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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 042 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 042 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, furry 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, some emotional roller coasters, and the...
The Heart of a Mystery - L. T. Meade
The Heart of a Mystery - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
The Heart of Mystery by L. T. Meade and Robert Eustace was published in 1901 in six installments in the Windsor Magazine, Vol. 14. The stories relate the adventures of a young Englishman summoned to the deathbed of an old friend in Paris who...
The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature - Ada M. Skinner
The Turquoise Story Book: Stories and Legends of Summer and Nature - Ada M. Skinner
- Author: Ada M. Skinner
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
A book compiling stories, legends, and poems about summer and nature, piquing reader's interests by appealing to the reader's fancy, quickening his/her sense of humor, or attract his/her attention to some spiritual significance. - Summary by...
A History of American Political Theories - Charles Edward Merriam
A History of American Political Theories - Charles Edward Merriam
- Author: Charles Edward Merriam
- Genre: Political Science
"A description and analysis of the characteristic types of political theory that have from time to time been dominant in American political life." - Summary by William Archibald Dunning (from the preface) Proof-listening done by cimt, Linny,...
Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Four Noncanonical Sherlock Holmes Short Stories - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Although the Sherlock Holmes canon traditionally consists of four novels and 56 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle, there are many Sherlock Holmes stories outside the canon. Most of these noncanonical stories were written by authors other...
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines - Dan DeQuille
A History of the Comstock Silver Lode and Mines - Dan DeQuille
- Author: Dan DeQuille
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern (19th C)
This is a brief account of the Comstock Lode silver mines, and description of the geographic features of the state of Nevada including the railroads. Silver not only defined Nevada, but influenced the opening of the American West as far as San...
Exile from Space - Judith Merril
Exile from Space - Judith Merril
- Author: Judith Merril
- Genre: Science Fiction
“Who was this strange girl who had been born in this place—and still it wasn't her home? ‘They’ worried about the impression she'd make”. “They” worried she would go and never come back. She was returning to a place that was not hers, with ways of...
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England - Charles H. Firth
Oliver Cromwell and the Rule of the Puritans in England - Charles H. Firth
- Author: Charles H. Firth
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Life of Cromwell is in part based on an article contributed by the author to the Dictionary of National Biography in 1888, but embodies the result of later researches, and of recently discovered documents such as the Clarke Papers. The battle...
A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare - George MacDonald
A Dish of Orts: Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
Readers of George MacDonald are used to his engaging story-telling, winsome characters, and simple theology of trust in God as Father. But this book shows a different side of MacDonald. A Dish of Orts is a varied collection of essays, mostly in the...
Nature - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Nature - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of Nature, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Weekly Poetry project for June 20th, 2021. ------ This nostalgic poem says a lot in a few words -- masterfully comparing a mother putting her child to...
Marvels of Modern Science - Paul Severing
Marvels of Modern Science - Paul Severing
- Author: Paul Severing
- Genre: Science / Technology & Engineering
The purpose of this little book is to give a general idea of a few of the great achievements of our time. For instance, the flying machine is engaging the attention of the old, the young and the middle-aged, and soon the whole world will be on the...
The Village in the Jungle - Leonard Woolf
The Village in the Jungle - Leonard Woolf
- Author: Leonard Woolf
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
Woolf wrote this novel based on his experience as a government agent for British imperialist-controlled Ceylon in the early part of the twentieth-century. He focuses his story on one poor family in a jungle village as they struggle to survive, not...
Neddie and Beckie Stubtail - Howard R. Garis
Neddie and Beckie Stubtail - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Follow the adventures and escapades of these delightful bears! There is one story for each day of the month from master story teller H.R. Garis who brought us the stories of Uncle Wiggily, Curlytops, Buddy, Teddy, and many others. This is one of his...
The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism - Clayton Hamilton
The Theory of the Theatre, and Other Principles of Dramatic Criticism - Clayton Hamilton
- Author: Clayton Hamilton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Performing Arts
A collection of essays by American critic Clayton Hamilton concerning theatre & dramatic practices, and the criticism thereof, from an early 20th century perspective. - Summary by Andrew Gaunce...
Short Poetry Collection 199 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 199 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 48 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for December 2019....
The Conferences of John Cassian (Part I) - John Cassian
The Conferences of John Cassian (Part I) - John Cassian
- Author: John Cassian
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Conferences were written by John Cassian at the request of Pope Leo. They document the conversations that Cassian had with the elders living in Scetis (the desert of Egypt), and about principles of the spiritual and ascetic life. The work would...
Poems - Elizabeth STODDARD
Poems - Elizabeth STODDARD
- Author: Elizabeth STODDARD
- Genre: Poetry
These outstanding poems by the renowned author Elizabeth Stoddard speak of the poet's hunger for the freedom of an idyllic future - a hunger enhanced by a contagious idealism characteristic of Stoddard's exceptional poetic dexterity. These are poems...
Love Stories Volume 4 - Various
Love Stories Volume 4 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Here are 20 more love stories under an hour each, offered by Librivox volunteers, covering all kinds of experiences involving romance or other kinds of love resulting in heartbreak or happiness -- where the heart overflows with passion, pride,...
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825 - 1894) - Simon Dubnow
History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume II, From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825 - 1894) - Simon Dubnow
- Author: Simon Dubnow
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Simon Dubnow was born in 1860 to a poor Jewish family in Belarussian town of Mstsislaw and later became an authority of Jewish history and an activist. Due to his Jewish origin, he had to move to St. Petersburg, Odessa, Vilna (Lithuania), St....
South-Sea Idyls - Charles Warren STODDARD
South-Sea Idyls - Charles Warren STODDARD
- Author: Charles Warren STODDARD
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843–1909) wrote quite popular travel books, especially those about Polynesia. South-Sea Idyls (1873) was his most popular book. A series of letters to a friend, "They are," wrote William Dean Howells, "the...
The Castle of Twilight - Margaret Horton Potter
The Castle of Twilight - Margaret Horton Potter
- Author: Margaret Horton Potter
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"Wistfully I deliver up to you my simple story, knowing that the first suggestion of “historical novel” will bring before you an image of dreary woodenness and unceasing carnage. Yet if you will have the graciousness but to unlock my castle door you...
Europe and Elsewhere - Mark Twain
Europe and Elsewhere - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
This collection of articles came from Mark Twain's travels and experiences abroad. While many had been previously published, there also were many that had never before seen the light of day...which one reviewer said had never been Twain's intent for...
The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine - Thomas CARLYLE
The French Revolution: A History. Volume 3: The Guillotine - Thomas CARLYLE
- Author: Thomas CARLYLE
- Genre: Early Modern
Of this third, and final, phase of the French Revolution, including that period known as The Terror, Carlyle comments "It is unfortunate, though very natural, that the history of this Period has so generally been written in hysterics." Carlyle's own...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 037 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 037 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 037: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Return of Clubfoot - Valentine Williams
The Return of Clubfoot - Valentine Williams
- Author: Valentine Williams
- Genre: Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Whilst spending a holiday in a small Central American Republic, Desmond Okewood, of the Secret Service, learns from a dying beachcomber of a hidden treasure. With the assistance of a millionaire, he sets out for Cock Island, in the Pacific. To his...
Tales from Ariosto - Ludovico ARIOSTO
Tales from Ariosto - Ludovico ARIOSTO
- Author: Ludovico ARIOSTO
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Literary Fiction
The object of the present venture is to do something to revive the interest of the ordinary English reader in Ariosto. The present volume is intended to give some of the chief stories of the "Orlando Furioso" in such a way as to bring out also the...
The Enchiridion - EPICTETUS
The Enchiridion - EPICTETUS
- Author: EPICTETUS
- Genre: Ancient
The Enchiridion (also translated as “Handbook” or “Manual”) of Epictetus is a short collection of Stoic precepts compiled by Arrian, a student of Epictetus. Epictetus (c. 50 – 135 AD) was a Greek philosopher and a champion of Stoicism, a philosophy...
The Baby's Own Aesop (Version 2) - Walter Crane
The Baby's Own Aesop (Version 2) - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Poetry
This is a short book containing a number of Aesop’s fables condensed into short rhymes. (Summary by SweetHome)...
When the World Shook - H. Rider Haggard
When the World Shook - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
A fictional memoir of Humphrey Arbuthnot of Devonshire, we are taken on a voyage to the island of Orofena, in the South Seas, together with Bickley, the servant Bastin and the spaniel Tommy. It is a land of adventure and danger, the result of which...
The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays - Alice Meynell
The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works...
Ships That Pass in the Night - Beatrice Harraden
Ships That Pass in the Night - Beatrice Harraden
- Author: Beatrice Harraden
- Genre: General Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This short novel by Beatrice Harraden, who was known for her work as a suffragist, was a bestseller in its time. In it, teacher and activist Bernardine Holme takes up residence at a tuberculosis sanatorium after falling ill. There she meets Robert...
Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
Winnie-the-Pooh (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Family
A charming collection of 10 relaxing tales, come along into the Forest as Winnie-the-Pooh tries to get some honey, the search is on for Eeyore's tail, some new visitors arrive in the form of Kanga and Baby Roo and an 'Expotition' is held to discover...
Terror Out of Space (Version 2) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Terror Out of Space (Version 2) - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
"An eerie story of a silver land beneath the black Venusian seas. A grim tale of brooding terror whirling out of space to drive men mad, of a menace without name or form, and of the man, Lundy, who fought the horror, his eyes blinded by his will....
The Story Girl (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
The Story Girl (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Family
Carlisle on St. Edwards Island may appear to the outside world to be a quiet, rural farming town, but to a group of 8 teens and tweens, its forests, fields, and orchards are places of enchantment, wonder, and adventure! The Story Girl’s captivating...
The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 02, The Reformation - Various
The Cambridge Modern History, Volume 02, The Reformation - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Early Modern
The Cambridge Modern History is a universal history covering the period from 1450 to 1910. It was published in 14 volumes between 1902 and 1912. The series was planned by Lord Acton, who intended it to be a monument of objective, collaborative...
Chinook the Cinnamon Cub - Allen Chaffee
Chinook the Cinnamon Cub - Allen Chaffee
- Author: Allen Chaffee
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Allen Chaffee is author of numerous children's books including the Fuzz Wuzz series and a popular rendition of Hiawatha as well as The World of Oz. Here we join the adventures of a the mischievous cub bear, Cinnamon. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
The Making of the British Empire (A.D. 1714-1832) - Arthur HASSALL
The Making of the British Empire (A.D. 1714-1832) - Arthur HASSALL
- Author: Arthur HASSALL
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Early Modern
At its height, the British Empire was the largest in history. This short volume traces its development through the long 18th century, from 1714 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Founded on the prosperity of Sir Robert Walpole's ministry...
Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts - David Alec Wilson
Anecdotes of Big Cats and Other Beasts - David Alec Wilson
- Author: David Alec Wilson
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction
Although David Alec Wilson is best known for his writings about Thomas Carlyle, he was a Scottish civil servant who spent much time in India. This collection of stories draw from those experiences, where tales of tigers, leopards, crocodiles,...
Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Four (1900-1906) - Mark Twain
Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Four (1900-1906) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Literary Collections
This collection of articles by and about Mark Twain and his family was compiled by Barbara Schmidt, publisher of twainquotes.com. Included in Part Four of this chronological listing (1900-1906) are some of Twain’s short stories, speeches and...
Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends - Marshall Saunders
Bonnie Prince Fetlar: The Story of a Pony and His Friends - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Soon after his arrival to the lovely, cool summer escape of Devering Farm, Bonnie Prince Fetlar knows his new home will be a good one. Set in the mountainous Canadian countryside, the farm is a nurturing home for children and a safe-haven for...
