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Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance - Samuel Smiles
Self Help; with Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance - Samuel Smiles
- Author: Samuel Smiles
- Genre: Self-Help
Self-Help is the book that gave its name to the whole genre of literature known by that name. It is full of profiles of individuals who, through hard work, perseverance, and taking advantage of every opportunity that came their way, succeeded. At...
Consuelo - George SAND
Consuelo - George SAND
- Author: George SAND
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
This roman à clef follows the musical adventures of Consuelo, a gifted singer under the tutelage of the composer Nicola Porpora. After encountering betrayal in her home city of Venice, she goes to stay with a family of nobles in an isolated castle...
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2) - James HOGG
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Version 2) - James HOGG
- Author: James HOGG
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Gothic Fiction
An early example of a psychological mystery and modern crime fiction, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner details the experience of its criminal anti-hero. It is set in Scotland within a world where angels, devils, and demonic...
The Norwegian Fairy Book - Klara Stroebe
The Norwegian Fairy Book - Klara Stroebe
- Author: Klara Stroebe
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Sagas
These Norwegian tales of elemental mountain, forest and sea spirits, have been handed down by hinds and huntsmen, wood choppers and fisher folk. They are men who led a hard and lonely life amid primitive surroundings. The Norwegian Fairy Book has an...
Leave it to Doris - Ethel Hueston
Leave it to Doris - Ethel Hueston
- Author: Ethel Hueston
- Genre: Family Life
The Reverend Mr. Artman is a widower of three years and is worried he might not be able to escape the clutches of Miss Carlton, his housekeeper, much longer. Luckily, if he dismisses her from his employ, he has Doris and three other daughters to run...
The Wooden Horse - Hugh Walpole
The Wooden Horse - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Walpole’s first novel (1909), The Wooden Horse is the story of the Trojans, a family which accepted tranquilly the belief that they were the people for whom the world was created. But when Harry Trojan came home after twenty years in New Zealand,...
Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
Ormond - Maria Edgeworth
- Author: Maria Edgeworth
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Maria Edgeworth was one of the most popular writers of her time, a sharp and witty observer of society manners, and a favorite author for Jane Austen. “Ormond,” published in 1817, is a “coming-of-age” novel, tracing a young man’s development as he...
Bible (YLT) NT 26: Epistle of Jude - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) NT 26: Epistle of Jude - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
An English translation that holds as closely as was possible to the original languages and idioms. - Summary by KevinS...
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Francis Tiffany
Life of Dorothea Lynde Dix - Francis Tiffany
- Author: Francis Tiffany
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A biography of a woman who advocated for the humane treatment of people with mental illness. As a young woman travelling overseas, Dorothea Dix met with people who were interested in reforming how the mentally ill were treated. Returning to America,...
The Tale of Jasper Jay - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Jasper Jay - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Animals & Nature
Arthur Scott Bailey, a native of the state of Vermont, wrote over forty children's books using a variety of animals, birds and even insects to entertain. The Tale of Jasper Jay is one of 16 stories of his Tuck-Me-In Tales series. - Summary by Larry...
Berenice - Jean Racine
Berenice - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
Titus, emperor of Rome, wants to marry Berenice, queen of Palestine, but decides that Rome will not be able to handle having him marry a foreign queen. Berenice refuses to stay in this case and leaves Rome. Unlike many of the other Racine plays,...
Charles Rex - Ethel M. Dell
Charles Rex - Ethel M. Dell
- Author: Ethel M. Dell
- Genre: Romance / Published 1900 onward
Excerpt: "Saltash was thoroughly cosmopolitan in his tastes; he liked amusement but he abhorred boredom. He was never really wicked unless he was bored. And then- que voulez vous? He did not guide the star of destiny." On his last night in Valrosa,...
Harlem Shadows - Claude McKay
Harlem Shadows - Claude McKay
- Author: Claude McKay
- Genre: Single author
An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family life, love, hate, work, and social life. The reader obtains a strong sense of black life through his...
Herb of Grace - Rosa Nouchette Carey
Herb of Grace - Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Genre: General Fiction
Malcolm Herrick has it all: he is a lawyer, he has no financial problems, and he has wonderful friends and even an adopted sister. He is a dutiful boy to his mother. He is a loving friend. But he wanted something else. He wanted to be a poet or an...
The Sermons upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians - John Calvin
The Sermons upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Ephesians - John Calvin
- Author: John Calvin
- Genre: Christianity - Other
While many of Calvin's sermons are now lost after they were sold by weight by the library of Geneva, his sermons on Ephesians have been preserved, having been translated into Early Modern English by Arthur Golding (who also translated Calvin's...
A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion - Sir Robert Anderson
A Doubter's Doubts About Science and Religion - Sir Robert Anderson
- Author: Sir Robert Anderson
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A DOUBTER'S Doubts about Science and Religion was first published anonymously, at a time when the author was Assistant Commissioner of Police and Head of the Criminal Investigation Department, at Scotland Yard (London). As the book is addressed to...
Life of Saint Gerard Majella - Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips
Life of Saint Gerard Majella - Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips
- Author: Rev. O. R. Vassall-Phillips
- Genre: Christianity - Biographies
Saint Gerard Majella was an Italian lay brother of the Redemptorists. His only ambition was to be like Jesus Christ in his sufferings and humiliations. St. Alphonsus considered him a miracle of obedience. Although weak in body, he did the work of...
The Fundamentals Volume 2 - Sir Robert Anderson
The Fundamentals Volume 2 - Sir Robert Anderson
- Author: Sir Robert Anderson
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of ninety essays published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company of Chicago. According to its foreword, the publication was...
Birds, Vol. III, No 2, February 1898 - Various
Birds, Vol. III, No 2, February 1898 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry / 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...
Short Science Fiction Collection 068 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 068 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Vinzi: A Story of the Swiss Alps - Johanna Spyri
Vinzi: A Story of the Swiss Alps - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Children's Fiction
At 12 years old, Vinzi's only desire is to study his beloved music. But his father wants to make a farmer of him, and is displeased whenever he finds Vinzi yielding to his musical inclination. Mother and sister look on wistfully as circumstances go...
The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel's Chum: Mary Ware - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Historical
This volume is the result of an avalanche of letters that, reached the author, Annie Fellows Johnston, complaining that she skipped in the Little Colonel series. To entreaties she has responded with this charming, wholesome volume, in which she...
Giants on the Earth - Captain S. P. Meek
Giants on the Earth - Captain S. P. Meek
- Author: Captain S. P. Meek
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Earth is ruled by cruel Jovian overlords and has been for 40 years. Earthlings are slaves who seethe with anger but are helpless in view of the Jovian's disintegrating ray weapons compared to their own swords. Will Earth be doomed to suffer this...
The Secret Agent (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
The Secret Agent (Version 3) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Taking as his inspiration the historical accidental death by explosion of an anarchist outside the Royal Observatory in Greenwich Park, London in 1894, Conrad tells the dark tale of Adolf Verloc, an indolent, double-dealing secret agent of a foreign...
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 - Charles Eliot
Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 3 - Charles Eliot
- Author: Charles Eliot
- Genre: Other religions
Started in 1907, An Historical Sketch was a work in 3 volumes. The author was a British diplomat posted to Asia and his great work was interrupted by World War I, finally being published in 1921. It has been described as the definitive work on the...
The Conquest - Oscar Micheaux
The Conquest - Oscar Micheaux
- Author: Oscar Micheaux
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"This is the true story of a negro who was discontented and the circumstances that were the outcome of that discontent." While considered a novel, this largely autobiographical story is based on the author's experience as an African-American pioneer...
The Inheritance - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
The Inheritance - Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Author: Susan Edmonstoune FERRIER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family Life / Historical Fiction
"As the noblest attribute of man, family pride had been cherished time immemorial by the noble race of Rossville. Deep and incurable, therefore, was the wound inflicted on all its members by the marriage of the honorable Thomas St. Clair, the...
Pauline - Pansy
Pauline - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Due to a clerical error, successful attorney Charles Gordon Curtiss arrives a day late to give a lecture in a nearby town. But the literary society's loss is Curtiss' gain; he meets the charming Constance Stuart and falls in love. A year later, they...
Jerry McAuley: His Life and Work - Jerry MCAULEY
Jerry McAuley: His Life and Work - Jerry MCAULEY
- Author: Jerry MCAULEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
Jerry McAuley was a missionary and founder of the Water Street Mission (later the New York City Rescue Mission), the first rescue mission in the United States. This book is a collection of his writings regarding his waywardness, his conversion and...
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 11 August 1896 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 11 August 1896 - 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. The...
Birds, Vol. I, No 5, May 1897 - Various
Birds, Vol. I, No 5, May 1897 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / 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...
Otherworld: Cadences - F. S. FLINT
Otherworld: Cadences - F. S. FLINT
- Author: F. S. FLINT
- Genre: Single author
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school at the age of 13 to pursue rigorous self-study, eventually mastering 10 languages, including French and...
Rose Mather: A Tale - Mary Jane HOLMES
Rose Mather: A Tale - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Fiction merges with history in this novel taking place during the turbulent times of the civil war and the horrors it entailed. Holme's silly, coquettish yet kind-hearted Rose will pull you in from the start. The sweet and pious Annie, the noble Tom...
Grown-Up - Edna St. Vincent Millay
Grown-Up - Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Grown-Up by Edna St. Vincent Millay.. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 3, 2021. ------ Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American lyrical poet and playwright. She won poetry prizes from an...
The Younger Sister - Catherine Anne Hubback
The Younger Sister - Catherine Anne Hubback
- Author: Catherine Anne Hubback
- Genre: General Fiction
Emma Watson, the youngest child of six from a poor family, was sent away as a child to be raised by her wealthy aunt and uncle. When her uncle dies and her aunt remarries, Emma (now a pretty, well-educated, and opinionated young woman) returns home...
The Princess and the Goblin (Dramatic Reading) - George MacDonald
The Princess and the Goblin (Dramatic Reading) - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
The story of a Princess named Irene, and her adventure with a boy named Curdie Peterson. Princess Irene meets her grandmother, and Irene wants her nurse, Lootie, to know that her grandmother is so sweet and kind. But Lootie doesn't believe there is...
A Country Mouse - Arthur Law
A Country Mouse - Arthur Law
- Author: Arthur Law
- Genre: Comedy
You could be forgiven upon reading that title, not to mention auditing the opening scene, for thinking that this is a play of a simple country girl fallen among aristocratic Victorian-era swingers in the big city. But this Country Mouse is anything...
The Sainted Queens - Unknown
The Sainted Queens - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
A collection of short biographies of six Catholic Queens who became saints. Saint Margaret of Scotland - Saint Elisabeth of Portugal - Saint Clotildus, Saint Ragedund, and Saint Bathildis, all Queens of the Franks - and Saint Elizabeth of Hungary....
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 07 April 1896 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 01 No. 07 April 1896 - 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. The...
The Romantic Young Lady - Gregorio Martínez Sierra
The Romantic Young Lady - Gregorio Martínez Sierra
- Author: Gregorio Martínez Sierra
- Genre: Romance
Rosario is reading a sentimental novel, A Spring Romance. "Into a life may come visions and phantoms, envoys and heralds of the true love that still delays... But on that divine night, when...." Suddenly, a tremendous lightening flash, a burst of...
