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A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar - George Bethune ENGLISH
A Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar - George Bethune ENGLISH
- Author: George Bethune ENGLISH
- Genre: War & Military / Travel & Geography / Memoirs
As a second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps during the War of 1812 assigned to Marine Corps headquarters, English sailed to the Mediterranean, and was among the first citizens of the United States known to have visited Egypt. Shortly...
The Quarrel - Madison Cawein
The Quarrel - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) - Summary by David Lawrence...
Ghost Story Collection 005 - Various
Ghost Story Collection 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of ten pieces, read by various readers, about the unreal edges of this world in legend and story; tales of love, death and beyond. If just one story prickles the hair on the back of your neck, or prickles your eyelids with the touch of...
Survivors' Tales of Famous Crimes - Walter WOOD
Survivors' Tales of Famous Crimes - Walter WOOD
- Author: Walter WOOD
- Genre: Law
In this anthology of true crime tales, editor Walter Wood interviews those who were touched by the crimes recounted, sometimes as an acquaintance of the deceased or criminal or in the course of their professional duties. This work provides a...
Ultima Thule - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
Ultima Thule - Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Author: Dallas McCord REYNOLDS
- Genre: Science Fiction
Ronny Bronston has dreamed all his life of getting a United Planets job that would take him off-world. He finally gets the opportunity when he is given a provisional assignment with Bureau of Investigation, Section G. But will he be able to complete...
Lysis - Plato
Lysis - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Lysis (Λύσις) discusses friendship and love between the good and bad. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
The Indiscreet Letter - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
The Indiscreet Letter - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Short Stories
Three fellow travelers on a train enter into a discussion concerning what they would call an 'indiscreet letter.' The discussion, albeit short, produces some rather interesting revelations during the journey and at journey's end. (Summary by Kehinde)...
Umboo, The Elephant - Howard R. Garis
Umboo, The Elephant - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
Have you ever wondered what it is like to be in a circus? What if, rather than choosing to be in one, you were captured and taken away from the home and family you knew and made to perform in the heat of a big top? Meet Umboo, the elephant, Chako,...
The Rover Boys Out West - Arthur M. Winfield
The Rover Boys Out West - Arthur M. Winfield
- Author: Arthur M. Winfield
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Family
Despite the title, the Rover Brothers spend several chapters -- over half the book -- back East, against arch-nemeses Josiah Crabtree and the Baxter family. Formulaic fun was dated even by the 1940's when Orson Welles satirized it on the radio. -...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada - Stephen Leacock
Chronicles of Canada Volume 01 - The Dawn of Canadian History: A Chronicle of Aboriginal Canada - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
This book describes Canada from the beginning of existence to its first European discoverers and includes a brief history of the aboriginal people. These little books were designed to cover Canadian history in a scholarly and readable fashion....
The Song of Roland - Anonymous
The Song of Roland - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Epics
The Song of Roland is an epic poem, originally sung in Old French. It tells the story of the Battle of Roncevaux Pass in 778. This is an English translation. (Introduction by Joy Chan)...
Tales of Laughter - Kate Douglas Wiggin
Tales of Laughter - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Short works
Time to exercise your funny bone. This fun collection of stories from around the world will make children of all ages smile and chuckle. A LAUGHING SONGWhen the greenwoods laugh with the voice of joy,And the dimpling stream runs laughing by;When the...
War - Pierre Loti
War - Pierre Loti
- Author: Pierre Loti
- Genre: War & Military / History / Memoirs
Pierre Loti [Julien Viaud] (1850-1923) was a French naval officer and novelist. The present book is one of his few works of non-fiction, a small collection of letters and diary entries that describe his views and experiences in the wars and military...
Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas - Anonymous
Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Santa Claus, Kriss Kringle or St. NIcholas by Anomymous. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 16, 2018. ------ This poem was published in booklet form with illustrations in 1897. -...
Microphone Showdown 3
Microphone Showdown 3
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
This is a project which will allow readers and listeners to compare the recording quality of a wide variety of recording devices. It is a sequel to the first Microphone Showdown project which was catalogued in 2011. Since that time the range of...
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy - G. K. Chesterton
Magic: A Fantastic Comedy - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Plays
George Bernard Shaw goaded the already successful essayist and novelist Chesterton into trying his hand at a play, with this 1913 result. The play examines the powers and mysteries of faith, belief, religion, and of course, magic - a mixture that...
Short Science Fiction Collection 051 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 051 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 4) - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest (Version 4) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Satire
This is a solo recording of the play, meaning that all parts including stage directions are performed by one person. LibriVox has three excellent dramatic recordings with all the parts played by different people so if that is more to your taste,...
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
Ecce Homo - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's autobiography, Ecce Homo, was the last prose work that he wrote before his illness in 1889. Coming at the end of an extraordinarily productive year in which he had produced The Twilight of the Idols and The...
The Saga of Erik the Red (Reeves Translation) - Unknown
The Saga of Erik the Red (Reeves Translation) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
The Saga of Erik the Red is one of the two important thirteenth-century accounts of the Norse explorations of Greenland and North America, along with The Saga of the Greenlanders. Containing fantastic anecdotes about ghostly visitations, wise...
Incontrovertible Facts - Anonymous
Incontrovertible Facts - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 5 different recordings of Incontrovertible Facts by Anonymous. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 23rd, 2008. This poem is a lipogram - so constructed as to exclude all vowels except 'o'....
In the Seven Woods - William Butler Yeats
In the Seven Woods - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry
In the Seven Woods (1904) is Yeats's first twentieth-century poetry collection. Its fourteen poems show him moving steadily away from the decisively Romantic diction of his earlier work. Here we hear a poetic voice that is at once more individual,...
Some Articles About Mark Twain - Undefined
Some Articles About Mark Twain - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works / Humor
"Samuel Langhorne Clemens", "Mark Twain At Home", "Youth of Mark Twain" & "Mark Twain Gossip"Published in the June 16, 1888 edition of "Literature - An Illustrated Weekly Magazine" (Vol. 1, No. 17) these four, early magazine articles about Mark...
Bed Time Stories for Aidan Christopher - Various
Bed Time Stories for Aidan Christopher - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Bed time Stories for Aidan Christopher is a collection of: Favorite stories submitted and read by the Volunteers at Librivox.org. This project has been undertaken to celebrate the October 2007 arrival into the world of: Aidan Christopher !...
The Animal Story Book - Various
The Animal Story Book - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Edited by Andrew Lang, this book is an anthology of interesting stories about a wide variety of diffferent animals collected from numerous sources. - Summary by Elsie Selwyn...
Notes on Nursing - Florence NIGHTINGALE
Notes on Nursing - Florence NIGHTINGALE
- Author: Florence NIGHTINGALE
- Genre: Medical
Notes on Nursing was published in 1859 and is a fascinating view into the theories underpinning the early development of modern nursing and public health reform by "the Lady with the Lamp", Florence Nightingale. Emphasising common sense and thought...
Merton of the Movies - Harry Leon WILSON
Merton of the Movies - Harry Leon WILSON
- Author: Harry Leon WILSON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Merton of the Movies is a comedy that centers around Merton Gill, an aspiring dramatic artist from Simsbury, Illinois who makes his way to Hollywood to become a serious actor. How could Merton fail in attaining his dreams after finishing a...
Meister Eckhart's Sermons: First Time Translated into English - Meister ECKHART
Meister Eckhart's Sermons: First Time Translated into English - Meister ECKHART
- Author: Meister ECKHART
- Genre: Medieval / Christianity - Other
"If a piece of wood became as aware of the nearness of God as an archangel is, the piece of wood would be as happy as an archangel."This is a collection of seven sermons of Meister Eckhart, the German medieval scholastic philosopher-theologian,...
The Thread of Flame - Basil KING
The Thread of Flame - Basil KING
- Author: Basil KING
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Edward wakes up on board a ship crossing the Atlantic, on his return from the Great War – however, he finds that his memory of who he is and where he comes from is only fragmentary.The book follows his fascinating journey back to health and his...
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2 - William Harrison Ainsworth
The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance, Volume 2 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Romance
The second volume of a romance with the backdrop of the notorious Star Chamber of the English legal system. The Chamber began as purely administrative, but gradually took on more of a judicial role, enforcing the monarch's will when the courts could...
Short Stories (Household Words 1850-58) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Short Stories (Household Words 1850-58) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Charles Dickens's weekly magazine, Household Words, from 1850 through to 1858. In addition to three serialized novels, Cranford, North and South, and My Lady Ludlow, Dickens published 18 shorter works...
Initiative Psychic Energy - Warren HILTON
Initiative Psychic Energy - Warren HILTON
- Author: Warren HILTON
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
Learn how to accomplish your goals through increasing your mental power, avoiding energy drains, and becoming more mentally efficient. (Summary by Andrea Fiore.)...
The Origins of Christianity - Thomas WHITTAKER
The Origins of Christianity - Thomas WHITTAKER
- Author: Thomas WHITTAKER
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Religion / Antiquity
The full title of this book is The Origins of Christianity with an Outline of Van Manen’s Analysis of The Pauline Literature. Willem Christiaan van Manen (1842-1905) was a Dutch theologian. The vast majority of van Manen’s radical criticism of the...
Short Story Collection Vol. 023 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 023 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 023: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
The Praise of Folly - Desiderius ERASMUS
The Praise of Folly - Desiderius ERASMUS
- Author: Desiderius ERASMUS
- Genre: Medieval
The Praise of Folly (Greek title: Morias Enkomion (Μωρίας Εγκώμιον), Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of Folly, Dutch title: Lof der Zotheid) is a satirical essay written in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam...
The Explorer - W. Somerset Maugham
The Explorer - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
An early novel by W. Somerset Maugham about conflicting feelings of self-integrity, filial love, romantic love. Lucy Allerton and Alec MacKenzie have to choose between grasping happiness that is their due and upholding a set of moral values that...
Our Little Siamese Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Our Little Siamese Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Author: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Genre: General
A book written for children to see what life is like for their 'cousins' in Siam. This is part of the "Our Little Cousin" series and like the others, brings to life the day to day occurrences and celebrations of children around the world that are so...
The Flying Saucers are Real - Donald KEYHOE
The Flying Saucers are Real - Donald KEYHOE
- Author: Donald KEYHOE
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The Flying Saucers are Real is a book that investigates numerous encounters between USAF fighters, personnel, and other aircraft, and UFOs between 1947 and 1950. Keyhoe contended that the Air Force was actively investigating these cases of close...
To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works - Phillis WHEATLEY
To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works - Phillis WHEATLEY
- Author: Phillis WHEATLEY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of To S. M. A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 28, 2019. ------ The Authoress, Phillis Wheatley, was a Negro Servant To Mr. John Wheatley, Of Boston,...
Temple Trouble - H. Beam Piper
Temple Trouble - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
Did you know that our little earth is not limited to the single time line on which we happen to live? There are actually thousands, no millions of parallel times, each existing alongside all the rest. Some extremely primitive, some very advanced,...
