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The Adventures of a Nature Guide - Enos A. MILLS
The Adventures of a Nature Guide - Enos A. MILLS
- Author: Enos A. MILLS
- Genre: Animals / Biography & Autobiography
Enos Mills (1870-1922 ), naturalist and conservationist, was instrumental in the creation of Rocky Mountain National Park. Like his mentor John Muir, Mills was an intrepid solitary high country rambler, as well as an accomplished Colorado mountain...
3 Science Fiction Stories by Gerald Vance - Gerald VANCE
3 Science Fiction Stories by Gerald Vance - Gerald VANCE
- Author: Gerald VANCE
- Genre: Science Fiction
Three Science Fiction stories by the great Gerald Vance: Monsoons of Death is a very nice blend of horror story and a study of true bravery on the planet Mars. A newly commissioned lieutenant finds out a lot about both! In Larson's Luck, Vance takes...
Stops, or How to Punctuate - Paul ALLARDYCE
Stops, or How to Punctuate - Paul ALLARDYCE
- Author: Paul ALLARDYCE
- Genre: Writing & Linguistics
Throughout the ages, languages continue to adapt and change. English, being a relatively new language, is a nice example of that. Though the English vocabulary is continually evolving, the system of punctuation has remained constant for the most...
The Path to Prosperity (version 2) - James Allen
The Path to Prosperity (version 2) - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Modern
James Allen (1864 - 1912) was a philosopher and a pioneer of New Thought movement. His works have formed the basis of much of the curriculum used today by many motivational and self-help groups,His first book, which published in 1901, was From...
The Logic of Hegel - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
The Logic of Hegel - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Author: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HEGEL
- Genre: Modern
This is the William Wallace translation of the first part of Hegel's Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences on logic. This is an outline of Hegel's logical system that he would use and elaborate on during his lectures, it is a shorter version of...
Song of the Sewing-Machine - George Pope MORRIS
Song of the Sewing-Machine - George Pope MORRIS
- Author: George Pope MORRIS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris's songs, "which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are deservedly celebrated". In April...
Short Poetry Collection 015 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 015 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 015: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Emperor of Portugallia - Selma Lagerlöf
The Emperor of Portugallia - Selma Lagerlöf
- Author: Selma Lagerlöf
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Selma Lagerlöf was born in Vaermland, Sweden, in 1858 and enjoyed a long and very successful career as a writer, receiving the Nobel-Prize in Literature in 1909. She died in Vaermland in 1940. The Emperor of Portugallia was first Published 1914 in...
A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories - Caroline TICKNOR
A Hypocritical Romance, and Other Stories - Caroline TICKNOR
- Author: Caroline TICKNOR
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This is a collection of twelve original and entertaining little romances. Literature is an important anchor that helps us understand society in the American Gilded Age in the late ninteenth century, and these stories allow us to understand the...
Cleopatra - Jacob Abbott
Cleopatra - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
A biography of the famous Cleopatra of Egypt, written in a manner, equally interesting to children and to adults....
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2) - James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (version 2) - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The story of a biracial man living in the deep south after the reconstruction era. He is young and talented. Yet, in order for him to avoid stigma, he has to pass as white. But would his sense of belonging and solidarity to the black community of...
Rainbow Valley - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rainbow Valley - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Family Life
Rainbow Valley, the seventh book in the Anne of Green Gables series explores the world of Anne & Gilbert’s six children along with the exploits of the Merediths, the children of the town’s new minister. With no mother and an absent-minded...
In Memoriam A.H.H. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A.H.H. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Poetry
In Memoriam is Tennyson's elegiac tribute to his friend Arthur Henry Hallam, who died in 1833 at the age of 22. Tennyson wrote this long poem over 17 years as a chronicle of his mourning process. The poem became a favorite of Queen Victoria when she...
The Despairing Lover - William WALSH
The Despairing Lover - William WALSH
- Author: William WALSH
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of The Despairing Lover by William Walsh. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 11, 2012. William Walsh was an English poet and critic. It is not as a poet, however, but as the friend and...
Figures of Several Centuries - Arthur SYMONS
Figures of Several Centuries - Arthur SYMONS
- Author: Arthur SYMONS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Modern (19th C)
Arthur Symons talks through the histories and works of poets, playwrights, scholars and scribes. He provides both personal experience and critical wonder to the worlds of his subjects; Donne, Ibsen, Baudelaire and Emily Brontë among them. Summary by...
Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska - Rockwell KENT
Wilderness; A Journal Of Quiet Adventure In Alaska - Rockwell KENT
- Author: Rockwell KENT
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The illustrator and author Rockwell Kent (1882-1971)wrote and illustrated this description of a trip to Alaska with his eldest son. Though an audiobook listener cannot, of course, see Kent's illustrations, the artist's eye is evident throughout the...
The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera) - Carlo GOLDONI
The Mistress of the Inn (La locandiera) - Carlo GOLDONI
- Author: Carlo GOLDONI
- Genre: Comedy
Mirandolina runs an inn in Florence alone with only the help of her loyal employee Fabricius, and all of her guests are in love with her. The wealthy but only newly aristocratic Count D’Albafiorita and the impoverished but noble Marquis di...
Oliver Twist (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress is the second novel by English author Charles Dickens, published by Richard Bentley in 1838. The story is about an orphan Oliver Twist, who endures a miserable existence in a workhouse and then is placed...
Oysters and Fish - Thomas J. MURREY
Oysters and Fish - Thomas J. MURREY
- Author: Thomas J. MURREY
- Genre: Cooking
Would it not be beneficial, were the average American to substitute fish for the everlasting steak and chop of the breakfast-table? For the sake of variety, if for no other reason, we should eat more fish; and it need not always be fried or broiled....
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West - L. Frank Baum
Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General / Published 1900 onward
After visiting Louise, Arthur and Toodlums at their ranch in Southern California, Beth and Patsy, together with Uncle John, decide to spend the winter at an hotel in the little village of Hollywood, where they get drawn into the new motion picture...
Weed or Flower - Helen Leah Reed
Weed or Flower - Helen Leah Reed
- Author: Helen Leah Reed
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Weed or Flower by Helen Leah Reed. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 22, 2019. ------ American teacher and author; known for her children's books, which were entertaining as well as...
The Gods of Mars - (version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods of Mars - (version 3) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
After John Carter's arrival, a boat of Green Martians on the River Iss are ambushed by the previously unknown Plant Men. The lone survivor is his friend Tars Tarkas, the Jeddak of Thark, who has taken the pilgrimage to the Valley Dor to find Carter....
The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects to entertain. The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker is one of 16 stories of his Tuck-Me-In Tales series. - Summary by...
Short Poetry Collection 043 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 043 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 043: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Voyage of the Beagle
The Voyage of the Beagle
- Author: -
- Genre: ---
The book, also known as Darwin's Journal of Researches, is a vivid and exciting travel memoir as well as a detailed scientific field journal covering biology, geology, and anthropology that demonstrates Darwin's keen powers of observation, written...
Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling
Stalky & Co. - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Rudyard Kipling published Stalky & Co. in 1899. Set at an English boarding school in a seaside town on the North Devon coast. (The town, Westward Ho!, is not only unusual in having an exclamation mark, but also in being itself named after a...
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Genre: Science Fiction
A student discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates the monster Frankenstein. Rejected by society, Frankenstein vows revenge on his creator. (Summary written by Gesine)Note: Project originally cataloged...
Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Comedy
Arms and the Man is a comedy by George Bernard Shaw that takes place in 1885, during the Serbo-Bulgarian War. Raina Petkoff is engaged to the gallant Sergius Saranoff, hero of the recent Bulgarian victory over the Serbs. But she is distracted by the...
The Yellow House - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Yellow House - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance / Published 1900 onward
Vicar and his two daughters move to a small, quiet country village and soon learn that their neighbor in the yellow house holds secrets that will changeeverything they thought to be real in their lives. (Summary by Sharon Kilmer)...
The Old Debauchees - Henry Fielding
The Old Debauchees - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays / Satire
Young Laroon plans to marry Isabel, but Father Martin manipulates Isabel's father, Jourdain, in order to seduce Isabel. However, other characters, including both of the Laroons, try to manipulate Jourdain for their own ends; they accomplish it...
With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War - G. A. Henty
With Frederick The Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Among the great wars of history there are few, if any, instances of so long and successfully sustained a struggle, against enormous odds, as that of the Seven Years' War, maintained by Prussia--then a small and comparatively insignificant...
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home - Emily POST
Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home - Emily POST
- Author: Emily POST
- Genre: Self-Help
From advice on planning the perfect wedding to eating an artichoke correctly, Emily Post offers instruction on how to live a well-mannered life circa 1922. With a sometimes gentle, sometimes sharp wit, she maintains that true ladies and gentlemen...
Recollections of Imperial Russia - Meriel BUCHANAN
Recollections of Imperial Russia - Meriel BUCHANAN
- Author: Meriel BUCHANAN
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
In this memoir, Meriel Buchanan (9-5-1886 to 2-6-1959) links the history of Russia to powerful, lingering memories of her years living there. She was the daughter of the man who turned out to be the last British ambassador to Imperial Russia. As a...
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard - Elizabeth COOPER
My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard - Elizabeth COOPER
- Author: Elizabeth COOPER
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Family Life
"I hope that this book, based on letters shown me many years after they were written, will give a faint idea of the life of a Chinese lady. The story is told in two series of letters conceived to be written by Kwei-li, the wife of a very high...
Short Poetry Collection 052 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 052 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 052: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People - William Wells BROWN
My Southern Home or, The South and Its People - William Wells BROWN
- Author: William Wells BROWN
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
William Wells Brown was born a slave, near Lexington, Kentucky. His mother, Elizabeth, was a slave; his father was a white man who never acknowledged his paternity. Brown escaped slavery at about the age of 20. For many years he worked as a steam...
Camille - Alexandre Dumas, fils
Camille - Alexandre Dumas, fils
- Author: Alexandre Dumas fils
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Theatre de Vaudeville in Paris, France on...
On the Heavens - Aristotle
On the Heavens - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Nature
On the Heavens (Greek: Περί ουρανού, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise. In it Aristotle argues that the Earth is a sphere by pointing to the evidence of lunar eclipses. Aristotle also provides a...
In Time Of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters - US OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE
In Time Of Emergency: A Citizen's Handbook On Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters - US OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE
- Author: US OFFICE OF CIVIL DEFENSE
- Genre: Education / Self-Help
A major emergency affecting a large number of people may occur anytime and anywhere. It may be a peacetime disaster such as a flood, tornado, fire, hurricane, blizzard or earthquake. It could be an enemy nuclear attack on the United States. In any...
The Ralstons - Francis Marion Crawford
The Ralstons - Francis Marion Crawford
- Author: Francis Marion Crawford
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Katharine has married Jack Ralston secretly and hoped to force her rich uncle's hand in assisting him to find a career. After his refusal, she couldn't face her new husband to break the news and a series of mishaps led everyone - Katharine included...
