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The Art of Divine Contentment - Thomas WATSON
The Art of Divine Contentment - Thomas WATSON
- Author: Thomas WATSON
- Genre: Religion / Christianity - Commentary / Christianity - Other
"The Art of Divine Contentment" is an exposition by the Puritan minister Thomas Watson of the text found in Philippians 4:11: "I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." It examines the nature of contentment and how to live...
Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea - James O. BRAYMAN
Thrilling Adventures By Land And Sea - James O. BRAYMAN
- Author: James O. BRAYMAN
- Genre: History / Nature / Travel & Geography
There is in the adventures of the daring and heroic, something that interests all. There is a charm about them which, while it partakes of the nature of Romance, does not exercise the same influence upon the mind or heart. When there are noble...
Honey-Bee - Anatole France
Honey-Bee - Anatole France
- Author: Anatole France
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A sweet fairy-tale, Honey-Bee tells the story of two children raised as brother and sister, but who are not. One day they venture out to find the lake where the nixies dwell, though they are forbidden to do so. On this ill-fated journey, young...
Outside the Prison - Richard Harding Davis
Outside the Prison - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
On Christmas Eve, journalist Bronson is sent to wait outside of Moyamensing Prison to report on the release of a certain infamous prisoner. His case had gotten a lot of attention, so the paper wants a man on the spot. However, what Bronson hears and...
The Little Colonel's Holidays - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel's Holidays - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Family / General
"What happened after the Little Colonel's house party?" they demand, and they send letters to the Valley by the score, asking "Did Betty go blind?" "Did the two little Knights of Kentucky ever meet Joyce again or find the Gate of the Giant...
Stories of Starland - Mary PROCTOR
Stories of Starland - Mary PROCTOR
- Author: Mary PROCTOR
- Genre: Science
Henry asks his sister Mary about the sky. She tells him all about the Sun, the Planets, the Moon, Comets and Meteors, and Stars. Mary tells her brother about mythologies people believed about the earth and sky along with true scientific information....
Another Year - Frances Ridley Havergal
Another Year - Frances Ridley Havergal
- Author: Frances Ridley Havergal
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox readers bring you 13 readings of Another Year, by Frances Ridley Havergal. This was the weekly poem for December 28, 2014, to January 3, 2015. - Summary by Esther ben Simonides...
Rain - W. Somerset Maugham
Rain - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Short Stories
One of Maugham's most famous short stories, Rain unfolds in a soggy tropical paradise marred by self-righteous hypocrites trying to force their moral beliefs on a girl who basically just wants to have fun. At a running time of approximately 2 1/2...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 7: Part 3: Murat - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: War & Military / True Crime
Amidst the political winds from Napoleon’s downfall, this tale turns our attention to the flight of a former French marshal and King of Naples, Joachim Murat. Murat, unhappy with the deal he made to obtain pardon from the Austrian Emperor, takes a...
A Book of American Explorers - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
A Book of American Explorers - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Author: Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Exploration
This book tells the story of exploration in America in the words of the explorers themselves. It consists of extracts from narratives of the early discoverers and explorers of the American continent from the Northmen in 10th century to 17th century...
The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation - Patrick Weston JOYCE
The Story of Ancient Irish Civilisation - Patrick Weston JOYCE
- Author: Patrick Weston JOYCE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This little book has been written and published with the main object of spreading as widely as possible among our people, young and old, a knowledge of the civilisation and general social condition of Ireland from the fifth or sixth to the twelfth...
Representative Men - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Representative Men - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Contemporary
A series of biographical lectures originally published in 1850. Each chapter is a philosophical treatment of the life of an intellectual. The six representatives are Plato, Swedenborg, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Napolean and Goethe. (Introduction by S....
My Life: The Story of a Provincial - Anton Chekhov
My Life: The Story of a Provincial - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A provincial youth of wealth and noble status refuses to employ himself in the typical occupations of the higher classes, thus acquiring a reputation as a lazy good-for-nothing. In reality, he is intensely sensitive to the injustices perpetrated by...
Twelve Stories and a Dream - H. G. Wells
Twelve Stories and a Dream - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction / Single Author Collections
Thirteen short stories by HG Wells, the master of speculative fiction! Included in this collection is "Mr Skelmersdale in Fairyland" where a man finds his way into fairyland where a fairy queen tries to seduce him away from his human fiancée. In...
Tides - John DRINKWATER
Tides - John DRINKWATER
- Author: John DRINKWATER
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by John Drinkwater. The English poet and playwright was a close associate of, among others, Rupert Brooke, before World War I, and continued a successful career as author and playwright after the war and until his death in...
The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
The Man Against the Sky: A Book of Poems - Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Author: Edwin Arlington ROBINSON
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of later Poetry by the famous American poet Edwin Arlington Robinson. - Summary by Carolin...
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 10 - Legal - Robert G. Ingersoll
The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 10 - Legal - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Law
For those who like courtroom drama, here are Ingersoll’s Opening and Closing arguments on the most famous trials of his career--the Star Route Trials which stretched over 2 years, revealing high government corruption in the U.S. Post Office system's...
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Far from the Madding Crowd (1874) is Thomas Hardy's fourth novel and offers in ample measure the details of English rural life that Hardy so relished. Hardy's growing taste for tragedy is also evident in the novel. It first appeared, anonymously, as...
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2) - Various
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 4: The Higher Life (Part 2) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The fourth of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the second of two parts, includes many notable religious and devotional poems and hymns from across the centuries, covering subjects such...
Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's First Year at Overton College - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General
Set after the Grace Harlowe High School series, Grace and her friends Miriam and Anne start a new chapter of their lives as Freshmen at Overton College. After various trials and tribulations they earn the respect of the elder classes and become...
Lines Addressed to an Old Bachelor - James MCINTYRE
Lines Addressed to an Old Bachelor - James MCINTYRE
- Author: James MCINTYRE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Lines Addressed to an Old Bachelor by James McIntyre. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 27, 2013. Another poem from Canada's cheese poet, James McIntyre.(Summary by David Lawrence)...
Anthem (version 2) - Ayn RAND
Anthem (version 2) - Ayn RAND
- Author: Ayn RAND
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in England. It takes place at some unspecified future date when mankind has entered another dark age characterized by irrationality, collectivism, and...
October - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
October - Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of October by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 6, 2019. ------ Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel John Halifax,...
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln - Ward Hill LAMON
The Life Of Abraham Lincoln - Ward Hill LAMON
- Author: Ward Hill LAMON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Ward Hill Lamon's work is a study of the life of the 16th President of the United States of America from his childhood to the day of his first inauguration. Lamon, who worked with Lincoln during his administration, and who had access to the papers...
Bible (WNT) NT 05: Acts - Weymouth New Testament
Bible (WNT) NT 05: Acts - Weymouth New Testament
- Author: Weymouth New Testament
- Genre: Bibles / Weymouth New Testament
Richard Francis Weymouth was born on October 26, 1822 near Plymouth Dock, now known as Devonport, near Plymouth, Devonshire, in England. Dr. Weymouth was a Bible scholar and a philologist (a student of the origins of language), as well as a layman,...
Minor Works of Josephus - Flavius Josephus
Minor Works of Josephus - Flavius Josephus
- Author: Flavius Josephus
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Antiquity
There are 3 parts to this collection. (1) Against Apion is a two-volume defence of Judaism as classical religion and philosophy, stressing its antiquity, as opposed to what Josephus claimed was the relatively more recent tradition of the Greeks....
Tartarin of Tarascon - Alphonse DAUDET
Tartarin of Tarascon - Alphonse DAUDET
- Author: Alphonse DAUDET
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The story tells the burlesque adventures of Tartarin, a local hero of Tarascon, a small town in southern France, whose invented adventures and reputation as a swashbuckler finally force him to travel to a very prosaic Algiers in search of lions....
Our Old Home - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Our Old Home - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Short Stories
These essays, based on Hawthorne’s stay in England from 1853 to 1857 as American Consul in Liverpool, were first published in the form of a series of travel articles for The Atlantic Monthly.In these writings, he displays his humor, his empathetic...
Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection - Horace WALPOLE
Horace Walpole's Letters: a selection - Horace WALPOLE
- Author: Horace WALPOLE
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Horace Walpole, 4th earl of Orford, was a cultivated participant in, and observer of, the social and political life of Georgian England. His charming and witty letters are valuable pictures of the age. "A man so blessed that he could unfold every...
The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English - Sappho
The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English - Sappho
- Author: Sappho
- Genre: Poetry
Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the ravishing bouquet of wine pressed in a garden in Mitylene, twenty-five centuries ago? - Maurice Thompson This is a...
The Secret of Everyday Things - Jean-Henri FABRE
The Secret of Everyday Things - Jean-Henri FABRE
- Author: Jean-Henri FABRE
- Genre: Science
The clearness, simpicity, and charm of the great French naturalist's style are nowhere better illustrated than in this work, which in its variety of subject-matter and apt use of entertaining anecdote rivals "The Story-Book of Science," already a...
The Compleat Bachelor - Oliver ONIONS
The Compleat Bachelor - Oliver ONIONS
- Author: Oliver ONIONS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
George Oliver Onions (1873 – 1961) was a British writer of story collections and over 40 novels…. Onions wrote detective fiction, social comedy, historical fiction and romance novels. This social comedy of late Victorian England is among his first...
Eric Brighteyes - H. Rider Haggard
Eric Brighteyes - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
The Saga of Eric Brighteyes is the title of an epic viking novel by H. Rider Haggard, and concerns the adventures of its eponymous principal character in 10th century Iceland. Eric Thorgrimursson (nicknamed 'Brighteyes' for his most notable trait),...
An Old-Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
An Old-Fashioned Girl - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: General
Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws' and their urbanized, fashionable lifestyles, fancy clothes and some...
A Book of Twenty-four Sonnets - Laurens MAYNARD
A Book of Twenty-four Sonnets - Laurens MAYNARD
- Author: Laurens MAYNARD
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 24 sonnets by Laurens Maynard. This rather unknown poet brings many classical themes into this volume, with biblical figures beginning the circle and then in somewhat chronological order arriving in the poet's present day...
Bible (ASV) NT 02: Mark - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 02: Mark - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Gospel of Mark is a Gospel of the New Testament. It narrates the life of Jesus from John the Baptist to the Ascension, but it concentrates particularly on the last week of his life (chapters 11-16, the trip to Jerusalem). Its swift narrative...
Miscellaneous Poe: Poems and Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
Miscellaneous Poe: Poems and Short Stories - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Poetry
Come and hear some of the wonderful, magical, fantastic and macabre works of the inestimable Edgar Allan Poe. This collection contains the world famous poems Annabel Lee, The Bells, Eldorado and The Raven. Also included is his masterful short story,...
A Man Obsessed - Alan Edward NOURSE
A Man Obsessed - Alan Edward NOURSE
- Author: Alan Edward NOURSE
- Genre: Science Fiction
Jeffrey Meyer had a killing on his mind. It meant nothing to him that his towering Twenty-first Century world was going mad. He shouldered aside the rising tide of narcotics-mania, the gambling fever, the insatiable lust for the irrational. Jeff had...
Exotics and Retrospectives - Lafcadio HEARN
Exotics and Retrospectives - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Philosophy
Lafcadio Hearn, born 1850 in Greece, went to Japan when he was 40 years old and became a Japanese citizen only 6 years later. His writings about Japan from the beginning of the Meiji era, when the country was just opening to the West, remain among...
The Silver Box - John Galsworthy
The Silver Box - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
This is a lovely comedy about the theft of a prostitute's purse by a rich 'young man of good family. It is placed beside the theft of a silver cigarette case from the rich man's father's house by 'a poor devil', with very different repercussions. -...
