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Short Science Fiction Collection 017 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 017 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction (abbreviated SF or sci-fi with varying punctuation and case) is a broad genre of fiction that often involves sociological and technical speculations based on current or future science or technology. This is a reader-selected...
Lancashire Dialogues - John Byrom
Lancashire Dialogues - John Byrom
- Author: John Byrom
- Genre: Single author
A scion of the Byroms of Byrom Hall in Lowton, Lancashire, John Byrom was born and lived in Manchester and Salford for much of his life. Educated at Cambridge, Byrom become a member of the Royal Society and a leading poet of his day. In addition to...
Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales - Sanni Metelerkamp
Outa Karel’s Stories: South African Folk-Lore Tales - Sanni Metelerkamp
- Author: Sanni Metelerkamp
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Animals & Nature
Sanni Metelerkamp was a South African playwright and author born in 1867. She is well known for her biography of her great-grandfather, George Rex, the British born entrepreneur who founded the town of Knysna and was rumoured to have been an...
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp - Pat O'Brien
Outwitting The Hun; My Escape From A German Prison Camp - Pat O'Brien
- Author: Pat O'Brien
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
A true war narrative, published in 1918 while WWI was still going on. (Summary by David Wales)...
Ester Ried's Namesake - Pansy
Ester Ried's Namesake - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: General Fiction / Christian Fiction
Esther Ried Randall tries to live up to her parents' expectations and the name she's been given, but her religion is a chore. Will she learn the lesson of faith that Ester did? Fifth and final book in the Ester Ried series. Authored by Isabella M....
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 04. April 1897 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 04. April 1897 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles: A Summer Voyage to the Arctic, by G. R. Putnam The Area and Drainage Basin of Lake Superior, by Mark W. Harrington The Siberian...
Two Little Knights of Kentucky - Annie Fellows Johnston
Two Little Knights of Kentucky - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: General
In this volume the Little Colonel returns to us like an old friend, but with added grace and charm. She is not, however, the central figure of the story, that place being taken by the “two little knights,” Malcolm and Keith, little Southern...
The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge - Laura Lee Hope
The Bobbsey Twins at Snow Lodge - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family
The Bobbsey Twins are back at school after summer vacation, but Danny Rugg, the school bully, is up to mischief again--and this time he's trying to pin it onto Bert. Bert gets accused of freezing a giant snowball to the school steps, and all the...
To The Women of Australia - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
To The Women of Australia - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
A popular poet rather than a literary poet, in her poems she expresses sentiments of cheer and optimism in plainly written, rhyming verse. Her world view is expressed in the title of her poem "Whatever Is—Is Best". She made a very popular appearance...
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
The Oresteia - Aeschylus
- Author: Aeschylus
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Plays / Drama
The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been...
Categories - Aristotle
Categories - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Categories (Lat. Categoriae, Greek Κατηγορίαι Katēgoriai) is the first of Aristotle's six texts on logic which are collectively known as the Organon. In Categories Aristotle enumerates all the possible kinds of things that can be the subject or the...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 4: Part 3: Nisida (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
Dumas, with the assistance of several friends, compiled Celebrated Crimes, an eight-volume collection of essays on famous criminals and crimes from European history. . This volume tells the story of the infamous prison on Nisida a small island near...
Sermons of Leo the Great - Pope Leo I
Sermons of Leo the Great - Pope Leo I
- Author: Pope Leo I
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Leo the Great was unanimously elected Bishop of Rome on September 29, 440 AD. At the Council of Chalcedon, his famous "Tome" was a decisive contribution to the Christological controversies of the fifth century. But the Tome did not stand alone. It...
Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers - Talbot Hughes
Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers - Talbot Hughes
- Author: Talbot Hughes
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / History
Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)...
Kipps - H. G. Wells
Kipps - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / General Fiction
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles begin. Wanting to marry above his social class, he has to learn how to lead a genteel life, but that is too...
Deer Godchild - Marguerite Bernard
Deer Godchild - Marguerite Bernard
- Author: Marguerite Bernard
- Genre: General / Letters
A young New-Yorker of twelve heard an appeal for the Fatherless Children of France and his heart was touched. He had no money, but he resolved to give his spare time and his utmost energy to support a "kid in France." The French child needed ten...
Renascence: A Book of Verse - Walter Crane
Renascence: A Book of Verse - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Single author
Walter Crane is better known as an artist and illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations defined a whole genre which influenced the field for many years. He was also involved in various socialist causes and leant his artistic talent to many...
Exiles - James JOYCE
Exiles - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Plays / Drama
Exiles is a play by James Joyce, who is principally remembered for his novels. It was rejected by W. B. Yeats for production by the Abbey Theatre. Its first major London performance was in 1970, when Harold Pinter directed it at the Mermaid Theatre....
The Naturewoman - Upton Sinclair
The Naturewoman - Upton Sinclair
- Author: Upton Sinclair
- Genre: Comedy
The Mastersons, a wealthy Bostonian family, await the arrival of their cousin Anna in the wake of her grandfather's death. Though born in Boston, Anna, who prefers the name Oceana, spent most of her life on a tropical island in the Pacific with her...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 04. April 1896 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 04. April 1896 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the April Number. It includes the following articles: Serilan, by W J McGee and Willard D. Johnson The Olympic Country, by S. C. Gilman, C. E. The Discovery of Glacier Bay, Alaska, by Eliza...
Agriculture for Beginners - Charles William Burkett
Agriculture for Beginners - Charles William Burkett
- Author: Charles William Burkett
- Genre: Nature
A textbook used by many public schools in the early 20th century. The authors believe that "agriculture is eminently a teachable subject. They see no difference between teaching the child the fundamental principles of farming and teaching the same...
Astounding Stories 09, September 1930 - Miles J. Breuer
Astounding Stories 09, September 1930 - Miles J. Breuer
- Author: Miles J. Breuer
- Genre: Science Fiction
This is a collection of short science fiction stories by various writers, circa 1930. Writers include Paul Ernst, Miles Breuer, Ray Cummings, Sewell Wright, and others. Harry Bates, Editor (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
An Eye for an Eye - Anthony Trollope
An Eye for an Eye - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of his family that he will marry someone suitable for inheriting an Earldom - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2) - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of Alaska (version 2) - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Other religions
The myths in this 1911 volume are authentic. The original collections were made by government ethnologists. Only the quaintest and purest of the myths have been selected. The leading myth of the North the Raven Myth, is given with a fair degree of...
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery - Anonymous
A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Science
This book, a reprint of a successful English publication, has been so enlarged as to be to all intents and purposes new. It has been carefully revised by a Reverend gentleman, who for some time filled the chair of Physics and Chemistry in one of our...
The Thief - Anna Katharine Green
The Thief - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Short Stories
At a dinner party, a valuable coin is lost while being passed around among the guests to look at. One of the gentlemen insists to empty his pockets to the host to free himself of all suspicion, and the other gentlemen concur, except one, who...
Hindle Wakes - Stanley Houghton
Hindle Wakes - Stanley Houghton
- Author: Stanley Houghton
- Genre: Drama
Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in Blackpool and the two go off for what they believe to be secret fling in Llandudno. But after the death of...
Wedlock - Jenny Grahame
Wedlock - Jenny Grahame
- Author: Jenny Grahame
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This poem is taken from A Book of Women’s Verse published in 1921. ( Summary by David Lawrence )...
The Story Girl - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Story Girl - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Family
The Story Girl, by Anne of Green Gables author L.M. Montgomery, tells about the summer Felix and Beverly King visit their cousins in Carlise, Canada. Along with various cousins and other soon-to-be-friends, they meet Sara Stanley, the Story Girl, a...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 5, May 1899 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. V, No 5, May 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...
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty - Hester Lynch PIOZZI
Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, Written When She Was Eighty - Hester Lynch PIOZZI
- Author: Hester Lynch PIOZZI
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Letters
Born into the influential Welsh Salusbury family and married to the rich brewer Henry Thrale, Hester Piozzi was associated to the most illustrious figures of London society in her time, among others the famous Samuel Johnson, to whose biography her...
The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies - Sydney Fisher
The Chronicles of America Volume 08 - The Quaker Colonies - Sydney Fisher
- Author: Sydney Fisher
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The Quaker Colonies describes the Quaker emigration to the colonies in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds and at the same time its involvement in the evolution of Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. Throughout, the author investigates the various...
Unwise Child - Randall Garrett
Unwise Child - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
When a super-robot named Snookums discovers how to build his own superbombs, it becomes obvious that Earth is by no means the safest place for him to be. And so Dr. Fitzhugh, his designer, and Leda Crannon, a child psychologist acting as Snookums’...
Dr. Allinson's cookery book - Thomas Richard Allinson
Dr. Allinson's cookery book - Thomas Richard Allinson
- Author: Thomas Richard Allinson
- Genre: Cooking
This is a cookbook promoting vegetarian recipes. The author of the book, Dr. Thomas Allinson, had strong views about health issues - he promoted vegetarian cooking and wholegrain bread, among other things which are less popular today. His cookbook...
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - E. Nesbit
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short works
Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that children would not only understand, but delight in....
Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories - Voltairine de Cleyre
Selected Works: Letters, Sketches and Stories - Voltairine de Cleyre
- Author: Voltairine de Cleyre
- Genre: Single Author Collections / Literary Collections
Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist. She was skilled in many subjects and wrote essays, poems, letters, sketches, stories and speeches. These are her selected letters, sketches and stories. (Summary by enko)...
I see His Blood upon the Rose - Joseph Mary Plunkett
I see His Blood upon the Rose - Joseph Mary Plunkett
- Author: Joseph Mary Plunkett
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of I see His Blood upon the Rose by Joseph Mary Plunkett. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 9th, 2008....
A Drinking Song - William Butler Yeats
A Drinking Song - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers offer you 12 different recordings of A Drinking Song from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1912) by William Butler Yeats. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 11th, 2010....
Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner - Max Brand
Sheriff Larrabee's Prisoner - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Westerns
The stranger rode up in the pouring rain to the lonely ranch house. Before dawn he was riding quickly away. Who had killed old Mr. Benton? The stranger, or Gus, or Mrs. Zellar? And why was Jack Montagne’s behavior so gentlemanly? Read this 1921 pulp...
