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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a - Jefferson DAVIS
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a - Jefferson DAVIS
- Author: Jefferson DAVIS
- Genre: Political Science / Modern (19th C)
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of...
Theological Orations - Gregory of Nazianzus
Theological Orations - Gregory of Nazianzus
- Author: Gregory of Nazianzus
- Genre: Christianity - Other
After the death of the Arian Emperor Valens, the synod of Antioch in 379 asked Gregory to help resurrect Constantinople to Nicene orthodoxy. While the most important churches were still headed by Arian bishops, Gregory transformed his cousin's villa...
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress - Daniel Defoe
Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress - Daniel Defoe
- Author: Daniel Defoe
- Genre: General Fiction
The full title of the novel is Roxana: The Fortunate Mistress Or, a History of the Life and Vast Variety of Fortunes of Mademoiselle de Beleau, Afterwards Called the Countess de Wintselsheim. The novel concerns the story of an unnamed "fallen...
A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds - Richard CRASHAW
A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds - Richard CRASHAW
- Author: Richard CRASHAW
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of A Hymn of the Nativity, Sung by the Shepherds by Richard Crashaw. This was the fortnightly poem for December 7 - December 21, 2014. - Ann Boulais...
Ten From Infinity - Paul W. FAIRMAN
Ten From Infinity - Paul W. FAIRMAN
- Author: Paul W. FAIRMAN
- Genre: Science Fiction
It began when a pedestrian got hit by a cab in New York City. No doubt it was the only motor mishap in the history of creation that reached out among the stars—for far out in space a signal was registered: Something has gone wrong....And something...
Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - W. S. Gilbert
Ballad: A Manager's Perplexities - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan.Gilbert also wrote the Bab...
Tales of Men and Ghosts - Edith Wharton
Tales of Men and Ghosts - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Tales of Men and Ghosts was published as a collection in 1910, though the first eight of the stories had earlier appeared in Scribner's and the last two in the Century Magazine. Despite the title, the men outnumber the ghosts, since only "The Eyes"...
Letters from a Cat - Helen Hunt Jackson
Letters from a Cat - Helen Hunt Jackson
- Author: Helen Hunt Jackson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
Letters from a Cat: published by her mistress for the benefit of all cats and the amusement of little children is a collection of letters that a little girl receives from her pet while she is away from home. They tell of her pet’s adventures and...
Four Winds - Sara Teasdale
Four Winds - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was "made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society"; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (inaugurated...
Best Russian Short Stories - Various
Best Russian Short Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Anthologies
In this collection of Russian stories, editor and compiler Thomas Seltzer selects from a range of the best examples of 19th and early 20th century Russian literature. As a survey of famous authors at the height of the powers, as well as some writers...
Are The Children at Home? - Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
Are The Children at Home? - Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
- Author: Margaret Elizabeth SANGSTER
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Are The Children at Home? by Margaret Elizabeth Sangster. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 5, 2012. Margaret Elizabeth Sangster was an American poet, author, and editor. She was...
Ajax (Campbell Translation) - Sophocles
Ajax (Campbell Translation) - Sophocles
- Author: Sophocles
- Genre: Tragedy
Ajax is a Greek tragedy written in the 5th century BC. The date of Ajax's first performance is unknown and may never be found, but most scholars regard it as an early work, c. 450 - 430 BC. It chronicles the fate of the warrior Ajax after the events...
Reginald - Saki
Reginald - Saki
- Author: Saki
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Saki (December 18, 1870 - November 14, 1916) was the pen name of the British author Hector Hugh Munro. His witty, biting and occasionally odd short stories satirised Edwardian culture. Saki is considered a master of the short story and has been...
Marge Askinforit - Barry Pain
Marge Askinforit - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A rollicking parody of the Margot Asquith memoirs, in which Pain's character, Marge, beguiles us with the most personal details of her dysfunctional family, and delights in relating every cringing, if not wholly accurate, minutiae of her exciting...
A Dog's Tale - Mark Twain
A Dog's Tale - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
This short novel of Twain’s, from 1903, is told from the point of view of a loyal and beloved family pet. Themes of heroics, valor and heart-wrenching tenderness fill this work. The story is also filled with happy events as well as sad ones and is...
The Queen of Hearts - Wilkie Collins
The Queen of Hearts - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The elderly Brothers Owen, Morgan and Griffith live a quiet, retired life in the countryside, which is turned upside-down by Griffith's ward, the young Jessie Yelverton. Originally, her visit to them was to last only six weeks, but for a very...
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 3 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 3 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Author: Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Genre: Other religions
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well as support from Sikh scholars...
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Version 3) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
This is the second book of short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle concerning the adventures of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes and his side kick Dr Watson. It contains 12 stories published in The Strand as further episodes of the Adventures...
Oxford Book of American Essays - Various
Oxford Book of American Essays - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays
Collection of 32 essays by American authors ranging from Benjamin Frannklin to Emerson to Whitman to Henry James to Theodore Roosevelt. On subjects from the gout to insects with a 24 hour life span to old bachelors to leaves of grass to the odes of...
The Gambler - Katherine Cecil Thurston
The Gambler - Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Author: Katherine Cecil Thurston
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Clodagh, 18 years old, is the eldest daughter of Dennis Asshlin, an Irish gentleman who lives in an area of Ireland called Orristown. Dennis is passionate, proud and indebted to no one. But, Dennis has an obsession with gambling that is leading the...
The Rhodora - Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Rhodora - Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
To celebrate Earth Day, LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of The Rhodora, by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 16th, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Alexander's Bridge (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
Alexander's Bridge (version 2) - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: General Fiction
Bartley Alexander is a construction engineer and world-renowned builder of bridges going through what's known today (but not in 1912) as a mid-life crisis. Although married to his wife Winifred, Bartley resumes his acquaintance with a former lover,...
Stanzas Written in His Library - Robert Southey
Stanzas Written in His Library - Robert Southey
- Author: Robert Southey
- Genre: Single author
Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909.This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding ourselves with, learning from, and keeping alive the memories of deceased authors . . . their ideas, concerns,...
Pansies for Thoughts - Pansy
Pansies for Thoughts - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction / Christianity - Other
The young Grace Livingston compiled this book using quotes from her aunt's works; Isabella Macdonald Alden (who wrote under the pen name "Pansy"). It is a quote for each day of the year from one of the "Pansy Books" plus a bit of related scripture...
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
Villette - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: Romance
After a tragedy in her family, Lucy Snow leaves her home to become a teacher at a French boarding school. Lucy soon begins to fight against an overwhelming sense of desolation. Meeting a charming doctor and a strict, peculiar schoolmaster changes...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 025 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 025 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 025: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Story of Gösta Berling - Selma Lagerlöf
The Story of Gösta Berling - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Romance
"The Story of Gösta Berling" was published in Sweden in 1894 and immediately brought its author into prominence.The tales are founded on actual occurrences and depict the life in the province of Värmland at the beginning of the 19th Century century....
The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable - Lucy Aikin
The Pilgrim's Progress in Words of One Syllable - Lucy Aikin
- Author: Lucy Aikin
- Genre: Religion
The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come is a Christian allegory written by John Bunyan and published in February, 1678. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of religious English literature, has been translated...
Heartbreak House - George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak House - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Comedy
On the eve of World War I, Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fiancé are invited to one of Hesione Hushabye’s infamous dinner parties. Unfortunately, her fiancé is a scoundrel, her father’s a bumbling prig, and she’s actually in love with Hector,...
Elsie's Motherhood - Martha Finley
Elsie's Motherhood - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Religion / Christian Fiction
After the Civil War, Elsie and her family return to their home in the South, dealing with the upheaval that the Reconstruction Era brought during the years after the war. (Summary by Gabrielle C)...
The History of King Lear - Nahum TATE
The History of King Lear - Nahum TATE
- Author: Nahum TATE
- Genre: Plays
The History of King Lear is an adaptation by Nahum Tate of William Shakespeare's King Lear. It first appeared in 1681, some seventy-five years after Shakespeare's version, and is believed to have replaced Shakespeare's version on the English stage...
Snow Song - Sara Teasdale
Snow Song - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of Snow Song by Sara Teasdale. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 9th, 2007....
The Book of Life - Upton Sinclair
The Book of Life - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
Faith and reason, love and virtue, morality and mortality! In these two short volumes the famous novelist, essayist, and playwright, Upton Sinclair, confided his most prized worldly wisdom for generations to come. His kind and witty personal advice...
Song - Heinrich HEINE
Song - Heinrich HEINE
- Author: Heinrich HEINE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine was a German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder (art songs) by composers such as Robert Schumann...
Short Poetry Collection 118 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 118 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for March 2013....
A Thief in the Night - E. W. Hornung
A Thief in the Night - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Gentleman thief A.J. Raffles burgles his way through a series of homes in late Victorian England. A Thief in the Night is a short story collection and Hornung's third book in the Raffles series. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book - William F. BIGELOW
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book - William F. BIGELOW
- Author: William F. BIGELOW
- Genre: Self-Help
A collection of articles from Good Housekeeping magazine, The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book focuses on the subject of marriage. With instructions and advice from courtship to raising children, this collection aims to assist those with questions...
The Five Senses - Arthur MACY
The Five Senses - Arthur MACY
- Author: Arthur MACY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Arthur Macy was a Nantucket boy of Quaker extraction. His name alone is evidence of this, for it is safe to say that a Macy, wherever found in the United States, is descended from that sturdy old Quaker who was one of those who bought Nantucket from...
The Chaperon - Henry James
The Chaperon - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker than water, and the daughter remains loyal to her erring parent, how far will affect her own standing in society...
The Pony Rider Boys in Texas - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys in Texas - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Yee-hawww! The Pony Rider Boys are on the trail again! In the second book of this series, Professor Zepplin has taken the young men to San Diego, Texas, to experience the life of a cowboy. The cattle drive will take them across the great state of...
