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A Christmas Miscellany 2021 - Various
A Christmas Miscellany 2021 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Nature / Religion
Seven chapters involving Christmas from different books. Plus part 8 which is twelve verses about Christmas and part 9 which is four Christmas carols by Christina Rossetti. - Summary by David Wales...
The Sunny Side (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
The Sunny Side (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Anthologies / Single Author Collections
A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the Pooh, though he was and is highly acclaimed for hundreds of gently humorous essays and poems published in, among other famous venues, Punch Magazine, most of which have...
As You Like It (version 3) - William Shakespeare
As You Like It (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
Long theorized to be one of Shakespeare's mid-career works, As You Like It remains an evergreen favorite for audiences and scholars alike for its sparkling characters, pastoral setting, gorgeous prose and entertaining storylines that converge in fun...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 01 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 01 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. Appropriate stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore. - Summary by Lynette Caulkins...
Man and His Ancestor: A Study in Evolution - Charles McLean Andrews
Man and His Ancestor: A Study in Evolution - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Life Sciences
An examination of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and subsequent texts, written for the general public at the turn of the twentieth century, "[...] to dwell on the various significant facts that have been discovered since Darwin's time, and to...
Poems - Elinor Jenkins
Poems - Elinor Jenkins
- Author: Elinor Jenkins
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Elinor Jenkins was a British poet whose published work focuses largely on the First World War. This volume, based on her collection published in 1915, incorporates 16 later poems and was published posthumously in 1921. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)...
Later Poems - Alice Meynell
Later Poems - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Catholic faith as well as the natural world. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Sweet Lavender - Arthur Wing Pinero
Sweet Lavender - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Comedy
"Sweet Lavender" must be regarded as one of the most successful stage-plays of modern times, and there can be no question that it has proved so far the most popular of Mr. Pinero's works. Its representations may be counted by the thousand, and its...
Nero - Jacob Abbott
Nero - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Nero tells the life story of one of the most infamous of Roman Emperors. - Summary by Deon Gines...
The Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours" - James Grant
The Phantom Regiment; or, Stories of "Ours" - James Grant
- Author: James Grant
- Genre: War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The title and a quick glance at the chapter titles of James Grant's The Phantom Regiment--such as "The Romance of the Month," "The Halt in Cork Wood," "Rio de la Muerte (Spanish for death)," Pedro, the Contrabandist," "A Legend of Fife," "The...
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great - Henry Fielding
The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Satire / Tragedy
Tom Thumb, small of stature, great of heart. This play was written as a parody of the tragic heroic biography of a great man, filled with biting satire as to people and events of the time. Note as warned by the title that this is not a happy-ending...
A Tree with a Bird in it - Margaret Widdemer
A Tree with a Bird in it - Margaret Widdemer
- Author: Margaret Widdemer
- Genre: Single author
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poems based on a bird in a tree. The author parodies various contemporary poets in 1922 with their versions of a...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 02. February 1899 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 02. February 1899 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, February 1899. It includes the following articles: The Economic Condition of the Philippines by Max L. Tornow Manila and the Philippines by Major A. Falkner Von Sonnenburg...
Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences - John Mason Neale
Mediaeval Hymns and Sequences - John Mason Neale
- Author: John Mason Neale
- Genre: Lyric / Christianity - Other
This book is a collection of English translations of medieval Latin hymns. It contains interesting historical and/or liguistic facts about each hymn, some of which are still used in one form or other in the modern Christian church. Note: An asterisk...
Bible (YLT) NT 03: Luke - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) NT 03: Luke - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
"Translated according to the letter and idioms of the original languages" - Summary by the translator...
The Author's Farce - Henry Fielding
The Author's Farce - Henry Fielding
- Author: Henry Fielding
- Genre: Satire
Henry Fielding could not write plays that he could get published. So he decided to write a play - a farce - about that, and success was his at last. The third act of the play is the play that the Author in the play supposedly writes - a Puppet Show...
With Trumpet and Drum - Eugene Field
With Trumpet and Drum - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
The book is made up of poems compiled from the “Little Book of Western Verse,” the “Second Book of Verse,” and the files of the “Chicago Daily News,” the “Youth’s Companion,” and the “Ladies’ Home Journal” , including such favorites as The Sugar...
Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary - Arthur Henry PATTERSON
Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary - Arthur Henry PATTERSON
- Author: Arthur Henry PATTERSON
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography / Life Sciences
Published in 1907 by Arthur Henry Patterson, a self-taught local naturalist, Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary was one of his defining books on the seasonal nature and natural history of the Norfolk Broads. The book is presented in two sections - The...
Ideala - Sarah Grand
Ideala - Sarah Grand
- Author: Sarah Grand
- Genre: General Fiction
She came among us without flourish of trumpets. She just slipped into her place, almost unnoticed, but once she was settled there it seemed as if we had got something we had wanted all our lives, and we should have missed her as you would miss the...
The Mind's Eye - Marcus CLARKE
The Mind's Eye - Marcus CLARKE
- Author: Marcus CLARKE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Mind's Eye by Marcus Clarke. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 28, 2020. ------ This Fortnightly Poem is taken from The Australian Edition of the Selected Works of Marcus Clarke (pub...
Women, Children, Love and Marriage - Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
Women, Children, Love and Marriage - Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
- Author: Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This book contains a number of essays about various subjects pertaining to women, children love and marriage - Summary by ashleighjane...
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire - James Headlam-Morley
Bismarck and the Foundation of the German Empire - James Headlam-Morley
- Author: James Headlam-Morley
- Genre: War & Military / History
"It is hard to be an Emperor under such a Chancellor." lamented Wilhelm I, the first emperor of the German Empire. Otto von Bismarck is probably the most fascinating or the most boring statesman throughout German history depending on one's...
Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money - Titus Maccius Plautus
Trinummus: The Three Pieces of Money - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Buried treasure, reckless son, exile, young love, betrayal, detection - all as relevant today as when this comedy was written 2200 years ago. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Luxury: Sonia Poverty: Availle Charmides, an Athenian merchant: ToddHW...
The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An American Hospital Nurse - Ellen Newbold La Motte
The Backwash Of War: The Human Wreckage Of The Battlefield As Witnessed By An American Hospital Nurse - Ellen Newbold La Motte
- Author: Ellen Newbold La Motte
- Genre: War & Military / Medical / Modern (20th C)
Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873–1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. … and in 1915 volunteered as one of the first American war nurses to go to Europe and treat soldiers in World War I. In Belgium she served in a French field hospital,...
Spring Morning - Frances Cornford
Spring Morning - Frances Cornford
- Author: Frances Cornford
- Genre: Poetry
Frances Cornford, the granddaughter of Charles Darwin, wrote several volumes of poetry. In this volume is one of her best known poems, the sad and comic "To a Fat Lady Seen From a Train". - Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker...
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician - Alexandre Dumas
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 1: Balsamo, The Magician - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This is the first volume of Dumas' Marie Antoinette Romances (also called "The Memoirs of a Physician"). This historical fiction chronicles the strange events surrounding the fall of the French monarchy (starting ~1770) and rise of revolutionaries...
Two American Slavery Documents - James Mars
Two American Slavery Documents - James Mars
- Author: James Mars
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
This recording contains two original documents. 1) Life of James Mars, a Slave Born and Sold in Connecticut, by James Mars (1869). James Mars was born in Connecticut in 1790 and spent the better part of his youth a slave working for various...
Rest - John Sullivan Dwight
Rest - John Sullivan Dwight
- Author: John Sullivan Dwight
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Rest by John Sullivan Dwight. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 5, 2020.. ------ John Sullivan Dwight was a Unitarian minister, transcendentalist, and America's first influential classical...
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Volume 2 - William GODWIN
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and its Influence on Morals and Happiness. Volume 2 - William GODWIN
- Author: William GODWIN
- Genre: Political Science
It was Godwin, in his Enquiry concerning Political Justice (2 vols., 1793), who was the first to formulate the political and economical conceptions of anarchism, even though he did not give that name to the ideas developed in his remarkable work....
In Old Plantation Days - Paul Laurence Dunbar
In Old Plantation Days - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Short Stories
With this collection of short stories, Dunbar sought to draw on the success of his dialect poems by recreating and portraying the southern plantation during slavery. The stories focus on the stereotypical portrait of slaves as obedient workers happy...
The War Trail - Thomas Mayne REID
The War Trail - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
"Land of the nopal and maguey—home of Moctezuma and Malinché!—I cannot wring thy memories from my heart! Years may roll on, hand wax weak, and heart grow old, but never till both are cold can I forget thee! I would not; for thee would I remember....
Sam In The Suburbs - P. G. Wodehouse
Sam In The Suburbs - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A young and somewhat eccentric American named Sam Shotter is sent by his uncle, a wealthy businessman, to England to get him out of his hair. Sam's uncle sends him to work for Lord Tilbury's well known Mammoth Publishing Company, much against Lord...
Psychological Warfare - Cordwainer Smith
Psychological Warfare - Cordwainer Smith
- Author: Cordwainer Smith
- Genre: War & Military / Psychology
Psychological warfare and propaganda have been used extensively in warfare since the earliest times. This book explores the functions, limitations, types, and history of psychological warfare through 1953. It was written by Paul Myron Anthony...
Green Valley - Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
Green Valley - Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
- Author: Katharine Yirsa Reynolds
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
"Traveling men have a poor opinion of it. Ministers of the gospel have been known to despair of it. Socially ambitious matrons move out of it, or, if that is not possible, despise it. Real estate men can not get rich in it. And humorless folk...
Once A Week (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
Once A Week (Version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single Author Collections / Essays & Short Works
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including regular readers of Punch -- between1903, when he graduated from Cambridge and 1906, when he began also to...
Stephen Mitchell's Journey - Pansy
Stephen Mitchell's Journey - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Stephen Mitchell is a young man without a place in the world. He hates farming, although he works endless hours on the poor family farm. He isn't qualified for many jobs in town since he's had very little formal schooling. And he is a loner because...
Rain - Madison Cawein
Rain - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Rain by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 11, 2021. ------ Another Rain poem by the author, describing the beginning, duration, and aftermath of a rainstorm. - Summary by David...
A Battle for the Right - Nicholas Carter
A Battle for the Right - Nicholas Carter
- Author: Nicholas Carter
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume Nicholas Carter, have penned stories featuring "America's greatest detective". The scene is set at...
The Artist - B. F. Gandee
The Artist - B. F. Gandee
- Author: B. F. Gandee
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Art / Design & Architecture / Crafts & Hobbies
The Artist, or Young Ladies' Instructor in Ornamental Painting, Drawing etc. is a delightful art instruction book from 1835. Follow Charlotte as she teaches her cousin Ellen a range of art forms that were widely taught at the time, from painting in...
The Pause - Susanna Moodie
The Pause - Susanna Moodie
- Author: Susanna Moodie
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of The Pause by Susanna Moodie. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 22, 2020. ------ Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada,...
