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The Green Carnation - Robert Smythe HICHENS
The Green Carnation - Robert Smythe HICHENS
- Author: Robert Smythe HICHENS
- Genre: Satire
The Green Carnation, first published anonymously in 1894, was a scandalous novel by Robert Hichens whose lead characters are closely based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas - also known as 'Bosie', whom the author personally knew. It was an...
Slave Planet - Laurence M. Janifer
Slave Planet - Laurence M. Janifer
- Author: Laurence M. Janifer
- Genre: Science Fiction
Fruyling's World... rich in the metals that kept the Terran Confederation going—one vital link in a galaxy-wide civilization. But the men of Fruyling's World lived on borrowed time, knowing that slavery was outlawed throughout the Confederation—and...
Seeing Things at Night - Heywood BROUN
Seeing Things at Night - Heywood BROUN
- Author: Heywood BROUN
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This Book is a collection of humorous short stories which describe the comedy in everyday things and situations. (Summary by Carolin)...
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
David Balfour, a lad of seventeen and newly orphaned, is directed to go and live with his rich uncle, the master of the estate of Shaws in the lowlands of Scotland near Edinburgh. His uncle, Ebenezer (as close a miser as Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge),...
The Lore of the Honey-Bee - Tickner Edwardes
The Lore of the Honey-Bee - Tickner Edwardes
- Author: Tickner Edwardes
- Genre: Nature
The sun shines — you know it has always shone, changeless as Time itself. With such a faith — unfounded and therefore incontestable — I came under the glow of one brave June morning, threading field after field of blossoming clover until I stood at...
Black Amazon of Mars (Version 2) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Black Amazon of Mars (Version 2) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
This gore drenched story finds Eric Stark, the barely civilized warrior raised on Mercury struggling to bring a dying Martian friend back to his home city in the North of Mars before he passes away. Unfortunately his friend does die on the way and...
The Borough Treasurer - J. S. Fletcher
The Borough Treasurer - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Messrs. Mallalieu and Cotherstone were outsiders who had built a prosperous business in Highmarket and even been elected as Mayor and Treasurer of the borough. But when an ex-detective moves to town, 30 years of respectability is suddenly threatened...
The Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
The Idiot - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The Idiot is anything but, yet his fellow boarders at Mrs. Smithers-Pedagog’s home for single gentlemen see him as such. His brand of creative thought is dismissed as foolishness yet it continues to get under their skin, because when you’re beneath...
Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's - Laura Lee Hope
Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction
This book is the first part of the Six Little Bunkers series, written using the pseudonym of Laura Lee Hope. It follows the lives of the Bunker family, with six children. - Summary by bhavya...
Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland - L. Frank Baum
Twinkle and Chubbins; Their Astonishing Adventures in Nature-Fairyland - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
Twinkle is a little girl who often finds herself caught up in fantastic adventures. Whether it be being put on trial by angry woodchucks, raising a hateful baby crow, visiting a town full of talking prairie dogs, finding magical turtles, meeting...
Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Eugénie Grandet, first published in 1833, is one of Honoré de Balzac's finest novels, and one of the first works in what would become his large novel series titled La Comédie Humaine. Set in a provincial town in post-Revolutionary France, the story...
The Beast With Five Fingers - W. F. HARVEY
The Beast With Five Fingers - W. F. HARVEY
- Author: W. F. HARVEY
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A well off English bachelor receives a legacy from his uncle. This includes the uncle's very large library and a box containing something that used to belong to his uncle. The box has air holes in it. It is not a rat or other small mammal for his...
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport - Lawrence PERRY
Prince or Chauffeur? A Story of Newport - Lawrence PERRY
- Author: Lawrence PERRY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Newport, of course, means aristocratic families and naval adventures. In this tale, we wonder if the heiress will actually marry the Russian prince, who is of questionable character, or the chauffeur, who would certainly be beneath her station, but...
The Crook in the Lot; or, The Sovereignty and Wisdom of God, in the Afflictions of Men, Displayed - Thomas BOSTON
The Crook in the Lot; or, The Sovereignty and Wisdom of God, in the Afflictions of Men, Displayed - Thomas BOSTON
- Author: Thomas BOSTON
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
A meditation on Ecclesiastes 7:3, "Consider the work of God: for who can make that straight which he hath made crooked?," The Crook in the Lot considers the purposes of God for suffering and affliction in the life of the Christian. -Summary by Chris...
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America - Charles KINGSTON
Remarkable Rogues: The Careers of Some Notable Criminals of Europe and America - Charles KINGSTON
- Author: Charles KINGSTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
The title and subtitle pretty much say it all. Twenty biographical sketches of people you would not want your son or daughter to marry. (Summary by David Wales)...
Faded Pictures - William Vaughn Moody
Faded Pictures - William Vaughn Moody
- Author: William Vaughn Moody
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Faded Pictures by William Vaughn Moody. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 2, 2012. "I really liked this one. It reminded me of Browning's monologues. Absolutely lovely...and dark at the...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was devised by Scottish author and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous...
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - John George NICOLAY
A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln - John George NICOLAY
- Author: John George NICOLAY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
John G. Nicolay was Abraham Lincoln’s private White House secretary. With assistant secretary, John Hay, he wrote the two volume definitive biography of Lincoln, "Abraham Lincoln, a Biography." Although this is a condensation by Nicolay of that...
The Adventures of Sally - P. G. Wodehouse
The Adventures of Sally - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This romantic comedy stars a young American girl named Sally, who inherits a considerable fortune and finds her life turned upside down. The typically Wodehouseian cast includes Sally's ambitious brother, an assortment of theater people, a pair of...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2) - William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2) - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Poetry
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally essential polarities. Good, in...
A Spinner in the Sun - Myrtle Reed
A Spinner in the Sun - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet...
A Crown for Joanna - Sister Mary Jean DORCY
A Crown for Joanna - Sister Mary Jean DORCY
- Author: Sister Mary Jean DORCY
- Genre: Religion / Christianity - Biographies
She was born a princess, heir to her father’s kingdom of Portugal, and she might at will have reigned from almost any throne in Europe. But instead of this, she made what to her world seemed a thoroughly mad choice – for she chose to have a throne...
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This is the fifth of Burrough's Tarzan novels. Tarzan finds himself bereft of his fortune and resolves to return to the jewel-room of Opar, leaving Jane to face unexpected danger at home. (Summary written by Sarah Jennings.)...
Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories - Walter Alden Dyer
Gulliver The Great And Other Dog Stories - Walter Alden Dyer
- Author: Walter Alden Dyer
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
This 1916 book is a collection of sixteen of the author's dog stories previously published in magazines. ( David Wales)...
The Story of Napoleon - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
The Story of Napoleon - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Author: Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / History
This book gives an exciting account of Napoleon's rise to power. It opens with his humble beginning on the island of Corsica and ultimately emperor of over half of Europe. This book focuses on his victorious military campaigns, his disastrous...
Leviathan (Books III and IV) - Thomas HOBBES
Leviathan (Books III and IV) - Thomas HOBBES
- Author: Thomas HOBBES
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern / Christianity - Other
In Books 3 and 4 of Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes elaborates on the political philosophy set forth in the first two books, by considering the nature of a Christian commonwealth. Book 3 begins with a wealth of biblical scholarship, directed at...
Irish Idylls - Jane BARLOW
Irish Idylls - Jane BARLOW
- Author: Jane BARLOW
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Irish Idylls is a collection of short stories about Irish peasantry during the 19th Century. Ms Jane Barlow, an Irish lass, having, unbelievably, an uncertain date of birth, has a turn of phrase that delights and simultaneously enmeshes the...
The Cinema Murder - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Cinema Murder - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Phillip Romilly is a poor art teacher in London. He finds out that his wealthy cousin Douglas has been seeing his girl friend Beatrice behind his back. He strangles Douglas, throws him in the canal, and assumes his identity. Douglas had booked...
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Magic, fairies, young lovers chasing each other through a forest, a man with a donkey's head, and impish Puck wreaking havoc right and left. What's going on here? It's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare at his most fanciful. The play opens with...
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2) - Bliss Carman
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2) - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Single author
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. The metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the myrtle groves and temples, Beauty...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 1 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times, or Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, as it was originally known in Italian, is a series of artist biographies...
Ball-of-Fat - Guy de Maupassant
Ball-of-Fat - Guy de Maupassant
- Author: Guy de Maupassant
- Genre: General Fiction
The first significant published short story of French author Guy de Maupassant, and generally acknowledged as his greatest work, "Ball-of-Fat" (French title: Boule de Suif) is the touching story of an interrupted coach ride from Rouen to Le Havre...
By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies - Bliss Carman
By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Poetry
This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of persons known and unknown to the poet. - Summary by Carolin...
Liliecrona's Home - Selma Lagerlöf
Liliecrona's Home - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
Liliecrona's Home was published in Sweden 1911, translated into English by Anna Harwell and published in London in 1913. The story is set in the same surroundings in the district of Värmland which Lagerlöf knew so well and used in many of her books....
Later Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
Later Poems - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Poetry
This is the last volume in Julia Caroline Dorr's collected poems, the Later Poems. - Summary by Carolin...
Little Sister Snow (version 2) - Frances LITTLE
Little Sister Snow (version 2) - Frances LITTLE
- Author: Frances LITTLE
- Genre: General
This is a story of a little Japanese girl, her life in Japan and her loves. The story opens just before the festival of Hinamatsuri on the third day of the third month, which was set apart as the big birthday of all little girls born in the lovely...
A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery - Juliet CORSON
A Course of Lectures on the Principles of Domestic Economy and Cookery - Juliet CORSON
- Author: Juliet CORSON
- Genre: Cooking
"This course of lectures is designed to meet the wants of two classes of persons: First—Those who are experienced housekeepers, familiar with the principles and practice of cookery, but who desire information concerning the preparation of the finer...
I Saw the Moon Rise Clear - Thomas Moore
I Saw the Moon Rise Clear - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of "The Minstrel Boy" and "The Last Rose of Summer".Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is to Ireland what Robert Burns is to...
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel - John Donne
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together With Death's Duel - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Christianity - Other
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions is a 1624 prose work by the English theologian and writer John Donne, Dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. It is a series of reflections that were written as Donne recovered from a serious illness. The work...
She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom) - NAGARJUNA
She-rab Dong-bu (The Tree of Wisdom) - NAGARJUNA
- Author: NAGARJUNA
- Genre: Philosophy / Ancient
The She-rab Dong-bu (Tree of Wisdom) is a metrical translation in Tibetan of a Sanscrit ethical work entitled Prajnya Danda, written by Nagarjuna who flourished in the fourth century of the Buddhist era (about 100 B.C.), The Tibetan version was...
