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The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction
The desolate, treacherous Devon moors. A bloodcurdling legend of a ghastly hound from hell, haunting the Baskerville family for generations. Such is the setting for the most horrific Sherlock Holmes story ever written, where the celebrated sleuth's...
A Slav Soul and Other Stories - Aleksandr KUPRIN
A Slav Soul and Other Stories - Aleksandr KUPRIN
- Author: Aleksandr KUPRIN
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Novelist and short story writer Alexandr Ivanovich Kuprin (1870-1938) was one of the most widely read authors of his time. Nabokov called him the Russian Kipling for his stories about people who are often "neurotic and vulnerable". Many films and...
Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths And Legends Of The Pacific Northwest Especially Of Washington And Oregon - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
The basis on which these myths were selected necessarily excluded those which showed traces of the white man's religion or of the red man's coarseness. Relatively speaking, only a few myths could be selected. These were the creation myths, the...
Nature (version 2) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature (version 2) - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Essays
First published anonymously in 1836, Nature marks the beginning both of Emerson’s literary career and the Transcendentalist movement. Asking why his generation “should not also enjoy an original relation to the universe,” Emerson argues that “Man is...
The Fasti - Publius
The Fasti - Publius
- Author: Publius
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
The Fasti is a Latin poem in six books, written by Ovid and believed to have been published in 8 AD. The Fasti is organized according to the Roman calendar and explains the origins of Roman holidays and associated customs, often through the mouths...
Bible (YLT) 38-39: Zechariah and Malachi - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 38-39: Zechariah and Malachi - 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...
Faces and Places - Sir Henry W. Lucy
Faces and Places - Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Author: Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works
Faces and Places is a collection of articles on nineteenth century travel, events and personalities by the British journalist Henry Lucy, who wrote for the Daily News, a London newspaper. His open letter To Those About to Become Journalists rings as...
The Fruit of the Tree - Edith Wharton
The Fruit of the Tree - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction
When published in 1907, this novel about the lives of a wealthy mill owner, her socially progressive husband and friends caused a stir due to its treatment of drug abuse, mercy killing, divorce and second marriages. (Summary by Margaret)...
Ontario Public School Geography - Unknown
Ontario Public School Geography - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: General / Reference
This Ontario Public School textbook, published in 1922, contains some fascinating facts of a world which no longer exists. It seems politically incorrect in some of its descriptions by modern day standards. (Summary by David Lawrence)...
The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus
- Author: Emma Lazarus
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 24, 2012. Lazarus wrote her own important poems and edited many adaptations of German poems, notably those of Johann...
The Chronicles of Crime Vol 1 - Camden PELHAM
The Chronicles of Crime Vol 1 - Camden PELHAM
- Author: Camden PELHAM
- Genre: True Crime
This catalogue of human weakness and at times downright atrocity has been brought together by Camden Pelham, a barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple during the second half of the 19th century. It is given in chronological order, the first case listed...
The Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night - Julie de MARGUERITTES
The Ins and Outs of Paris or Paris by Day and Night - Julie de MARGUERITTES
- Author: Julie de MARGUERITTES
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Paris has been often described, by travelers, by artists, by savants, by friends and by enemies, yet it was after reading most of the works descriptive of Paris that I felt how much there was still to be written, if not about Paris, at least about...
Short Poetry Collection 065 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 065 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 065: a collection of 20 public-domain poems, chosen and read by Librivox volunteers....
The Outline of Science, Vol 2 - J. Arthur Thomson
The Outline of Science, Vol 2 - J. Arthur Thomson
- Author: J. Arthur Thomson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Psychology
The Outline of Science was written specifically with the man-on-the-street in mind as the target audience. Covering scientific subjects ranging from astronomy to biology to elementary physics in clear, concise and easily understood prose, this...
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd - Sir Walter RALEIGH
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd - Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Author: Sir Walter RALEIGH
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 14, 2012. The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd, sometimes called 'Her Reply' was written in...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 05, Dec. 2,1879 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 05, Dec. 2,1879 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Harper's Young People upon its first publication in 1879 was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft projects, and more for children. This...
The Swoop! - P. G. Wodehouse
The Swoop! - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room." (ch. 1) — and features references to...
January - Helen Hunt Jackson
January - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 8 recordings of January by Helen Hunt Jackson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 13, 2013. Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an Amewrican writer and activist for the improvement of treatment of...
Philosophy and Fun of Algebra - Mary Everest BOOLE
Philosophy and Fun of Algebra - Mary Everest BOOLE
- Author: Mary Everest BOOLE
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Mary Everest Boole (1832-1916) was born Mary Everest in England and spent her early years in France. She married mathematician George Boole. She was the author of several works on teaching and teaching mathematics in particular.This short book,...
Better Far to Pass Away - Richard DENNYS
Better Far to Pass Away - Richard DENNYS
- Author: Richard DENNYS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
At this time of year, we dedicate the Fortnightly Poetry project to the fallen in war. This poem, written at a time when the average life expectancy of an officer at the front was a mere six weeks, vividly demonstrates a young officer's expectation...
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Judith - Douay-Rheims Version
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Judith - Douay-Rheims Version
- Author: Douay-Rheims Version
- Genre: Douay-Rheims Version
The story revolves around Judith, a daring and beautiful widow, who is upset with her Jewish countrymen for being unwilling to engage their foreign conquerors. She goes with her loyal if reluctant maid Abra to the camp of the enemy general,...
Hamlet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Hamlet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Set in the Kingdom of Denmark, the play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's...
The Old Man in the Corner - Baroness Orczy
The Old Man in the Corner - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Created by Baroness Orczy, author of the famous Scarlet Pimpernel series, The Old Man in the Corner was one of the earliest armchair detectives, popping up with so many others in the wake of the huge popularity of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The...
Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent - John Thomas McIntyre
Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent - John Thomas McIntyre
- Author: John Thomas McIntyre
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Those who have read "Ashton-Kirk, Investigator" will recall references to several affairs in which the United States government found the investigator's unusual powers of inestimable service. In such matters, tremendous interests often stand...
Java Head - Joseph HERGESHEIMER
Java Head - Joseph HERGESHEIMER
- Author: Joseph HERGESHEIMER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
Java Head is a novel of the American merchant marine at the beginning of the great clipper ship era. It is laid in Salem, when that city was still a port rich with the traffic of the East Indies; a story of choleric ship masters, charming girls, and...
After A Night Of Rain - Madison Cawein
After A Night Of Rain - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of After A Night Of Rain by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 1, 2019. ------ An ode to September and the changing season. - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. LOVECRAFT
The Collected Public Domain Works of H. P. Lovecraft - H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Author: H. P. LOVECRAFT
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
H. P. Lovecraft’s name is synonymous with horror fiction. His major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. This collection contains 24...
Geronimo’s Story of His Life - GERONIMO
Geronimo’s Story of His Life - GERONIMO
- Author: GERONIMO
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Geronimo’s Story of His Life is the oral life history of a legendary Apache warrior. Composed in 1905, while Geronimo was being held as a U.S. prisoner of war at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Geronimo’s story found audience and publication through the...
The High Hander - William TURNER
The High Hander - William TURNER
- Author: William TURNER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Tesno was a troubleshooter. That's why the railroad construction company had hired him. His job was to make sure that nobody interfered with the tunnel that they were digging through that frontier region mountain. Tesno knew one thing for sure--if...
Most Blessed For Ever - Frances Ridley Havergal
Most Blessed For Ever - Frances Ridley Havergal
- Author: Frances Ridley Havergal
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox readers bring you 9 readings of Most Blessed For Ever, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for January 11 to 18, 2015. (Summary by EstherbenSimonides)...
The Fair Rewards - Thomas BEER
The Fair Rewards - Thomas BEER
- Author: Thomas BEER
- Genre: General Fiction
"The Fair Rewards" by Thomas Beer . . . is a really distiguished novel. The writing is far above the average: it has style and sophistication and personality, intermingled with a truly vivid show of imagination. It even borders on brilliancy, but it...
Remodeled Farmhouses - Mary H. NORTHEND
Remodeled Farmhouses - Mary H. NORTHEND
- Author: Mary H. NORTHEND
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
"There is a certain fascination connected with the remodeling of a farmhouse. Its low, raftered interior, its weather-beaten exterior, never fail to appeal. Types vary with the period in which they were built, but all are of interest. In this...
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal - Undefined
Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: General Fiction
Life in the Grey Nunnery was first published in Boston, in 1857 by Edward P. Hood, who was credited as the book's editor. It is likely that this account is by Sarah J. Richardson "as told to" Edward Hood, though it may in fact be completely...
Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses - Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln's Inaugural Addresses - Abraham Lincoln
- Author: Abraham Lincoln
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (19th C)
Lincoln's first inaugural address was delivered on March 4th, 1861, as the North and South were sliding towards separation and Civil War. His second inaugural, given just weeks before his assassination, was also delivered on March 4th but four years...
The Wonder-Worker of Padua - Charles Warren STODDARD
The Wonder-Worker of Padua - Charles Warren STODDARD
- Author: Charles Warren STODDARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
This is the inspiring story of Saint Anthony of Padua (1195-1231). The son of a wealthy Portuguese family, he was initially ordained a priest of the Canons Regular of Saint Augustine. In 1221, he took up the habit of a poor Franciscan friar and...
The Position of Peggy Harper - Leonard Merrick
The Position of Peggy Harper - Leonard Merrick
- Author: Leonard Merrick
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Novel set in the shabby world of British (third-rate) theaters circa 1900. Christopher Tatham tries to survive by going from bit part to bit part, and by his uncle's charity, while hoping for a leading-man role. He meets Peggy Harper, who is in a...
Historic Girlhoods Volume 1 - Rupert S. HOLLAND
Historic Girlhoods Volume 1 - Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Author: Rupert S. HOLLAND
- Genre: General
Biographical sketches of ten girls who became famous before becoming women - some not even making it to womanhood. From Joan of Arc to Catherine d'Medici; from Catherine the Great to Pocohontas. These inspirational stories will be of interest to...
The Night of the Long Knives - Fritz Leiber
The Night of the Long Knives - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
"I was one hundred miles from Nowhere—and I mean that literally—when I spotted this girl out of the corner of my eye. I'd been keeping an extra lookout because I still expected the other undead bugger left over from the murder party at Nowhere to be...
The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys - Richard Harding Davis
The Boy Scout And Other Stories For Boys - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure / Short works
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS, as a friend and fellow author has written of him, was “youth incarnate,” and there is probably nothing that he wrote of which a boy would not some day come to feel the appeal. But there are certain of his stories that go with...
The Spiritual Exercises - St. Ignatius LOYOLA
The Spiritual Exercises - St. Ignatius LOYOLA
- Author: St. Ignatius LOYOLA
- Genre: Christianity - Other
These are the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, a plan of contemplation to be carried out over about a month. St. Ignatius of Loyola (1419-1556) was the founder of the Jesuits, and was canonized by Pope Gregory XV in 1622. He published...
