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The Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola - Frances Alice Forbes
The Life of St. Ignatius of Loyola - Frances Alice Forbes
- Author: Frances Alice Forbes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1491– 1556) was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and was its first Superior General. After being seriously wounded in...
Five O'Clock Tea - William Dean Howells
Five O'Clock Tea - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
A light-hearted romantic comedy in twelve short scenes, set during a tea party in the home of Mrs. Amy Somers, a widow who is courted by the ingenuous and delightful Mr. Willis Campbell. (Summary by Ruth Golding) CAST: Narrator: Kim Stich Mr. Willis...
Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love - Robert Herrick
Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love - Robert Herrick
- Author: Robert Herrick
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
His verse is eminent for sweet and gracious fluency; this is a real note of the 'Elizabethan' poets. His subjects are frequently pastoral, with a classical tinge, more or less slight, infused; his language, though not free from exaggeration, is...
The Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories - Joel Chandler Harris
The Kidnapping of President Lincoln, and Other War Detective Stories - Joel Chandler Harris
- Author: Joel Chandler Harris
- Genre: Detective Fiction
While detective work always makes for exciting stories, the circumstances under which the detective works play a huge role in the thrill. The stories in this collection follow detectives as they unravel mysteries in times of war, where danger awaits...
Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces - Thomas W. HANSHEW
Cleek: The Man of the Forty Faces - Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Author: Thomas W. HANSHEW
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Meet Hamilton Cleek - man of mystery, and master of disguise and derring-do. Cleek's exploits are, to say the least, highly improbable, but the book is enormous fun. The goodies are good and the baddies are very bad indeed, but beware - things are...
Short Poetry Collection 126 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 126 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 20 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for November 2013....
Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions - Frank HARRIS
Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions - Frank HARRIS
- Author: Frank HARRIS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Consumers of biography are familiar with the division between memoirs of the living or recently dead written by those who "knew" the subject more or less intimately, and the more objective or scholarly accounts produced by later generations. In the...
The Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the Intelligent Rooster. An interesting story in verse for children - Unknown
The Life and Adventures of Chanticleer, the Intelligent Rooster. An interesting story in verse for children - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Poetry
This is the story of an intelligent, upright and generous rooster named Chanticleer. We follow his life from birth to death in this story written in verse. The story recounts his adventures during his childhood, his studies and his travels. He...
Dialogues of the Dead - George LYTTELTON
Dialogues of the Dead - George LYTTELTON
- Author: George LYTTELTON
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Can the dead of different ages and spaces meet in the afterlife? This is a thought that has occupied a number of writers throughout literature, George Lyttleton being one of them. He allows Plato to discourse with Fenelon, allows a native American...
The Vortex Blaster - E. E. Smith
The Vortex Blaster - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Science Fiction
Uncontrolled, terribly violent Atomic Vortices are slowly destroying civilization on every human planet throughout the galaxy. Nothing can contain or stop them despite the lensmen's best efforts until one destroys the home and family of "Storm"...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Karl-Ludwig Sand (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / True Crime
This is the fourth volume of Alexandre Dumas' studies of celebrated crimes and their perpetrators. This volume is concerned with the story of Karl Ludwig Sand, who stabbed August von Kotzebue to death in 1819. August von Kotzebue had been a...
The Convict - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
The Convict - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top, apparently watching for something or...
A Gold Hunter's Experience - Chalkley J. HAMBLETON
A Gold Hunter's Experience - Chalkley J. HAMBLETON
- Author: Chalkley J. HAMBLETON
- Genre: Memoirs
"Early in the summer of 1860, I had an attack of gold fever. In Chicago, the conditions for such a malady were all favorable. Since the panic of 1857 there had been three years of general depression, money was scarce, there was little activity in...
Haunted London - George Walter THORNBURY
Haunted London - George Walter THORNBURY
- Author: George Walter THORNBURY
- Genre: Travel & Geography
London: one of the oldest and most populous cities in the world. Surely it holds a few secrets within its ancient walls and the stories of ghostly presences abound....
Windsor Castle, Book 6 - William Harrison Ainsworth
Windsor Castle, Book 6 - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Historical Fiction
Book 6 - Jane Seymour. The focus of the novels is on the events surrounding Henry VIII's replacing Catherine of Aragon with Anne Boleyn as his wife. During Henry's pursuit of Boleyn, the novel describes other couples, including the Earl of Surrey...
The Men Who Live It Down - Henry Lawson
The Men Who Live It Down - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
MANY of the verses in this volume (When I Was King (1906)) appeared originally in the SYDNEY Bulletin, others in the Daily Telegraph, Town and Country Journal, Evening News, World's News, Australian Star, Amateur Gardener, and KALGOORLIE Sun, while...
Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy
Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A land owner, Vasili Andreevich, takes along one of his peasants, Nikita, for a short journey to another town. He wishes to get to the town quickly 'for business'. They find themselves in the middle of a blizzard, but the master in his avarice...
A Phantom Lover - Vernon LEE
A Phantom Lover - Vernon LEE
- Author: Vernon LEE
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, the story concerns a portrait painter commissioned by a squire, William Oke, to produce portraits of him and...
Short Poetry Collection 120 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 120 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for May 2013....
The Elements of Style - William STRUNK, JR.
The Elements of Style - William STRUNK, JR.
- Author: William STRUNK JR.
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Education / Language learning
“The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is required reading in U.S. high school...
The Call of the Wild (Version 3) - Jack London
The Call of the Wild (Version 3) - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Buck is living a happy life in California until he is sold to pay a gambling debt. Taken to the Klondike to become a sled dog, Buck must toughen up and learn the harsher rules of survival in the North. One of the first of these is how to deal with...
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson - DeWitt C. PETERS
The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson - DeWitt C. PETERS
- Author: DeWitt C. PETERS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Kit Carson was a famous hunter, trapper, mountain man, guide - an American icon. Stories about him abounded in popular contemporary literature, but most was pure fiction. This work is the authorized biography, much of it in his own words. It was...
Love's Wantonness - Thomas LODGE
Love's Wantonness - Thomas LODGE
- Author: Thomas LODGE
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 different recordings of Love's Wantonness by Thomas Lodge, published in Tudor and Stuart Love Songs in 1902. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of August 24th, 2008....
A Wish - Samuel Rogers
A Wish - Samuel Rogers
- Author: Samuel Rogers
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His recollections of these and other friends...
Zastrozzi, A Romance - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Zastrozzi, A Romance - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
“Would Julia of Strobazzo’s heart was reeking on my dagger!” From the asthmatic urgency of its opening abduction scene to the Satanic defiance of the villain’s departure “with a wild convulsive laugh of exulting revenge”, this first of Shelley’s...
Principles of Economics, The Appendices
Principles of Economics, The Appendices
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
Principles of Economics was a leading economics textbook of Alfred Marshall (1842-1924), first published in 1890. Marshall began writing the book in 1881, and he spent much of the next decade at work on it. His plan for the work gradually extended...
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope) - P. G. Wodehouse
The Coming of Bill (or: Their Mutual Child; or: The White Hope) - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Coming of Bill tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter (Introduction by Wikipedia)...
Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books - Edward Francis HARKINS
Little Pilgrimages Among the Women Who Have Written Famous Books - Edward Francis HARKINS
- Author: Edward Francis HARKINS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The purpose of this book is to renew an intimate acquaintance with the women whom the American reading public regards as favorites, and to establish a like intimate acquaintance with the promising newcomers. The sketches are partly critical and...
Go Plant A Tree - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Go Plant A Tree - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone". Her autobiography, The...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 053 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 053 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include History--Jocelyn de Brakelond's 13th century chronicle of the Bury St. Edmund monastery, Lorenzo de Medici's Florence, the voyage of the...
The Young Visiters - Daisy ASHFORD
The Young Visiters - Daisy ASHFORD
- Author: Daisy ASHFORD
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Young Visiters is a comic romance novella that parodies upper class society of late Victorian England. Social climber Alfred Salteena introduces his young lady friend Ethel to a genuine gentleman named Bernard and, to his irritation, they hit it...
The Monster Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Monster Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction
Dr. Arthur Maxon has a dream: to create an artificial human being! His first twelve experiments have resulted only in grotesque, subhuman monsters. But Number Thirteen is perfect, and will make an ideal mate for Virginia, Dr. Maxon’s only daughter....
Witching Hill - E. W. Hornung
Witching Hill - E. W. Hornung
- Author: E. W. Hornung
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The adventures of two young men, which may or may not have to do with the supernatural. - Summary by Nicholas Clifford...
Great Pirate Stories - Joseph Lewis FRENCH
Great Pirate Stories - Joseph Lewis FRENCH
- Author: Joseph Lewis FRENCH
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Piracy embodies the romance of the sea at its highest expression. It isa sad but inevitable commentary on our civilization, that, so far as thesea is concerned, it has developed from its infancy down to a century orso ago, under one phase or another...
Apples Growing - Will Carleton
Apples Growing - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life."What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer, Will Carleton has done for the...
The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods - Captain Quincy ALLEN
The Outdoor Chums in the Big Woods - Captain Quincy ALLEN
- Author: Captain Quincy ALLEN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
“That looks like a challenge, Frank.” “It was well fired, at any rate, Bluff!” “I should say yes, because it knocked my hat clear off my head. Do we stand for that sort of thing, or shall we accept the dare?” “There are half a dozen and more of the...
Short Poetry Collection 080 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 080 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of June 2009....
The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Sir Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Single author / Narratives
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, the "Flower of Teviot" is beloved by Baron Henry of Cranstown an ally of the...
The American Language - H. L. Mencken
The American Language - H. L. Mencken
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- Genre: Literary Criticism / Writing & Linguistics
"It was part of my daily work, for a good many years, to read the principal English newspapers and reviews; it has been part of my work, all the time, to read the more important English novels, essays, poetry and criticism. An American born and...
Roads of Destiny - O. Henry
Roads of Destiny - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Satire / Westerns / Single Author Collections
This is another collection of O. Henry short stories. - Summary by Sid...
