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When Knighthood Was in Flower - Charles Major
When Knighthood Was in Flower - Charles Major
- Author: Charles Major
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Set during the Tudor period of English history, When Knighthood Was in Flower tells the tribulations of Mary Tudor, a younger sister of Henry VIII of England who has fallen in love with a commoner. However, for political reasons, King Henry has...
When We Dead Awaken - Henrik Ibsen
When We Dead Awaken - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Tragedy
When We Dead Awaken (1899) is the last play by Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. Dreamlike and highly symbolic, the play charts the dissolution of sculptor Arnold Rubek's marriage to Maia, her flirtation with Ulfheim, and his involvement with the...
The Gardener - Rabindranath Tagore
The Gardener - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Single author
Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The translations are not always literal—the...
The Portion of Labor - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
The Portion of Labor - Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Author: Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life
This is the story of Ellen Brewster, pretty little daughter of shoe-mill workers in a Northeastern US town of the late 19th century. After the mill shuts down, her family struggles to make ends meet, but as the years pass, Ellen grows up into a...
Short Poetry Collection 194 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 194 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 51 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for July 2019....
Bible (KJV) NT 10: Ephesians - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 10: Ephesians - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
Originating in the circumstance of a multicultural church (primarily Jewish and Hellenistic), Ephesians addresses issues appropriate to the diverse religious and cultural backgrounds present in the community. Paul addresses hostility, division, and...
The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells
The First Men in the Moon - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
Britain won the Moon Race! Decades before Neal Armstrong took his "giant leap for mankind" two intrepid adventurers from Lympne, England, journeyed there using not a rocket, but an antigravity coating. Mr. Bedford, who narrates the tale, tells of...
The Tiger of Mysore - G. A. Henty
The Tiger of Mysore - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
During the Indian war with Tippoo Saib, 15 year old Dick Holland and his mother set out from England to find and rescue his father, shipwrecked 6 years earlier, and believed to be held prisoner by the 'Tiger of Mysore'(summary by annise)...
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3 - John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3 - John Calvin
- Author: John Calvin
- Genre: Religion / Christianity - Other
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native...
Short Poetry Collection 010 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 010 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
Librivox’s Short Poetry Collection 010: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
The Brand of Silence - Johnston McCulley
The Brand of Silence - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
Harrington Strong was a pseudonym used by author Johnston McCulley, creator of the character Zorro and many others. The Brand of Silence - A Detective Story finds Sidney Prale returning to New York after ten years during which he sought his fortune....
The Melting of Molly - Maria Thompson Daviess
The Melting of Molly - Maria Thompson Daviess
- Author: Maria Thompson Daviess
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Meet Molly: a quirky, spirited twenty-five-year old, widowed for 6 years, living in picturesque Hillsboro with her aunt amidst gossipy neighbors, on a strict diet, and in serious boy trouble. There's Arthur, her childhood sweetheart; then, there's...
The New Army in Training - Rudyard Kipling
The New Army in Training - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: War & Military
Kipling's brief assessment of the British New Army being assembled to fight in the Great War. Concerns itself with training and logistics but more importantly with the human side of the vast collection of new battalions. These come from throughout...
Charlotte's Inheritance - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Charlotte's Inheritance - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A lesser known novel by the sensational English novelist, Charlotte's Inheritance opens in Paris in a dilapidated boarding house let to students by a scarcely adequate landlady. Enter Gustave, a young provincial, arriving in Paris supposedly to...
The Fortunes of Glencore - Charles James Lever
The Fortunes of Glencore - Charles James Lever
- Author: Charles James Lever
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Romance
Viscount Glencore has retreated to live alone with his son in Glencore castle after his wife deserted him claiming she did not love him. He wishes to exact revenge on her by denouncing the marriage and therefore proclaiming his son to be...
Bible (YLT) 27: Daniel - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) 27: Daniel - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
Young's Literal Translation is a translation of the Bible into English, published in 1862. The translation was made by Robert Young, compiler of Young's Analytical Concordance to the Bible and Concise Critical Comments on the New Testament. Young...
Insomnia Collection Vol. 001 - Various
Insomnia Collection Vol. 001 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
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...
Mother’s Nursery Tales - Katharine Pyle
Mother’s Nursery Tales - Katharine Pyle
- Author: Katharine Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Perhaps you did not know that fairy tales were ever truths, but they are—the best and oldest of them. That does not mean they are facts like the things you see around you or learn from history books. Facts and truths are as different as the body and...
Poems 1817 - John Keats
Poems 1817 - John Keats
- Author: John Keats
- Genre: Poetry
Early poems of this famous English lyric poet, in which he openly expresses indebtedness to, and reverence for, his poetic predecessors, especially Spenser, into whose chivalric world he boldly ventures; and also for Milton, and the classic poets....
Clayhanger (Version 2) - Arnold Bennett
Clayhanger (Version 2) - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
A coming-of-age story about Edwin Clayhanger, who leaves school, has his ambition to become an architect thwarted by his tyrannical father, Darius, and so works in the family printing business. Edwin eventually takes over the business successfully....
Fathers of Biology - Charles MCRAE
Fathers of Biology - Charles MCRAE
- Author: Charles MCRAE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology. There is often among...
The Maid's Tragedy - Francis Beaumont
The Maid's Tragedy - Francis Beaumont
- Author: Francis Beaumont
- Genre: Tragedy
Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy (first published 1619) is a sensational Jacobean sex tragedy. When gentleman soldier Melantius returns to Rhodes, he finds his dear friend Amintor is recently married - but not to his troth-plight love...
The Potato's Dance - Vachel Lindsay
The Potato's Dance - Vachel Lindsay
- Author: Vachel Lindsay
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of The Potato's Dance by Vachel Lindsay. This was the weekly poetry project for March 22nd, 2009....
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Tempest (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Few plays have been seen as a more fitting conclusion to a playwright's career than Shakespeare's The Tempest. Focusing on the aging sorcerer and rightful Duke of Milan, Prospero, we are transported to a remote island where magic and strange music...
The Claverings - Anthony Trollope
The Claverings - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
"I consider the story as a whole to he good, though I am not aware that the public ever corroborated that verdict." - the author The Claverings is the best wrought of the novels designed for The Cornhill, and as surely conceived as any book he ever...
Micah Clarke - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Micah Clarke - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This book tells the story of Micah Clarke's adventures. As a boy he follows his rather romantic notions of what it means to be a soldier and how to find adventure. But over the course of his career, adventure finds him, and it is not always quite as...
Anne of the Island (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of the Island (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Anne is off to Redmond College! She will spend the next three years living and learning, making new friends, and deepening old friendships.Other books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne's House of Dreams Rainbow...
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900 - Various
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VII, No 4, April 1900 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. - F. Anstey
Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. - F. Anstey
- Author: F. Anstey
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Another delightful example of an English writer poking fun at his countrymen, or maybe all races' reactions to someone from a diferent background.A series of adventures of a well educated foreigner in London which originally appeared weekly in...
Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems - Charlotte Turner Smith
Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems - Charlotte Turner Smith
- Author: Charlotte Turner Smith
- Genre: Poetry
Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the conventions of Gothic fiction, and wrote political novels of sensibility. It was in 1784, in debtor's prison...
Songs of Sea and Sail - Thomas Fleming Day
Songs of Sea and Sail - Thomas Fleming Day
- Author: Thomas Fleming Day
- Genre: Poetry
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats, and himself the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. Not so well-known today is the fact that...
Bizarre (version 2) - Lawton Mackall
Bizarre (version 2) - Lawton Mackall
- Author: Lawton Mackall
- Genre: Humor
A series of humorous musings, short-length jokes, often concerning words and manners. - Summary by Edmund Bloxam...
Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Jessie Graham Flower - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General Fiction
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora...
The Story-teller - Maud Lindsay
The Story-teller - Maud Lindsay
- Author: Maud Lindsay
- Genre: Short works
Are you a story teller? Almost all of us are, you know. Well, these 12 stories were written by Maud Lindsay to be told by someone who can weave the magic thread of speech into a performance that will hold the children spellbound. And we don't need...
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - John, Jr. Fox
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine - John, Jr. Fox
The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a 1908 romance novel/western novel written by John Fox, Jr.. The novel became Fox's most successful, and was included among the top ten list of bestselling novels for 1908 and 1909.Set in the Appalachian Mountains...
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2) - Margaret Duncan Kelly
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh (Version 2) - Margaret Duncan Kelly
- Author: Margaret Duncan Kelly
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
The story of Sir Walter Raleigh from his boyhood days to his exploits in Ireland and his unexpected entry into the court of Queen Elizabeth. We travel with him as he pursues the ships of the Spanish Armada and makes voyages to the New World in...
Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov
Ward No. 6 - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Satire
The line between sanity and insanity is blurred in this classic novella by Anton Chekhov. The disillusioned idealist Dr. Rabin is in charge of a provincial lunatic asylum, overseeing with weary, dubious policies a motley group of patients, a group...
The Spook Ballads - William Theodore Parkes
The Spook Ballads - William Theodore Parkes
- Author: William Theodore Parkes
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of ghost stories in verse by William Theodore Parkes. The poems in this volume are often humorous, and written in a parody of ye olde style of poetry. "Dealing largely with ghosts and legends embracing a dash of diablerie such as...
On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
On a Chinese Screen - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
This is a non-fiction collection of Maugham's observations of life in Asia in the early 20th Century. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
Short Stories for Short People - Alicia Stuart Aspinwall
Short Stories for Short People - Alicia Stuart Aspinwall
- Author: Alicia Stuart Aspinwall
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a collection of short stories by Alicia Aspinwall. - Summary by Carolin...
