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How I Found Livingstone - Henry Morton STANLEY
How I Found Livingstone - Henry Morton STANLEY
- Author: Henry Morton STANLEY
- Genre: Exploration
Sir Henry Morton Stanley is famously quoted for saying "Dr Livingstone, i Presume?". Born in Wales, he migrated over to the United States at the age of 18, he eventually became an overseas correspondent for the New York Herald. In 1869 Stanley was...
Bible (ASV) 23: Isaiah - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 23: Isaiah - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
"The Book of Isaiah (Hebrew: ספר ישעיה) is a book of the Bible traditionally attributed to the Prophet Isaiah, who lived in the second half of the 8th century BC. In the first 39 chapters, Isaiah prophesies doom for a sinful Judah and for all the...
The Lost Prince - Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Lost Prince - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Children's Fiction
“The Lost Prince” is about Marco Loristan, his father, and his friend, a street urchin named The Rat. Marco's father, Stefan, is a Samavian patriot working to overthrow the cruel dictatorship in the kingdom of Samavia. Marco and his father, Stefan,...
Beyond the Rocks, A Love Story - Elinor Glyn
Beyond the Rocks, A Love Story - Elinor Glyn
- Author: Elinor Glyn
- Genre: Romance
Forced into marriage to a man who is older and wealthier, young Theodora Fitzgerald contemplates her fate in love, until she meets and falls in love with another. - Summary by Amy Deuchler...
The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840) - Meriwether LEWIS
The Journal of Lewis and Clarke (1840) - Meriwether LEWIS
- Author: Meriwether LEWIS
- Genre: History / Modern (19th C) / Exploration
"The expedition of Messrs. Lewis and Clarke, for exploring the river Missouri, and the best communication from that to the Pacific Ocean, has had all the success which could be expected. They have traced the Missouri nearly to its source; descended...
Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers - John Burroughs
Squirrels and Other Fur-bearers - John Burroughs
- Author: John Burroughs
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Animals
Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers, a collection of essays by American naturalist and essayist, John Burroughs, provides fascinating insight into the daily life of small woodland creatures. Included in these essays are Burrough's personal observations...
Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert - Izaak WALTON
Izaak Walton's Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Richard Hooker and George Herbert - Izaak WALTON
- Author: Izaak WALTON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The full title of Walton's book of short biographies is, Lives of John Donne, Henry Wotton, Rich'd Hooker, George Herbert, &C. Sir Henry Wotton (1568 – 1639) was an English author, diplomat and politician who sat in the House of Commons in 1614...
Stoicism - St. George William Joseph STOCK
Stoicism - St. George William Joseph STOCK
- Author: St. George William Joseph STOCK
- Genre: Ancient
This short book is part of the Philosophies Ancient and Modern series, which attempts to make Western philosophy more accessible to the general public. In this volume, George Stock provides a concise primer on Stoicism, the ancient philosophy that...
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches - Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Author: Sir Arthur Thomas QUILLER-COUCH
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900 / Single Author Collections
This is a collection of well-written engaging short stories written by "Q", the pen name of the prolific and eccentric Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. - Summary by Amy Gramour...
The Leavenworth Case - Anna Katharine Green
The Leavenworth Case - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Anna Katharine Green was one of the first female mystery writers to publish under her own name. She was never very successful as an author, but the technical excellence of her books caused several law schools to use The Leavenworth Case as a...
The Way of Holiness - Samuel Logan Brengle
The Way of Holiness - Samuel Logan Brengle
- Author: Samuel Logan Brengle
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Samuel Logan Brengle was a commissioner in the Salvation Army. His books are known for the practicality, joyfulness and authenticity. His life was spent working with people on the streets, so his insights into the work of the Holy Spirit are...
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying - Jeremy TAYLOR
The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying - Jeremy TAYLOR
- Author: Jeremy TAYLOR
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Written by a Church of England clergyman in the time of Cromwell, this work is praised for both its style and content. Taylor's work was much admired by John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, for its devotional quality; and by Samuel Taylor...
The Rome Express - Arthur Griffiths
The Rome Express - Arthur Griffiths
- Author: Arthur Griffiths
- Genre: Detective Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
The passengers in the sleeping car of the Rome Express were just woken and informed that they will reach Paris soon, and a bustle ensues. Only one passenger cannot be awoken by the porter, no matter how loudly he knocks. At last, when the door is...
The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1 - George W. M. REYNOLDS
The Mysteries of London Vol. I part 1 - George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Author: George W. M. REYNOLDS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Mysteries of London was a best-selling novel in mid-Victorian England. The first series was published in weekly instalments from 1844-46, priced at a penny each. Serialised novels sold in this way were known as Penny Dreadfuls … without any...
Bible (YLT) 26: Ezekiel - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 26: Ezekiel - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
The Lifted Veil - George Eliot
The Lifted Veil - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, possible life after...
Danger in Deep Space (Dramatic Reading) - Carey Rockwell
Danger in Deep Space (Dramatic Reading) - Carey Rockwell
- Author: Carey Rockwell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Science Fiction
The year is 2353. Tom Corbett is a cadet with the Space Academy, training to become a member of the elite Solar Guard. Sent on a top-secret mission across the stars, Tom and his fellow crew members discover the nature of true loyalty, as they battle...
On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis - Immanuel Kant
On the Popular Judgment: That may be Right in Theory, but does not Hold Good in the Praxis - Immanuel Kant
- Author: Immanuel Kant
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
This tripartite essay – published variously as “On the Popular Judgment” (J. Richardson trans.), “On the Old Saw” (E.B. Ashton trans.), or “On the Common Saying” (both M.J. Gregor and H.B. Nisbet) – Kant takes up the issue of the relation of theory...
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
His Last Bow: Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction
The last collection of Sherlock Holmes short stories contains some of the most dramatic moments of the entire Sherlock Holmes canon. "The Dying Detective" sees the great Holmes brought low by a fatal illness and refusing even Dr Watson's medical...
The Mermaid's Message and Other Stories - Various
The Mermaid's Message and Other Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of fairy tales and fables compiled in 1919. The stories contain original but old-fashioned tales which modern children and grown-ups will enjoy. Summary by Carolin...
The Birth, Baptism, Temptation, and Early Ministry of Jesus Christ - Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
The Birth, Baptism, Temptation, and Early Ministry of Jesus Christ - Commentary on the Gospel of St Matthew - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Author: St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Homilies 1 - 14 of Saint John Chrysostom's commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew, which include the wonderous birth, baptism, temptation, and early ministry of the Lord Jesus Christ. - Summary by The Reader...
The Book of Famous Sieges - Tudor JENKS
The Book of Famous Sieges - Tudor JENKS
- Author: Tudor JENKS
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction
History is dominated by war, battles, and sieges. Our history books are full of these. But history books usually don't explain sieges in such an accessible and at times entertaining way as Tudor Jenks manages in this 1909 volume. The text and...
To Two Little Sisters of the Poor - Aline KILMER
To Two Little Sisters of the Poor - Aline KILMER
- Author: Aline KILMER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Aline Murray Kilmer (August 1, 1888 – October 1, 1941), was an American poet, children's book author, and essayist, and the wife and widow of poet and journalist Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918).Aline attended the Rutgers College Preparatory School with her...
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
Letters of a Woman Homesteader - Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Author: Elinore Pruitt STEWART
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The writer of the following letters is a young woman who lost her husband in a railroad accident and went to Denver to seek support for herself and her two-year-old daughter, Jerrine. Turning her hand to the nearest work, she went out by the day as...
Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
Bindle - Herbert George Jenkins
- Author: Herbert George Jenkins
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Herbert Jenkins' most popular fictional creation was Mr. Joseph Bindle, who first appeared in a humorous novel in 1916 and in a number of sequels. In the preface to the books, T. P. O'Connor said that "Bindle is the greatest Cockney that has come...
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
The title of the novella is almost an adequate summary in itself. The "boy-meets-girl-then-loses-her" story is universal but not, I think, banal - despite a surprise ending which notoriously turns out to be very little of a surprise. First Love is...
Human Sacrifice - John Emerich Edward DALBERG-ACTON
Human Sacrifice - John Emerich Edward DALBERG-ACTON
- Author: John Emerich Edward DALBERG-ACTON
- Genre: History / Philosophy
This was one of Lord Acton's essays, that was in response to the publication of the letters between Sir Robert Peel and Lord Macaulay. Lord Acton hoped to refute the common prejudice that the religious practice of sacrificing human victims was not...
Short Story Collection Vol. 081 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 081 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Librivox readers have come together to bring you another diverse collection of short stories. This anthology brings you selections from Thomas Hardy, Lord Dunsany, Saki, Arthur Conan Doyle and many others to delight and mystify. So pull up a chair,...
Black Heart and White Heart - H. Rider Haggard
Black Heart and White Heart - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Romance
Black Heart and White Heart, is a story of the courtship, trials and final union of a pair of Zulu lovers in the time of King Cetywayo. (Introduction by H. Rider Haggard)...
Our Mutual Friend, Version 3 - Charles Dickens
Our Mutual Friend, Version 3 - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Our Mutual Friend, the last novel completed by Charles Dickens, has many plots, twists and turns, from the murky river Thames to the gold and crystal on the tables of ‘Society’. A tale of murder, treachery, jealousy and love, takes us first to a...
The Wind in the Willows (version 2) - Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows (version 2) - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Animals & Nature
This much-loved story follows a group of animal friends in the English countryside as they pursue adventure ... and as adventure pursues them! The chief characters - Mole, Rat, and Toad - generally lead upbeat and happy lives, but their tales are...
A Valentine (From an old Lover) - Jessie POPE
A Valentine (From an old Lover) - Jessie POPE
- Author: Jessie POPE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Jessie Pope was an extremely patriotic English poet, writer and journalist, who remains best known for her patriotic motivational poems published during World War I. This poem is from Paper Pellets (1907), an anthology of humorous verse.(Summary...
First and Last - Hilaire Belloc
First and Last - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“When a man weighs anchor in a little ship or a large one he does a jolly thing! He cuts himself off and he starts for freedom and for the chance of things. He pulls the jib a-weather, he leans to her slowly pulling round, he sees the wind getting...
In the Net of the Stars - F. S. FLINT
In the Net of the Stars - F. S. FLINT
- Author: F. S. FLINT
- Genre: Single author
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school at the age of 13 to pursue rigorous self-study, eventually mastering 10 languages, including French and...
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - A. ALPHEUS
Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism - A. ALPHEUS
- Author: A. ALPHEUS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology / Self-Help
Written in 1903, just sixty years after the word 'hypnotism' was coined, this book explores the contemporary understanding of the nature, uses and dangers of the technique. Hypnotism has been practiced for many centuries, but it was in the...
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05 - Anonymous
The Book of a Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights), Volume 05 - 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. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
Madame de Staël - Bella DUFFY
Madame de Staël - Bella DUFFY
- Author: Bella DUFFY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Political Science
Madame Germaine de Staël (1766-1817) was the daughter of the Swiss banker and statesman, Jacques Necker. Her mother hosted a popular Paris salon where intellectuals gathered, many of whom contributed to the education of the brilliant girl. After his...
Victorian Literature - Clement SHORTER
Victorian Literature - Clement SHORTER
- Author: Clement SHORTER
- Genre: Literary Collections
Victorian Literature by Clement Shorter is a brief work that gives a good introduction to many of the important writers, historians, and critics of the Victorian era. Presented as a "gathering up (of) a few impressions of pleasant reading hours",...
An Essay on Criticism - Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism - Alexander Pope
- Author: Alexander Pope
- Genre: Poetry / Essays & Short Works
An Essay on Criticism was the first major poem written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688-1744). However, despite the title, the poem is not as much an original analysis as it is a compilation of Pope's various literary opinions. A reading...
Bohemian San Francisco - Clarence Edgar EDWORDS
Bohemian San Francisco - Clarence Edgar EDWORDS
- Author: Clarence Edgar EDWORDS
- Genre: Travel & Geography
While describing his dining experiences throughout "Bohemian San Francisco," Clarence Edwords paints an historic panorama of California cuisine with all its cosmopolitan influences. Best of all, he offers tantalizing recipes culled from...
