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The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - January - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - January - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Poetry
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs' poems for each day. This project covers the month of January. - Summary by Carolin...
Arizona Sketches - Joseph MUNK
Arizona Sketches - Joseph MUNK
- Author: Joseph MUNK
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
An introduction to Arizona from approximately a century ago. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front - Kate John FINZI
Eighteen Months in the War Zone: A Record of a Woman's Work on the Western Front - Kate John FINZI
- Author: Kate John FINZI
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
"But it is not for those who heard the call in the later months so much as in memory of those early heroes of Mons, who knew the bitterness of a valiant retreat, the horror of forced marches along parched roads, with only the prod of the next man's...
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods - Albert Bigelow Paine
The Lucky Piece: A Story of the North Woods - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
While riding a stage back to the city late in the summer, a youngster had no money to spend, and so gives his lucky piece as payment to a young girl selling berries by the roadside. As time passes, in the Adirondack mountains of northern New York...
In Flanders Fields (version 2) - John MCCRAE
In Flanders Fields (version 2) - John MCCRAE
- Author: John MCCRAE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you fifteen readings of In Flanders Fields, one of the more famous poems written during the First World War. John McCrae was a poet and physician from Guelph, Ontario. His close friend, Alexis Helmer, was killed during the...
Anne of Green Gables (version 5) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables (version 5) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Anne of Green Gables is about an orphan girl who is starving for a family to love her. Her big words and bright spirits take her through many toils, trials, and temptations. Her romantic schemes make it nearly to impossible for any day of her life...
Short Story Collection Vol. 050 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 050 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVoxβs Short Story Collection 050: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus - Francis P. CHURCH
Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus - Francis P. CHURCH
- Author: Francis P. CHURCH
- Genre: Children's Fiction
"Is There A Santa Claus?" was the headline that appeared over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun. The editorial, which included the response of "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus," has become an indelible part of...
Hallowe'en - Virna SHEARD
Hallowe'en - Virna SHEARD
- Author: Virna SHEARD
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Hallowe'en by Virna Sheard. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 20, 2019. ------ A tribute to Hallowe'en by Canadian poetess Virna Sheard. - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Stars, My Brothers - Edmond HAMILTON
The Stars, My Brothers - Edmond HAMILTON
- Author: Edmond HAMILTON
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
Edmond Hamilton (1904 β 1977) had a career that began as a regular and frequent contributor to Weird Tales magazine. The first hardcover publication of Science Fiction stories was a Hamilton compilation, and he and E.E. βDocβ Smith are credited with...
The Talleyrand Maxim - J. S. Fletcher
The Talleyrand Maxim - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Detective Fiction
John Mallathorpe, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist and land owner dies in an accident, apparently without making a will. His estate goes to his wife and two children and they live the good life for a number of years. However, an old bookseller,...
The History of the Suez Canal - Ferdinand de LESSEPS
The History of the Suez Canal - Ferdinand de LESSEPS
- Author: Ferdinand de LESSEPS
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
A lively picture of the origin and completion of the Suez Canal (built between 1859 and 1869) and his architect, Vicomte de Lesseps. This is the translation of a lecture given before the Societe de Gens Lettres in Paris, in April 1870 by de Lesseps...
Red Nails (version 2) - Robert E. Howard
Red Nails (version 2) - Robert E. Howard
- Author: Robert E. Howard
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Conan the Barbarian finds himself lusting after and fighting alongside the toughest woman alive, Valeria The Red, a beautiful pirate who out pirates the best of them in her strength and ferocity. This is one of the strangest stories ever written by...
Beyond - John Galsworthy
Beyond - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Gyp, the daughter of ex-Major Charles Claire Winton, at the age of 23 marries Fiorsen, a Swedish violin virtuoso. Her mother, the wife of another man, has been Winton's mistress; she had died when Gyp was born. A highly sensitive child, Gyp has...
About Orchids, a Chat - Frederick BOYLE
About Orchids, a Chat - Frederick BOYLE
- Author: Frederick BOYLE
- Genre: Nature / Gardening
This is not a manual of instruction for orchid growers; though there are many hints on cultivation, and a few paragraphs on how to hybridize. The author is just an enthusiastic amateur orchid lover. He takes the reader on a wander through the...
Short Stories Of William Henry Harrison Murray - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
Short Stories Of William Henry Harrison Murray - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Author: William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Westerns / Anthologies
Murray (1840-1904) was a sometime clergyman, journalist, and purveyor of the outdoor life. His books did much to popularize the virtues of outdoor experience, especially in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Here are stories, some...
The Pennycomequicks - Sabine Baring-Gould
The Pennycomequicks - Sabine Baring-Gould
- Author: Sabine Baring-Gould
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction / Romance
The Pennycomequicks is the charming and witty story of a dysfunctional English family in the late 19th century, scattered to the winds, scarred and battered by human and Divine tragedy, struggling for sustenance of the material and / or immaterial...
Merry Clappum Junction - Arnold KENNEDY
Merry Clappum Junction - Arnold KENNEDY
- Author: Arnold KENNEDY
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This is a jolly little book about a little boy, a dog, a train and a house. But not an ordinary train, oh no, and not an ordinary house either! And there are songs, too. The Preface is short, dull and only for the grown-ups. (Summary by Ruth Golding)...
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 4 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Author: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary King Charles X before his overthrow in...
The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Wrecker - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Wrecker (1892) is a novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson in collaboration with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne. The story is a 'sprawling, episodic adventure story, a comedy of brash manners and something of a detective mystery'. It revolves...
Bull Hunter - Max Brand
Bull Hunter - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Bull Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. But Pete Reeve didn't have the reputation of a dead shot because he relied on his common sense. Then Bull and...
The Shadows - George MacDonald
The Shadows - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
"Old Ralph Rinkelmann made his living by comic sketches, and all but lost it again by tragic poems. So he was just the man to be chosen king of the fairies..." George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 β September 18, 1905) was a Scottish author, poet,...
Woman on the American Frontier - William Worthington FOWLER
Woman on the American Frontier - William Worthington FOWLER
- Author: William Worthington FOWLER
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Many books describe the role of men during American history. However, at the same time, women did much: comforted, fought, helped, raised children, and much more. This book is full of mini-biographies of women in many places, and many ages- each...
The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 2 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Autobiography of Goethe Volume 2 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A literary celebrity by the age of 25, Goethe was ennobled by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Carl August in 1782 after first taking up residence there in November 1775 following the success of his first novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther. He was an early...
David Copperfield - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings in America - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield - Condensed by the Author for his Dramatic Readings in America - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"This short collection of 6 selected scenes from "David Copperfield" were abridged and performed by Dickens himself during his American Tour of 1867 and 1868."- Summary by Michael Armenta...
Relativity: The Special and General Theory - Albert EINSTEIN
Relativity: The Special and General Theory - Albert EINSTEIN
- Author: Albert EINSTEIN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
This is an introduction to Einsteinβs space-bending, time-stretching theory of Relativity, written by the master himself. Special and General relativity explain the structure of space time and provide a theory of gravitation, respectively....
Everybody's Lonesome - Clara E. LAUGHLIN
Everybody's Lonesome - Clara E. LAUGHLIN
- Author: Clara E. LAUGHLIN
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Twenty-year-old Mary Alice is bored with her home life and envious of the beautiful, poised, popular girls she sees at parties. At her mother's advice, she reluctantly visits her Godmother in New York, who teaches Mary Alice a little homemade...
A Fair Mystery - Charlotte M. BRAME
A Fair Mystery - Charlotte M. BRAME
- Author: Charlotte M. BRAME
- Genre: Detective Fiction
(Written by Charlotte M. Brame under the pen name Bertha M. Clay.)Honest Mark Brace is about to lose his farm, land of his ancestors, home to his wife, Patty, and small daughter, Mattie, when out of a dark and stormy night comes the answer to his...
The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453 - Eleanor Constance LODGE
The End of the Middle Age: 1273-1453 - Eleanor Constance LODGE
- Author: Eleanor Constance LODGE
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
Eleanor Constance Lodge, (1869-1936), was the first woman to receive a Doctorate of Letters from the University of Oxford. In this short survey, the 180 years between 1273 and 1453 are characterized as a period of "transition--a time in which...
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5 - National Geographic Society
National Geographic Magazine Vol. 02 No. 3-5 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
National Geographic Magazine Volume 2 Number 3: The Arctic Cruise of the U.S.S. Thetis in the Summer and Autumn of 1889. The Law of Storms, considered with special reference to the North Atlantic. The Irrigation Problem in Montana. National...
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Romance / Satire
Northanger Abbey is a hilarious parody of 18th century gothic novels. The heroine, 17-year old Catherine, has been reading far too many βhorridβ gothic novels and would love to encounter some gothic-style terror β but the superficial world of Bath...
A Daughter of the Land (version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
A Daughter of the Land (version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
A Daughter of the Land follows Kate Bates, one of sixteen children, as she takes the wings of morning to try for independence and the life she's been denied. She dreams of a husband, children, and a farm, yet her actions have far-reaching...
Short Poetry Collection 168 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 168 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 40 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2017....
The Marne: a tale of the war - Edith Wharton
The Marne: a tale of the war - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
American writer Edith Wharton is known for her novels of manners set in old New York; yet much of her adult life was spent in France. She lived in Paris throughout World War I and was heavily involved in refugee work. Her 1918 novella The Marne...
Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Lines: We Meet Not As We Parted - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Lines: "We Meet Not As We Parted," by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 3rd, 2010....
The Red Window - Fergus Hume
The Red Window - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Two former school friends, now both military men, meet again and discover both are trying to lose themselves to public gaze. Dick West has inherited the family estate, but is out of favor. "The Red Window" was used during periods of civil unrest to...
The Natural History of Selborne - Gilbert WHITE
The Natural History of Selborne - Gilbert WHITE
- Author: Gilbert WHITE
- Genre: Nature
The Reverend Gilbert White was the curate of the village of Selborne, a village in Hampshire, from 1784 to his death in 1793, living most of his life in the village. The book is in the form of a collection of letters to two friends, discussing the...
Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid - Harriet Martineau
Life in the Sick-room: Essays by an Invalid - Harriet Martineau
- Author: Harriet Martineau
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Thinking she would be ill for the rest of her life, Harriet Martineau wrote these partly autobiographical essays about life in the sickroom. Considered ground breaking, it asserted that the sickroom is the sick person's place and not the doctor's....
Poems Every Child Should Know - Various
Poems Every Child Should Know - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This anthology of poetry, published in 1904, contains such favorites as The Raven, My Shadow, and The Village Blacksmith, as well as many lovely poems that may be unfamiliar. Most of the poems in this collection are short enough for children to...
Anecdotes of Dogs - Edward JESSE
Anecdotes of Dogs - Edward JESSE
- Author: Edward JESSE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Animals
"Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends." The character, sensibilities, and intellectual faculties of animals have always been a favourite study, and they are, perhaps, more strongly developed in the dog than in...
