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Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Asia - Frank G. Carpenter
Carpenter's Geographical Reader: Asia - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction
Through travelogues, lifestyle descriptions and cultural notes the reader will visit China, Japan, India, Korea, parts of the Holy Land and Turkey as they were in the early 20th century. Summary by BettyB...
A Cynic Looks At Life - Ambrose Bierce
A Cynic Looks At Life - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Satire
Civilization, Immortality, the Death Penalty, these are just a few of the essays enclosed in this collection, A Cynic Looks At Life. Written by Ambrose Bierce, these essays continue to be thought provoking, offering a valid outlook on life. Summary...
Laughable Lyrics - Edward LEAR
Laughable Lyrics - Edward LEAR
- Author: Edward LEAR
- Genre: Poetry
Hilarious, fantastic poems that I enjoyed reading to my two sons when they were little. Now I'd like to read them for anyone's children to enjoy listening to. (Summary by Roeg11)...
Heart Talks on Holiness - Samuel Logan Brengle
Heart Talks on Holiness - Samuel Logan Brengle
- Author: Samuel Logan Brengle
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Samuel Logan Brengle was a commissioner in the Salvation Army. His books are known for the practicality, joyfulness and authenticity. His life was spent working with people on the streets, so his insights into the work of the Holy Spirit are...
The Room in the Dragon Volant - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
The Room in the Dragon Volant - Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Author: Joseph Sheridan LE FANU
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls instantly in love with a mysterious and imperiled Countess, whom he glimpses momentarily behind her black veil. In...
The Red Thumb Mark - R. Austin Freeman
The Red Thumb Mark - R. Austin Freeman
- Author: R. Austin Freeman
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Missing diamonds, untouched safe, two blood smeared thumb prints and a mysterious Mr X. If these are present, Dr Thorndyke must be there too. Will he be able to solve this case? The Red Thumb Mark is the first novel of Freeman’s best-selling...
The Vicar's Daughter - George MacDonald
The Vicar's Daughter - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Romance / Christian Fiction
This is the third book of the 'Marshmallow' trilogy. It is a fictional autobiography written by Ethelwyn Percivale, or 'Wynnie'. Her father is a clergyman, Mr. Walton, whose history has already been told in "A Quiet Neighborhood", the first of the...
The Wonder Book of Bible Stories - Logan Marshall
The Wonder Book of Bible Stories - Logan Marshall
- Author: Logan Marshall
- Genre: Bibles
It is with the desire of aiding parents and teachers in telling these stories, and aiding children to understand them, also in the hope that they may be read in many schools, that a few among the many interesting stories in the Bible have been...
The Age of Innocence (version 2) - Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Romance
Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction with this 1920 novel about Old New York society. Newland Archer is wealthy, well-bred, and engaged to the beautiful May Welland. But he finds himself drawn to May's cousin...
The Man in Lower Ten - Mary Roberts Rinehart
The Man in Lower Ten - Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Author: Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Romance
Someone had to take the bank notes to Pittsburgh and take a statement from John Gilmore confirming that they were indeed forged. It was McKnight's turn to go, but he was bagging off because he wanted to spend the weekend visiting Alison West in...
Signs of Change - William Morris
Signs of Change - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
In the 1880s William Morris, the artist and poet famously associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, left the Liberal Party and threw himself into the Socialist cause. He spoke all over the country, on street corners as well as in working men's...
The Trojan Women (Murray Translation) - Euripides
The Trojan Women (Murray Translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Tragedy
Euripides' play follows the fates of the women of Troy after their city has been sacked, their husbands killed, and as their remaining families are about to be taken away as slaves. However, it begins first with the gods Athena and Poseidon...
The Torrents of Spring - Ivan Turgenev
The Torrents of Spring - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: General Fiction
The Torrents of Spring, also known as Spring Torrents (Russian: Вешние воды), is a novel written by Ivan Turgenev during 1870 and 1871 when he was in his fifties. The story centers around a young Russian landowner named Dimitry Sanin who falls...
How to Listen to Music - Henry Edward Krehbiel
How to Listen to Music - Henry Edward Krehbiel
- Author: Henry Edward Krehbiel
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Music / Self-Help
This book is "not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art". It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues - and when to believe the critics. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)...
The Death of Lord Nelson - William Beatty
The Death of Lord Nelson - William Beatty
- Author: William Beatty
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
"The Surgeon of the late illustrious Lord NELSON feels himself called upon, from the responsible situation which he held on the eventful day of the 21st of October 1805, to lay before the British Nation the following Narrative. It contains an...
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas à Kempis
The Imitation of Christ - Thomas à Kempis
- Author: Thomas à Kempis
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Imitation of Christ is widely considered one of the greatest manuals of devotion in Christianity. The life of Christ is presented as the highest study possible to a mortal, as Jesus’ teachings far excel all the teachings of the saints. The book...
Short Poetry Collection 062 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 062 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 062: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Twice Told Tales - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Twice-Told Tales is a short story collection in two volumes by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The first was published in the spring of 1837, and the second in 1842. The stories had all been previously published in magazines and annuals, hence the name....
The Protector - Harold BINDLOSS
The Protector - Harold BINDLOSS
- Author: Harold BINDLOSS
- Genre: General Fiction
Harold Bindloss, while born in England, based most of his novels in western Canada, and The Protector is based primarily in and around Vancouver and Victoria. There is often danger involved in the mining and timber industries north of Vancouver, and...
Auld Lang Syne - Robert BURNS
Auld Lang Syne - Robert BURNS
- Author: Robert BURNS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns. This was the weekly poetry project in honor of Gung Haggis Fat Choy, a cultural event originating from Vancouver, Canada, celebrating the timely coincidence of Robert...
Bunker Bean - Harry Leon WILSON
Bunker Bean - Harry Leon WILSON
- Author: Harry Leon WILSON
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Young, self conscious, timid stenographer for a New York businessman with a beautiful daughter (the flapper). He emulates stronger types, but alas.....is not them. He grows up in this humorous volume from 1913. - Summary by joseph tabler...
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
Nostromo - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Señor Gould is a native Costaguanan of English descent who owns the silver-mining concession in Sulaco. He is tired of the political instability in Costaguana and its concomitant corruption, and puts his weight behind the Ribierist project, which he...
Under the Lilacs (version 3, dramatic reading) - Louisa May Alcott
Under the Lilacs (version 3, dramatic reading) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Historical
When a raggedy boy from the circus limps into the lives of the Moss family, he is unlike any child they have ever met. With his devoted and clever dog, Sancho, at his side, Ben’s amazing stunts from the big top and kindly, eager persona win the...
The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Sandy Chipmunk - 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 Sandy Chipmunk is one of 16 stories of his Tuck-Me-In Tales series. - Summary by...
Our Little Hindu Cousin - Blanche McManus
Our Little Hindu Cousin - Blanche McManus
- Author: Blanche McManus
- Genre: General
This book is one of a series that aims at describing other cultures to children in an entertaining way that honors the culture, educates the child and keeps their minds open to the possibility of other people living wonderful lives in far off...
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy - Anonymous
Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: War & Military / Travel & Geography / Transportation
A collection of true stories of the high seas, from the nineteenth century. Shipwrecks, mutiny, life and death decision-making -- all far from home, while pitting themselves against the elements. The romance of the seafaring life is depicted in its...
Round the Block - John Bell Bouton
Round the Block - John Bell Bouton
- Author: John Bell Bouton
- Genre: General Fiction
In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, a newspaper editor who later became a travel writer, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single New...
The Sincere Huron (L'Ingénu) - Voltaire
The Sincere Huron (L'Ingénu) - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: Satire
L'Ingénu is a satirical novella by the French writer Voltaire, published in 1767. It tells the story of a Huron Indian transported to the sophistication of eighteenth century Paris, and satirizes religious doctrine, as well as the folly and...
The Cruel Painter - George MacDonald
The Cruel Painter - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance / Short Stories
This is the story of a daring college student's quest to win the icy heart of a beautiful girl. Unfortunately, the girl is the daughter of a cunning and sadistic master artist, who takes the student as an apprentice with the express intent of...
Reflections on War and Death - Sigmund Freud
Reflections on War and Death - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
Anyone, as Freud tells us in Reflections on War and Death, forced to react against his own impulses may be described as a hypocrite, whether he is conscious of it or not. One might even venture to assert—it is still Freud's argument—that our...
The Children of the New Forest (version 2) - Frederick MARRYAT
The Children of the New Forest (version 2) - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Historical
The Children of the New Forest is a children's novel published in 1847 by Frederick Marryat. It is set in the time of the English Civil War and the Commonwealth. The story follows the fortunes of the four Beverley children who are orphaned during...
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
Anatomy of the Human Body, Part 2 (Gray's Anatomy) - Henry Gray
- Author: Henry Gray
- Genre: Medical
Henry Gray's classic anatomy textbook was first published in 1858 and has been in continuous publication ever since, revised and expanded through many successive editions. This recording is of the public-domain 1918 US edition (some information may...
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1 - Walter Pater
Marius the Epicurean, Volume 1 - Walter Pater
- Author: Walter Pater
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Marius the Epicurean is a philosophical novel written by Walter Pater, published in 1885. In it Pater displays, with fullness and elaboration, his ideal of the aesthetic life, his cult of beauty as opposed to bare asceticism, and his theory of the...
What Katy Did Next - Susan Coolidge
What Katy Did Next - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: General
This is the third book of the famous "What Katy did" series. (Summary by Elli)...
The Fortieth Door - Mary Hastings Bradley
The Fortieth Door - Mary Hastings Bradley
- Author: Mary Hastings Bradley
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A young American archeologist, a masked ball in Cairo, an illusive young woman and the unexplained disappearance of a Frenchman fifteen years earlier all play into this mystery by Mary Hastings Bradley. (summary written by J. M. Smallheer)...
The Facts of Reconstruction - John R. Lynch
The Facts of Reconstruction - John R. Lynch
- Author: John R. Lynch
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
After the American Civil War, John R. Lynch, who had been a slave in Mississippi, began his political career in 1869 by first becoming Justice of the Peace, and then Mississippi State Representative. He was only 26 when he was elected to the US...
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson
- Author: James Weldon Johnson
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Johnson's only novel, The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man, was originally published anonymously in 1912. It is a fictional novel written as a memoir of an unnamed biracial narrator who grew up in the South during the Reconstruction and...
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities (version 2) - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School; or, Fast Friends in the Sororities (version 2) - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General
In "Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School"; Or, "Fast Friends in the Sororities," the girl chums will appear as members of a High School sorority. Here the reader will make the acquaintance of Eleanor Savell, a clever but exceedingly wilful...
Five Years of My Life 1894-1899 - Alfred Dreyfus
Five Years of My Life 1894-1899 - Alfred Dreyfus
- Author: Alfred Dreyfus
- Genre: Memoirs / Letters
Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish captain in the French Army was court martialed in 1894 on a trumped up charge of treason and condemned to life imprisonment on Devil’s island, a penal colony off French Guiana. His prison diary, published as Five Years of My...
The Art of Money Getting - P. T. Barnum
The Art of Money Getting - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Business & Economics
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 – April 7, 1891) was an American showman, businessman, and entertainer, remembered for promoting celebrated hoaxes and for founding the circus that became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. His...
