentieth century selling his stories to the pulp magazines, writing in many genres under numerous...
The Broken Rosary - Grace JOHNSON
The Broken Rosary - Grace JOHNSON
- Author: Grace JOHNSON
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
County Prosecutor Wally Brighton was found shot to death one evening, a broken rosary in one hand and a .32 automatic inches away from the other. Was it murder or suicide? It takes two sharp-eyed reporters, who combine romance with amateur...
The Devil's Bridge - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Devil's Bridge - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry
Taken from Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes, Switzerland and Austria: Vol. XVI, edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Prophets, Priests, And Kings - Alfred George GARDINER
Prophets, Priests, And Kings - Alfred George GARDINER
- Author: Alfred George GARDINER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
These biographical essays of (mostly) British subjects were written in 1907-1908 for The Daily News newspaper and reflect their subjects as seen before the great cataclysm of World War I. Gardiner was a British newspaper editor, journalist, and...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 15) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 15) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Early Modern
This is volume 3 chapter 15 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1959) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail....
Oscar Wilde: A Study - André GIDE
Oscar Wilde: A Study - André GIDE
- Author: André GIDE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a 1905 memoir of one great litterateur’s latter days written by another great litterateur. This recording omits the numerous footnotes and two letters in French untranslated by the translator. -Summary by david wales...
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Vincent VAN GOGH
The Letters of a Post-Impressionist - Vincent VAN GOGH
- Author: Vincent VAN GOGH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Letters
“Being the Familiar Correspondence of Vincent Van Gogh ... [Van Gogh's] art was appreciated during his life only by a very few and it is but within recent years that it has found admirers who in many cases have been most ardently enthusiastic. Of...
The Grey Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Grey Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The tales in the Grey Fairy Book are derived from many countries — Lithuania, various parts of Africa, Germany, France, Greece, and other regions of the world. They have been translated and adapted by Mrs. Dent, Mrs. Lang, Miss Eleanor Sellar, Miss...
Flood-Tide Of Flowers - Henry van Dyke
Flood-Tide Of Flowers - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Flood-Tide Of Flowers by Henry Van Dyke. This was the weekly poetry project for April 5th, 2009....
Chinese Poetry in English Verse (古今詩選) - Herbert Allen GILES
Chinese Poetry in English Verse (古今詩選) - Herbert Allen GILES
- Author: Herbert Allen GILES
- Genre: Poetry
Dear Land of Flowers, forgive me! -- that I took These snatches from thy glittering wealth of song, And twisted to the uses of a book Strains that to alien harps can na'er belong. Thy gems shine purer in their native bed Concealed, beyond the pry of...
Judge Burnham's Daughters - Pansy
Judge Burnham's Daughters - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / Christian Fiction
Fifth in the Chautauqua Girls series. Ruth Erskine Burnham has helped raise her husband's two daughters, but all have rejected her faith and values. The constant pressure to compromise has weakened her walk and made her life miserable. Her one...
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - July - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - July - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Poetry
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs' poems for each day. This project covers the month of July. - Summary by Carolin...
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 3 - Pliny the Elder
The Boys' and Girls' Pliny Vol. 3 - Pliny the Elder
- Author: Pliny the Elder
- Genre: Science / Reference / Antiquity
The Natural History of Pliny the Elder is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire. The full work consists of 37 books, covering more than 20.000 topics ranging from astronomy and mathematics to botany and precious...
In the Sweet Dry and Dry - Christopher Morley
In the Sweet Dry and Dry - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
Written just before Prohibition to entail the possible troubles that might happen en route. Both sides of the argument, or battle as the case may be, strike out with various over-top methods like legislating most fruits and vegetables as unsafe or...
