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Kabumpo in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Kabumpo in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Dear children: Do you like Elephants? Do you believe in Giants? And do you love all the jolly people of the Wonderful Land of Oz? Well then you'll want to hear about the latest happenings in that delightful Kingdom. All are set forth in true Oz...
The Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate - Louis Tracy
The Stowmarket Mystery, or, a Legacy of Hate - Louis Tracy
- Author: Louis Tracy
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Another case for Reginald Brett, barrister and hobby detective: David Hume-Frazer is in some trouble. He was the prime suspect in the murder case of his cousin, Alan. Though he was never convicted, suspicion clings to him, and he wishes his name to...
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls - L. Frank Baum
Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Bluebird Books is a series of novels popular with teenage girls in the 1910s and 1920s. The series was begun by L. Frank Baum using his Edith Van Dyne pseudonym, then continued by at least three others, all using the same pseudonym. Baum wrote...
Bumper the White Rabbit in the Woods - George Ethelbert Walsh
Bumper the White Rabbit in the Woods - George Ethelbert Walsh
- Author: George Ethelbert Walsh
- Genre: Animals & Nature
In this second volume of the Twilight Animal series, we'll find out what happens to our friends Bumper, Fuzzy Wuzz, Goggle Eyes, and all the rest, after the events in the first book of the series, "Bumper the White Rabbit"....
A Sad Case - Edgar FAWCETT
A Sad Case - Edgar FAWCETT
- Author: Edgar FAWCETT
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Sad Case by Edgar Fawcett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 6th, 2010....
The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor - Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
The Life and Ventures of the Original John Jacob Astor - Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
- Author: Elizabeth Louisa GEBHARD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
John Jacob Astor was pre-eminently the opener of new paths, a breaker of trails. From his first tramp alone through the Black Forest of Baden, at sixteen, his life never lost this typical touch. In America, both shores of the Hudson, and the...
Poems of Passion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Passion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Single author
A collection of love poems. (Summary by Joy Chan)...
The Copyright Question - George MORANG
The Copyright Question - George MORANG
- Author: George MORANG
- Genre: Law
This is a letter to the Toronto Board of Trade regarding Canadian copyrights. Morang requested an appearance before the Toronto Board of Trade but was denied. This is his letter in response. He wished to make clear his position. Summary by Esther....
Cycling in the Alps - C. L. FREESTON
Cycling in the Alps - C. L. FREESTON
- Author: C. L. FREESTON
- Genre: Travel & Geography
A guide to cycling in the European Alps in the days before surfaced roads and automobile tourism. As the author explains, the spectacular views are well worth the effort of pushing your bicycle up the passes and perfectly safe as long as your cycle...
Epistles of Ignatius - Saint IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
Epistles of Ignatius - Saint IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
- Author: Saint IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Ignatius of Antioch penned these letters to churches (Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, Romans, Philadelphians, and Smyrnaeans) and Polycarp on his way to martyrdom. Ignatius was an apologist for the Episcopal style of church government (as opposed...
The Burning Wheel - Aldous Huxley
The Burning Wheel - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Single author
Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French...
The Story of a Soul - Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
The Story of a Soul - Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
- Author: Saint THERESE OF LISIEUX
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Marie Francoise Therese Martin, affectionately known as 'The Little Flower', was born on January 2, 1873, in Alencon, France to Louis Martin and Zelie Guerin. She was the youngest and one of five surviving sisters of the nine Martin children. When...
Lost Illusions: Ève and David - Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions: Ève and David - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Ève and David (1843) is the final book in Balzac’s Lost Illusions trilogy, which is part of his sweeping set of novels collectively titled La Comédie Humaine. The story is set in post-Napoleonic France. In the first volume of the trilogy (Two Poets,...
The Secret Power - Marie Corelli
The Secret Power - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Romance / Science Fiction
This Marie Corelli novel falls in the realm of fantasy and science fiction with a steampunk element. The story centers around Morgana Royal, a powerful woman who invents an airship, and Roger Seaton, her love interest who has control of a...
Sesame and Lilies - John Ruskin
Sesame and Lilies - John Ruskin
- Author: John Ruskin
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Sesame and Lilies proposes and answers the questions, how, what and why to read in the context of how and why to live. About earlier and later editions of the book containing the first two lectures alone, Ruskin wrote: "...chiefly written for young...
The Valley of Silent Men - James Oliver Curwood
The Valley of Silent Men - James Oliver Curwood
- Author: James Oliver Curwood
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Subtitled: A Story of the Three River Country. James Kent has learned that he is terminally ill with perhaps only days to live, and so decides to confess to a murder and thus save an innocent man. Nobody believes his confession, particularly...
Be Kind When You Can - Eliza COOK
Be Kind When You Can - Eliza COOK
- Author: Eliza COOK
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Be Kind When You Can by Eliza Cook. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 30, 2011. Eliza Cook was an English author, Chartist poet and writer born in London Road, Southwark. She was the...
With Lee in Virginia - G. A. Henty
With Lee in Virginia - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
Vincent Wingfield is the son of a wealthy Virginian planter. When the country goes to war, he enlists in the cavalry, and sees action under the various generals commanding the army in and near Virginia. He has several private adventures as well,...
Hospital Sketches - Louisa May Alcott
Hospital Sketches - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: War & Military / Letters
Alcott in 1862 served as a nurse in Georgetown, D.C during the Civil War. She wrote home what she observed there. Those harrowing and sometimes humorous letters compiled make up Hospital Sketches. (Summary by Aaron Elliott)...
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4 - Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman Vol. 4 - Laurence Sterne
- Author: Laurence Sterne
- Genre: General Fiction
This is volume 4 of 4. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (or, more briefly, Tristram Shandy) is a novel by Laurence Sterne. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others following over the next...
Bible (KJV) NT 15: 1 Timothy - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 15: 1 Timothy - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The First Epistle of Paul to Timothy, usually referred to simply as First Timothy and often written 1 Timothy, is one of three letters in New Testament of the Bible often grouped together as the Pastoral Epistles, the others being Second Timothy and...
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2) - Jules Verne
Around the World in Eighty Days (version 2) - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a cool customer. A man of the most repetitious and punctual habit - with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever - he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around the world in just 80 days......
To Celia - Ben Jonson
To Celia - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Poetry / Elegies & Odes / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of To Celia by Ben Jonson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 6th, 2011. Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best...
The Three Clerks - Anthony Trollope
The Three Clerks - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The Three Clerks was Trollope’s sixth novel and was written mostly in railway carriages, since his work for the Post Office still entailed a good deal of travelling; to make life easier for himself, Trollope had devised what he called his ‘tablet’,...
The New Machiavelli - H. G. Wells
The New Machiavelli - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: General Fiction
About a political idealist who changes his colours and engages in a sexual adventure, this novel by H.G. Wells generated controversy when it was first published in 1911. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2) - Louis Hémon
Maria Chapdelaine (version 2) - Louis Hémon
- Author: Louis Hémon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The novel Maria Chapdelaine portrays life in rural Quebec at the beginning of the 20th century. Published first in French in 1913, it is a famous example of the genre known as "novels of the land" ("romans du terroir"). These stories sought to...
Armadale - Wilkie Collins
Armadale - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
The novel has a convoluted plot about two distant cousins both named Allan Armadale. The father of one had murdered the father of the other (the two fathers are also named Allan Armadale). The story starts with a deathbed confession by the murderer...
Up the River - Oliver Optic
Up the River - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Up the River is the sixth and last of "The Great Western Series." The events of the story occur on the coast of Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the Mississippi River. The volume and the series close with the return of the hero, by a route not...
A Tale of Two Cities (version 3) - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature. The novel...
Short Story Collection Vol. 020 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 020 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 020: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (version 2) - L. Frank Baum
- Author: L. Frank Baum
- Genre: General
Yes, this is another wonderful OZ book with all the old familiar characters and some new delightful ones. The Patchwork Girl, a free spirit if ever there was one, is brought to life in this story and then sets out into the wonderful world of OZ to...
The Journal of Julius Rodman - Edgar Allan Poe
The Journal of Julius Rodman - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The Journal of Julius Rodman, Being an Account of the First Passage across the Rocky Mountains of North America Ever Achieved by Civilized Man is an unfinished serial novel by American author Edgar Allan Poe published in 1840. Six installments of...
Bible (WNT) NT 02: Mark - Weymouth New Testament
Bible (WNT) NT 02: Mark - Weymouth New Testament
- Author: Weymouth New Testament
- Genre: Weymouth New Testament
Richard Francis Weymouth was born on October 26, 1822 near Plymouth Dock, now known as Devonport, near Plymouth, Devonshire, in England. Dr. Weymouth was a Bible scholar and a philologist (a student of the origins of language), as well as a layman,...
Peter Pan (version 2) - J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan (version 2) - J. M. Barrie
- Author: J. M. Barrie
- Genre: Action & Adventure
In both the play and the novel, Peter often visits the "real world" of London to listen in on bedtime stories told by Mary Darling to her children. One night, Peter is spotted, and while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim...
Declaration of Rights - STAMP ACT CONGRESS
Declaration of Rights - STAMP ACT CONGRESS
- Author: STAMP ACT CONGRESS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
On June 8, 1765 James Otis, supported by the Massachusetts Assembly sent a letter to each colony calling for a general meeting of delegates. The meeting was to be held in New York City in October. Representatives from nine colonies met in New York....
At Ease on Lethe Wharf - Helen Coale CREW
At Ease on Lethe Wharf - Helen Coale CREW
- Author: Helen Coale CREW
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of At Ease on Lethe Wharf, by Helen Coale Crew. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 14th, 2013. Helen Coale Crew was an American poet and novelist. Her touching evocation of forgetfulness comes...
The Tree of Appomattox - Joseph A. Altsheler
The Tree of Appomattox - Joseph A. Altsheler
- Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
- Genre: Action & Adventure
"The Tree of Appomattox" concludes the series of connected romances dealing with the Civil War, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run," and continued successively through "The Guns of Shiloh," "The Scouts of Stonewall," "The Sword of Antietam," "The Star...
Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Selected Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Dramatic Readings
A controversial lecturer, brilliant lawyer, and arguably the most famous orator of the mid to late 1800's, Ingersoll railed against the absurdities of the Bible and cruelties of Christianity, particularly the horrific notion of "eternal damnation"....
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1 - Charles MACKAY
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Volume 1 - Charles MACKAY
- Author: Charles MACKAY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in three parts: "National Delusions", "Peculiar Follies", and "Philosophical Delusions". The subjects of Mackay's debunking include alchemy, beards (influence of politics and religion on), witch-hunts,...
The Story of Old France - H. A. GUERBER
The Story of Old France - H. A. GUERBER
- Author: H. A. GUERBER
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / History
The aim of this volume is to give a complete graphic account of the main features of the history of France to 1715 A.D., with as much additional illuminating detail as limited space permits. Besides outlines of the principal events, this narrative...
