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Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll, Volume 1 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Contemporary / Atheism & Agnosticism
Colonel Robert Green Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran, American political leader and orator during the Golden Age of Freethought, noted for his defense of atheism. This book is the first of two volumes collecting Ingersoll's speeches....
Aphorisms - Oscar Wilde
Aphorisms - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Satire
In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) published two collections of aphorisms: A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, in the Oxford student magazine...
God Died at Three O'Clock - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
God Died at Three O'Clock - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Genre: Religion
From the writer of "Angel Food" comes a simple children's book on the passion and death of Our Lord Jesus Christ. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Retort - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Retort - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Retort by Paul Laurence Dunbar. This was the weekly poetry project for August 23rd, 2009....
From Passion to Peace - James Allen
From Passion to Peace - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Self-Help
The first three parts of this book, Passion, Aspiration, and Temptation, represent the common human life, with its passion, pathos, and tragedy. The last three parts, Transcendence, Beatitude, and Peace, represents the Divine Life—calm, wise and...
How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail - Albert Bigelow Paine
How Mr. Rabbit Lost His Tail - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Short works
A small selection of children's stories from the Hollow Tree Stories series - Summary by David Gore...
Short Poetry Collection 188 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 188 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 35 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for January 2019....
Wheels - The Sixth Cycle - Undefined
Wheels - The Sixth Cycle - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Anthologies
The sixth and final cycle of Wheels was published in 1921, and is much shorter than the preceding volumes. Apart from the three Sitwells, the poets represented are Aldous Huxley, Alan Porter, Sherard Vines, H.R.Barbour, Charles Orange (Brian...
Lord of the World - Robert Hugh Benson
Lord of the World - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: Religious Fiction / Science Fiction
“Mr. Benson sees the world, four or five generations hence, free at last from all minor quarrels, and ranged against itself in two camps, Humanitarianism for those who believe in no divinity but that of man, Catholicism for those who believe in no...
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Mark - J. C. Ryle
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels - St. Mark - J. C. Ryle
- Author: J. C. Ryle
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
“Expository Thoughts” divides the Gospels into sections of about twelve verses each, from which J. C. Ryle selects two or three prominent points to dwell on and bring to the reader’s attention. In Ryle’s day, there were many detailed commentaries...
An Inland Voyage - Robert Louis Stevenson
An Inland Voyage - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Travel & Geography
As a young man, Stevenson wished to be financially independent and began his literary career by writing travelogues. This is his first published work, written at a time when travel for pleasure was still a rarity. He and a friend traveled by canoe...
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
The Mayor of Casterbridge (version 3) - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Literary Fiction
In a fit of drunkenness, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter to the highest bidder at a country fair. He lives with regret and swears off drink, until his wife and daughter return eighteen years later, when he is now well-off and the...
Bible (WNT) NT 03: Luke - Weymouth New Testament
Bible (WNT) NT 03: Luke - Weymouth New Testament
- Author: Weymouth New Testament
- Genre: Weymouth New Testament
Richard Francis Weymouth was born on October 26, 1822 near Plymouth Dock, now known as Devonport, near Plymouth, Devonshire, in England. Dr. Weymouth was a Bible scholar and a philologist (a student of the origins of language), as well as a layman,...
The Peterkin Papers - Lucretia P. Hale
The Peterkin Papers - Lucretia P. Hale
- Author: Lucretia P. Hale
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
The Peterkins were a lovable but comically inept family that possess ingenuity, logic, resourcefulness, and energy--but not common sense. The general formula is that the family tries to solve some problem in an appealingly roundabout way, fails, and...
The Nether World - George Gissing
The Nether World - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
This sad social novel revolves around the problematic issue of money. Michael returns from Australia to London a rich man. However, he hides this fact from everybody and spends money only on the things he really needs. He contemplates leaving his...
Pierre, or The Ambiguities - Herman Melville
Pierre, or The Ambiguities - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
The life of a young heir, Pierre is altered when he meets a mysterious woman who claims to be his sister....
The Dream of Gerontius - John Henry Newman
The Dream of Gerontius - John Henry Newman
- Author: John Henry Newman
- Genre: Single author / Christianity - Other
As a rule, when Cardinal Newman's poetry is mentioned, people think of "The Pillar of the Cloud," better known as "Lead, Kindly Light." This lyric is only one of the many beautiful poems written by an author whose fame as a writer of the finest...
Colonel Chabert - Honoré de Balzac
Colonel Chabert - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Colonel Chabert is a soldier, who goes missing during the Napoleonic wars, and then returns from the dead, most inconveniently for his wife, who has remarried and has gone up in the world. This novella by Balzac lays bare the venality of the French...
The Scarlet Letter (version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter (version 2) - Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This book tells the story of Hester Prynne, a young woman who conceives a child while her husband is missing at sea. The Puritan Elders of the New England settlement of Boston, where she lives, condemn her to wear a scarlet letter A to signify her...
The Chinese Kitten - Edna Adelaide Brown
The Chinese Kitten - Edna Adelaide Brown
- Author: Edna Adelaide Brown
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Family
Lucy and Dora are so excited to learn they will be sleeping in a tent at the beach! Then Mother and Uncle Dan tell them that their kitten, Timmy is not invited, and Father says he might even run away. Arrangements must be made for Timmy... but will...
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck - Robert Pitcher Woodward
On A Donkey's Hurricane Deck - Robert Pitcher Woodward
- Author: Robert Pitcher Woodward
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction
" A Tempestous Voyage of Four Thousand and Ninety-Six Miles Across the American Continent on a Burro, in 340 Days and 2 Hours - starting without a dollar and earning my way." The journey could be accomplished in 5 days by train, but the author took...
American Psychology, 1900-1922 - Various
American Psychology, 1900-1922 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Psychology
This is the first of what is intended to be three projects featuring journal articles which chart the development of psychology as an academic discipline in the United States during the twentieth century. This first collection begins with an...
The Pit - Frank Norris
The Pit - Frank Norris
- Author: Frank Norris
- Genre: General Fiction
The Trilogy of The Epic of the Wheat includes the following novels: THE OCTOPUS,, a Story of California. THE PIT, a Story of Chicago. THE WOLF, a Story of Europe. These novels, while forming a series, will be in no way connected with each other save...
Poems from the Inner Life - Lizzie Doten
Poems from the Inner Life - Lizzie Doten
- Author: Lizzie Doten
- Genre: Poetry
Collection of reflective poetry by celebrated medium and clairvoyant, Lizzie Doten. She claims these poems were sent by her 'inner heaven', often while she was in a trance. She credits some of the poems to the spirits of Poe, Burns and Sprague, with...
Two Treatises of Civil Government - John Locke
Two Treatises of Civil Government - John Locke
- Author: John Locke
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is an extended attack on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, which argued for a divinely-ordained, hereditary,...
The Art of War (version 3) - Sun Tzu 孙武
The Art of War (version 3) - Sun Tzu 孙武
- Author: Sun Tzu 孙武
- Genre: War & Military
First compiled in the 6th century BC, The Art of War presents a philosophy of war for managing conflicts and winning battles. It is accepted as a masterpiece on strategy and is frequently cited and referred to by generals and theorists since it was...
Hypatia - Charles Kingsley
Hypatia - Charles Kingsley
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Charles Kingsley (June 12 1819 - January 23 1875) was an English divine, university professor, historian, and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and north-east Hampshire. As a novelist, his chief power lay in his descriptive...
The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 - International Committee of the Red Cross
The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 - International Committee of the Red Cross
- Author: International Committee of the Red Cross
- Genre: War & Military / Law
"This Convention represents the fourth updated version of the Geneva Convention on the wounded and sick following those adopted in 1864, 1906 and 1929. It contains 64 articles. These provide protection for the wounded and sick, but also for medical...
The War of the Worlds (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
The War of the Worlds (Version 3) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Science Fiction
No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that the Earth was being scrutinised and studied from across the gulf of space. With infinite complacency, humanity went about its little affairs, serene in its assurance of...
A Cry From An Indian Wife - E. Pauline Johnson
A Cry From An Indian Wife - E. Pauline Johnson
- Author: E. Pauline Johnson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Cry From an Indian Wife by E. Pauline Johnson,. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 29, 2012. In 1892 the opportunity of a lifetime came to this young versifier, when Frank Yeigh, the...
Short Story Collection Vol. 031 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 031 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 031: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
Framley Parsonage - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: General Fiction
Framley Parsonage is the fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire", first published in serial form in the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. (Summary by Wikipedia) "Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best...
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 19) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
The History of England, from the Accession of James II - (Volume 4, Chapter 19) - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is volume 4 chapter 19 of a series of books written by the Baron Macaulay (1800-1859) in the 19th century. It starts with a brief resume of the history of England up until the Stuart kings and then starts to delve into a little more detail....
Truth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Truth - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime.Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from about the age of six. Her mother's collection of her poems forms one of the largest...
The Giant-Killer - or the Battle Which All Must Fight - Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Giant-Killer - or the Battle Which All Must Fight - Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Author: Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Family / Religion
Ten year old twins. Constantine and Adolphus are chagrined to be shipped off to a private tutor in the country. Their lot appears worse when they meet their host and his family, consisting of a wife, son Aleck (who imagines himself the perfect...
Othello - William Shakespeare
Othello - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Plays / Drama / Tragedy
Othello is the story of a cross-cultural romance between the title character, a noble moor who is a general in the Venetian army, and Desdemona, a beautiful and virtuous Venetian lady. The newly-married couple fall prey to the machinations of Iago,...
The Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands - Mary Shauffler Labaree
The Child in the Midst: A Comparative Study of Child Welfare in Christian and Non-Christian Lands - Mary Shauffler Labaree
- Author: Mary Shauffler Labaree
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Chapters follow the progression of a child from birth through working years.Thus, Chapter 1 traces the child from newborn to toddler stage in the home. It includes assumed rights of children and mothers, superstitions, diseases and treatments, and...
Otto of the Silver Hand - Howard Pyle
Otto of the Silver Hand - Howard Pyle
- Author: Howard Pyle
- Genre: Historical
The story of little Otto, a gentle, peace-loving child born into the heart of turmoil and strife in the castle of a feuding robber baron in medieval Germany. (Summary by Arctura)...
Areopagitica - John Milton
Areopagitica - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
A prose tract or polemic by John Milton, published November 23, 1644, at the height of the English Civil War... Milton, though a supporter of the Parliament, argued forcefully against the Licensing Order of 1643, noting that such censorship had...
The Wonder Garden - Frances Jenkins Olcott
The Wonder Garden - Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"Here are 150 nature myths and short stories from all parts of the World. They are the kind that children delight in -- tales of transformations of maidens into trees and fountains, of youths into flowers, and of men into birds. Blossoms, fragrance,...
