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The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02 - Anonymous
The Book of A Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 02 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. The are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I - James Boswell
The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. I - James Boswell
- Author: James Boswell
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson is widely considered to be the greatest English-language biography ever written. It was revolutionary in its efforts to represent Johnson as he was, celebrating his flaws as well as his genius, and in Boswell's...
The Montessori Method - Maria MONTESSORI
The Montessori Method - Maria MONTESSORI
- Author: Maria MONTESSORI
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
In the early 1900's Dr. Maria Montessori began to reform educational methods with her work the 'Case dei Bambini' in Rome, Italy. Montessori began her work by developing methods to educate mentally retarded children, the method she developed was...
Satires and Profanities - George William FOOTE
Satires and Profanities - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire / Short Stories
"Believing as I do that James Thomson is, since Shelley, the most brilliant genius who has wielded a pen in the service of Freethought, I take a natural pride and pleasure in rescuing the following articles from burial in the great mausoleum of the...
The White Canoe and Other Verse - Alan SULLIVAN
The White Canoe and Other Verse - Alan SULLIVAN
- Author: Alan SULLIVAN
- Genre: Single author
This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the voyage through a Summer of life in an allegorical "white canoe". During that voyage Sullivan shares with the...
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun - Élisabeth Louise Vigée LE BRUN
Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun - Élisabeth Louise Vigée LE BRUN
- Author: Élisabeth Louise Vigée LE BRUN
- Genre: Memoirs
This memoirs chronicles Madame Vigée Lebrun's childhood and the early discovery of her talent, the fortuitous break that introduced her to the world of "portraiture of the stars," her expeditious flight from France at the height of the French...
Let'em Breathe Space - Lester del Rey
Let'em Breathe Space - Lester del Rey
- Author: Lester del Rey
- Genre: Science Fiction
The old space freighter Wahoo is all Dr. Pietro can afford for his expedition to the rings of Saturn. Although built for a crew of 6 the good doctor crams 19 people into the Wahoo, and after 5 months they are really getting on each other’s nerves....
The Song of Hugh Glass - John Neihardt
The Song of Hugh Glass - John Neihardt
- Author: John Neihardt
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry
This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the Trans-Missouri region. The poem focuses upon...
Anna Karenina, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
In Part 2, Kitty’s health deteriorates from regret and heartbreak, while Levin retreats to his country estate. Anna and Vronsky continue to pursue each other and become the talk of polite society, to the chagrin of Karenin. (Summary by Mary Ann )...
The Amateur Cracksman - E. W. Hornung
The Amateur Cracksman - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
"I'd tasted blood, and it was all over with me. Why should I work when I could steal? Why settle down to some humdrum uncongenial billet, when excitement, romance, danger and a decent living were all going begging together?"- A. J. Raffles, The Ides...
Resurrection, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
Resurrection, Book 2 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: General Fiction
Resurrection is the last of Tolstoy's major fiction works published in his lifetime. Tolstoy intended the novel as an exposition of injustice of man-made laws and the hypocrisy of institutionalized church. It was first published serially in the...
The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days - Baroness Orczy
The Bronze Eagle: A Story of the Hundred Days - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
The Bronze Eagle is a romantic historical novel which takes place during the return of Napoleon and his attempt to reestablish his Empire. The main character is a rich English businessman, who falls in love with an aristocratic young woman, with...
Coffee Break Collection 010 - War and Conflict - Various
Coffee Break Collection 010 - War and Conflict - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
This is the tenth collection of our "coffee break" series, involving public domain works that are between 3 and 15 minutes in length. These are great for work/study breaks, commutes, workouts, or any time you'd like to hear a whole story and only...
The Homely Heroine - Edna Ferber
The Homely Heroine - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: Short Stories
Who ever heard of a plain and downright homely heroine? Isn't a heroine by definition beautiful? Well, Edna Ferber, in her well known style that later produced Show Boat and Giant, tells us about just such a heroine in the first of these four...
Jude the Obscure (Version 2) - Thomas Hardy
Jude the Obscure (Version 2) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
Eleven-year-old Jude Fawley, inspired by his teacher Mr. Phillotson, who leaves Marygreen for Christminster to take a university degree, decides to adopt the same course for himself. Raised by his great-aunt, he studies hard with the aid of some old...
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect - Various
Tim Bobbin: A View of the Lancashire Dialect - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs
A comic dialogue written in John Collier's idiosyncratic version of the 18th century South Lancashire dialect together with a collection of 19th century texts on Collier and his work. Egged on by Meary (Mary), Tummus (Thomas) recounts the series of...
Humorous Readings and Recitations - Leopold WAGNER
Humorous Readings and Recitations - Leopold WAGNER
- Author: Leopold WAGNER
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Before radio, television, and electronic mass media, lectures, recitations, public readings, and other public performances were important ways of sharing new works with the public or attracting public attention to issues and authors of the time....
Bible (KJV) 27: Daniel - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 27: Daniel - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The Book of Daniel is a book in the Hebrew Bible. The book tells of how Daniel, a Judean exile at the court of Nebuchadnezzar II (605 to 562 BC), the ruler of Babylon, becomes a high government official and delivers various visions. The earliest...
Hooded Detective: 6 Action Packed Pulp Detective Stories - Undefined
Hooded Detective: 6 Action Packed Pulp Detective Stories - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Evil lurks in the hearts and minds of men and many nefarious schemes are hatched by these gangsters, mob bosses and super villains. But thankfully, equally brave, talented detectives (some of them hooded) are there to track them down and thwart...
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl - Elizabeth Burgoyne CORBETT
The Adventures of an Ugly Girl - Elizabeth Burgoyne CORBETT
- Author: Elizabeth Burgoyne CORBETT
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
“Come, Dora! I shall never be ready, if you don’t make haste. They will be here in ten minutes, and my hair is not half so nice as it ought to be, thanks to your carelessness.”“You are very good to ignore my own claims to attention so utterly. I...
Raggedy Ann Stories - Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann Stories - Johnny Gruelle
- Author: Johnny Gruelle
- Genre: Children's Fiction
To the millions of children and grown-ups who have loved a Rag Doll, the author dedicated these stories. Now listen as eight voices read to you Raggedy Ann's exciting adventures, as gentle and charming today, as they were when first published in...
The History of the Art of Tablesetting - Claudia Quigley Murphy
The History of the Art of Tablesetting - Claudia Quigley Murphy
- Author: Claudia Quigley Murphy
- Genre: Undefined
The art of table setting is one of the lost arts in the modern household. Do we just not bother anymore or did we collectively forget how to do it? Maybe this little book will get some of us to start observing etiquette properly again. - Summary by...
The Port of Missing Men - Meredith Nicholson
The Port of Missing Men - Meredith Nicholson
- Author: Meredith Nicholson
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Romance / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Shirley Claiborne is fascinated by the tall handsome man named John Armitage who seemed to follow her and her brother, Captain Claiborne, as they traveled around Europe. Count von Stroebel had urged Armitage to do something for Austria. Now von...
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day - Lydia Maria Child
The New-England Boy's Song About Thanksgiving Day - Lydia Maria Child
- Author: Lydia Maria Child
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you two different recordings of The New-England Boy’s Song About Thanksgiving Day, by Lydia Maria Child, to celebrate Thanksgiving, 2006. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 19th, 2006....
The White Heart of Mojave - Edna Brush PERKINS
The White Heart of Mojave - Edna Brush PERKINS
- Author: Edna Brush PERKINS
- Genre: Travel & Geography
"The White Heart of the Mojave" recounts a 1920's adventure "in the wind and sun and big spaces" of Death Valley by two independent minded women, Edna Brush Perkins and Charlotte Hannahs Jordan. Both women were early feminists, Edna as chairwoman of...
Short Poetry Collection 155 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 155 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for April 2016....
The Cynical Miss Catherwaight - Richard Harding Davis
The Cynical Miss Catherwaight - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Short Stories
This is the story of Miss Catherwaight, collector of "dishonored honors" - medals of honor pawned by the persons they were awarded to. Part of Miss Catherwaight's collection are also the stories behind each award, and she tends to look down on their...
Natural Science and Religion - Asa GRAY
Natural Science and Religion - Asa GRAY
- Author: Asa GRAY
- Genre: Christianity - Other / Life Sciences
Asa Gray was a highly-regarded botanist at Harvard University and a friend and collaborator of Charles Darwin. As a Christian, Gray was concerned with the disconnect developing through the nineteenth century between the growing understanding of the...
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading) - Henry Fielding
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews (Dramatic Reading) - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews, or simply Shamela, as it is more commonly known, is a satirical novel written by Henry Fielding and first published in April 1741 under the name of Mr. Conny Keyber. Fielding never owned to writing...
The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 3 - Flavius Josephus
The Antiquities of the Jews, Volume 3 - Flavius Josephus
- Author: Flavius Josephus
- Genre: History / Antiquity
Antiquities of the Jews was a work published by the important Jewish historian Flavius Josephus about the year 93 or 94. Antiquities of the Jews is a history of the Jewish people, written in Greek for Josephus' gentile patrons. Beginning with the...
Elsie Dinsmore - Martha Finley
Elsie Dinsmore - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Religion
Elsie, young and motherless, has never met her father and is being raised by her father's family. As a strong Christian, she has many trials within the unbelieving family. Her greatest comforts are her faith and her mammy, Chloe. Finally, her father...
The Black-Bearded Barbarian - Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
The Black-Bearded Barbarian - Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
- Author: Mary Esther Miller MacGregor
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A fictionalized biography of George Mackay (1844-1901), an influential Presbyterian missionary in northern Taiwan. (Summary by Edmund Bloxam)...
Ulysses - James JOYCE
Ulysses - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
NOTE: Because of the nature of this project, there was a bending of usual LibriVox procedures: pub-like background noise was encouraged, as well as group readings; and no editing was required, so in places there may be some accidental variation from...
A Story of the Days to Come - H. G. Wells
A Story of the Days to Come - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
Set in London in the early 22nd century, this novella depicts the troubles of two lovers, Denton and Elizabeth. Elizabeth is a well-to-do woman with many connections, but Denton is only a middle-class worker. Elizabeth's father strongly disapproves...
Around the World with the Children - Frank G. Carpenter
Around the World with the Children - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: Reference / Travel & Geography
An introduction to world geography for young and old alike. Topics such as China, Japan, the American Indian, Europe and the oceans on a beginning level. Summary by BettyB...
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel BUTLER
The Way of All Flesh - Samuel BUTLER
- Author: Samuel BUTLER
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
The Way of All Flesh (1903) is a semi-autobiographical novel by Samuel Butler which attacks Victorian-era hypocrisy. Written between 1873 and 1884, it traces four generations of the Pontifex family. It represents the diminishment of religious...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 2: Urbain Grandier (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime / Christianity - Other
This is the dramatic story of Urbain Grandier, a catholic priest, who had a reputation to rival that of Casanova, which ultimately led to his destruction. He was accused of witchcraft after a series of accusations from nuns of a nearby convent, who...
Short Science Fiction Collection 005 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected...
The Sorceress of the Strand - L. T. Meade
The Sorceress of the Strand - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
From the moment Madame Sara arrived on the scene, she has taken London society by storm. Madame is both beautiful and mysterious, but it soon becomes clear to both Dixon Druce and his friend, police surgeon Eric Vandeleur, that there is something...
The Highest Treason - Randall Garrett
The Highest Treason - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
Set in a future in which humanity’s dream of total equality is fully realized and poverty in terms of material wealth has been eliminated, humanity has straight-jacketed itself into the only social system which could make this possible. Class...
