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A Journey in Search of Christmas - Owen Wister
A Journey in Search of Christmas - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Westerns
Cowboy Lin McLean rides into frontier Cheyenne, Wyoming, at Christmastime and learns a powerful meaning of Christmas. Author Owen Wister is well known for his western writings, famously the novel The Virginian. Illustrations are by the western...
The Combined Maze - May Sinclair
The Combined Maze - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Ranny Ransome is an idealistic young man, devoted to exuberant gymnastic exercises and to fighting “flabbiness” in his own life, body and soul. He loves the girlish and athletic Winny Dymond, and particularly loves participating with her in the...
The Women Who Make Our Novels - Grant M. OVERTON
The Women Who Make Our Novels - Grant M. OVERTON
- Author: Grant M. OVERTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
”This book, the rather unpremeditated production of several months’ work, is by a man who is not a novelist and who is therefore entirely unfitted to write about women who are novelists.” The author is a literary reporter and from that perspective...
The book of camping and woodcraft : a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness - Horace KEPHART
The book of camping and woodcraft : a guidebook for those who travel in the wilderness - Horace KEPHART
- Author: Horace KEPHART
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography
In the Introduction to Camping and Woodcraft, Horace Kephart wrote: “My one aim in writing this little book is to make it of practical service to those who seek rest or sport in the wilderness, or whose business calls them thither.” The author...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 022 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 022 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of nineteen short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, science, women's rights, pirates, vampires,...
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 4, Valenciennes to Mons - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
Canada's Hundred Days: With the Canadian Corps from Amiens to Mons, Aug. 8 - Nov. 11, 1918. Part 4, Valenciennes to Mons - John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Author: John Frederick Bligh Livesay
- Genre: War & Military
This is Part Four of the incredible story of the actions of the men and women of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canada's contribution to the Great War 1914-1919, during the last 100 days of the First World War. After nearly 4 years of stalemate...
Uncle Remus & Friends - Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus & Friends - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Animals & Nature
Uncle Remus, that genial old storyteller, knows how to spin these wonderful tales about the 'criteers' that the little 6 year old boy (and many of us adults!) love to listen to. Yet the 'Brer Rabbit and 'Brer Fox and the others sound a lot like the...
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam', Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Mrs. Brassey, (in future, Lady Brassey) describes the events and sights of her family's voyage around in the world in 1876-1877 ( Dovie Cross)...
The Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
The Empire of Russia from the Remotest Periods to the Present Time - John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
A history of Russia from 500 B.C. to 1855 A.D., written by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, the brother of Jacob Abbott. (Summary by Jean Bascom)...
Samson Agonistes - John Milton
Samson Agonistes - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: General Fiction / Plays / Poetry
“The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.” Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time, Place and Action. Nevertheless it “never...
The Romance of Excavation - David MASTERS
The Romance of Excavation - David MASTERS
- Author: David MASTERS
- Genre: Antiquity
The Romance of Excavation: A Record of the Amazing Discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Troy, Crete, etc., with Twenty-Nine Illustrations,From the Foreword: "In the following pages I have sought to reveal some of the romance of excavation, to tell the...
Principles of Economics, Book 2: Some Fundamental Notions - Alfred Marshall
Principles of Economics, Book 2: Some Fundamental Notions - Alfred Marshall
- Author: Alfred Marshall
- Genre: Business & Economics
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the Principles of Economics in 1881 and he spent much of the next decade at work on the treatise. His plan for...
The Go-Getter - Peter B. KYNE
The Go-Getter - Peter B. KYNE
- Author: Peter B. KYNE
- Genre: General Fiction
A disabled veteran succeeds as a civilian with persistence and military focus. (Summary by Scott Dahlem)...
The Window at the White Cat - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Window at the White Cat - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
When a clumsy, well-meaning lawyer gets involved with a pair of delightful old maids and a beautiful girl, he must acquire some of the skills of his friends the detective and the newspaperman to solve the puzzle of The White Cat. That’s the name of...
The Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories - Robert W. Chambers
The Maker of Moons, and Other Short Stories - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Single Author Collections
An eclectic collection of 8 stories by one of the early masters of the weird tale, Robert W. Chambers. The stories include a range of topics including war, romance, humor and even fishing. The title short story, “The Maker of Moons,” is considered...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 1, Chapter 05) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This chapter of Macaulay’s, History of England is concerned, for a large part, with insurrection against James II and his manoeuverings to suppress these. Argyle has been sheltering in Holland and returns to raise an army against James. Although...
Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading) - Steele RUDD
Dave Brings Home A Wife (dramatic reading) - Steele RUDD
- Author: Steele RUDD
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Humorous Fiction
This is a self-contained story-arc over eight chapters from the pages of Steele Rudd's book "Back At Our Selection". The Synopsis: After being a shy bachelor for a number of years, Dave (Dad Rudd's second eldest son) has finally got married. To a...
Last Days of Pompeii - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
Last Days of Pompeii - Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Author: Edward BULWER-LYTTON
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culminates in the cataclysmic destruction of the city of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. The...
The White Company - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The White Company - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Set during the Hundred Years' War with France, The White Company tells the story of a young Saxon man who is learning what it is to be a knight. Raised by Cistercian Monks and rejected by a violent elder brother, Alleyn Edricson takes service with...
Hurrahing in Harvest - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Hurrahing in Harvest - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet, Catholic and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his invention of sprung rhythm and use of imagery)...
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His Electric Runabout - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Tom Swift enters an upcoming race with his specially-designed prototype electric race car. But as he makes the final preparations and adjustments, days before the race, he discovers a plot that would bankrupt not only his family, but also everyone...
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
A classic of travel writing, this book recounts Stevenson's adventures on an extended walk through uplands and mountains in south-western France. Humorous on his own failings as a traveller, and on his travails with Modestine the self-willed donkey,...
The Mikado Jewel - Fergus Hume
The Mikado Jewel - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A widow has been murdered in the home of a relative on a foggy night in London town when all residents were off on to the theatre, and one to run an errand involving the title bauble. Who done it? Old dark house mystery full of period cliches is...
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer - Richard STEELE
Isaac Bickerstaff, Physician and Astrologer - Richard STEELE
- Author: Richard STEELE
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Humorous Fiction
Isaac Bickerstaff Esq. was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge. In 1709, Richard Steele bolstered the release of his new satirical paper The Tatler by...
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
Sons and Lovers - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This intimate portrait of a coal-miner's family fastens on each member in turn: Walter Morel, the collier; Gertrude, his wife; and the children: William, Annie, Arthur, and Paul. When Mrs. Morel begins to be estranged from her husband because of his...
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Written around the middle of his career, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's great festive comedies. The men are back from the war, and everyone is ready for romance. The dashing young Claudio falls for Hero, the daughter of Leonato,...
Once a Week - A. A. MILNE
Once a Week - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories by famed Winnie the Pooh author, A.A. Milne. This charmingly humorous work from Milne's earlier writing period was first published in Punch magazine. (Summary by Cathy Barratt)...
Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
Sherman's March To The Sea, And The Burning Of Columbia, South Carolina, From His Memoirs - William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Author: William Tecumseh SHERMAN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
This librivox recording comprises part of chapter 22 and all of chapter 23 (The March To The Sea – From Atlanta To Savannah – November And December 1864) of American Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman’s Memoirs. Sherman was one of the...
Murder at St. Dennis - Margaret Ann HUBBARD
Murder at St. Dennis - Margaret Ann HUBBARD
- Author: Margaret Ann HUBBARD
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A cunning killer prowls the winding corridors of an old hospital in this thriller by the author of "Murder Takes the Veil". (From original jacket)...
Short Science Fiction Collection 042 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 042 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
How to Appreciate Music - Gustav KOBBÉ
How to Appreciate Music - Gustav KOBBÉ
- Author: Gustav KOBBÉ
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Crafts & Hobbies / Music
Originally published in 1906, this book is essentially a how to guide on music appreciation. Includes sections on the pianoforte, orchestral, and vocal music. Good for anyone who wishes for a greater appreciation of the wonders of music. (Summary by...
Schubert And His Works - Herbert Francis Peyser
Schubert And His Works - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Music
This is a short introduction to Franz Schubert’s life and works. “…to give the casual radio listener a slight idea of Schubert’s inundating fecundity and inspiration. Like Bach, like Haydn, like Mozart, Schubert’s capacity for creative labor...
Kabumpo in Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Kabumpo in Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
An elephant in Oz? You bet! The tiny kingdom of Pumperdink has what no neighboring kingdom has: an Elegant Elephant in court, and his name is Kabumpo. He is very proud of his kingdom, his elegance and tends to be just the smallest bit pompous. On...
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Memoirs
An review essay of "Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay". The Edinburgh Review, January, 1843. Reprinted in vol. iii of Macaulay's Critical and Historical Essays. "Hundreds of remarkable persons had passed in review before her....The account which...
The Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation) - Henrik Ibsen
The Master Builder (Gosse & Archer Translation) - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Tragedy
Halvard Solness is a master architect who has ruthlessly forged a preëminent career without regard for the feelings of those around him. In spite of this unscrupulous path of life, his conscience is still painfully alive, burdening him with guilt...
The Mystery of the Sycamore - Carolyn Wells
The Mystery of the Sycamore - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Instead of prison time, former governor, Samuel Appleby, sentences his former rival, Daniel Wheeler to imprisonment on his homestead with a very strange addendum.He then endeavors to convince Mr. Wheeler to endorse his son’s candidacy for governor...
Hunger - Knut HAMSUN
Hunger - Knut HAMSUN
- Author: Knut HAMSUN
- Genre: General Fiction
Hunger (Norwegian: Sult) is a novel by the Norwegian author Knut Hamsun and was published in its final form in 1890. The novel has been hailed as the literary opening of the 20th century and an outstanding example of modern, psychology-driven...
American Big-Game Hunting - Undefined
American Big-Game Hunting - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Animals / Sports & Recreation
The first book published by The Boone and Crockett Club founded by Theodore Roosevelt and George Grinnell, who declared in their Editors Note: "Hunting big game in the wilderness is, above all things, a sport for a vigorous and masterful people. The...
A Master Hand - Richard DALLAS
A Master Hand - Richard DALLAS
- Author: Richard DALLAS
- Genre: Detective Fiction
This murder mystery, written in 1903 by Richard Dallas (pseudonym), describes a fictional crime that took place in the New York City of 1883. A fine period piece as well as a clever detective story. (Introduction by Delmar H. Dolbier)...
Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass'' - Bill Nye
Baled Hay: A Drier Book than Walt Whitman's ''Leaves o' Grass'' - Bill Nye
- Author: Bill Nye
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
There can really be no excuse for this last book of trite and beautiful sayings. I do not attempt, in any way, to palliate this great wrong. I would not do so even if I had an idea what palliate meant. . . . I have taken great care to thoroughly...
