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Parting - Charlotte Brontë
Parting - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Parting by Charlotte Brontë. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 25th, 2009....
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 008 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 008 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Romances of Old Japan - Yei Theodora OZAKI
Romances of Old Japan - Yei Theodora OZAKI
- Author: Yei Theodora OZAKI
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of romances from old Japan rendered into English by Yei Theodora Ozaki. Filled with tales of honor, adventure, tragedy, and romance, this collection will surely give anyone interested in Japanese culture and literature (as well as...
In Desert and Wilderness - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
In Desert and Wilderness - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Author: Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure
In Desert and Wilderness is a novel for children by Polish author and Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz. It tells the story of two children, Staś Tarkowski and Nel Rawlison, and their adventures as they cross the African desert and...
Jonah - Aldous Huxley
Jonah - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Single author
Though Aldous Huxley gained popularity from his novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. Jonah, his second compilation of poetry, is a collection of twelve poems (four of which are written in French). He published it, at the age...
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur - Omar Khayyám
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam of Nishapur - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry / Philosophy / Other religions
In 1906, Eben Francis Thompson,scholar and poet, published a limited edition of his translation of the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This edition contains 878 quatrains, and represents the most extensive translation of Omar's rubai in any language. In...
A Common Story - Ivan Goncharov
A Common Story - Ivan Goncharov
- Author: Ivan Goncharov
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire
Alexander Fedoritch Adouev is the naïve, pampered son of Anna Pavlovna, a provincial landowner. He decides to go off to Saint Petersburg, not only to make his mark upon society but also to fulfill his two rosy romantic dreams of becoming a great...
Short Science Fiction Collection 040 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 040 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
Bible (KJV) NT 14: 2 Thessalonians - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 14: 2 Thessalonians - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The Second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians, often referred to as Second Thessalonians and written 2 Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The traditional view is that the second epistle to the Thessalonians was...
Napoleon, A Short Biography - Robert Matteson JOHNSTON
Napoleon, A Short Biography - Robert Matteson JOHNSTON
- Author: Robert Matteson JOHNSTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a 'lightning biography' which serves as an introduction to the field of Napoleonic history. Its purpose is to enable the ordinary reader or would-be student safely to take the first few steps in Napoleonic literature. This is not a short...
Animals of the Past - Frederic LUCAS
Animals of the Past - Frederic LUCAS
- Author: Frederic LUCAS
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Life Sciences
Prior to the emergence of paleontology and comparative anatomy as scientific disciplines at the end of the 18th century, it was generally known that there were species of animals that had disappeared completely. The term "extinction" originally...
Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods - William Drake WESTERVELT
Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods - William Drake WESTERVELT
- Author: William Drake WESTERVELT
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
William Drake Westervelt was an eminent scholar of Hawaiian culture, language, and history. In this capacity, he collected the ghost stories inlcuded in this volume. We hear of gods, ghosts, and demons, love and hate, all told and where necessary...
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2 - Various
Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This collection of 20 public domain newspaper articles comprises volume 2 of Historic Newspaper Articles in the LibriVox collection. Both U.S. and U.K. newspapers are represented here. The articles span from 1848 to 1920. Topics covered (e.g., the...
Don Juan In Hell - George Bernard Shaw
Don Juan In Hell - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Plays
Don Juan in Hell is an excerpt (Act 3, Scene 2) from George Bernard Shaw’s Man and Superman. It is often performed as a stand-alone play. In it, three characters from Mozart’s Don Giovanni (Don Juan, Dona Ana, and the statue of the Commendatore,...
Tales of Unrest - Joseph Conrad
Tales of Unrest - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Tales of Unrest (1898) is the first collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad published in his lifetime. Joseph Conrad (1857–1924), a Polish-born English novelist, was a master in the formats of long short story and novella, a form of story...
Little Men (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
Little Men (version 2) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Little Men follows the life of Jo Bhaer and the students who live and learn at the Plumfield Estate School that she runs with her husband, Professor Bhaer. The mischievous children, whom she loves and cares for as her own, learn valuable lessons as...
Bible (YLT) 04: Numbers - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 04: Numbers - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young’s Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
Poems - Wilfred Owen
Poems - Wilfred Owen
- Author: Wilfred Owen
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems by the English war poet and soldier of the First World War, Wilfred Owen. Owen is regarded by historians as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. It stood in...
Life’s Tragedy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Life’s Tragedy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of Life’s Tragedy by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for June 21st, 2009....
The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life - Sinclair Lewis
The Trail of the Hawk: a Comedy of the Seriousness of Life - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Trail of the Hawk, narrated by Mike Vendetti aka Miketheauctioneer, is Sinclair Lewis’ second novel published under his own name. It was not at the time of release a smashing success as his later works, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry, and others, but his...
Just For Juniors: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
Just For Juniors: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Genre: Religion
This fourth addition to Father Brennan's delightful series of "Angel Food" story books brings twenty-eight more tales which, while they excite youthful imaginations, at the same time teach the important lessons of knowing, loving and serving God,...
Fairy Tales from Brazil - Elsie Spicer EELLS
Fairy Tales from Brazil - Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Author: Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book, subtitled "How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore", is a collection of short stories, most of them etiologial myths from Brazilian Indian Folklore. (Summary by Leni)...
Jill's Red Bag - Amy LE FEUVRE
Jill's Red Bag - Amy LE FEUVRE
- Author: Amy LE FEUVRE
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Jack and Jill, along with their little sister "Bumps", are two pickles. Their curious, wild ways are too much for their guardians. But when their older sister reluctantly employs a governess for them, their feet are turned toward the "Golden City."...
Davy and the Goblin - Charles Edward Carryl
Davy and the Goblin - Charles Edward Carryl
- Author: Charles Edward Carryl
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Eight-year-old Davy reads Lewis Carroll's novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and begins to get very sleepy. Suddenly a goblin appears in the fire and takes Davy on a "believing voyage" much like Alice's own adventures in Wonderland, where he...
Anne of Green Gables (version 4)
Anne of Green Gables (version 4)
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Lucy Maud Montgomery’s classic children’s novel, Anne of Green Gables tells the story of a red headed orphan girl with a personality you can’t help but love. Despite her “tragical” past, Anne’s optimism and imagination have helped her to always see...
Lara, A Tale - George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lara, A Tale - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Ballads
This powerful poem narrates the fateful return of Count Lara to the British Isles after spending years abroad traveling the orient.Returning to his patrimony with a retinue consisting of one foreign-born page, Count Lara resumes the management of...
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora...
Lysistrata (version 2) - Aristophanes
Lysistrata (version 2) - Aristophanes
- Author: Aristophanes
- Genre: Comedy
Lysistrata has had enough. She is tired of the constant war that is ravaging Greece and has come up with a solution: Together with female friends from other Greek cities, she persuades all women of Greece to pledge an oath and refrain from all...
New Discoveries at Jamestown - John L. COTTER
New Discoveries at Jamestown - John L. COTTER
- Author: John L. COTTER
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Chances are, you are reading this because you are aware that Jamestown, Virginia, celebrated its 400th birthday in 2007. It was the first "successful" English settlement in America. Although the colonists eventually moved upriver to be quit of the...
Harbour Dawn - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Harbour Dawn - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 11 readings of Harbour Dawn by L. M. Montgomery. This was the fortnightly poem for November 23 - December 7, 2014. - Summary by Rachel...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1889 - 1892) - Benjamin HARRISON
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1889 - 1892) - Benjamin HARRISON
- Author: Benjamin HARRISON
- Genre: Political Science
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
Our Mat - Andrew Barton Paterson
Our Mat - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Our Mat by A. B. Paterson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 14, 2019. ------ Banjo Paterson's speculations on a piece of prison craft. This poem references The Darlinghurst Gaol, a former...
Around The Yule Log - Willis Boyd ALLEN
Around The Yule Log - Willis Boyd ALLEN
- Author: Willis Boyd ALLEN
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
Eleven yule-tide stories by a popular writer of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. - (Summary by david wales)...
Weapons of Mystery - Joseph HOCKING
Weapons of Mystery - Joseph HOCKING
- Author: Joseph HOCKING
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Justin Blake receives an invitation from his old school-fellow Tom Temple to join him and his family for the Christmas holidays in Yorkshire. Having no other plans, he decides to go. Though he is normally much the opposite of what would be called a...
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War - Artemus WARD
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward Part 2, War - Artemus WARD
- Author: Artemus WARD
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Charles Farrar Browne, a native of Maine, became famous as a writer and lecturer under the name of Artemus Ward. Like his friend Mark Twain, Browne worked as a type-setter in his youth and in 1858, began publishing a series of letters, essays, and...
The Little House in the Fairy Wood - Ethel Cook ELIOT
The Little House in the Fairy Wood - Ethel Cook ELIOT
- Author: Ethel Cook ELIOT
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
A lonely boy is taken in by the friendly inhabitants of a little house in the woods. Through this adventure, he finds the fairy folk, nature, and happiness. (Summary by A. Gramour)...
The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise - Victor G. Durham
The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise - Victor G. Durham
- Author: Victor G. Durham
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Captain Jack Benson and Hal Hastings have been sailing in torpedo submarines a while now. But, there is new danger that they will have to get used to, having the actual torpedoes onboard! They will be trying out a new boat, named after Hal, with the...
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel - Various
Coffee Break Collection 007 - Travel - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Travel Fiction / General Fiction / Short Stories
This is the seventh collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development - Sir Francis GALTON
Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development - Sir Francis GALTON
- Author: Sir Francis GALTON
- Genre: Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Francis Galton, credited with the discovery of identification by fingerprinting, also took a long term interest in the study of biometrics. In this book, many different faculties, both observable and measurable are discussed in length and methods of...
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway - Steve SOLOMON
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway - Steve SOLOMON
- Author: Steve SOLOMON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Self-Help
Gardening expert Steve Solomon has written extensively on gardening techniques for the home gardener. Water conservation is the focus of this work, along with more information on how to have the healthiest plants in your garden through...
