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The Rider on the White Horse - Theodor Storm
The Rider on the White Horse - Theodor Storm
- Author: Theodor Storm
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Hauke Haien, a young man of 24 years, has just beome dikemaster in Northern Frisia. Against the resistance of many of the townfolk, he has a new dike built, not according to the old customs, but to his own specifications. For years, everything goes...
The Comet and Other Verses - Irving Sydney Dix
The Comet and Other Verses - Irving Sydney Dix
- Author: Irving Sydney Dix
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry
A few years ago, while recovering from an illness, I conceived the idea of writing some reminiscent lines on country life in the Wayne Highlands. And during the interval of a few days I produced some five hundred couplets,—a few good, some bad and...
Coming to the King - Frances Ridley Havergal
Coming to the King - Frances Ridley Havergal
- Author: Frances Ridley Havergal
- Genre: Poetry / Christianity - Other
A collection of poems by Frances Ridley Havergal and others, all describing different aspects of our walk with God, from 'Coming to the King' to 'Under the Shadow.' Summary by Esther ben Simonides....
Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures - David Cory
Little Jack Rabbit's Adventures - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. This is the first of the Little Jack Rabbit books. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 3 - R. M. Ballantyne
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 3 - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
In this, our last short story, we join a fishing expedition in Norway....
A Song from the Suds - Louisa May Alcott
A Song from the Suds - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / House & Home
Librivox volunteers bring you 16 readings of A Song from the Suds, by Louisa May Alcott, author of novels like Little Women. This was the fortnightly poem for June 7-21, 2015....
The Burial of the Guns - Thomas Nelson Page
The Burial of the Guns - Thomas Nelson Page
- Author: Thomas Nelson Page
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This is a book of short stories centered around the Civil War and its aftermath. The author was a prominent Virginian in his day, and his writing shows a talent for poignant reminiscences. The title comes from the second story, in which an artillery...
Science and Hypothesis - Henri POINCARÉ
Science and Hypothesis - Henri POINCARÉ
- Author: Henri POINCARÉ
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
Jules Henri Poincaré (1854 – 1912) was one of France's greatest mathematicians and theoretical physicists, and a philosopher of science. As a mathematician and physicist, he made many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied...
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One - Jonathan Swift
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, Volume One - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Single author
Sit back and listen to these light-hearted witty rhymes and see the world Jonathan Swift saw -- and maybe recognize your own. Think there is such a thing as corrupt rich guys who pretend they're God's gift to the world? So did Swift. Think some of...
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln - Helen Nicolay
The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln - Helen Nicolay
- Author: Helen Nicolay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Boys’ Life of Abraham Lincoln is a biography with many anecdotes that takes one deeper into the thoughts, personality, and beliefs of the man that was Lincoln. While the title indicates the book is about Lincoln’s life as a boy, the book is a...
Cranford - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Cranford - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: General Fiction
Cranford is the best-known novel of the 19th century English writer Elizabeth Gaskell. It was first published in 1851 as a serial in the magazine Household Words, which was edited by Charles Dickens.The fictional town of Cranford is closely modelled...
Orra - Joanna Baillie
Orra - Joanna Baillie
- Author: Joanna Baillie
- Genre: Tragedy
Considered by her contemporaries a playwright “second only to Shakespeare,” Joanna Baillie was one of the most critically acclaimed writers of the Romantic Era. The Plays on the Passions, first published in 1798, stands as her undeniable magnum...
The Sea Hawk - Rafael Sabatini
The Sea Hawk - Rafael Sabatini
- Author: Rafael Sabatini
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
The Sea Hawk is a novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1915. The story is set in the late 16th century, and concerns a Cornish sea-faring gentleman, Sir Oliver Tressilian, who is villainously betrayed by a jealous brother. After being...
The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers - Frank Gee Patchin
The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers - Frank Gee Patchin
- Author: Frank Gee Patchin
- Genre: Westerns / Action & Adventure
Yee-Haw!! The Pony Rider Boys are on the move again. This time the boys at Delaware Creek, dead in their saddles. They had been riding long and hard into Texas, looking forward to their next adventure. But, trouble finds them once again, this time...
The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2) - Virgil
The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2) - Virgil
- Author: Virgil
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 016 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 016 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Companionable Books - Henry van Dyke
Companionable Books - Henry van Dyke
- Author: Henry van Dyke
- Genre: Literary Criticism
Many books are dry and dusty, there is no juice in them; and many are soon exhausted, you would no more go back to them than to a squeezed orange; but some have in them an unfailing sap, both from the tree of knowledge and the tree of life. Here I...
My Discovery of England - Stephen Leacock
My Discovery of England - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
"In the course of time a very considerable public feeling was aroused in the United States and Canada over this state of affairs. The lack of reciprocity in it seemed unfair. It was felt (or at least I felt) that the time had come when some one...
Short Story Collection Vol. 015 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 015 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 015: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Rosa Bonheur - François Crastre
Rosa Bonheur - François Crastre
- Author: François Crastre
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
A Masterpieces in Colour series book. Very informative with a biography and critique of the artist's work and how well she was beloved. (Summary by Susan Morin)...
Molly Make-Believe (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Molly Make-Believe (version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Carl Stanton is an invalid suffering from an unusual bout of rheumatism. His fiancée is gone for the winter and though he begs her to write to help ease his boredom and pain she is stingy with her letters. She sends him what she calls a "ridiculous...
Lady Susan (version 2) - Jane Austen
Lady Susan (version 2) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / General Fiction
Jane Austen demonstrated her mastery of the epistolary novel genre in Lady Susan, which she wrote in 1795 but never published. Although the primary focus of this short novel is the selfish behavior of Lady Susan as she engages in affairs and...
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - William Butler Yeats
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different recordings of Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by William Butler Yeats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of December 10th, 2006....
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
The Kreutzer Sonata - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Publication of The Kreutzer Sonata in 1889 was a significant intellectual event worldwide. Censored in Russia, it set off an explosive debate in Europe, America, and Asia on matters relating to sexual abstinence and the hypocrisy of marriage. The...
Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs - John Foxe
Foxe's Book of Martyrs Vol 1, A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Early Christian and the Protestant Martyrs - John Foxe
- Author: John Foxe
- Genre: Christianity - Biographies
The Book of Martyrs, by John Foxe, is an English Protestant account of the persecutions of Protestants, many of whom had died for their beliefs within the decade immediately preceding its first publication. It was first published by John Day, in...
An Explorer in the Air Service - Hiram Bingham
An Explorer in the Air Service - Hiram Bingham
- Author: Hiram Bingham
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
Explorer Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu in 1911, as recounted in his book Inca Lands, now released on Librivox at http://librivox.org/inca-lands-by-hiram-bingham/. In 1917, he became an aviator and organized the United States Schools of...
Isha Upanishad - Unknown
Isha Upanishad - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Ancient
The word Upanishad (upa-ni-shad) consists of, "Upa" means "near;" "ni" means "down;" "shad" means "to sit." Thus, Upanishad is to sit down near the teacher to discuss, learn, practice, and experience. There are some 200 or more Upanishads. Some are...
Tom Slade On The River - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Tom Slade On The River - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Published with the permission of the Boy Scouts of America, this is one of a series of adventure books for boys telling of the adventures and exploits of scout Tom Slade and his chums. “Let your boy grow up with Tom Slade,” was a suggestion which...
Toto's Merry Winter - Laura E. Howe Richards
Toto's Merry Winter - Laura E. Howe Richards
- Author: Laura E. Howe Richards
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Over a cold winter, Toto and several animal friends (who can talk!) spend cozy evenings by the fire listening to his grandmother tell fantastical stories from around the world. - Summary by Jude Somers...
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2 - Wallace Stevens
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 2 - Wallace Stevens
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- Genre: Single author
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. These poems originally appeared in a variety of magazines (Others, Rogue, The Soil, The Modern School, Broom, Contact, The New Republic, The Measure, The Little Review, The Dial, and...
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is Edgar Allan Poe’s only complete novel, published in 1838. The work relates the tale of the young Arthur Gordon Pym who stows away aboard a whaling ship called Grampus. Various adventures and...
Short Poetry Collection 136 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 136 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 22 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for September 2014....
The Awakening of Europe - M. B. Synge
The Awakening of Europe - M. B. Synge
- Author: M. B. Synge
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / History
The Awakening of Europe by M. B. Synge is the third book in the series, Story of the World. Included in this history is a myriad of interesting men, women, and events that shaped Europe during the years 1520-1745. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...
The Chapter Ends - Poul William Anderson
The Chapter Ends - Poul William Anderson
- Author: Poul William Anderson
- Genre: Science Fiction
Far, far in the future the Earth is still spinning around the Sun, on the edge of the galaxy, dozing in obscurity, forgotten by it's trillions of progeny and completely irrelevant. But this doesn't matter to the few millions who still live there in...
How a British Subject Became President of the United States - Arthur P. Hinman
How a British Subject Became President of the United States - Arthur P. Hinman
- Author: Arthur P. Hinman
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
In 1880, the New York Times reported a curious story from St. Albans, Vermont, about a mysterious figure, an attorney and Democratic operative named A. P. Hinman. Hinman privately told local Democratic leaders that he had been hired by the...
A Christmas Miscellany 2018 - Various
A Christmas Miscellany 2018 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / Christian Fiction
Sixteen Christmas stories or essays. (David Wales)...
The Spell of the Yukon - Robert W. Service
The Spell of the Yukon - Robert W. Service
- Author: Robert W. Service
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 27th, 2009....
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
Benito Cereno - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
On an island off the coast of Chile, Captain Amaso Delano, sailing an American sealer, sees the San Dominick, a Spanish slave ship, in obvious distress. Capt. Delano boards the San Dominick, providing needed supplies, and tries to learn from her...
The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed - John Fletcher
The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed - John Fletcher
- Author: John Fletcher
- Genre: Comedy
John Fletcher's comedy (probably written and performed around 1611) is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in which, as the title suggests, the tamer will be tamed. Petruchio, the shrew-tamer, has been widowed, and marries a second...
Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton
Women Beware Women - Thomas Middleton
- Author: Thomas Middleton
- Genre: Tragedy
Thomas Middleton's masterful 17th century tragedy is packed with adultery, incest, intrigue, revenge, and inventive methods for murder. Leantio elopes with Bianca against her family's wishes and tries to hide her in the house he shares with his...
