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A Bit of Color - Arthur MACY
A Bit of Color - Arthur MACY
- Author: Arthur MACY
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Bit of Color by Arthur Macy. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for August 23, 2020. ------ Our Poet paints a colorful picture of Paris in 1896. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Movement & Progression of Animals - Aristotle
Movement & Progression of Animals - Aristotle
- Author: Aristotle
- Genre: Animals / Ancient / Other religions
Movement of Animals (or On the Motion of Animals; Greek Περὶ ζῴων κινήσεως; Latin De Motu Animalium) begins with a discussion of the physics of motion and asks whether God, the Unmoved Mover, exists outside of our Universe. Progression of Animals...
Out of Death's Shadow - Nicholas Carter
Out of Death's Shadow - Nicholas Carter
- Author: Nicholas Carter
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Nick Carter is a fictional private detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume Nicholas Carter, have penned stories. Here, the tale begins with the trial of a woman, sure...
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song - Frederick Walker Mott
The Brain and the Voice in Speech and Song - Frederick Walker Mott
- Author: Frederick Walker Mott
- Genre: Life Sciences
From the Preface: "The contents of this little book formed the subject of three lectures delivered at the Royal Institution "On the Mechanism of the Human Voice" and three London University lectures at King's College on "The Brain in relation to...
Looking Back - John Hartley
Looking Back - John Hartley
- Author: John Hartley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Looking Back by John Hartley. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 5, 2020.. ------ John Hartley was an English poet who worked in the Yorkshire dialect. He wrote a great deal of prose...
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist - Alexander Berkman
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist - Alexander Berkman
- Author: Alexander Berkman
- Genre: Memoirs
In 1892, anarchist and Russian émigré Alexander Berkman was apprehended for the failed assassination of industrialist Henry Clay Frick. This was a retaliatory act meant to incite revolution against those who had violently suppressed the Homestead...
Main Street - Joyce KILMER
Main Street - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Main Street by Joyce Kilmer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for December 1, 2019. ------ Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his...
Lo, Michael! - Grace Livingston Hill
Lo, Michael! - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Grace Livingston Hill's 1913 inspirational tale of Michael, who grows up a poor orphan selling newspapers in the slums of New York. After saving the life of young heiress Starr Endicott, Michael receives a full education and employment thanks to the...
Short Poetry Collection 221 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 221 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2021....
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 2 Maccabees - King James Version
Bible (KJV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 2 Maccabees - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The Second Book of Machabees is not, as the name might suggest, a continuation of the First, but covers part of the same ground. The book proper is preceded by two letters of the Jews of Jerusalem to their Egyptian coreligionists. The first dated in...
A Sheaf of Roses - Elizabeth Gordon
A Sheaf of Roses - Elizabeth Gordon
- Author: Elizabeth Gordon
- Genre: Single author
The rose, the flower of love, the flower of life, the floral symbol of all life's occasions whose presence both motivates and adorns indelible life memories is the subject of these wonderful poems. From the pen of poet Elizabeth Gordon the rose...
The Princess and the Butterfly - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Princess and the Butterfly - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
The English-born Princess Pannonia had spent the twenty years of her marriage isolated in the Prince's remote Hungarian castle. Now widowed, she returns to London to re-engage with former friends, all fearfully facing middle-age. Can romance be...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 09 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies / Literary Collections
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
Tales of War - Lord Dunsany
Tales of War - Lord Dunsany
- Author: Lord Dunsany
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Lord Dunsany brings his lucid and magical prose to the subject of the harsh realities of war by providing a series of vignettes that are at times grim and grounded but also at times eerie and fantastical. Summary by Ben Tucker....
Children's Short Works, Vol. 033 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 033 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 033: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Gloves Past and Present - Willard M. Smith
Gloves Past and Present - Willard M. Smith
- Author: Willard M. Smith
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Business & Economics
From the preface: "For thirty years I have devoted myself to the practical problems of the glove industry, and my connection with one of the substantial firms of master-merchant-glovers in the world has taught me how little gloves are known or...
Redgauntlet - Sir Walter Scott
Redgauntlet - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Redgauntlet is an historical novel about a fictitious third Jacobite rebellion. It takes place mostly in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1765. It is thought to be the most autobiographical of Scott's novels. - Summary by Deon Gines...
The Lonely Warrior - Claude Washburn
The Lonely Warrior - Claude Washburn
- Author: Claude Washburn
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
An idealistic American enlists and fights in The Great War. This novel focuses on his life after returning to the US “hard-boiled” and cynical, a disillusioned and embittered young man who has lost all interest in his family, his job, and his...
The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
The Murder of Delicia - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The following slight and unelaborated sketch of a very commonplace and everyday tragedy will, I am aware, meet with the unqualified disapproval of the 'superior' sex. They will assert, with much indignant emphasis, that the character of 'Lord...
The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas - Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas - Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
- Author: Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
- Genre: Single author
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of his youth. Douglas was primarily a sonneteer, and this collection features shorter poems about love, hatred,...
Don, a Runaway Dog: His Many Adventures - Richard Barnum
Don, a Runaway Dog: His Many Adventures - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Don was one of five little puppies. With his brothers and sisters he cuddled up close to Mrs. Gurr, the mother dog, to keep warm, for it was rather cool for little dogs, even though there was plenty of straw in the kennel, or house, where they...
Moments With Mark Twain - Mark Twain
Moments With Mark Twain - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Essays & Short Works
These selections from the works of Mark Twain are presented in chronological order. They include the memorable whitewashing of the fence in "Tom Sawyer", events preceding the Mississippi River raft journey in "Huckleberry Finn", a dark moment during...
Short Story Collection Vol. 100 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 100 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
A milestone in Librivox short story collection history! It is edition 100 and to celebrate, we have some wonderful stories. Old favorites, such as W. Somerset Maugham, P. G. Wodehouse and Ernest Hemingway are joined by less familiar authors, such as...
On Everything - Hilaire Belloc
On Everything - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Hillaire Belloc of French by birth, British by naturalization was a diverse and prolific writer of the early 20th century. His writing runs the range from poetry, political writings and children’s stories. He was a close friend, and sometimes...
Dope - Sax Rohmer
Dope - Sax Rohmer
- Author: Sax Rohmer
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A minor lord is killed and a rich socialite is missing, and they are both tied to the enigmatic Kazmah the Dream Reader, who has also disappeared. New Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Red Kerry scours post-WWI London looking for clues, encountering...
Henry II - Louis Francis Salzman
Henry II - Louis Francis Salzman
- Author: Louis Francis Salzman
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Born in 1133, King Henry II of England reigned from 1154 until his death in 1189. Before he was forty, he controlled England, large parts of Wales, the eastern half of Ireland and, thanks to his marriage with Eleanor of Aquitaine, the western half...
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 - Charles F. Horne
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 5 - Charles F. Horne
- Author: Charles F. Horne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Middle Ages/Middle History
A comprehensive and readable account of the world's history, emphasizing the more important events, and presenting these as complete narratives in the master-words of the most eminent historians. This is volume 5 of 22, covering from 843-1161 AD. -...
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes - Joseph Conrad
The Arrow of Gold: A Story Between Two Notes - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In the 1870s, supporters of the pretender to the throne of Spain take advantage of a young man's attraction to the sea to persuade him to run dangerous missions on their behalf, with the financial support of a beautiful but exceedingly baffling...
Mongan's Frenzy - James STEPHENS
Mongan's Frenzy - James STEPHENS
- Author: James STEPHENS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
James Stephens is famous for his retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. This tale is about 1.5 hours in length, full of magical lore and you will spend some considerable time in Faery. It is funny, quirky, fast paced, full of surprises, and...
The Romance of Modern Geology - Edwin Sharpe Grew
The Romance of Modern Geology - Edwin Sharpe Grew
- Author: Edwin Sharpe Grew
- Genre: Earth Sciences
From the series, The Library of Romance, this book introduces the reader to the modern geology of the 1909, with topics that include the building and shaping of the earth, the action of weather, rivers, seas and ice on the earth, earthquakes and...
St. Elmo - Augusta Jane Evans
St. Elmo - Augusta Jane Evans
- Author: Augusta Jane Evans
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Written in prose and full of references to religion and mythology, this book tells the love story between St. Elmo and Edna. He is cynical and worldly, she is as beautiful as a nymph. The book was very popular during the 19th century and inspired...
Philosophical Essays - Bertrand Russell
Philosophical Essays - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Modern
Six out of seven essays appearing here were reprinted from other publications; indeed, this 1910 collection went out of print, so that two of the essays occurring here were reprinted in Russell's 1917 "Mysticism and Logic, and Other Essays"....
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times - Alice DUER MILLER
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times - Alice DUER MILLER
- Author: Alice DUER MILLER
- Genre: Poetry / Satire
A collection of poetry and some other short works by suffragist Alice Duer MIller. Many of these satirical works were first published in the New York Times. The work consists of five sections: Treacherous Texts, Campaign Material (For Both Sides),...
Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll on SHAKESPEARE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Col. Ingersoll begins his famous lecture on SHAKESPEARE as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls naked—meaning and...
A Musical Instrument - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Musical Instrument - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of A Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 25, 2020. ------ Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in...
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Friedrich Nietzsche
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
"Mother Earth was an American anarchist journal that described itself as "A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature". Founded in early 1906 and initially edited by Emma Goldman, an activist in the United States, it published...
Bible (YLT) NT 21-22: Epistles of Peter - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) NT 21-22: Epistles of Peter - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Scripture translated according to the letter and idioms of the original languages. (Summary by KevinS)...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 11. November 1897 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 11. November 1897 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol VIII, the November Number. It includes the following articles: Patagonia, by J. B. Hatcher Hatcher's Work in Patagonia, by W. J. McGee The Sushitna River, Alaska, by W. A. Dickey A Winter...
Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
Forest Days: A Romance of Old Times - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction
Picture a tranquil English village, with an inn on the green. A lone patron enjoys his wine and teasing the landlord's pretty daughter, when suddenly they are rudely interrupted by a local aristocrat and his two henchmen. These same three reappear...
The Common Law - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The Common Law - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
- Genre: History / Law
A history and review of the common law in the United States. (summary by TB27)...
