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A Year Amongst the Persians - Edward Granville Browne
A Year Amongst the Persians - Edward Granville Browne
- Author: Edward Granville Browne
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Other religions
Edward Granville Browne, born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, was a British orientalist who published numerous articles and books of academic value, mainly in the areas of history and literature. His works are respected for their...
Auriol, or The Elixir of Life - William Harrison Ainsworth
Auriol, or The Elixir of Life - William Harrison Ainsworth
- Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
If you stumble upon the elixir of life, which provides you with eternal life, youth and health, then it's rather a bad idea to spoil this great gift by signing a pact with the devil on top of it to receive great financial fortune as well. Auriol...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 4, November 1899 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 4, November 1899 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
Erotica Romana - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Erotica Romana - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Erotica / Elegies & Odes
Also known as the "Roman Elegies," Erotica Romana is von Goethe's literary tribute to human sexuality and eroticism. Written in 24 elegies to emulate classical Roman elegy writers such as Tibullus, Propertius, and Catullus, von Goethe creates a...
Ben Pepper - Margaret Sidney
Ben Pepper - Margaret Sidney
- Author: Margaret Sidney
- Genre: Action & Adventure
This book is about Ben Pepper on some adventures! From The Five Little Peppers to Joel Pepper to now Ben Pepper, you'll know everything about the Pepper family. - Summary by Elijah Fisher...
Don Quixote - Vol. 2 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Don Quixote - Vol. 2 - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
Don Quixote is an early novel written by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Cervantes created a fictional origin for the story in the character of the Morisco historian, Cide Hamete Benengeli, whom he claims to have hired to translate the...
Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades - Florence HOLBROOK
Dramatic Reader for Lower Grades - Florence HOLBROOK
- Author: Florence HOLBROOK
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Plays / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Despite the title's bland sounding name, this book is a charming collection of 16 plays for children. These little plays—well-known stories done into dialogue—were written for children who like to imagine themselves living with their favorite...
Bedtime - George MacDonald
Bedtime - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
George MacDonald was a Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister. He was a pioneering figure in the field of fantasy literature and the mentor of fellow writer Lewis Carroll. His writings have been cited as a major literary influence by many...
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1) - Various
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 1: Home and Friendship (Part 1) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The first of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, includes a trove of poetry about home and family life, focusing especially on verses about children, verses for...
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys (version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
THE author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in...
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916 - Various
Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Political Science
This book is a compilation of scholarly lectures by distinguished experts delivered at Cambridge in August 1916. The titles of the lectures reveal the contents of each presentation and include the following: The war and Balkan politics; the...
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 4 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
The Sikh Religion: Its Gurus, Sacred Writings and Authors, Volume 4 - Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Author: Max Arthur Macauliffe
- Genre: Other religions
This is one of the first (and still one of the few) comprehensive books about the Sikh religion in the English language. MacAuliffe had extensive access to manuscripts of the Sikh sacred writings (the Granth), as well as support from Sikh scholars...
Crossways - William Butler Yeats
Crossways - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry
The first collection by Irish-born poet William Butler Yeats. Many decades before his mysterious and austere Modernist verse earned him a Nobel prize, Yeats achieved renown as one of the last major poets in the High Romantic tradition. These poems...
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847 - Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen: Fairytales and Short Stories Volume 2, 1844 to 1847 - Hans Christian Andersen
- Author: Hans Christian Andersen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Single Author Collections
A collection of some of Hans Christian Andersen's works. He is a Danish author and poet most famous for his fairy tales. (Summary by Kristingj)...
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England - The Venerable Bede
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England - The Venerable Bede
- Author: The Venerable Bede
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England is a work in Latin by Bede on the history of the Christian Churches in England, and of England generally; its main focus is on the conflict between Roman and Celtic Christianity. It is considered to be one of...
The Island Hunting-Song - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The Island Hunting-Song - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table"...
The Galaxy Primes - E. E. Smith
The Galaxy Primes - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Science Fiction
They were four of the greatest minds in the Universe: Two men, two women, lost in an experimental spaceship billions of parsecs from home. And as they mentally charted the Cosmos to find their way back to earth, their own loves and hates were as...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 003 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Short Stories
A collection of fifteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the smell of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady Gregory. The poems display Yeats' use of symbols (cat, hare, moon, etc), his attachment to the supernatural...
Last Verses - Susan Coolidge
Last Verses - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Poetry
Susan Coolidge was the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who is best known for her What Katy Did series. This is the last of three volumes of her verse. - Summary by Rachel...
Fruits of the Spirit - Hamilton Wright Mabie
Fruits of the Spirit - Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A collection of essays written by the renowned lecturer and author during the First World War, when he was quite depressed. The general themes of the collection are persevering in faith, guidance by the Holy Spirit and standing for the "Test of...
The Calico Cat (version 2) - Charles Miner Thompson
The Calico Cat (version 2) - Charles Miner Thompson
- Author: Charles Miner Thompson
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
The consequences of letting your irritation get the better of you are humorously portrayed in this story of a self-important man who fires a shotgun at an annoying cat on his fence.. and hits a man skulking in the bushes. What did the cat do to...
Wild Life on the Rockies - Enos A. MILLS
Wild Life on the Rockies - Enos A. MILLS
- Author: Enos A. MILLS
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Nature
"This book contains the record of a few of the many happy days and novel experiences which I have had in the wilds. For more than twenty years it has been my good fortune to live most of the time with nature, on the mountains of the West. I have...
Lines Written for a School Declamation - David Everett
Lines Written for a School Declamation - David Everett
- Author: David Everett
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of Lines Written for a School Declamation by David Everett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 23rd, 2010....
The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Letters
The Wound Dresser is a series of letters written from the hospitals in Washington by Walt Whitman during the War of the Rebellion to The New York Times, the Brooklyn Eagle and his mother, edited by Richard Maurice Burke, M.D., one of Whitman's...
The Captive Dove - Anne Brontë
The Captive Dove - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Poetry
Many victorian women felt trapped by the role society gave them. So did Anne Bronte. This is a poem about lonleyness, and about feeling caged. A poem which would bring tears to your eyes. - Summary by Stav Nisser...
The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Romance
Mad with jealousy, King Leontes of Sicilia orders his best friend Polixenes killed, his child abandoned, and his wife put on trial for adultery. Sixteen years later, Perdita, raised as a shepherd's daughter, falls in love with Polixenes's royal son...
Sacred Meditations - Johann Gerhard
Sacred Meditations - Johann Gerhard
- Author: Johann Gerhard
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Meditationes Sacrae, was first published in Latin in 1606 when Gerhard was only twenty-two years old. It consists of 51 brief meditations on various aspects of the Christian life. Nearly four hundred years after its first appearance, it remains the...
The Art of Bookbinding - Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf
The Art of Bookbinding - Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf
- Author: Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
This handbook explains the art of bookbinding and simultaneously reminds us what a complex technology is to make books! Zaehnsdorf, bookbinder and son of a bookbinder, made this second edition of his book to enlighten amateurs and tradesmen alike....
Parmenides - Plato
Parmenides - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Ancient
Parmenides (Ancient Greek: ΠΑΡΜΕΝΙΔΗΣ) recounts a meeting between Socrates, Zeno and Parmenides. Topics discussed include universals, plurality and the One. - Summary by Geoffrey Edwards...
The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War - Archibald Clavering Gunter
The Spy Company, a Story of the Mexican War - Archibald Clavering Gunter
- Author: Archibald Clavering Gunter
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
The Exciting adventures of a beautiful Texan debutante. She was raised in New York City high society and attended the best schools. When her mother died she felt the urge to go out west to join her father, whom she never knew, on their massive...
The Hunting of the Snark (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Ballads
The Hunting of the Snark - "An Agony in 8 Fits" is typically categorized as a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll, the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Written from 1874 to 1876, the poem borrows the setting, some creatures, and eight...
The Dog Crusoe and His Master - R. M. Ballantyne
The Dog Crusoe and His Master - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This is a story of an adventure involving a young man, his dog, and two friends. Together they wander through the Western prairies on a mission to make peace between the "pale-faces" and the "Red men". They face many perils and become heroes many...
The History of the English Bible - John Brown
The History of the English Bible - John Brown
- Author: John Brown
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
The celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version of the English Bible of 1611 has called into existence the little book here presented to the reader's notice. It is the brief repetition of a story beginning in 670 A.D. and reaching on...
Bag-Pipes at Sea - Clinton Scollard
Bag-Pipes at Sea - Clinton Scollard
- Author: Clinton Scollard
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Bag-Pipes at Sea by Clinton Scollard. This was the weekly poetry project for February 15th, 2009....
The Cloak - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
The Cloak - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: General Fiction
"The Cloak" is a short story by Ukrainian-born Russian author Nikolai Gogol, published in 1842. The story and its author have had great influence on Russian literature, as expressed in a quote attributed to Fyodor Dostoevsky: "We all come out from...
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days - Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's Camping Days - Margaret Penrose
- Author: Margaret Penrose
- Genre: Action & Adventure / General
So the parties separated and then Dorothy was free to leave her hiding place. She longed to tell her friends the strange story, but she knew that the finding of Tavia was the one and only thing to be thought of just then. "Are you sure that this is...
News From Nowhere - William Morris
News From Nowhere - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris. In the book, the narrator, William Guest, falls asleep after returning from a...
Bible (YLT) 05: Deuteronomy - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 05: Deuteronomy - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young’s Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young’s Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
Brigands of the Moon - Ray Cummings
Brigands of the Moon - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Science Fiction
Gregg Haljan was aware that there was a certain danger in having the giant spaceship Planetara stop off at the moon to pick up Grantline's special cargo of moon ore. For that rare metal--invaluable in keeping Earth's technology running--was the...
