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The Hill - Rupert Brooke
The Hill - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hill by Rupert Brooke. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 15, 2011. Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War...
The Grey Man - S. R. CROCKETT
The Grey Man - S. R. CROCKETT
- Author: S. R. CROCKETT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This novel is set in Scotland in turbulent times, and we are immediately introduced to intrigue and family strife. At Launcelot Kennedy's aunt's husband's funeral, he and his father are first hidden, then hustled away secretly for fear of being...
The Bores - Molière
The Bores - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Plays / Satire
Moliere: "Never was any Dramatic performance so hurried as this; and it is a thing, I believe, quite new, to have a comedy planned, finished, got up, and played in a fortnight. I do not say this to boast of an impromptu, or to pretend to any...
The Autobiography of Madam Guyon - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
The Autobiography of Madam Guyon - Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
- Author: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) (April 13, 1648 - June 9, 1717) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was...
The Silent Bullet - Arthur B. Reeve
The Silent Bullet - Arthur B. Reeve
- Author: Arthur B. Reeve
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The many adventures of Professor Craig Kennedy were chronicled by Arthur B. Reeve (October 15, 1880 - August 9, 1936). Reeve was an American mystery writer who created 82 Craig Kennedy mystery stories. The stories have a very Sherlock Holmes type...
The Wit of Women - Kate SANBORN
The Wit of Women - Kate SANBORN
- Author: Kate SANBORN
- Genre: Humor
It is refreshing to find an unworked field all ready for harvesting. While the wit of men, as a subject for admiration and discussion, is now threadbare, the wit of women has been almost utterly ignored and unrecognized.With the joy and honest pride...
The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men - Max BEERBOHM
The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale For Tired Men - Max BEERBOHM
- Author: Max BEERBOHM
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Sir Henry Maximilian "Max" Beerbohm was an English essayist, parodist, and caricaturist. The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men is a short story with moral implications. Beerbohm's tale is a lighter, more humorous version of Oscar Wilde's...
God's fool - Maarten MAARTENS
God's fool - Maarten MAARTENS
- Author: Maarten MAARTENS
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
At the age of nine, Elias Lossell becomes deaf and blind from an accident. Communication with him becomes difficult, and mentally, he never really grows up. Years later, circumstances make him the richest man in town as the heir of the wealthy firm...
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) - John Galsworthy
In Chancery (Forsyte Saga Vol. 2) - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance / Sagas
'The Forsyte Saga' is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties. In Chancery is the second book in the saga. Five years have passed since Irene left Soames and the death of Bosinney. Old...
The Lark - E. Nesbit
The Lark - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
"The Lark" has all the charm and freshness which have made Miss Nesbit's former novels so justly popular, and yet the story ts entirely new and original. Two girls, Jane and Lucilla, are led by Jane's guardian to entertain high hopes. The fortune,...
Amends for Ladies - Nathan FIELD
Amends for Ladies - Nathan FIELD
- Author: Nathan FIELD
- Genre: Comedy
Amends for Ladies falls within the genre of Jacobean city comedy. Three women debate which has the better lot: a maid, a wife, or a widow. Lady Honour, the maid, is loved by her servant, Ingen, and disguises herself as a boy to become servant to...
The Last Three Soldiers - William Henry SHELTON
The Last Three Soldiers - William Henry SHELTON
- Author: William Henry SHELTON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
What if the Confederacy had won the American Civil War? It’s July 1864 and three oh-so-young Union troopers are assigned to a mountaintop in Tennessee to be a link in a chain of flag signalers across a ridge of mountains. They encounter a dizzying...
Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures - Joe TILDEN
Joe Tilden's Recipes for Epicures - Joe TILDEN
- Author: Joe TILDEN
- Genre: Cooking
Major Joseph Tilden was in his time one of the most famous Bohemians and epicureans of the Pacific Coast. Ever since his death his many friends have been trying to learn the culinary secrets which made a repast of his devising so delicious. He had...
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade - Walter HAMILTON
Parodies on Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade - Walter HAMILTON
- Author: Walter HAMILTON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
This extract, taken from Parodies of the works of English and American Authors, vol 1, of parodies of Tennyson's Charge of the Light Brigade covers such topics as the Clergy, the Fairer Sex, Doctors, Engineers and many others. - Summary by Kim...
Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery - Marion HARLAND
Common Sense in the Household: A Manual of Practical Housewifery - Marion HARLAND
- Author: Marion HARLAND
- Genre: Cooking
This is a practical guide to running a household in 1883. Marion Harland not only walks us through a number of important topics such as how to select and manage servants and organise a dinner party (best engage a good caterer), but also includes a...
The Satyricon - Gaius Petronius ARBITER
The Satyricon - Gaius Petronius ARBITER
- Author: Gaius Petronius ARBITER
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Satire
Satyricon (or Satyrica) is a Latin work of fiction in a mixture of prose and poetry. It is believed to have been written by Gaius Petronius, though the manuscript tradition identifies the author as a certain Titus Petronius. As with the...
Home Education Series Vol. I: Home Education - Charlotte MASON
Home Education Series Vol. I: Home Education - Charlotte MASON
- Author: Charlotte MASON
- Genre: Education
This is the first volume in the Home Education Series detailing Charlotte Mason's method of education. This volume is subtitled: The Education of Children under Nine Years of Age. The series is used today by many homeschoolers around the globe and...
The Three Musketeers, Version 2 - Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers, Version 2 - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enable him to obtain a position in a Guard regiment. His provincial ingenuousness and his hot-headed sense of honor earn him three duels in as...
Men, Women and Guns - Sapper
Men, Women and Guns - Sapper
- Author: Sapper
- Genre: Historical Fiction
World War I stories, as told through the eyes of someone who was there, but leavened with humour and an eye for the ridiculous side of human nature. This is a collection of McNeile's early short stories, drawing on his experiences with the Royal...
The Chessmen of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Chessmen of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction
Tara of Helium, John Carter's second child, is nearly as beautiful as her mother, Deja Thoris, and as independent-minded as her father. These qualities cause her much grief during a long series of imprisonments by hostile aliens. She is aided by a...
Short Poetry Collection 197 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 197 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 46 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2019. With a number of spooky ones for Halloween!...
The Art of War (version 2) - Sun Tzu 孙武
The Art of War (version 2) - Sun Tzu 孙武
- Author: Sun Tzu 孙武
- Genre: War & Military
The Art of War is a Chinese military treatise written during the 6th century BC by Sun Tzu. Composed of 13 chapters, each of which is devoted to one aspect of warfare, it has long been praised as the definitive work on military strategies and...
The Tale of Cuffy Bear - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Cuffy Bear - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
A whimsical tale about the life of Cuffy bear on Blue Mountain. Cuffy is a very mischevious, disobedient bear who gets into all kinds of scrapes because he refuses to listen to his parents. He most always ends up in trouble or pain as a result of...
Rhymes of the Rockies - James W. WHILT
Rhymes of the Rockies - James W. WHILT
- Author: James W. WHILT
- Genre: Single author
The author worked as a dude wrangler Glacier National Park and lived on his ranch near Eureka, Monatana. This is the first book of his poems, which he often recited for the tourists. His other books include, "Giggles from Glacier Guides" and...
Barbara in Brittany - E. A. GILLIE
Barbara in Brittany - E. A. GILLIE
- Author: E. A. GILLIE
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Barbara, an English girl and the eldest of her family, spends most days helping her widowed mother care for her younger siblings. Then disaster strikes - or so the children believe! Barbara is taken to France to see Paris by her father's formidable...
Little Bear - Laura Rountree SMITH
Little Bear - Laura Rountree SMITH
- Author: Laura Rountree SMITH
- Genre: Animals & Nature
A story for children about a little bear with no name, “there were not enough names to go round,” and his adventures in finding one. (Summary by Carolyn Frances)...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 068 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain. "The Regulation of Time" and "Uniform Standard Time" are two of several readings which touch on social regulation, societal norms, and individual expression. Others examine dancing mania...
Eugene Onéguine - Alexander Pushkin
Eugene Onéguine - Alexander Pushkin
- Author: Alexander Pushkin
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Romance
Eugene Oneguine is a classic of Russian literature, and its eponymous protagonist has served as the model for a number of Russian literary heroes (so-called superfluous men). It was published in serial form between 1825 and 1832. The first complete...
The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children - Various
The Upward Path: A Reader For Colored Children - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction
From the preface of the book: "To the present time, there has been no collection of stories and poems by Negro writers, which colored children could read with interest and pleasure and in which they could find a mirror of the traditions and...
Enneads - PLOTINUS
Enneads - PLOTINUS
- Author: PLOTINUS
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Ancient
The six Enneads (ΕΝΝΕΑΔΕΣ) are the collected writings of the Neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus (ΠΛΩΤΙΝΟΣ) arranged by his student Porphyry (ΠΟΡΦΥΡΙΟΣ) into fifty-four books with each Ennead containing nine. The translator Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry
In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor for acts of ‘gross indecency’. During his time at Reading Gaol, he witnessed a rare hanging, and in the three years between his release and his untimely death in 1900, was inspired to write...
Dear Enemy - Jean Webster
Dear Enemy - Jean Webster
- Author: Jean Webster
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
Dear Enemy is the sequel to Jean Webster's novel Daddy-Long-Legs. The story as presented in a series of letters written by Sallie McBride, Judy Abbott's college mate in Daddy-Long-Legs. Among the recipients of the letters are the president of the...
Nightingales - Robert Bridges
Nightingales - Robert Bridges
- Author: Robert Bridges
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 different recordings of Nightingales by Robert Bridges, published in "The Oxford Book of English Verse" in 1919. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 14, 2008....
The Return of Peter Grimm - David BELASCO
The Return of Peter Grimm - David BELASCO
- Author: David BELASCO
- Genre: Drama
"Mr. Belasco has written the following account of "Peter's" evolution: [ ] The play, "The Return of Peter Grimm," is an expression in dramatic form of my ideas on a subject which I have pondered over since boyhood: "Can the dead come back?" Peter...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 11. November 1896 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 11. November 1896 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the November Number. It includes the following articles: The Witwatersrand and the Revolt of the Uitlanders, by George F. Becker The Economic Aspects of Soil Erosion (Part 2) by Dr N. S....
A Miscellany of Men - G. K. Chesterton
A Miscellany of Men - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was among the world's most prolific writers who incorporated relentless logic, wonderful humor, and a clear view of truth into an amazing tool for exposing the foolishness of the policies of the world around him through the...
Creditors - August Strindberg
Creditors - August Strindberg
- Author: August Strindberg
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
Creditors is a tragicomedy by August Strindberg that plumbs the depths of the twisted triangular relationship between Tekla, her husband Adolph, and her ex-husband Gustav. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett) Cast: Tekla: Elizabeth Klett Adolph: mb Gustav:...
The Skin Game - John Galsworthy
The Skin Game - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Comedy / Tragedy
A small play in three acts. A kind of comic tragedy. The plot tells the story of the interaction between two very different families in rural England just after the end of the First World War. Squire Hillcrist lives in the manor house where his...
Waverley, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
Waverley, Volume 2 - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and English soldier, Edward Waverley, who...
My Strange Rescue - James Macdonald OXLEY
My Strange Rescue - James Macdonald OXLEY
- Author: James Macdonald OXLEY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
An anthology of short stories, anecdotes and observations of sport and adventure in Canada. Tobogganing, snowshoeing , ice skating and hockey all feature, along with other cold-weather pursuits....
