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The Immortal Moment - May Sinclair
The Immortal Moment - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This is one of the later works of May Sinclair – a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist – famous in Britain and the US after the 1904 publication of The Divine Fire. The Immortal Moment concerns the defining episode in the life of...
The Genetic Effects of Radiation - Isaac Asimov
The Genetic Effects of Radiation - Isaac Asimov
- Author: Isaac Asimov
- Genre: Life Sciences
This is a book in the "Understanding the Atom Series" from the Division of Technical Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. The authors discuss topics of The Machinery of Inheritance, Mutations, Radiation, Dose and Consequences. - Summary by...
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 13, October, 1920 - W. H. Fawcett
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2. No. 13, October, 1920 - W. H. Fawcett
- Author: W. H. Fawcett
- Genre: Humor
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue is packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead...
Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England - Robert Smith Surtees
Ask Mamma: or The Richest Commoner In England - Robert Smith Surtees
- Author: Robert Smith Surtees
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Considering that Billy Pringle, or Fine Billy, as his good-natured friends called him, was only an underbred chap, he was as good an imitation of a Swell as ever we saw. He had all the airy dreaminess of a hereditary high flyer, while his big talk...
The Tale of Timothy Turtle (Version 2) - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Timothy Turtle (Version 2) - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
For a fellow that can only waddle slowly and spends a lot of time sleeping on the bottom of the pond, Timothy Turtle has a surprising number of adventures. This is another fun book about creatures that behave surprisingly like humans. (Summary by...
Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I - Thomas JEFFERSON
Memoir, Correspondence and Miscellanies, Volume I - Thomas JEFFERSON
- Author: Thomas JEFFERSON
- Genre: Literary Collections / Memoirs
This is the first volume of Thomas Jefferson's public and private writings edited and compiled by his oldest grandson Thomas Jefferson Randolph and published three years after the president's death. There are a total of four volumes in Randolph's...
The Mystery Of Choice - Robert W. Chambers
The Mystery Of Choice - Robert W. Chambers
- Author: Robert W. Chambers
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
The Mystery of Choice is a collection of short horror stories written by Robert W. Chambers. The stories, set in France, are known for their heavy use of nature imagery. - Summary by Veronica Maresh Mead...
The Blue Castle - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Blue Castle - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Romance
Valancy Stirling, plain, twenty nine, and as yet unsought, is given a year to live by a great heart specialist. This is the story of her year in which she finds a blue castle of happiness in the Canadian woods. The Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by...
Christus Consolator: Words for Hearts in Trouble - Handley Carr Glyn Moule
Christus Consolator: Words for Hearts in Trouble - Handley Carr Glyn Moule
- Author: Handley Carr Glyn Moule
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This book is intended principally to remind those whose hearts the European War has stricken of the hope and comfort which lie ready for their wounds in our Lord Jesus Christ. I shall be glad indeed if anything in my pages may bring help to other...
The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna - St. George Henry Rathborne
The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna - St. George Henry Rathborne
- Author: St. George Henry Rathborne
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The boys of the Silver Fox Patrol, after successfully braving a terrific flood, become entangled in a mystery that carries them through many exciting adventures. Herbert Carter is one of many pseudonyms used by St George Rathborne....
On A Tear - Samuel Rogers
On A Tear - Samuel Rogers
- Author: Samuel Rogers
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of On A Tear By Samuel Rogers. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 12, 2022. ------ Our poet reflects on the magical mysteries of a woman's tears. (David Lawrence)...
Lucian's True History - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
Lucian's True History - LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Author: LUCIAN OF SAMOSATA
- Genre: Satire / Science Fiction
One of the earliest works of science-fiction (nearly 2,000 years old). It has space travel (including war in space), lunar civilization, and aliens, along with more fantasy elements, such as the afterlife and Greek gods. A satire on contemporary...
U. S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 - Volume I The Pusan Perimeter - Lynn Montross
U. S. Marine Operations in Korea 1950–1953 - Volume I The Pusan Perimeter - Lynn Montross
- Author: Lynn Montross
- Genre: War & Military / History
It meant little to most Americans on 25 June 1950 to read in their Sunday newspapers that civil strife had broken out in Korea. They could hardly have suspected that this remote Asiatic peninsula was to become the scene of the fourth most costly...
Stormy, Misty's Foal - Marguerite Henry
Stormy, Misty's Foal - Marguerite Henry
- Author: Marguerite Henry
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Misty is a Chincoteague pony mare who is close to foaling, and the Beebe family is anxious about it. Unfortunately, a terrible storm system arrives first, setting up over Chincoteague with floods, hurricane winds, ice, and snow. The story is...
The World with a Thousand Moons - Edmond HAMILTON
The World with a Thousand Moons - Edmond HAMILTON
- Author: Edmond HAMILTON
- Genre: Science Fiction
Other than boasting of having a thousand moons, this nasty planet could only brag of having the most numerous, vicious, mean, death dealing set of animals every encountered anywhere. The atmosphere was nice though if you didn't mind the screams of...
The Old House - Cecile Tormay
The Old House - Cecile Tormay
- Author: Cecile Tormay
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
On a snowy winter's evening, Christopher Ulwing returns to his home, known as The New House for the last thirty years. Settled between the Buda hills and the plains of Pest, on the banks of the Danube, the suburb of Leopold has an abandoned feel,...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 30, May 25, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 30, May 25, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 30th issue of the serial was published on May 25th, 1880. In this issue,...
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
The Judgment of Eve - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: General Fiction / Literary Fiction / Satire
May Sinclair was a prolific author, literary critic, and feminist activist, famous in Britain and the US in the 1910’s and 20’s. The Judgment of Eve, like most of her novels, uses irony and understatement to expose the hypocrisy of the social order...
Peaks of Shala - Rose Wilder Lane
Peaks of Shala - Rose Wilder Lane
- Author: Rose Wilder Lane
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Exploration
This book was published in 1923. From the author's own Introduction: "I would not have this book considered too seriously. It is not an attempt to untangle one thread in the Balkan snarl; it is not a study of primitive peoples; it is not a...
The Story of My Life, Part 2 (Letters 1887 - 1901) - Helen KELLER
The Story of My Life, Part 2 (Letters 1887 - 1901) - Helen KELLER
- Author: Helen KELLER
- Genre: Letters
When Helen Keller's autobiography was first published in 1903, Part 1 of this 3 part book, she was just a young woman studying at Radcliffe College. In it, she shares memories of her childhood, describes how Miss Sullivan rescued her from complete...
Radioisotopes in Medicine (Version 2) - Earl W. PHELAN
Radioisotopes in Medicine (Version 2) - Earl W. PHELAN
- Author: Earl W. PHELAN
- Genre: Life Sciences
This is a book in the "Understanding the Atom Series" from the Division of Technical Information, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission. The author gives a short overview of the field and outlines the diagnostic and therapeutic uses of radioisotopes in...
The Pirate, and The Three Cutters - Frederick MARRYAT
The Pirate, and The Three Cutters - Frederick MARRYAT
- Author: Frederick MARRYAT
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
Pirates are the subject of many a dime novel and boys' stories, but they tend to be portrayed as one-dimensional. Such is the case here. The captain of The Avenger is a Byronic or even a Michael Scottish hero—an impossible monster, compounded of one...
The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 4 - Benjamin B. Warfield
The B. B. Warfield Collection, Volume 4 - Benjamin B. Warfield
- Author: Benjamin B. Warfield
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This volume contains a prevalence of items relating to Warfield's interests in Christology and in the thought of John Calvin. It also contains his take on questions that many would not dare tackle like "Should one repent of original sin?" and...
Epitaph on a Hare - William Cowper
Epitaph on a Hare - William Cowper
- Author: William Cowper
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Epitaph on a Hare by William Cowper. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 12, 2022. ------ This Fortnightly Poem features an ode to a pet rabbit. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Why Armenia Should Be Free: Armenia's Role in the Present War - Armen Garo
Why Armenia Should Be Free: Armenia's Role in the Present War - Armen Garo
- Author: Armen Garo
- Genre: Political Science
Here is a trenchant argument for the Allied Supreme Council, established at the close of World War One, to recognize and defend the independence of Armenia and its people. Responding to President Wilson's call for the sovereignty of those who fought...
A Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study in Scarlet (Version 7 Dramatic Reading) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel A Study in Scarlet marked the first appearance of fictional private detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant, Dr. Watson. Doyle wrote this novel in less than three weeks when he was 27 years old. Originally called A...
The Keeper of the Bees - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
The Keeper of the Bees - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by the ocean, tending bees which he knows nothing about, and other unlikely charges who in their circuitous ways,...
Listening - John Frederick Freeman
Listening - John Frederick Freeman
- Author: John Frederick Freeman
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of Listening by John Frederick Freeman. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 20, 2022. ------ The poet describes a pasture in the evening....
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales - Richard Connell
The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales - Richard Connell
- Author: Richard Connell
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections
Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post....
Short Story Collection Vol. 101 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 101 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Here we present another diverse collection of short stories. We bring you classics such as Romeo and Juliet and Volodya, a little bit of mystery with The Adventure of the Diamond Necklace and a twist with The Unexpected. All selections are chosen...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder. * The Loved Dead was co-written...
Little Masterpieces of Science - Mind - George ILES
Little Masterpieces of Science - Mind - George ILES
- Author: George ILES
- Genre: Science
Another in the series "Little Masterpieces of Science" edited by George Iles, Mind is a collection of articles and book chapters that provide insight into the study of the workings of the mind the nineteenth century. - Summary by J.M. Smallheer...
Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 012 - Various
Short Mystery and Suspense Collection 012 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
The 12th edition of the Librivox Mystery and Suspense Collection delivers such gems as Father Brown in the Donnington Affair, Edgar Allen Poe and Guy de Maupassant amongst others. Prepare to by mystified and entertained. Each piece has been selected...
Out of the Closet: A Collection of Early LGBTQ+ Fiction - Various
Out of the Closet: A Collection of Early LGBTQ+ Fiction - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This is a collection of 22 LGBTQ+ stories published between 1841-1923, covering a wide span of authors, genres, and literary traditions. Some stories are coded and euphemistic, often framing their central relationships as friendships or familial...
Coffee Break Collection 032 - Wilderness - Various
Coffee Break Collection 032 - Wilderness - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the 32nd Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection...
Insomnia Collection Vol. 005 - Various
Insomnia Collection Vol. 005 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what's tedium incarnate to one person will be another person's passion and delight. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics here presented will lull the busy mind to a...
One-Act Play Collection 013 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 013 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Here, in our 13th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from tales of ancient Greek sailors to a story about early 1900 moonshiners; many short gems to make you laugh, cry, think, or all three. NOTE: Although the plays here...
Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection - Various
Frauds, Forgeries, and Fake News Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
This collection showcases fabricated documents and stories throughout history, and the diversity of purposes and contexts they were deployed in. The "Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal" is a fabricated anti-Catholic eye-witness...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 047 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 047 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder....
LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection - Various
LibriVox 16th Anniversary Collection - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
"LibriVox is a hope, an experiment, and a question: can the net harness a bunch of volunteers to bring books in the public domain to life..." Hugh McGuire, LibriVox's founder, August 9, 2005 In celebration of LibriVox's sixteenth anniversary, here...
