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Love Insurance - Earl Derr Biggers
Love Insurance - Earl Derr Biggers
- Author: Earl Derr Biggers
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
A young man came to Lloyds of London. He knew they took out policies on unusual risks... And what he wanted was love insurance. What follows is a comic novel, by the creator of the Chinese detective - Charlie Chan! - Summary by Linda Andrus...
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - John Henry Newman
An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine - John Henry Newman
- Author: John Henry Newman
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
After a long struggle against liberal tendencies in the Church of England and an unsuccessful attempt to establish the position of Anglicanism as a branch of historical Christianity whose doctrines could be proven to be identical with those of the...
Short Poetry Collection 055 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 055 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 055: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
The Home and the World - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / *Non-fiction
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), also known by the sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali poet, Brahmo religionist, visual artist, playwright, novelist, and composer whose works reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th...
Challenge - Louis UNTERMEYER
Challenge - Louis UNTERMEYER
- Author: Louis UNTERMEYER
- Genre: Single author
Louis Untermeyer introduced may students to poetry through his many collections that he edited. His own poetry ranges from inspirational to cynical. Challenge is his first collection of poems, mature, but reflecting many of his early struggles. The...
The Golden Spears, and other Fairy Tales - Edmund LEAMY
The Golden Spears, and other Fairy Tales - Edmund LEAMY
- Author: Edmund LEAMY
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a little volume of original fairy tales by Irish lawyer, author and politician Edmund Leamy. - Summary by Carolin...
A Child's History of England - Charles Dickens
A Child's History of England - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A Child's History of England first appeared in serial form, running from January 25, 1851 to December 10, 1853 and was first published in three volume book form in 1852, 1853, and 1854. Dickens dedicated the book to "My own dear children, whom I...
Conceptions of Divine Love - Saint Teresa of Avila
Conceptions of Divine Love - Saint Teresa of Avila
- Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Conceptions of Divine Love was written in 1577. St. Teresa wrote this with the idea of explaining certain words found in the Book of Canticles. When her confessor read the title of her work, he ordered her to immediately burn it, which, of course,...
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Chorus Girl and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Short Stories
Volume 8 of a collection of short stories by Anton Chekhov. The selection includes The Chorus Girl, A Gentleman Friend and A father, among others. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
The Shadow of a Sin (Dramatic reading) - Charlotte M. BRAME
The Shadow of a Sin (Dramatic reading) - Charlotte M. BRAME
- Author: Charlotte M. BRAME
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
A story of a young woman in love and the sacrifices she makes in order to save a man's life when he is accused of murder. Has she gone too far and risked too much? Will she ever find happiness again, or is she destined to live a life of secrecy?...
Hecuba - Euripides
Hecuba - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Like Euripides' Trojan Women, this play takes place after the sack of Troy. Hecuba, widow of King Priam, suffers the loss of her daughter Polyxena and her son Polydore, and is hungry for revenge on those who have wronged her. Summary by Elizabeth...
No Thoroughfare - Charles Dickens
No Thoroughfare - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Two boys from the Foundling Hospital are given the same name, with disastrous consequences in adulthood. Two associates, wishing to right the wrong, are commissioned to find a missing heir. Their quest takes them from fungous wine cellars in the...
In the Old Church Tower - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In the Old Church Tower - Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Author: Thomas Bailey Aldrich
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of In the Old Church Tower by Thomas Bailey Aldrich. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 14, 2012. "Very lovely poem." - Caprisha Page "This seems like a nice nostalgic poem of a small town...
Nothing of Importance - John Bernard Pye ADAMS
Nothing of Importance - John Bernard Pye ADAMS
- Author: John Bernard Pye ADAMS
- Genre: War & Military
Fighting in France during the Great War, Bernard Adams, an officer with a Welsh battalion, was moved to chronicle what he saw and experienced: the living conditions and duties of officers and “Tommies” (enlisted men) in their dank, rat-infested...
Sonnets - George Graham CURRIE
Sonnets - George Graham CURRIE
- Author: George Graham CURRIE
- Genre: Poetry
This is a book of sonnets by George G. Currie. Currie was a Canadian-born lawyer and business man, but also an accomplished author and poet. While he traveled the United States and Europe extensively throughout his life, he settled in Florida. Both...
Septimus - William John Locke
Septimus - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The book concerns the tangled lives of four people: Zora, a young widow who seeks some purpose in her life; Septimus Dix, an other-wordly but kind-hearted inventor of hopeless things; Clem Sypher, a larger than life businessman who is convinced his...
Association Football and How to Play It - John CAMERON
Association Football and How to Play It - John CAMERON
- Author: John CAMERON
- Genre: Sports & Recreation
An overview of the positions, tactics, and history of association football written by one of the game's early stars. John Cameron was a most interesting figure who played for both Everton and Tottenham, was a P.O.W. during the First World War and a...
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading) - Henry James
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Frederick Winterbourne, a...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of 12 short stories that were originally illustrated by Sidney Paget. These are the first set of short stories that were published and followed the publishing of his first 2 novels, A Study in...
The Village Coquettes - Charles Dickens
The Village Coquettes - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Comedy
Before he started writing novels, Charles Dickens tried his hand at theater. The Village Coquettes is a two act musical. Sadly the music was lost long ago so this will be a spoken version. This play completes the recording of the relatively unknown...
The Sign of the Four (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of the Four (version 4) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Treasure, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, love, murder, and revenge. One of Arthur Conan Doyle's four novels featuring Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by Karen Savage)...
Short Story Collection Vol. 077 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 077 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle are joined by humor from Charles Dickens and Nathaniel Hawthorne as well as some weird and creepy...
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Dramatic Reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Dramatic Reading) - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family
This story is about an American lad of 7 years old who lives with his young widowed mother in New York. He spends his days with his friend the grocery man Mr. Hobbs, the boot black Dick, and other young lads from his town. His best friend is his...
The Borough - George CRABBE
The Borough - George CRABBE
- Author: George CRABBE
- Genre: Single author / Narratives
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe was an English poet, surgeon, and clergyman. He is best known for his early use of the realistic narrative form...
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 8 - Samuel Richardson
Clarissa Harlowe, or the History of a Young Lady - Volume 8 - Samuel Richardson
- Author: Samuel Richardson
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
In Volume 8 Clarissa continues to decline towards her pitiful end, while Lovelace remains defiant, even as his nemesis Colonel Morden finally arrives his town. One of the earliest and certainly the longest novel in the English language, with a...
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood - George MacDonald
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Romance / Christian Fiction
This delightful story begins in a little town called Marshmallows, where a young man, the new vicar, Harry Walton, has just arrived. As he begins his work Harry realizes that everything is not quite 'right' in his little parish and it all seems to...
Limanora, The Island Of Progress - Godfrey SWEVEN
Limanora, The Island Of Progress - Godfrey SWEVEN
- Author: Godfrey SWEVEN
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Our ethereal man with wings, whom we met in Riallaro, continues his tale about Limanora which is a Utopian Island created as an experiment in Eugenics. Medical and technological advances have led to a central Power Source, computers, and weather...
The Bells and Other Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells and Other Poems - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of the most famous poems by Edgar Allan Poe. It includes all of his most famous poems, such as the Bells and Annabel Lee, but also some minor and less well-known poems. Readers may wish to refer to the online text for 28...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 027 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers and include speeches and essays on history, science, politics, nature, travel, psychology and love....
Men, Women and Ghosts - Amy Lowell
Men, Women and Ghosts - Amy Lowell
- Author: Amy Lowell
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of long poems and short stories by Amy Lowell. - Summary by Carolin...
Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Poetry
Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated into other languages. In England a slender volume was published in...
Clotel, or, The President's Daughter - William Wells BROWN
Clotel, or, The President's Daughter - William Wells BROWN
- Author: William Wells BROWN
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Clotel; or, The President's Daughter is a novel by William Wells Brown (1814-84), a fugitive from slavery and abolitionist and was published in London, England in December 1853. It is often considered the first African-American novel. This novel...
Wine, Water and Song - G. K. Chesterton
Wine, Water and Song - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Poetry
A collection of 16 poems by G.K. Chesterton. All of the poems in this book, except for "The Strange Ascetic" are taken from "The Flying Inn", a book by the same author. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion - Lyndon ORR
Famous Affinities of History: The Romance of Devotion - Lyndon ORR
- Author: Lyndon ORR
- Genre: Romance / *Non-fiction / History
"Famous Affinities of History" is a book of passion-filled accounts of the most famous love affairs of history. The stories of Cleopatra, Victor Hugo, Honore de Balzac, Jonathan Swift, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Byron, George...
Essays, First Series (version 2) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, First Series (version 2) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Essays: First Series is a series of 12 essays written by Ralph Waldo Emerson concerning transcendentalism, including Self-Reliance. It was published in 1841. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Egyptian Tales, translated from the Papyri, Series One - William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Author: William Matthew Flinders Petrie
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Brief, and in some cases incomplete, stories of magic from ancient Egypt. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)...
Sintram and His Companions - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
Sintram and His Companions - Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Author: Friedrich de la Motte FOUQUÉ
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General Fiction
Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, also the author of Undine, was a German Romantic writer whose stories were filled with knights, damsels in distress, evil enchantments, and the struggle of good against overpowering evil. 'My strength is as the strength...
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book - Various
The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Collections
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry and Prose by well known authors of the time. - Summary by David Lawrence...
With Christ in the School of Prayer (version 2) - Andrew Murray
With Christ in the School of Prayer (version 2) - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Christianity - Other
“We have become so accustomed to limit the wonderful love and the large promises of our God, that we cannot read the simplest and clearest statements of our Lord without the qualifying clauses by which we guard and expound them”. This is what Andrew...
The Duke of Chimney Butte - George W. OGDEN
The Duke of Chimney Butte - George W. OGDEN
- Author: George W. OGDEN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Westerns
An exciting tale of gun play, brave deeds and romance as Jerry Lambert, the "Duke" tries to protect the ranch of the lovely and charming Vesta Philbrook from thieving neighbors and other evil doers. (Summary by Mike Vendetti)...
