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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 5, December 1899 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 5, December 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...
The History of Prostitution - William Sanger
The History of Prostitution - William Sanger
- Author: William Sanger
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Common sense asks for a full investigation of all the evils attending prostitution. In the every-day affairs of life, any man who feels the pressure of a particular evil looks at once for its cause. He may be neither a philosopher nor a logician,...
Sadhana, the Realisation of Life - Rabindranath Tagore
Sadhana, the Realisation of Life - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, philosopher, visual artist, playwright, composer, and novelist whose work reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He became Asia’s first Nobel laureate when he won the...
A Song of the Guns - Gilbert FRANKAU
A Song of the Guns - Gilbert FRANKAU
- Author: Gilbert FRANKAU
- Genre: Single author
"A Song of the Guns was written under what are probably the most remarkable conditions in which a poem has ever been composed. The author, who is now serving in Flanders, was present at the battle of Loos, and during a lull in the fighting--when the...
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series - Richard Harris Barham
The Ingoldsby Legends, 1st Series - Richard Harris Barham
- Author: Richard Harris Barham
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of Richard Harris Barham. The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series...
Three Days On The Ohio River - William A ALCOTT
Three Days On The Ohio River - William A ALCOTT
- Author: William A ALCOTT
- Genre: Travel & Geography
This 1854 narration of a trip upon the Ohio River in a steamboat from Cincinnati to Pittsburg gives a picture of travel in a different time and almost a different United States. The author was well-known in his time and wrote prolifically. - Summary...
Mark Twain; his life and work. A biographical sketch - William M. Clemens
Mark Twain; his life and work. A biographical sketch - William M. Clemens
- Author: William M. Clemens
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
As far as anyone has been able to establish, Will Clemens was NOT related to Sam Clemens (Mark Twain), though they did become acquaintances. The 200-page biography Will Clemens wrote and published himself may have been the earliest full-length study...
The Blue Star - Fletcher Pratt
The Blue Star - Fletcher Pratt
- Author: Fletcher Pratt
- Genre: Science Fiction
The novel is set in a parallel world in which the existence of psychic powers has permitted the development of witchcraft into a science; in contrast, the physical sciences have languished, resulting in a modern culture reminiscent of our eighteenth...
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume II - Horatio Nelson
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume II - Horatio Nelson
- Author: Horatio Nelson
- Genre: Letters
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won several victories, including the...
A Journey from This World to the Next - Henry Fielding
A Journey from This World to the Next - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
The narrator dies in the first sentence. Through relating his travels in the afterlife, Henry Fielding, author of Tom Jones and Joseph Andrews, gently satirizes life here on earth. (Summary by Denny Sayers) This project was proof listened by Linda...
Dryden vs Shadwell - a Poetic Duel - John Dryden
Dryden vs Shadwell - a Poetic Duel - John Dryden
- Author: John Dryden
- Genre: Poetry / Satire
Throughout history there have been many creative artists whose fame depends largely on their association with a much greater artist. Such the case of Thomas Shadwell, poet and prolific writer of low brow comedies, who is today most famous as the...
The Mystery Of Cloomber - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Mystery Of Cloomber - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Detective Fiction
This novel is written by the author of, among other novels, the Stories of Sherlock Holmes. It is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is nervous to the point of being...
The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier - Walt Whitman
The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier - Walt Whitman
- Author: Walt Whitman
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Published anonymously in The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (with an earlier draft also appearing as “Arrow-Tip” in The Aristidean), The Half-Breed: A Tale of the Western Frontier is one of the few known works of long-form fiction written by Walt Whitman...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 2, Chapter 06) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This chapter starts from about 1685. James is on the throne and, as ever, there are disputes between crown and Parliament. We see the Habeus Corpus Act introduced, the persecution of the Huguenots and troubles in Ireland. Summary by Jim Mowatt...
All the World - Charles Monroe SHELDON
All the World - Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Author: Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
The Great War is over and the soldier boys are back home, but some of them just can't settle down again. Neither can the girls who helped out both on the foreign and the home front. Dr. Ward notices, but doesn't know how to help until one Sunday...
Just So Stories (version 4) - Rudyard Kipling
Just So Stories (version 4) - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Just So Stories for Little Children are among Kipling's best known and loved works. This recording aims to be the first complete audio book of this title with nothing left out. The Nobel prize-winning author's enjoyment in playing with the...
The Cliff Climbers - Thomas Mayne REID
The Cliff Climbers - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: Action & Adventure
A plant hunter, Karl Linden, and his brother Caspar are on their way to the Himalayas to collect the plants of that region. Many adventures befell the brothers and their guides, all of which led to their being trapped in the mountains. This is a...
Young Adults Short Works Collection Vol. 001 - Various
Young Adults Short Works Collection Vol. 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction
LibriVox’s Young Adults Short Story Collection 001: a collection of 9 short works of Young Adult fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Phoebe Deane - Grace Livingston Hill
Phoebe Deane - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Romance
Second book in the Marcia Schuyler trilogy. Phoebe Deane lives almost as a servant in her brother's home, tormented by her hateful sister-in-law. Schemes to marry her off swirl around her. Her fate seems to be marriage to an abusive man with several...
The Reluctant Dragon - Kenneth Grahame
The Reluctant Dragon - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Action & Adventure
What would you do if you discovered a dragon living in a cave on a hill above your home? Make friends, read poetry together? It turns out that not all dragons are intent on pillaging the countryside. Some might actually enjoy peace, quiet, and the...
The Schoolmistress - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Schoolmistress - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
The second of Pinero's farces, following the wildly successful The Magistrate, and likewise a hit. The Schoolmistress has a secret: "Think of the deception I am practising upon dear Vere! Think of the people who believe in the rigid austerity of...
The Lifting Of The Mist - E. Pauline Johnson
The Lifting Of The Mist - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Lifting Of The Mist by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 28, 2019. ------ Her education was neither extensive nor elaborate, and embraced neither High School nor...
Menexenus - Plato
Menexenus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Menexenus (ΜΕΝΕΞΕΝΟΣ) is thought to have been written by Plato (ΠΛΑΤΩΝ). The dialogue consists of Socrates (ΣΩΚΡΑΤΗΣ) recounting a funeral oration he claims to have learned from the female philosopher Aspasia (ΑΣΠΑΣΙΑ) who may have been wealthy, a...
The Dark Ages, and Other Poems - L.
The Dark Ages, and Other Poems - L.
- Author: L.
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by a poet only going by the initial "L.". The poems are veried in tone and subject, set in different parts of the British Isles and Europe. Most of them have a historic background, though set several centuries after the...
The Idiot (Part 03 and 04) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Idiot (Part 03 and 04) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The extraordinary child-adult Prince Myshkin, confined for several years in a Swiss sanatorium suffering from severe epilepsy, returns to Russia to claim his inheritance and to find a place in healthy human society. The teeming St Petersburg...
The Anti-Federalist Papers - Patrick HENRY
The Anti-Federalist Papers - Patrick HENRY
- Author: Patrick HENRY
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Political Science
During the period of debate over the ratification of the Constitution, numerous independent local speeches and articles were published all across the country. Initially, many of the articles in opposition were written under pseudonyms, such as...
One-Act Play Collection 008 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 008 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Librivox’s One-Act Play Collection 008 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members. Project BC: Michele Eaton At A Garden Party Narrator:Zames Curran Mr Demure: Anna Simon Mrs Pattallon: Availle Mr Tablett: Algy...
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
The Secret Agent is Conrad's dark, and darkly comic story of a band of spies, anarchists, agents-provocateurs plotting and counter-plotting in the back streets of London in the early 20th Century. The novel centers on Verloc, a shop-owner,...
In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
In the Field (1914-1915) - Marcel Dupont
- Author: Marcel Dupont
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
I have merely tried to make a written record of some of the hours I have lived through during the course of this war. A modest Lieutenant of Chasseurs, I cannot claim to form any opinion as to the operations which have been carried out for the last...
The Guest of Quesnay - Booth Tarkington
The Guest of Quesnay - Booth Tarkington
- Author: Booth Tarkington
- Genre: General Fiction
This is the story of two young American painters residing in Paris in a moderate way. Others are more flamboyant than them, for example Larrabee Harman, whose life is one continuous scandal, one of which involved the cousin of one of the painters....
Arms and The Man - George Bernard Shaw
Arms and The Man - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Satire
Arms and the Man is a comedy written by George Bernard Shaw, and was first produced in 1894 and published in 1898, and has become one of the most popular of his plays. Like his other works, Arms and the Man questions conventional values and uses war...
The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories - Thomas Wallace Knox
The Talking Handkerchief, and Other Stories - Thomas Wallace Knox
- Author: Thomas Wallace Knox
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is a collection of 22 stories of action and adventure. We follow the narrators as they escape pirates and cannibals, overcome natural disasters, and are attacked by wild animals. Cunning plans are executed and daring escapes are accomplished,...
Robert Burns 250th Anniversary - Various
Robert Burns 250th Anniversary - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Biography & Autobiography / Literary Collections
Robert Burns, the national bard (poet) of Scotland was born on the 25th January, 1759. Scotland and all Burns fans the world over, including LibriVox, were celebrating the 250th anniversary of Burns' birthday throughout 2009 and it seemed only...
The Second Latchkey - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
The Second Latchkey - Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Author: Charles Norris WILLIAMSON
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Jewelry thefts, society parties, clairvoyance, and romance marks this mystery, which is set in England and the US in the early 20th century. (Summary by Gesine)...
A Little Country Girl - Susan Coolidge
A Little Country Girl - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: General Fiction
Candace makes the first long trip of her young life alone. Everything is new, from the ocean views, to the fashionable people she encounters; from the museum-like home, to the unfamiliar cousins. How will she adapt to the new experiences and will...
The Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner
The Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner
- Author: Frederick Jackson Turner
- Genre: History
Frederick Jackson Turner was an extremely influential U.S. historian, who is best known for his "frontier thesis", which proposed that American democracy was profoundly shaped by the existence of an undeveloped frontier area from the founding...
The Caged Eagle, and Other Poems - George Sterling
The Caged Eagle, and Other Poems - George Sterling
- Author: George Sterling
- Genre: Poetry
This is a 1916 volume of poetry by George Sterling, split into four parts. The first part consists of 33 of the fantastic poems for which Sterling was so famous, followed by three poems on the Panama-Pacific Exposition and four Personal Poems, and...
Hildebrand and his Times - William Richard Ward Stephens
Hildebrand and his Times - William Richard Ward Stephens
- Author: William Richard Ward Stephens
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-1085), afterwards Pope Gregory VII, setting his life within the larger context of the struggle for dominance...
England In The Middle Ages - Elizabeth O'Neill
England In The Middle Ages - Elizabeth O'Neill
- Author: Elizabeth O'Neill
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
A short study examining the historical framework of England from the period of the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century. The period from the Norman Conquest to the end of the fifteenth century may be conveniently and aptly labelled...
My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1, Sept 1900 - Lurana Sheldon
My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 1, Sept 1900 - Lurana Sheldon
- Author: Lurana Sheldon
- Genre: General
This is the first issue of a wonderful weekly magazine aimed at young women. They each contain a novella following the adventures of Marion Marlowe, "Only a Farmer's Daughter" who went from "Farm to Fortune" and all written by the prolific :Lurana...
