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Happy Jack - Thornton W. Burgess
Happy Jack - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The adventures and perils of Happy Jack the Squirrel in the Green Forest, co-starring Happy Jack's cousins Chatterer the Red Squirrel and Striped Chipmunk, friends Sammy Jay, Tommy Tit, Whitefoot the Wood Mouse, and Shadow the Weasel as Happy Jack's...
The History of Britain - John Milton
The History of Britain - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Antiquity / Middle Ages/Middle History
A reader of this history, encountering the frequent references to βmy author,β meaning the current source, will be reminded of DON QUIXOTE and of THE MORTE D'ARTHUR, for Milton employs a style that might be called dissertational rather than...
The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Turkey Proudfoot - 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 Turkey Proudfoot is one of 16 stories of his Slumber-Town Tales series. - Summary...
The Cellar-House of Pervyse - Mairi Chisholm
The Cellar-House of Pervyse - Mairi Chisholm
- Author: Mairi Chisholm
- Genre: War & Military
Mairi Chisholm and Elsie Knocker were two British nurses and ambulance drivers whose staggeringly heroic efforts during World War I saved countless lives and earned them life-long honor. They were especially known for their determination to treat...
Commentary on Galatians - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
Commentary on Galatians - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Author: St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
St. Chrysostomβs Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians is continuous, according to chapter and verse, instead of being arranged in Homilies, with a moral or practical application at their close, as in his exposition of other Epistles. It was...
Short Humor Collection 001 - Various
Short Humor Collection 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories / Humor
This is a collection of short humorous works first published before 1923. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Religious Studies, Sketches and Poems - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Best known for having written "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe also wrote several religious works, including the works in this book. The first section (Religious Studies) was originally published as "Footsteps of the Master," and was...
The Blazing World - Margaret Lucas Cavendish
The Blazing World - Margaret Lucas Cavendish
- Author: Margaret Lucas Cavendish
- Genre: Science Fiction / Published before 1800
The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is, all at once, a satire, a treatise on natural philosophy, a work of proto-science fiction, and a defiant venture into a scientific world where women were not usually allowed. It tells the tale of a young...
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House - Harriet E. Wilson
Our Nig, or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, In A Two-Story White House - Harriet E. Wilson
- Author: Harriet E. Wilson
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Frado is a colored girl, living in the USA a few years before the Civil War. She is abandoned by her own white mother in the house of the Bellmont's- where she is treated badly. This is a sad book, but Frado's cheerfulness and dignity will make you...
Short Story Collection Vol. 047 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 047 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVoxβs Short Story Collection 047: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members, including stories by Poul Anderson, Aphra Behn, Kate Chopin, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Hardy, Bret Harte, O....
Rights Of Man - Thomas PAINE
Rights Of Man - Thomas PAINE
- Author: Thomas PAINE
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A book in 2 Parts, published in 1791 and 1792. Part First denounces Edmund Burkeβs defense of monarchy and his attacks against the French Revolution, and in plain laymanβs language traces the birth and fallacy of monarchy, and the source of man's...
Short Poetry Collection 063 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 063 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVoxβs Short Poetry Collection 063: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 2) - William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Sonnets (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. The poems were probably written over a period of...
Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland - John William Norie
Piloting Directions for the Gulf of Finland - John William Norie
- Author: John William Norie
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Norie's series of piloting and sailing directions was something of a staple in the chart-room of 19th century British (and other) merchant vessels. The description of landmarks and ports, as well as the rules and regulations provide another...
Mademoiselle De Belle Isle - Alexandre Dumas
Mademoiselle De Belle Isle - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Plays
"The refined and fashionable audiences who... used to applaud the play of Mademoiselle de Belle Isle⦠would, in all probability, have objected to an English version of Dumas' clever play, upon the score of its immorality. It is not for me to...
Heart Songs - Jean McKishnie Blewett
Heart Songs - Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Author: Jean McKishnie Blewett
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Jean Blewett. In this collection, the Canadian poet's most beautiful love songs and poetry is brought together. - Summary by Carolin...
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (version 2) - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Buster Bumblebee (version 2) - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Animals & Nature
This charming collection of short stories features a bumblebee called Buster, his (extensive) family, and a great number of other animals who he meets after they move home to a new meadow. - Summary by Rosslyn Carlyle...
Emma McChesney and Company - Edna Ferber
Emma McChesney and Company - Edna Ferber
- Author: Edna Ferber
- Genre: General Fiction
This is the final volume in the trilogy following the smart, stylish, divorced and independent businesswoman Emma McChesney in her career from stenographer, then drummer (traveling salesman) to owner of her own company. (The first was Roast Beef,...
Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen - F. Anstey
Mr. Punch's Pocket Ibsen - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Satire
These short comic parodies of five well-known tragedies by Henrik Ibsen originally appeared in Punch, the British humor magazine. From the prefatory note: "The author is conscious that his imitation is painfully lacking in the mysterious obscurity...
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things - Lafcadio HEARN
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things - Lafcadio HEARN
- Author: Lafcadio HEARN
- Genre: Short Stories
Most of the following Kwaidan, or Weird Tales, have been taken from old Japanese books,β such as the Yaso-Kidan, Bukkyo-Hyakkwa-Zensho, Kokon-Chomonshu, Tama-Sudare, and Hyaku-Monogatari. Some of the stories may have had a Chinese origin: the very...
The Golden Calf - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Golden Calf - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A late 19th Century sensation novel following the young life of Ida Palliser as she searches for fortune and love within England's Gentry Class. Victorian sensation books were often set in ordinary, familiar setting, undermining the perceived...
War and Peace, Book 06: 1808-1810 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 06: 1808-1810 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡ, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: ΠΠΎΠΉΠ½Π° ΠΈ ΠΌΠΈΡΡ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
To a Blank Sheet of Paper - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To a Blank Sheet of Paper - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works are the "Breakfast-Table"...
Love Letter Collection 2008 - Various
Love Letter Collection 2008 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Romance / Letters
LibriVox readers have cast their nets wide to create this small collection of letters and poems, from fiction and from life, from heart to heart and from soul to soul. With love for St Valentine. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)...
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair - William Morris
Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
A prose romance set in the forested kingdom of Oakenrealm, where a squirrel can go about from end to end without touching the ground, in which Christopher wins the fair queen Goldilind, discovers his true identity and reclaims his birthright. In...
That Mainwaring Affair - Anna Maynard BARBOUR
That Mainwaring Affair - Anna Maynard BARBOUR
- Author: Anna Maynard BARBOUR
- Genre: Detective Fiction
As wealthy financier, Hugh Mainwaring dictates his last will and testament to his private secretary, it would be impossible for him to imagine the shocking chain of events that he is about to set into motion. This best-selling mystery novel was...
Inventions Of The Great War - Alexander Russell Bond
Inventions Of The Great War - Alexander Russell Bond
- Author: Alexander Russell Bond
- Genre: War & Military / Technology & Engineering
ββ¦ this war was not one of mere destruction. It set men to thinking as they had never thought before. It intensified their inventive faculties, and as a result, the world is richer in many ways. Lessons of thrift and economy have been taught us....
A Princess of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
A Princess of Mars (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
John Carter, an American Civil War veteran, goes prospecting in Arizona and, when set upon by Indians, is mysteriously transported to Mars, called "Barsoom" by its inhabitants. Carter finds that he has great strength on this planet, due to its...
The Dead (version 2) - James JOYCE
The Dead (version 2) - James JOYCE
- Author: James JOYCE
- Genre: Short Stories
This novella is the final story in Joyce's collection Dubliners. It describes a Christmas party given by Kate and Julia Morkan, two elderly Dublin ladies, that is attended by their nephew, Gabriel Conroy, and his wife. While the party is festive,...
The Human Boy Again - Eden PHILLPOTTS
The Human Boy Again - Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Author: Eden PHILLPOTTS
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories / Single Author Collections
Published in 1908, this is a further collection of twelve humorous short stories about English school boys. The author wrote two other books in this series: The Human Boy (1900) and The Human Boy And The War (1916). Eden Phillpotts was popular with...
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Tom Swift is the young protagonist in a series of juvenile adventure novels which began in the early twentieth century and continue to the present. Tom Swift is a genius inventor whose breakthroughs in technology (especially transport technology)...
Love and Freindship - Jane Austen
Love and Freindship - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Love and Freindship [sic] is a juvenile story by Jane Austen, dated 1790, when Austen was 14 years old. Love and Freindship (the misspelling is one of many in the story) is clearly a parody of romantic novels Austen read as a child. This is clear...
In The Trenches - Thomas O'Hagan
In The Trenches - Thomas O'Hagan
- Author: Thomas O'Hagan
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that "every book lives or perishes by virtue or default of its artistic sincerity," we feel disposed to add that the...
Short Story Collection Vol. 078 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 078 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
A diverse collection of short stories selected and read in English by Librivox readers. The ever-popular detective stories of Arthur Conan Doyle, including the demise of Sherlock Holmes, the quirky Ambrose Bierce and Bill Nye and the wistful Soul of...
Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
Indian Summer - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
In his novel Indian Summer, William Dean Howells presents a mellow but realistic story that has the complete feel of that delightful time of the year, although the plot actually spans several seasons. The Indian summer aspect applies to a...
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
Celebrated Crimes, Vol. 6: Part 3: Martin Guerre - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military / True Crime
Martin Guerre was a French peasant that, during a long absence, was famously impersonated in the 16th century. Although the real Martin Guerre is suspected of no serious crimes, his imposter, Arnaud du Tilh, engaged in fraud and adultery while...
Short Story Collection Vol. 057 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 057 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
LibriVoxβs Short Story Collection 057: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members. A few notes: Section 12 The Cossack was translated by Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946). Section 17 Michael, a...
The Everlasting Righteousness - Horatius BONAR
The Everlasting Righteousness - Horatius BONAR
- Author: Horatius BONAR
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Christianity - Other
... or How Shall Man Be Just with God? How does salvation work? How does a righteous God declare an unrighteous person to be righteous in His sight? In this comprehensive and devotional study of justification by faith alone in the Person and work of...
Inscription for an Old Bed - William Morris
Inscription for an Old Bed - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Poetry / Elegies & Odes / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Inscription for an Old Bed by William Morris. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 20th, 2010....
The Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 1 - Edward Tyas COOK
The Life of Florence Nightingale, Volume 1 - Edward Tyas COOK
- Author: Edward Tyas COOK
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A history of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), the founder of modern nursing. Here's the definitive biography, gleaned from a lifetime of her notes, letters and writings, that goes way beyond the mere legend of "The Lady With The Lamp", and the...
