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Short Story Collection Vol. 036 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 036 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
A collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain chosen and read by a group of LibriVox members. The story of The Lamplighter (by Charles Dickens) is a special group reading, done by the following LV volunteers during a 2009 Librivox...
Deathworld - Harry Harrison
Deathworld - Harry Harrison
- Author: Harry Harrison
- Genre: Science Fiction
Harry Harrison is best known for his Stainless Steel Rat stories and the novel Make Room! Make Room! which was adapted for film as Soylent Green. Deathworld is the first in a series of novels begun in 1960 and originally serialized in Astounding...
The Light of Egypt Volume II - Thomas H. Burgoyne
The Light of Egypt Volume II - Thomas H. Burgoyne
- Author: Thomas H. Burgoyne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
"The Light of Egypt" will be found to be an Occult library in itself, a textbook of esoteric knowledge, setting forth the "wisdom Religion" of life, as taught by the Adepts of Hermetic Philosophy. It will richly repay all who are seeking the higher...
The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Genealogy of Morals - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Modern
In 1887, with the view of amplifying and completing certain new doctrines which he had merely sketched in Beyond Good and Evil (see especially Aphorism 260), Nietzsche published The Genealogy of Morals. This work is perhaps the least aphoristic, in...
Poetic Trios - Various
Poetic Trios - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Narratives
We selected some of our favourite poets for this collection, including Dante, Fitzgerald, Keats, Barrett Browning, Lear, Carroll, Milton, Morris, Swinburne and Rossetti. We hope you enjoy listening to them. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London
Tales of the Fish Patrol - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Wildest among the fisher-folk may be accounted the Chinese shrimp-catchers. It is the habit of the shrimp to crawl along the bottom in vast armies till it reaches fresh water, when it turns about and crawls back again to the salt. And where the tide...
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 34 different recordings of Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 21st, 2007....
The Portent - George MacDonald
The Portent - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Overshadowed by the dark legend of the murderous rider of the horse with the loose shoe, Duncan Campbell sets out from his home in the Highlands to make his fortune in the world. When he finds the woman whose destiny is mingled with his, he must...
Flower-Patch Among the Hills - Flora Klickmann
Flower-Patch Among the Hills - Flora Klickmann
- Author: Flora Klickmann
- Genre: Animals & Nature
After poor health forced Klickmann to move from London to the country, she began writing a series of sketches for The Girl's Own Paper and in 1916 she published the first of a series of books based on them. Her cottage, known in her books as...
A Christmas Carol (Version 09) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (Version 09) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
"A Christmas Carol" has been credited with relaunching the celebration of Christmas as we know it. It relaunched Charles Dickens' literary career, that is for sure! More than that, and more importantly, it is an illustration of one "covetous old...
Patience Worth - Casper S. Yost
Patience Worth - Casper S. Yost
- Author: Casper S. Yost
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Patience Worth is an examination of the communications between a seventeenth century woman and a certain Mrs. Curran of St. Louis, in 1913. Contact with the spirit world or parlor trick? If the latter, it was well done: the quick-witted repartee...
Friendship - Hugh Black
Friendship - Hugh Black
- Author: Hugh Black
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The idea, so common in the ancient writers, is not all a poetic conceit, that the soul of a man is only a fragment of a larger whole, and goes out in search of other souls in which it will find its true completion. We walk among worlds unrealized,...
History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 2 - Gaston Maspero
History Of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Vol. 2 - Gaston Maspero
- Author: Gaston Maspero
- Genre: Antiquity
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria is the masterwork of one of the fathers of modern egyptology. This work, in twelve volumes, was translated from the French original by M. L. McClure (d1918), “Histoire ancienne des peuples de...
Sonnets of a Budding Bard - Nixon Waterman
Sonnets of a Budding Bard - Nixon Waterman
- Author: Nixon Waterman
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of 25 sonnets by American poet Nixon Waterman. The sonnets are written from the perspective of a school boy, and are very humorous, supported by some excellent illustrations by John A. Williams. - Summary by Carolin...
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England Volume 4 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elizabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
Short Science Fiction Collection 032 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 032 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard - Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily and Old Mother Hubbard - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
Uncle Wiggily Longears, an old bunny gentleman now stricken with rheumatism and getting around with a cane, still is quite active. In these stories, he encounters a string of characters from Mother Goose's tales and has adventures that are not quite...
Short Story Collection Vol. 026 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 026 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 026: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas
The Black Tulip - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Black Tulip, written by Alexandre Dumas père and published in 1850, is a historical novel placed in the time of Tulipmania in the Netherlands. The novel begins with the 1672 politically motivated mob lynching of the de Witt brothers and then...
The Power of Words - Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The Power of Words - Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Author: Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon was an English poet and novelist, better known by her initials L. E. L....
Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn - Robert Marshall Utley
Custer Battlefield: A History And Guide To The Battle Of The Little Bighorn - Robert Marshall Utley
- Author: Robert Marshall Utley
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
It should be noted that this national park is now called the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. “The long, tragic history of Indian warfare in the American West reached its climax with the defeat of Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and...
Make Mine Homogenized - Rick Raphael
Make Mine Homogenized - Rick Raphael
- Author: Rick Raphael
- Genre: Science Fiction
Widowed cattle rancher Hetty Thompson had done all right for herself since Big Jim’s death. She had Barney, a loyal if dim-witted ranch hand, and Johnny her assistant manager whom she rescued from a drunken father years before. When the government...
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood - Thomas Hood
The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood - Thomas Hood
- Author: Thomas Hood
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of Thomas Hood's poems. Hood was an eminent British poet, regarded in particular for his humorous poetry, as well as his weird and fantastic poems. As William Michael Rossetti writes in his biographical sketch of Hood, "A man of...
The Rose Garden Husband - Margaret Widdemer
The Rose Garden Husband - Margaret Widdemer
- Author: Margaret Widdemer
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
This novel was written by Margaret Widdemer, who won the Pulitzer prize for her collection of poetry in 1919. Phyllis is a 25-years-old children's librarian. She is good at her job. Yet when she sees a girl from her hometown with two children, she...
Happy Jack - Thornton W. Burgess
Happy Jack - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Who would have thought dropping a nut would cause so much trouble? No sooner does Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel go scampering down the tree than he finds himself in trouble with Chatterer, the Red Squirrel -- and then running for dear life -- away...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5) - Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (version 5) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Oscar Wilde said of his story The Happy Prince that it was "an attempt to treat a tragic modern problem in a form that aims at delicacy and imaginative treatment; it is a reaction against the purely imitative character of modern art.” His Fairy...
Talks by Abdul Baha Given in Paris - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
Talks by Abdul Baha Given in Paris - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Author: Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Genre: Modern / Other religions
“Much has already been written of the visit of Abdul Baha, Abbas Effendi, to Europe,” writes Lady Blomfield in her Preface to Paris Talks, “During his stay at Paris at 4, Avenue de Comoens, he gave short “Talks” each morning to those who crowded,...
Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
Bill & Doreen Get Hitched (Selections from "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke") - C. J. Dennis
- Author: C. J. Dennis
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
"Bill & Doreen Get Hitched" is the sequel to "Bill & Doreen's Courtship". "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke" is a verse novel by Australian novelist and poet C. J. Dennis. The work was first published in book form in 1915 and sold over...
The Tinted Venus - F. Anstey
The Tinted Venus - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
When a young newly engaged man finds himself bound for an amusement garden with an old flame, not his fiancee, it is not surprising that he still feels some attraction for her. When they escape the heat of the dance floor to walk among the trees in...
The Dragon of Wantley - Owen Wister
The Dragon of Wantley - Owen Wister
- Author: Owen Wister
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
The "true" story of the Wantley Dragon. Set at Christmas time, it is a tale of a Baron, his daughter, a brave knight, True Love, and the terrible Dragon of Wantley. Oh, and don't forget the wine. (Summary by D. A. Frank )...
Pursuit - Lester del Rey
Pursuit - Lester del Rey
- Author: Lester del Rey
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Wilbur Hawkes wakes with no memory of the last seven months. He knows he's in danger, but he doesn’t know why. No sooner does he leave his apartment than it explodes in flames, and, to escape, he must run through New York, not knowing where to run,...
The Red Headed League - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Red Headed League - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Detective Fiction
"The Adventure of the Red-Headed League" is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It first appeared in The Strand Magazine in August 1891. Conan Doyle ranked "The Red-Headed League" second in his list of his...
Life Waves - Frances Cook Steen
Life Waves - Frances Cook Steen
- Author: Frances Cook Steen
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by American author Frances Cook Steen, published in 1922. These poems reflect with clarity on the preceding decade, including the war and all the other personal and historical events which Ms Steen lived through and...
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
The Voyage Out - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. One of Woolf's wittiest social satires. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her father's ship and is launched on...
Bible (ASV) 31: Obadiah - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 31: Obadiah - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
"The Book of Obadiah is found in both the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, where it is the shortest book, only one chapter long. Its authorship is generally attributed to a person named Obadiah, which means “servant (or...
Dick Sands the Boy Captain - Jules Verne
Dick Sands the Boy Captain - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Dick Sands, a youth of fifteen, must assume command of a ship after the disappearance of its captain. Nature’s forces combined with evil doings of men lead him and his companions to many dangerous adventures on sea and in Central Africa....
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow - Allen French
The Story of Rolf and the Viking's Bow - Allen French
- Author: Allen French
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Sagas / Historical
Rolf, a youth in early Christian Iceland, loses first his father, then his property, and finally his freedom to the schemes of a greedy neighbor. Outlawed from Iceland, Rolf travels abroad, meeting with shipwreck, enslavement, Viking berserkers, and...
Amadis of Gaul - Vasco de Lobeira
Amadis of Gaul - Vasco de Lobeira
- Author: Vasco de Lobeira
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Sagas
Amadis of Gaul (Amadís de Gaula, in Spanish) was not the first, but certainly one of the best known knight-errantry tales of the 16th century. Not only is its authorship doubtful, but even the language in which it was first written - Portuguese or...
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn't quite fit. Once finished with her schooling, and with no family that really cares of her she strikes out on her own as a governess. Jane...
American History Stories, Volume 2 - Mara L. Pratt
American History Stories, Volume 2 - Mara L. Pratt
- Author: Mara L. Pratt
- Genre: General
History is brought to life in the second volume of American History Stories by Mara L. Pratt. It is a wonderful introduction for children to American history, this volume beginning with the causes of the American Revolution. Although each chapter is...
