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Nina Balatka - Anthony Trollope
Nina Balatka - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A romance set in Prague between a Catholic and a Jew. In this short novel, Trollope moves away from his usual milieu to explore a theme which has universal resonance. - Summary by Anthony Ogus...
The Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
The Fisherman and His Soul (Version 2) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
To get what we want is often the greatest curse of all. The fisherman here accidentally catches a mermaid in his net. He falls in love with the Mermaid and tells her that he wants to marry her. She tells him that he can only marry her if he sends...
The Houses of Sin - Vincent O'Sullivan
The Houses of Sin - Vincent O'Sullivan
- Author: Vincent O'Sullivan
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by notable American horror story author Vincent O'Sullivan. These poems are as dark as most of his other writings, and are best enjoyed by those who are not faint of heart. - Summary by Carolin...
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow - Grace Isabel Colbron
The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow - Grace Isabel Colbron
- Author: Grace Isabel Colbron
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The account of some adventures in the professional experience of a member of the Imperial Austrian Police. (from the text)...
Pepper and Salt - Howard Pyle
Pepper and Salt - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Short works
One must have a little pinch of seasoning in this dull, heavy life of ours; one should never look to have all the troubles, the labors, and the cares, with never a whit of innocent jollity and mirth. Yes, one must smile now and then, if for nothing...
The Girl in the Golden Atom - Ray Cummings
The Girl in the Golden Atom - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Science Fiction
While examining a golden ring under a microscope, a chemist discovers a sub-atomic world. During his examination of this world he sees a beautiful young girl. After developing chemicals that will allow him to either shrink or grow larger in size, he...
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: General Fiction
"The wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones and... becomes a pure and uncontrollable mischief." Hawthorne's moral for "The House of the Seven Gables," taken from the Preface, accurately presages his story. The full weight of the...
Opening a Chestnut Burr - Edward P. Roe
Opening a Chestnut Burr - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
Walter Gregory is a gentleman whose health is broken down by the stress of Wall Street and the consequences of his fast lifestyle. Disillusioned in love and betrayed in friendship, he returns to visit his childhood home in the country. Who is this...
Chronicles of Canada Volume 09 - The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline - Arthur G. Doughty
Chronicles of Canada Volume 09 - The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline - Arthur G. Doughty
- Author: Arthur G. Doughty
- Genre: Early Modern
The name Acadia, which we now associate with a great tragedy of history and song, was first used by the French to distinguish the eastern or maritime part of New France from the western part, which began with the St Lawrence valley and was called...
The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Life - George Herbert
The Country Parson: His Character and Rule of Life - George Herbert
- Author: George Herbert
- Genre: Religion
George Herbert was an English poet, orator, and priest. In The Country Parson he describes the roles of the priest and offers practice advice to English clergymen about how to fulfill their duties. - Summary by Karen Clausen-Brown...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 5 dramatic reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 5 dramatic reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in...
Short Poetry Collection 033 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 033 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 033: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
Little Women is the classic story of The March family, which consists of Mr. and Mrs. March and their four girls--Practical, yet fashion conscious Meg, who longs for the nice things they used to have. Rambunctious, book worm, Jo, who wants to become...
Jataka Tales - Ellen C. BABBITT
Jataka Tales - Ellen C. BABBITT
- Author: Ellen C. BABBITT
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Jataka Tales form a part of the collective Indian Fairy tales with the only distinction that most of Jataka Tales have a moral. These are famous children stories and some of the stories like the "the turtle who couldn't stop talking" and "the King's...
St. Rose of Lima: The Flower of the New World - Florence Mary Capes
St. Rose of Lima: The Flower of the New World - Florence Mary Capes
- Author: Florence Mary Capes
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Saint Rose of Lima, T.O.S.D. (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), was a Spanish colonist in Lima, Peru, who became known for both her life of severe asceticism and her care of the needy of the city through her own private efforts. A lay member of the...
The Snowflake and Other Poems - Arthur WEIR
The Snowflake and Other Poems - Arthur WEIR
- Author: Arthur WEIR
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of Canadian poet Arthur Weir. Many of the poems are set around the turn of a year, referencing the season in different ways, and touching upon almost every emotion and association we might connect with winter. - Summary by Carolin...
The Chaos - Gerald Nolst Trenité
The Chaos - Gerald Nolst Trenité
- Author: Gerald Nolst Trenité
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry) / Language learning
"The Chaos" is a poem which demonstrates the irregularity of English spelling and pronunciation, written by Gerard Nolst Trenité (1870-1946), also known under the pseudonym Charivarius. It first appeared in an appendix to the author's 1920 textbook...
The Gods of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Gods of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Science Fiction
In this second volume of the Barsoom series, John Carter returns to Mars to learn that his heroic effort to salvage the atmosphere plant saved the planet's inhabitants, but he finds himself in the land of the dead. Luck restores his friends and even...
The Forest - Ben Jonson
The Forest - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his collected works. (Summary by Sheldon Greaves)...
Short Science Fiction Collection 003 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 003 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
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 the third volume of...
Sonnets - James Russell Lowell
Sonnets - James Russell Lowell
- Author: James Russell Lowell
- Genre: Sonnets
James Russell Lowell's extensive poetic work also includes a series of Sonnets. Some of those have already been included in the volumes Early Poems and Miscellaneous Poems, but 27 of his Sonnets are collected in this volume. - Summary by Carolin...
The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation) - Snorri STURLESON
The Prose Edda (Brodeur Translation) - Snorri STURLESON
- Author: Snorri STURLESON
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas / Other religions
Also known as the Younger Edda or Snorri's Edda, the Prose Edda is a three-part work composed or at least compiled by thirteenth-century Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson. Along with the Elder or Poetic Edda written by an unknown poet a...
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses - Andrew Barton Paterson
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, picturesque glimpses into life in the Bush. From the preface: "A number of these verses are now published for the first time, most of the others were written for and appeared...
Poetry of St John of the Cross - Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
Poetry of St John of the Cross - Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
- Author: Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
- Genre: Single author
The poems of St John of the Cross, with their mystic depth and spiritual ecstasy, stand among the world's great poems of Divine Love in all traditions. St John is one of the Roman Catholic Doctors of the Church, was a reformer of the Carmelite...
A Queen - Ottilie Wildermuth
A Queen - Ottilie Wildermuth
- Author: Ottilie Wildermuth
- Genre: Family / Christian Fiction
Maggie is an orphan who depends on the charity of the farmer she lives with. She tries to be cheerful and helpful to everyone where she is. However, Maggie dreams of being a queen. But how can a poor orphan ever become anything other than what she...
By What Authority? - Robert Hugh Benson
By What Authority? - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
Two wealthy families are neighbors in Elizabethan England; one is staunchly Catholic and the other is devoutly Protestant. The attractive young scions of the families are drawn to each other in friendship and love, but are kept apart by their...
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading) - R. M. Ballantyne
Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication, Story 2 (Dramatic Reading) - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Published 1800 -1900 / Fantasy Fiction
Join us in a journey of two young men in search of adventure as they discover more than they bargained for. - Summary by Linette Geisel (Note: The first two files were discovered in an archaeological dig of the LibriVox servers, were carefully...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The curious Case of Benjamin Button, a 1921 short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, now a major motion picture, features Benjamin Button, who, born as an old man much to the dismay and chagrin of his father and family Doctor, ages backwards until he...
Second Variety (Version 2) - Philip K. DICK
Second Variety (Version 2) - Philip K. DICK
- Author: Philip K. DICK
- Genre: Science Fiction
First published in Space Science Fiction May 1953. "The claws were bad enough in the first place—nasty, crawling little death-robots. But when they began to imitate their creators, it was time for the human race to make peace—if it could!" When...
An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant - Marcus Eli Ravage
An American in the Making, the Life Story of an Immigrant - Marcus Eli Ravage
- Author: Marcus Eli Ravage
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
“The sweat-shop was for me the cradle of liberty. . . It was my first university.” Attending lectures and the New York theatre at night; by day sewing sleeves into shirts in a ghetto shop, Marcus Eli Ravage (1884-1965) began his transformation from...
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2 (version 2) - Edgar Allan Poe
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Raven Edition, Volume 2 (version 2) - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
An eclectic, catholic even, collection from the exquisitely excellent tale-telling of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. Hilarious and terrifying. Need I say more? - Summary by Tony Addison...
The Warden (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
The Warden (version 2) - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged ecclesiastical seat as the warden of Hiram's Hospital. To make things more interesting, the man doing the...
The Secret House - Edgar Wallace
The Secret House - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A stranger and foreigner arrives at the offices of a small publication in London only to be faced by the “editor” whose face is completely swathed in a veil. Nothing is as it seems, and it quickly becomes evident that both are bent on more than...
Lucinda - Anthony Hope
Lucinda - Anthony Hope
- Author: Anthony Hope
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
It's 1914 London, and it's Waldo and Lucinda's wedding day. Unfortunately, Lucinda is nowhere to be found. A messenger boy brings Lucinda's note to her mother - ‘I can’t do it, Mother. So I’ve gone.’ There seems to be some suspicion that an Italian...
Short Science Fiction Collection 061 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 061 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The Power of Concentration - William Walker Atkinson
The Power of Concentration - William Walker Atkinson
- Author: William Walker Atkinson
- Genre: Self-Help
A series of twenty lessons designed to help develop and improve the power of concentration. (Summary by Andrea Fiore) Written under the pseudonym of Theron Q. Dumont....
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 2: La Constantin - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 5: Part 2: La Constantin - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: True Crime
Dumas chronicles the court intrigues that led to the execution of Marie La Roux Constantin. La dame Constantin was known by French nobility in the 17th century as the “midwife to the Queen’s daughters.” This title was, in reality, a dark jest as her...
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur - Gertrude Jekyll
Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur - Gertrude Jekyll
- Author: Gertrude Jekyll
- Genre: Gardening
Wood and Garden reads like a walk through the garden with renowned garden designer Gertrude Jekyll as she discusses her plant choices and placement, how she integrates nature into her design, and how she maintains and enjoys the garden. (Summary by...
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them - Dr. Benjamin Rush
An Inquiry into the Effects of Ardent Spirits upon the Human Body and Mind, with an Account of the Means of Preventing, and of the Remedies for Curing Them - Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Author: Dr. Benjamin Rush
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Medical / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Written when the United States extended only to the Mississippi River, by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, this short work explores the physical, social, and mental effects of distilled liquors; the classes of people prone to...
All Things Considered - G. K. Chesterton
All Things Considered - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Short non-fiction
Another delightful and sharply pointed excursion into the topics of the day, and of this day as well, with Gilbert Keith Chesterton. These reprinted magazine articles are filled with his good natured wit, his masterful use of paradox, and...
