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Fear and Trembling (selections) - Soren KIERKEGAARD
Fear and Trembling (selections) - Soren KIERKEGAARD
- Author: Soren KIERKEGAARD
- Genre: Literary Criticism / Modern / Christianity - Commentary
"And God tempted Abraham and said unto him: take Isaac, thine only son, whom thou lovest and go to the land Moriah and sacrifice him there on a mountain which I shall show thee. Genesis 22:1" Soren Kierkegaard wondered how Abraham made the movement...
The Turkish Embassy Letters (selection) - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
The Turkish Embassy Letters (selection) - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont) was an English aristocrat and woman of letters. In 1716, she accompanied her husband to Vienna, and thence to Adrianople (Edirne) and Constantinople, where he took up his post as the new British ambassador....
The Holiday Round - A. A. MILNE
The Holiday Round - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Satire / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
Alan Alexander Milne, popularly known as A. A. Milne, is best known – perhaps to most people only known – for his children’s book, Winnie the Pooh. Yet he was an incredibly prolific author. He published dozens of successful plays, myriad humorous...
The Shorter Works of Tertullian Volume 1 - Tertullian
The Shorter Works of Tertullian Volume 1 - Tertullian
- Author: Tertullian
- Genre: Christianity - Other
"In the latter part of the second and in the former part of the third century there flourished at Carthage the famous Tertullian, the first Latin writer of the church whose works are come down to us. All his writings betray a sour, monastic, harsh,...
The Meaning of Life and Other Essays - Alban Goodier, S.J.
The Meaning of Life and Other Essays - Alban Goodier, S.J.
- Author: Alban Goodier S.J.
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Christianity - Other
Even with the best intentions, we can often get caught up in the affairs of this world and forget about God. To stay on the path to Heaven we must make, from time to time, an examination of our life's heading. This collection of essays reminds us to...
Poems - Frances Anne KEMBLE
Poems - Frances Anne KEMBLE
- Author: Frances Anne KEMBLE
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 98 short poems written by the famous British actress, Fanny Kemble. - Summary by mleigh...
The Master Girl: A Romance - Henry Marriage Wallis
The Master Girl: A Romance - Henry Marriage Wallis
- Author: Henry Marriage Wallis
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
A stone age romance. Deh-Yun of the Little Moon comes across Pul-Yun of the Sun Disc, who has broken his leg while in search of a woman to kidnap and take as wife. Deserting her tribe, Deh-Yun nurses him back to health and as their adventures...
Footsteps of Fate - Louis COUPERUS
Footsteps of Fate - Louis COUPERUS
- Author: Louis COUPERUS
- Genre: General Fiction
A short but intense novel, Footsteps of Fate tells of the friendship of two young Dutchmen in London, Frank and Bertie. Arriving destitute at Frank's home one night, Bertie is taken in by his old friend and soon begins to enjoy a life of fashion and...
Legacy (Version 2) - James H. SCHMITZ
Legacy (Version 2) - James H. SCHMITZ
- Author: James H. SCHMITZ
- Genre: Science Fiction
Ancient living machines that after millennia of stillness suddenly begin to move under their own power, for reasons that remain a mystery to men. Holati Tate discovered them—then disappeared. Trigger Argee was his closest associate—she means to find...
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14: The New Era - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Volume 14 is a compilation of essays regarding accomplishments over the 50 years preceding the author's death in 1894. The editorial staff chose the people that they felt best exemplified Lord's criteria of being a historical force to represent the...
My Mortal Enemy - Willa Sibert Cather
My Mortal Enemy - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
In the small Midwestern town of Parthia, Myra Henshawe was a legend. The grandniece and ward of Parthia’s richest resident, Myra had shocked the locals by sacrificing her inheritance to run off and marry her true love Oswald. Thirty-odd years later,...
To Mrs. De St Croix on Her Recovery - Thomas Love Peacock
To Mrs. De St Croix on Her Recovery - Thomas Love Peacock
- Author: Thomas Love Peacock
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of To Mrs. De St Croix on Her Recovery by Thomas Love Peacock. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 6, 2022. ----- Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East...
The Candle and the Cat - Mary Finley Leonard
The Candle and the Cat - Mary Finley Leonard
- Author: Mary Finley Leonard
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Family
"To the memory of TROLLEY, This little story is dedicated." When young Caro goes to stay with her Aunt and Grandfather, the seminary president, she learns to not be afraid of the dark and to "be a candle" by "sharing her light" with the help of...
Drive the Cold Winter Away - Unknown
Drive the Cold Winter Away - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Drive the Cold Winter Away by an unknown poet. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 13, 2020. ---- A delightful poem written sometime before ca. 1625. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Tom...
Triumphant Democracy - Andrew Carnegie
Triumphant Democracy - Andrew Carnegie
- Author: Andrew Carnegie
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern (19th C)
Subtitled "Fifty Years' March of the Republic," this is steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's love letter to America, first published in 1886, an impassioned celebration of the American success story, and a call for other nations to follow in America's...
Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings
Beyond the Vanishing Point - Ray Cummings
- Author: Ray Cummings
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
When George Randolph first caught sight of Orena, he was astounded by its gleaming perfection. Here were hills and valleys, lakes and streams, glowing with the light of the most precious of metals. And, more astonishing than that, it was a world of...
Short Story Collection Vol. 090 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 090 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Here we present the 90th Collection of Short Stories selected and read by Librivox volunteers. For your enjoyment, we bring gems by Hemingway, Tolstoy, D.H. Lawrence and Alexander Pushkin, plus a lesser known work by Arthur Conan Doyle, so sit back...
The waning of the middle ages: a study of the forms of life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth centuries - Johan Huizinga
The waning of the middle ages: a study of the forms of life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the XIVth and XVth centuries - Johan Huizinga
- Author: Johan Huizinga
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Middle Ages/Middle History
The Waning of the Middle Ages (also known as The Autumn of the Middle Ages, or Autumntide of the Middle Ages), subtitled A study of the forms of life, thought and art in France and the Netherlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, is Johan...
Faulkner's Folly - Carolyn Wells
Faulkner's Folly - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Eric Stannard, wealthy artist and portrait painter of international reputation is found dead in his studio, an etching needle protruding from his chest. The lights had gone out momentarily just before he was found by a footman and a long-time...
The Tragedy of King Richard II (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Richard II (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Billed by scholars as the first part of the all-encompassing Henriad, Richard II is a richly satisfying probe into the inner workings of monarchical rule and its evolution from being seen as divinely held to a more modern conception that...
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900) - Oscar Wilde
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5 (1898-1900) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This fifth and final collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes many letters to his friend, Robert Ross, and a long letter about prison reform to the editor of the Daily Chronicle. For most of the last three years of his life Wilde...
Crime, Its Causes and Remedies - Cesare Lombroso
Crime, Its Causes and Remedies - Cesare Lombroso
- Author: Cesare Lombroso
- Genre: Law / Political Science / Psychology
Published as the third volume in the Modern Criminal Science Series, Cesare Lombroso, renowned Italian criminologist, collected a wealth of information regarding the incidence, classification, and causes of crime. Crime calendars, the geography of...
The Baby's Opera - Walter Crane
The Baby's Opera - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Poetry
The Baby's Opera is a charming book of 36 nursery rhymes set to music. It contains several favorites from "Three Blind Mice" to "Baa Baa Black Sheep" and other delightful tunes that will be sure to please children and adults alike! - Summary by Jenn...
Billy Whiskers at the Circus - Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
Billy Whiskers at the Circus - Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
- Author: Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
- Genre: Animals & Nature
What better place for a little goat to find adventures and mischief than a circus? What is an elephant's trunk anyway? But the circus can also be a place of mystery and danger. Will the plans of the kidnappers be foiled? Billy Whiskers always...
A Discouraging Model - James Whitcomb Riley
A Discouraging Model - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Discouraging Model by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 26, 2020. ------ As a poet, Riley achieved an uncommon level of fame during his lifetime. He was honored with...
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 4 - Charles F. Horne
Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 4 - Charles F. Horne
- Author: Charles F. Horne
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history. Volume 4: John Adams, Louis Agassiz, Prince von Bismarck, Simon Bolivar, Edmund Burke, Jean François Champollion, Grover Cleveland,...
Heroines of Travel - Frank Mundell
Heroines of Travel - Frank Mundell
- Author: Frank Mundell
- Genre: General
Heroines of Travel documents the bravery and fortitude of a number of Victorian-era women who showed that adventure and exciting experiences found in foreign lands were not the exclusive preserve of men. Sometimes travelling solo or as a member of a...
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Dr. Grimshawe is a spider-cultivating eccentric. The central secret of the book is an all-encompassing spiders web. The central character is loosely based on the author Nathaniel Hawthorne. He always considered the book as unfinished and it wasn't...
Antonia - George SAND
Antonia - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Will love conquer all? An entertaining novel of growth in light of societal pressures of propriety, finance and inheritance of 19th century France. Intriguing events and turns of phrase abound. (Summary by Christine Rottger )...
Commentary on Acts of the Apostles - Matthew HENRY
Commentary on Acts of the Apostles - Matthew HENRY
- Author: Matthew HENRY
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
An exhaustive verse-by-verse study of Acts, integrating it with both the Gospels and the Old Testament, by one of the more unconventional theologians of his day. - Summary by Joanne Turner...
17th- and 18th-Century Poems by Women - Various
17th- and 18th-Century Poems by Women - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This class project is a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century verse by women, focusing first on women as writers. It has been coordinated by the students' teacher, Tonya Howe....
The Age of the Puritans Volume 2 - Various
The Age of the Puritans Volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This volume of The Age of the Puritans (late 16th century and 17th century) begins with Theodore Beza's 1575 catechism, brief and simple enough to be learned by children. William Perkins preaches a sermon on a life centred on 'Christ crucified',...
You Never Can Tell - George Bernard Shaw
You Never Can Tell - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Satire
In this witty comedy of errors, the Clandon siblings, Gloria and the twins, Dolly and Philip attempt to uncover the identity of their long lost father. Playwright George Bernard Shaw uses the odd mix of eccentric characters thrown together in a...
Bajazet - Jean Racine
Bajazet - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
"The time to which this tragedy relates is much later than that of any other of Racine's historical plays. The capture of Babylon (or rather Bagdad) from the Persians by Sultan Amurath IV, on which the catastrophe of the plot depends, occurred only...
Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lecture 3 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll on THOMAS PAINE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 1, Lecture 3 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people 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...
Prevailing Prayer: What Hinders It? - Dwight L. Moody
Prevailing Prayer: What Hinders It? - Dwight L. Moody
- Author: Dwight L. Moody
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The two first and essential means of grace are the Word of God and Prayer. These two means of grace must be used in their right proportion. If we read the Word and do not pray, we may become puffed up with knowledge, without the love that buildeth...
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand - Henry Cadwallader Adams
Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand - Henry Cadwallader Adams
- Author: Henry Cadwallader Adams
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Historical
A young man travels to South Africa to find his Mother and sister. He wants to be a clergyman and a farmer when he arrives there. This story includes accounts of the Zulu-Boer wars. - Summary by Ingrid Kennedy...
O. Henry Encore - O. Henry
O. Henry Encore - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
These 45 early stories, sketches and poems by the famed O. Henry, nearly all published under the pseudonym of the "Post Man", were discovered in the files of the Houston Post, 1895-1896, by Mary Sunlocks Harrell while she was conducting research in...
Oxford Poetry 1915 - Various
Oxford Poetry 1915 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Anthologies
The first of many yearly-published Oxford poetry books. - Summary by Campbell Schelp Poets include: Gerald H. Crow Eric Dickinson Esther Lilian Duff T. W. Earp Godfrey Elton (1892-1973) H. R. Freston (1891-1916) Russell Green Naomi M. Haldane...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 035 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 035 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 035: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
