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Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Single author
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a single reader (Foon), with the exception of a few poems that are written as small theatrical plays, which are...
Round The Fire Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Round The Fire Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
In the present [1908] collection those [stories] have been brought together which are concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible—such tales as might well be read “round the fire” upon a winter’s night. This would be my ideal atmosphere for...
Memoirs of a Country Doll - Mary Curtis
Memoirs of a Country Doll - Mary Curtis
- Author: Mary Curtis
- Genre: General
A doll tells the story of her adventuresome life in rural England. This story, written by an 11 year old girl in the style of a dolls autobiography these stories are delightfully fresh and childlike at the same time. We follow her from her start in...
Running Water - A. E. W. Mason
Running Water - A. E. W. Mason
- Author: A. E. W. Mason
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times), he was a prolific and popular writer of the period. Running Water, published in 1907, is, like its...
To the United States of America - Robert Bridges
To the United States of America - Robert Bridges
- Author: Robert Bridges
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
In celebration of Independence Day in the United States, 2007, LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 different recordings of To the United States of America by Robert Bridges. This was the Weekly Poetry project for the week of July 1st, 2007. (Summary by...
Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Crime and Punishment (Version 4 Dramatic Reading) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Literary Fiction
The story tells of the inner turmoil of Rodion Raskolnikov, a student in St. Petersburg who commits murder. His psychological and moral agitation is furthered and complicated by his family's arrival in St. Petersburg, his sister's engagement to a...
Short Poetry Collection 079 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 079 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems read by LibriVox volunteers for the month of May 2009....
Short Poetry Collection 190 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 190 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 50 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for March 2019....
The Glories of Ireland - Joseph Dunn
The Glories of Ireland - Joseph Dunn
- Author: Joseph Dunn
- Genre: Short Stories / History / Travel & Geography
A collection of essays on Ireland compiled by Joseph Dunn and PJ Lennox. As stated in the Preface to the books "...we have been forced to the conclusion that the performances of the Irish race in many fields of endeavor are entirely unknown to most...
Beautiful Joe - Marshall Saunders
Beautiful Joe - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Animals
Beautiful Joe is a real dog, and "Beautiful Joe" is his real name. He belonged during the first part of his life to a cruel master, who mutilated him in the manner described in the story. He was rescued from him, and is now living in a happy home...
In The Days of Giants - Abbie Farwell Brown
In The Days of Giants - Abbie Farwell Brown
- Author: Abbie Farwell Brown
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This book is made of the stories told by the Northern folk,—the people who live in the land of the midnight sun, where summer is green and pleasant, but winter is a terrible time of cold and gloom; where rocky mountains tower like huge giants, over...
Miss Billy - Eleanor H. Porter
Miss Billy - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
Mr. Neilson was determined to name his first child after his boyhood chum, William Henshaw. When the baby disappointed him by being a girl, he was consoled by naming her Billy. Miss Billy, now 18, orphaned and all alone in the world, takes her...
Storm Over Warlock - Andre Norton
Storm Over Warlock - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Throg task force struck the Terran survey camp a few minutes after dawn, without warning, and with a deadly precision which argued that the aliens had fully reconnoitered and prepared that attack. Eye-searing lances of energy lashed back and...
Unknown to History - Charlotte Mary Yonge
Unknown to History - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Genre: Historical
During the captivity of Mary, Queen of Scots, plots, conspiracies, and intrigue engulfed the country. Catholics were apprehensive of Protestants; Scots mistrusted the English. No one felt completely safe. Into the midst of this turmoil was thrust a...
The Fighting Shepherdess - Caroline LOCKHART
The Fighting Shepherdess - Caroline LOCKHART
- Author: Caroline LOCKHART
- Genre: Westerns
A classic style western written by one of the first female western writers. Caroline Lockhart was a rancher, writer and possibly the first woman to go over Glacier National Parks Swiftcurrent Pass. (Summary by Dawn)...
Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Personal Collection of Short Tales compiled by Carmie - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a selection of the fairy tales (in English) written by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm and Wilhelm Karl Grimm in the early 19th Century. These stories are fantastical and although aimed squarely at the flexible mind of a child which can assimilate...
Bible (ASV) NT 20: James - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 20: James - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: American Standard Version
The Epistle of James is a book in the Christian New Testament. The author identifies himself as James (James 1:1), traditionally understood as James the Just, the brother of Jesus, first of the Seventy Disciples and first Bishop of Jerusalem. With...
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The Friendly Terrace Quartette (or Peggy Raymond At The Poplars) published in 1920, finds Peggy and her friends preparing for The Great War. Young men they had known as boys are signing up to train and fight as soldiers, while the girls find...
Bible (KJV) NT 20: James - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 20: James - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The writer of this letter instructs the early Christians on the value of showing patience, controlling an unruly tongue and treating all people with kindness without respect to their social position. It also provides the basis for the practice of...
Howards End (version 2) - E. M. Forster
Howards End (version 2) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Romance
The Schlegels frequently encounter the Wilcoxes. The youngest, Helen, is rejected by the younger Wilcox brother, Paul. The eldest, Margaret, becomes friends with his mother Ruth Wilcox. Ruth's most prized personal possession is her family house at...
Spring (Barber version 2) - Margaret Fairless BARBER
Spring (Barber version 2) - Margaret Fairless BARBER
- Author: Margaret Fairless BARBER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Michael Fairless is a pseudonym of Margaret Fairless Barber. She was an English Christian writer whose book of meditations, The Roadmender (1902) became a popular classic. The poem is taken from her book, The Grey Brethren, and Other Fragments in...
White Fang (Version 2) - Jack London
White Fang (Version 2) - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
When White Fang is birthed in a cave to a wolf sire and a wolf/dog halfbreed dam, he is heir to two traditions. At first he is content to explore and learn laws of the Wild. But then his mother is caught and held by old memories of a past...
Short Poetry Collection 029 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 029 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 029: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Gamester - Edward Moore
The Gamester - Edward Moore
- Author: Edward Moore
- Genre: Tragedy
The Gamester is Edward Moore's most famous work, and while it has fallen into relative obscurity in the last century, at the time it marked an important shift in the staging of eighteenth century tragedy. More specifically, it was one of the first...
Farewell -- But Whenever -- - Thomas Moore
Farewell -- But Whenever -- - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Librivox volunteers bring you seven readings of Farewell! – But Whenever – by Thomas Moore. This is the fortnightly poetry project for October 12, 2014....
Lonesome Land - B. M. Bower
Lonesome Land - B. M. Bower
- Author: B. M. Bower
- Genre: Westerns / Published 1900 onward
Val had come to Montana to marry a cowboy named Manley, envisioning a life of wedded bliss, freedom, and was anticipating happiness in her adopted part of the country. She would soon learn that the winters could be cruel and lonesome for a woman...
Love not me for comely grace - John Wilbye
Love not me for comely grace - John Wilbye
- Author: John Wilbye
- Genre: Poetry / Romance / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of Love not me for comely grace by John Wilbye. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 30, 2012 John Wilbye was an English madrigal composer, and is probably the most famous of all the...
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw - Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw - Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
- Author: Ukawsaw Gronniosaw
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Religion
Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, also known as James Albert, (born ca. 1705 - 1775) was a freed slave and autobiographer. His autobiography is considered the first published by an African in Britain. Gronniosaw's autobiography was produced in Kidderminster in...
The Mirror Of Kong Ho - Ernest Bramah
The Mirror Of Kong Ho - Ernest Bramah
- Author: Ernest Bramah
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This 1905 tongue-in-cheek book is ostensibly the letters of a dutiful son to his Chinese father describing his encounter with and experience of Western civilization in late nineteenth century London. The author is delightfully humorous. - Summary by...
The Voice Of The Banjo - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Voice Of The Banjo - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of The Voice Of The Banjo by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 3, 2019. ------ What struck me in reading Mr. Dunbar's poetry was what had already struck his friends...
Strangers And Pilgrims - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Strangers And Pilgrims - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: General Fiction
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Bible (YLT) 19: Psalms - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 19: Psalms - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
The Psalms are the Israelites' songs of joy and sadness, contentment and complaint, happiness and suffering---but most of all, praise. King David is the most prolific contributor, but there are also psalms from his son Solomon, the sons of Korah,...
Off-Hand Sketches - T. S. ARTHUR
Off-Hand Sketches - T. S. ARTHUR
- Author: T. S. ARTHUR
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The reader cannot but smile at some of the phases of life presented in this volume. Yet the smile will, in no case, the author thinks, be at the expense of humanity, good feeling, or virtue. Many of the incidents given, are facts embellished by a...
The Enchiridion of Augustine - Saint Augustine of Hippo
The Enchiridion of Augustine - Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The Enchiridion, Manual, or Handbook of Augustine of Hippo is alternatively titled, "Faith, Hope, and Love". The Enchiridion is a compact treatise on Christian piety, written in response to a request by an otherwise unknown person, named Laurentis,...
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt - Sinclair Lewis
- Author: Sinclair Lewis
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Sinclair Lewis’ George F. Babbitt is a complicated and conflicted character. When you think you have his next move figured out he surprises you. As you begin to like him, he does something to evoke the “what a rat” response. Male menopause wasn’t a...
An Earthman on Venus - Ralph Milne Farley
An Earthman on Venus - Ralph Milne Farley
- Author: Ralph Milne Farley
- Genre: Science Fiction
When Myles Cabot accidentally transmitted himself to the planet Venus, he found himself naked and bewildered on a mystery world where every unguarded minute might mean a horrible death. Man-eating plants, tiger-sized spiders, and dictatorial ant-men...
The "Falcon" on the Baltic - Edward Frederick Knight
The "Falcon" on the Baltic - Edward Frederick Knight
- Author: Edward Frederick Knight
- Genre: Travel & Geography
A coasting voyage boyage in a small yacht from Hammersmith in the UK to Copenhagen and back, including various visits to places on the Baltic. - Summary by Jane Bennett...
Dog: A Selection of Stories - Various
Dog: A Selection of Stories - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Anthologies
The title says it all: stories about dogs. - Summary by david wales...
Great Explorers in Space - Various
Great Explorers in Space - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
‘The Pioneer’ by Irving E. Cox The greatest explorer of them all returns to Earth and finds the world upside down! ‘Flight Perilous’ by Ray C Noll A trip through the Asteroid Belt. They must make it to the other side. But will they? ‘Ask a Foolish...
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 - Nicholas Cresswell
The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-1777 - Nicholas Cresswell
- Author: Nicholas Cresswell
- Genre: Memoirs
Against his family's wishes, the son of an English landowner emigrates to America in 1774 for reasons he won't reveal. His adventures take him from Barbados to trade cotton, to the Ohio frontier in search of farmland, and back to the ruins of New...
