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What Dress Makes of Us - Dorothy QUIGLEY
What Dress Makes of Us - Dorothy QUIGLEY
- Author: Dorothy QUIGLEY
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / *Non-fiction / Self-Help
A wickedly funny book of advice on women's dress. However old, fat or plain you are, Dorothy Quigley will tell you what not to wear. (Summary by Ruth Golding)...
Hieroglyphic Tales - Horace WALPOLE
Hieroglyphic Tales - Horace WALPOLE
- Author: Horace WALPOLE
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Literary Fiction
Surreal and satirical, these stories by the eighteenth century man of letters, Whig politician, art historian and antiquarian are '"...mere whimsical trifles, written chiefly for private entertainment, and for private amusement... an attempt to vary...
The Double Traitor - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Double Traitor - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers / War & Military Fiction
The setting is the years prior to the outbreak of World War I. It is a time when Germany is outwardly preparing for war but Britain continues to believe it is invincible and that no one would challenge her. A vast German spy network flourishes in...
Howards End - E. M. Forster
Howards End - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: General Fiction
The book is about three families in England at the beginning of the twentieth century. The three families represent different gradations of the Edwardian middle class: the Wilcoxes, who are rich capitalists with a fortune made in the Colonies; the...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 14) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 3, Chapter 14) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Early Modern
This is volume 3 chapter 14 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail. Macaulay is...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 2 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of...
Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Mark the Match Boy or Richard Hunter's Ward - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
In this third installment from the “Ragged Dick” series by Horatio Algers, Jr., the reader is reacquainted with some old friends and meets young Mark Manton. Mark is a match boy plagued by bad luck and an even worse guardian. But, with new friends,...
The Martyr of the Catacombs (Dramatic Reading) - James DE MILLE
The Martyr of the Catacombs (Dramatic Reading) - James DE MILLE
- Author: James DE MILLE
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Christian Fiction
Marcellus, a Roman centurion, is instructed to eradicate the Christians from the catacombs. When he goes to investigate, he discovers the truth about their beliefs and 'Him Who loved us.' As persecution sweeps across Rome, will Marcellus be the next...
Little Wizard Stories of Oz - L. Frank Baum
Little Wizard Stories of Oz - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The "Little Wizard Stories of Oz" are six short stories written by L. Frank Baum in 1913. By all accounts, Baum intended to finish the Oz series with "The Emerald City of Oz," published in 1910. Following that, he attempted to write non-Oz books,...
Drake - Alfred Noyes
Drake - Alfred Noyes
- Author: Alfred Noyes
- Genre: Poetry / Epics / Free Verse
Alfred Noyes, in the blank-verse epic "Drake", fictionalizes the historical Francis Drake, who, during the reign of Elizabeth I of England, sailed (and plundered) on the Spanish Main and beyond. (Summary by Cynthia Moyer)...
Angel Food: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
Angel Food: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Religion
“Angel Food” consists of a series of short sermons for children on the truths of the Catholic Faith – but told with engaging stories, in a style and simple language that children can understand.The author was a parish priest in New York for many...
A Yellow Journalist - Miriam Michelson
A Yellow Journalist - Miriam Michelson
- Author: Miriam Michelson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Rhoda Massey is a young, sharp reporter for a daily newspaper in San Francisco. After proving herself an astute and fearless investigator on her first big story, she spends most of her waking hours running down leads and doing (almost) anything it...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 056 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 056 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the impact of World War I on human society and endeavor: In 1916, Woodrow Wilson declares that "real glory" comes from wartime "self-sacrifice,"...
The Ministry of Intercession - Andrew Murray
The Ministry of Intercession - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Andrew Murray sub-titled this book "A Plea for More Prayer". In it, he shows how throughout Scripture, in the life of every saint, and that of God’s own Son, and all through Church history, God is, first of all, a prayer-hearing God. He builds upon...
The Real Oscar Wilde - Robert SHERARD
The Real Oscar Wilde - Robert SHERARD
- Author: Robert SHERARD
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Real Oscar Wilde is the third book about the Irish poet and playwright by his earliest and most prolific biographer. Since writing his earlier The Life of Oscar Wilde (1906), Sherard had read Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas's Oscar Wilde and Myself...
Exercises in Knitting - Cornelia MEE
Exercises in Knitting - Cornelia MEE
- Author: Cornelia MEE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Crafts & Hobbies / Self-Help
Mrs. Mee, her husband, and her sister ran a yarn and needlework import/warehouse business in Bath, England. Her books primarily contain practical everyday items that knit up quickly with the busy homemaker in mind. At this time, published knitting...
Winter: A Dirge - Robert BURNS
Winter: A Dirge - Robert BURNS
- Author: Robert BURNS
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 different recordings of Winter: A Dirge by Robert Burns. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 13th, 2008....
The Pearl Fountain, and Other Fairy Tales - Julia KAVANAGH
The Pearl Fountain, and Other Fairy Tales - Julia KAVANAGH
- Author: Julia KAVANAGH
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a little volume of fairy Tales by Irish novelists Bridget and Julia Kavanagh. The eleven stories are old-fashioned and original. - Summary by Carolin...
At The Sign of The Greedy Pig - Charles S. BROOKS
At The Sign of The Greedy Pig - Charles S. BROOKS
- Author: Charles S. BROOKS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
"Sometimes, in a mood of Spanish castles, there flits across my fancy the vision of an ancient city on a hill-top, with lofty battlements thrust upward from the rock and towers that stand on tip-toe…. Our stage is the square of this ancient city,...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09 - Anonymous
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 09 - 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 Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading) - Amelia E. BARR
The Maid of Maiden Lane (dramatic reading) - Amelia E. BARR
- Author: Amelia E. BARR
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life / Historical Fiction
The Maid of Maiden lane is a wonderful love story in which Mrs. Barr intertwines the hot political and social issues that were occurring in America during the last decade of the 18th century with an excellent love story plot. Some of those issues...
The Enchanted Typewriter - John Kendrick Bangs
The Enchanted Typewriter - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Humorous Fiction
The Enchanted Typewriter is a collection of short stories by the American author John Kendrick Bangs, written in 1899 in the style that has become known as Bangsian fantasy. Bangs attributes many of the stories to the late (and invisible) James...
Short Poetry Collection 163 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 163 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 31 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for December 2016. It also includes a long poem, The Legend of Jubal by George Eliot "And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ." -...
London Impressions - Alice Meynell
London Impressions - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works...
Juggernaut: A Veiled Record - George Eggleston
Juggernaut: A Veiled Record - George Eggleston
- Author: George Eggleston
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Edgar Braine was consistently successful at all he set out to accomplish. He went through life with goals and worked diligently and with ethical purity in reaching those goals, from becoming editor of the local newspaper on up to his political...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 002 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
A collection of ten short nonfiction works in the public domain. The essays, speeches and reports included in this collection were independently selected by the readers, and the topics encompass history, politics, religion, science and humor....
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan - Teika no FUJIWARA
One Hundred Verses from Old Japan - Teika no FUJIWARA
- Author: Teika no FUJIWARA
- Genre: Poetry
In 12th-13th century Japan there lived a man named Fujiwara no Teika (sometimes called Sadaie), a well-regarded poet in a society that prized poetry. At one point in his life he compiled the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu (often known simply as the Hyakunin...
Birds and Man - William Henry HUDSON
Birds and Man - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Animals
During the later part of his life Hudson lived in southern England, where he was involved very early on with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). Birds and Man is a slow moving work where Hudson discusses his love of birds, and the...
Hints to Pilgrims - Charles S. BROOKS
Hints to Pilgrims - Charles S. BROOKS
- Author: Charles S. BROOKS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works
In this collection of 17 short essays, Charles S. Brooks (1878-1934), with the usual panache and wit, which he also displays in his comedies, describes funny incidents that can happen to people on holidays or in everyday life. His two "frightful"...
Hilda Lessways - Arnold Bennett
Hilda Lessways - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: General Fiction
This book is the second in Bennett’s four books about life in the Five Towns (the real life Potteries in Staffordshire). It tells the story of Hilda before her marriage to Edwin Clayhanger (from the first book). Bennett explores Hilda's ambition to...
Famous Men of Modern Times - John Henry HAAREN
Famous Men of Modern Times - John Henry HAAREN
- Author: John Henry HAAREN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
Famous Men of Modern Times is a series of biographical sketches written for the purpose of making the study of history lively and interesting by giving insight into the men who lived during this time. Summary by Laura Caldwell...
Triplanetary - E. E. Smith
Triplanetary - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Science Fiction
“Doc” E.E. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. Physics, time, and politics never stand in the way of a plot that gallops ahead without letup.Having earned a PhD in chemical...
The Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Courtship of Miles Standish - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry
During the late nineteenth century and until the middle of the twentieth, many elementary classrooms in America featured (along with a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington) a black-and-white print of a group of New England pilgrims on their way to...
The Chief Legatee - Anna Katharine Green
The Chief Legatee - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"I was married to-day in Grace Church. At the altar my bride--you probably know her name, Miss Georgian Hazen--wore a natural look, and was in all respects, so far as any one could see, a happy woman, satisfied with her choice and pleased with the...
Tales of Wonder - Lord Dunsany
Tales of Wonder - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: Single Author Collections
The Last Book of Wonder, originally published as Tales of Wonder, is the tenth book and sixth original short story collection of Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula...
The Enchiridion of Epictetus - EPICTETUS
The Enchiridion of Epictetus - EPICTETUS
- Author: EPICTETUS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Epictetus (Greek: Επίκτητος; c.55–c.135) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. The name given by his parents, if one was given, is not known - the word epiktetos in Greek simply means "acquired." Epictetus spent his youth as a slave in Rome to...
Poems by Edward Thomas - Edward Thomas
Poems by Edward Thomas - Edward Thomas
- Author: Edward Thomas
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Born in 1878, Thomas published his first book when he was 18. Having married while still at university, he supported his family by writing articles and books, some in the form of what we might call slow travel writing, compiled on walks throughout...
Patience (Bunthorne's Bride) - W. S. Gilbert
Patience (Bunthorne's Bride) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
A comic operetta which is a satire on the themes of fashion and pretension and hero-worship. Bunthorne is a poet who pretends to be highly "idealised" in order to impress the ladies. They all worship him, except for Patience, the dairy maid, who is...
Raiding with Morgan - Byron A. DUNN
Raiding with Morgan - Byron A. DUNN
- Author: Byron A. DUNN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
It is a fictional tale of cavalry actions during the U.S. Civil War, under General John Morgan. (Summary by M. Craun)...
Tortoises - D. H. Lawrence
Tortoises - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Single author
Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the landscape of his home. They reveal something about tortoises, about the man watching them, and perhaps about the...
