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A Wraith of Summertime - James Whitcomb Riley
A Wraith of Summertime - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Wraith of Summertime by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 18, 2020. ------- Ah, the memories of summer past, at least Riley's memories. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million - O. Henry
Strictly Business: More Stories of the Four Million - O. Henry
- Author: O. Henry
- Genre: Short Stories
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (1862-1910). His short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, characterization and the clever use of twist endings. Indeed, O. Henry is often credited with defining the short...
Upper Canada Sketches - Thomas Conant
Upper Canada Sketches - Thomas Conant
- Author: Thomas Conant
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
This book relates "somewhat random sketches of life in the early settlements and country districts of Upper Canada" (now Ontario), as well as a bit of history of the Conant family from its beginnings in England, to their emigration to what was to...
A Description Of A City Shower - Jonathan Swift
A Description Of A City Shower - Jonathan Swift
- Author: Jonathan Swift
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Description Of A City Shower by Jonathan Swift. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 26, 2020. ------ You don't find a weather forecast like this local media. - Summary by David Lawrence...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1901 - 1908) - Theodore Roosevelt
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1901 - 1908) - Theodore Roosevelt
- Author: Theodore Roosevelt
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
Selections of the History of the Franks - Gregory of Tours
Selections of the History of the Franks - Gregory of Tours
- Author: Gregory of Tours
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
The Historia Francorum is the most important contemporary source for the Merovingian age. It is written in ten books, of which one to four recount the world's history from the Creation and move on to the Christianization of Gaul, the life and times...
An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future - Gregory Casparian
An Anglo-American Alliance: A Serio-Comic Romance and Forecast of the Future - Gregory Casparian
- Author: Gregory Casparian
- Genre: Science Fiction
Described by io9 as “the first lesbian science fiction novel,” An Anglo-American Alliance is a quasi-farcical tale of love, transformation, and geopolitics set in the far-flung futuristic year of 1960. In it, the titular Anglo-American Alliance has...
Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art - William Henry Holmes
Form and Ornament in Ceramic Art - William Henry Holmes
- Author: William Henry Holmes
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Art / Design & Architecture
A study of ceramics in the Americas: its form, function and ornamentation as well as its history. Produced by the Smithsonian's Department of Ethnology. Listeners are referred to the text for the illustrations and figures. ( Lynne Thompson)...
The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies - Eva March Tappan
The World’s Story Volume XI: Canada, South America, Central America, Mexico and the West Indies - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Poetry / History / Travel & Geography
This is the eleventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March Tappan. Each book is a compilation of selections from prose literature, poetry and pictures and offers a...
The Diatessaron: A Harmony of the Four Gospels - Tatian
The Diatessaron: A Harmony of the Four Gospels - Tatian
- Author: Tatian
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Diatessaron is such an impersonal work that we do not need to know very much about its compiler. It will suffice here to say that he tells us himself that he was born "in the land of the Assyrians," and brought up a heathen. After travelling in...
Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii - Mark Twain
Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Travel & Geography
By the time Mark Twain worked as a roving reporter for the Sacramento Union, he had held positions with other newspapers in Nevada and California. However, his assignment in 1866 to visit and report on the Sandwich Islands, changed his life. These...
War's Embers - Ivor Gurney
War's Embers - Ivor Gurney
- Author: Ivor Gurney
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which he served on the Western Front and was wounded by a mustard gas attack, and its aftermath. - Summary by Alan...
The Fable of the Bees - Bernard Mandeville
The Fable of the Bees - Bernard Mandeville
- Author: Bernard Mandeville
- Genre: Single author / Political Science
Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and dialogues explaining and defending it. Mandeville's theories were influential in the development of both the...
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad (version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad (version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Old Mr. Toad decides to join the Chorus at the Smiling pool - with unexpected results. He encounters Buster Bear as well as the famous Peter Rabbit among many other forest creatures who are just too numerous to list here. If you join in and read a...
St. John Chrysostom on First Corinthians, Volume 1 - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
St. John Chrysostom on First Corinthians, Volume 1 - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Author: St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
The First Epistle to the Corinthians is attributed to St. Paul the Apostle and a co-author named Sosthenes, and is addressed to the materially wealthy Christian church in Corinth. The letter can be divided as follows: 1) Thanksgiving (1:4–9) 2)...
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 - Various
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, Volume XI, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Short non-fiction
These volumes of slave narratives are the product of the Federal Writers Project sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Work Project Administration. They consist of verbatim records of personal interviews with former slaves conducted during...
Life At The Zoo: Notes And Traditions Of The Regent's Park Gardens - Charles John Cornish
Life At The Zoo: Notes And Traditions Of The Regent's Park Gardens - Charles John Cornish
- Author: Charles John Cornish
- Genre: Animals
London Zoo is the world's oldest scientific zoo. Opening in 1828, it was originally intended to be used as a collection for the scientific study of animals. The animals of the Tower of London menagerie were transferred to the zoo's collection in...
Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts - A. A. MILNE
Belinda: An April Folly in Three Acts - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Plays / Comedy
Come, join us on a lovely April afternoon in Devonshire for a breezy frolic in comedy. Milne's light-hearted romance is sure to make you chuckle. (Lynette Caulkins) Cast List: Stage Directions: Larry Wilson Belinda Tremayne: Lynette Caulkins Delia...
Twenty-five Sermons on The Holy Land - Thomas De Witt Talmage
Twenty-five Sermons on The Holy Land - Thomas De Witt Talmage
- Author: Thomas De Witt Talmage
- Genre: Christianity - Other
When Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage went to visit the Holy Land, he wrote sermons for his home church and sent them back to be read. It resulted in this wonderful collection of sermons exploring in depth the places he visited, explaining their significance...
Christianity in the 18th and 19th Century, Volume 1 - Various
Christianity in the 18th and 19th Century, Volume 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The 30 works in this volume are arranged thematically around the following headings: materialism or anti-supernaturalism (responses to David Friedrich Strauss, David Hume, Thomas Henry Huxley, sermons about natural religion and its limits), church...
Tinkle, the Trick Pony - Richard Barnum
Tinkle, the Trick Pony - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Kneetime Animal Stories are charming children's stories about animals. The friends each have their own story, but make appearances in other books. In this tale, the clever Tinkle gets himself into trouble before being taken into the circus and...
Birds, Vol. II, No 3, September 1897 - Various
Birds, Vol. II, No 3, September 1897 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from...
Sonnet 38 from The Growth of Love - Robert Bridges
Sonnet 38 from The Growth of Love - Robert Bridges
- Author: Robert Bridges
- Genre: Sonnets / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Sonnet 38 from The Growth of Love by Robert Bridges. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 9, 2020. ------ Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930) was the English Poet Laureate from 1913 until his death. A...
The Home Life of Poe - Susan Archer Weiss
The Home Life of Poe - Susan Archer Weiss
- Author: Susan Archer Weiss
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The author of this biography of Poe, Susan Weiss, describes her work as follows: "I have not treated Poe in his character of poet or author, but confined myself to his private home-life, domestic and social, as I have heard it described by Poe's...
A Plea for Ragged Schools; or, Prevention Better than Cure - Thomas Guthrie
A Plea for Ragged Schools; or, Prevention Better than Cure - Thomas Guthrie
- Author: Thomas Guthrie
- Genre: Education / Christianity - Other
The Reverend Thomas Guthrie was first introduced to the idea of ragged schools in 1841, while acting as the Parish Minister of St. John's Church in Edinburgh. On a visit to Portsmouth, he saw a picture of John Pounds and felt inspired and humbled by...
The Broken Oar - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Broken Oar - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of The Broken Oar by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 10, 2020. ------ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's...
Treve - Albert Payson Terhune
Treve - Albert Payson Terhune
- Author: Albert Payson Terhune
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction
Treve is a gloriously beautiful and madly alive collie that finds himself, through a series of lucky and unlucky events, on a sheep ranch in the West. He is owned by the two bosses of the ranch, and he finds his way into the heart of each of these...
Dogmatic Theology - Soteriology - William G. T. Shedd
Dogmatic Theology - Soteriology - William G. T. Shedd
- Author: William G. T. Shedd
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A systematic exposition of the doctrine of salvation from one of America's most notable theologians of the 19th century. - Summary by InTheDesert...
Theism or Atheism, The Great Alternative - Chapman Cohen
Theism or Atheism, The Great Alternative - Chapman Cohen
- Author: Chapman Cohen
- Genre: Atheism & Agnosticism
A thought-provoking treatise from 20th century English freethinker, atheist and secularist writer, Chapman Cohen. Here, he lays out the development of the god-idea from primitive to modern times, and makes a compelling argument for atheism over...
Home Education Series Vol. II: Parents and Children - Charlotte MASON
Home Education Series Vol. II: Parents and Children - Charlotte MASON
- Author: Charlotte MASON
- Genre: Education
Volume two of the Home Education Series by Charlotte Mason talks about parents and children. Charlotte breaks down a couple of different topics about home education, like the family, the parent's role as the teacher, and much more. - Summary by...
The Elect Lady - George MacDonald
The Elect Lady - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Two farmer's sons and a cotter's daughter, though on different rungs of the social scale, formed a close bond in childhood as they learned together how to follow Jesus. When adults, their lives are bound up in unusual ways with those of their...
Jim Davis - John Masefield
Jim Davis - John Masefield
- Author: John Masefield
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Action & Adventure
The tale of a 12-year-old boy who falls in with smugglers. Jim, an orphan, is sent to live with relatives along the Devon coast. There he accidentally witnesses the deeds of a troop of night-riders, or smugglers, and becomes caught up in their...
The Column of Dust - Evelyn UNDERHILL
The Column of Dust - Evelyn UNDERHILL
- Author: Evelyn UNDERHILL
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
Evelyn Underhill, the preeminent scholar of mysticism, wrote 3 novels in her youth, of which this is #3. Constance Tyrrel, a poor but literate woman works in a bookshop, suffers ennui, wonders if there is more to life than what she sees, invokes a...
The Master's Violin - Myrtle Reed
The Master's Violin - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Originally published in 1904, “The Master’s Violin” is the seventh novel by Myrtle Reed. It is set in a German town of Pennsylvania, East Lancaster, giving two characters fairly difficult accents to perform. The story entails a widow, Margaret...
Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Winnie the Pooh, the loveable little bear with a great big heart (and only a slightly less large appetite for honey), has fun and adventures in this book. All of the other residents of the 100 acre wood join in to help this happen. Rabbit, Piglet,...
The Lady in Blue - Augusta GRONER
The Lady in Blue - Augusta GRONER
- Author: Augusta GRONER
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A Joseph Muller Mystery originally published in 1905 in German as "Die blaue Dame" (The Blue Lady). Translated by American writer and translator, Grace Isabel Colbron in 1922 as The Lady in Blue. A mysterious old house, an unexplained scream in the...
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 07 April 1897 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 07 April 1897 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This...
The ABC of Atoms - Bertrand Russell
The ABC of Atoms - Bertrand Russell
- Author: Bertrand Russell
- Genre: Chemistry
A short introductory book about atoms, subatomic particles and new (at that time) physics theories....
Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Maisie Ward
Gilbert Keith Chesterton - Maisie Ward
- Author: Maisie Ward
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is the first and only authorized biography of G.K. Chesterton, written by his friend, Maisie Ward. Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 – 1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and...
Over The Brazier - Robert Graves
Over The Brazier - Robert Graves
- Author: Robert Graves
- Genre: Single author
This book was the first published of Robert Graves' early poetry, from about fourteen to twenty years of age, and published during his time in the trenches in WW1, as a Captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His subsequent friendships with both,...
