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The Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne
The Begum's Fortune - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Science Fiction / War & Military Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
A novel with some utopian elements, but primarily dystopian. A French doctor and a German professor both inherit a vast fortune as descendants of a French soldier who married the rich widow of an Indian prince. They both decide to go to America and...
George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
George Bowring - A Tale Of Cader Idris - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Our narrator, Bob, knows George Bowring from school days. Their lives, dreams and misfortunes are parallel until George marries the woman Bob loves. But still, their friendship endures, despite numerous tensions over the years. The two men go on a...
Vision - Joyce KILMER
Vision - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Vision by Joyce Kilmer. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 26, 2021. ------ Alfred Joyce Kilmer was an American writer and poet mainly remembered for a short poem titled "Trees" (1913),...
The Guide for the Perplexed, Part One - Moses Maimonides
The Guide for the Perplexed, Part One - Moses Maimonides
- Author: Moses Maimonides
- Genre: Medieval / Other religions
The Guide for the Perplexed by Mūsá ibn Maymūn (known throughout the Christian West as Moses Maimonides) is regarded as one of the most important works of Medieval Jewish thought. The book attempted to harmonize the philosophy of Aristotle with the...
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green - John MacCunn
Six Radical Thinkers: Bentham, J.S. Mill, Cobden, Carlyle, Mazzini, T.H. Green - John MacCunn
- Author: John MacCunn
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern
A radical is a person who holds extreme or unconventional convictions and who advocates fundamental political, economic, or social reforms. In this volume, the Scottish philosopher, John MacCunn, presents the life and thought of Jeremy Bentham, John...
Wine and Roses - Victor DALEY
Wine and Roses - Victor DALEY
- Author: Victor DALEY
- Genre: Single author
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocket was nearly empty. The sunshine and freedom of Australia delighted him, and, in careless, vagabond fashion...
Like One Who, Doomed - Thomas Moore
Like One Who, Doomed - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of Like One Who, Doomed by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 17, 2021. ------ This Weekly Poem by Thomas Moore describes a man whose hopes are dashed at the last moment. -...
Machine-Room Chants - Tom Maguire
Machine-Room Chants - Tom Maguire
- Author: Tom Maguire
- Genre: Single author / Lyric / Narratives
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was published posthumously in 1895 and includes prefatory commemorative remarks by Keir Hardie and John Bruce Glasier....
Nellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife, With Other Sketches - Thomas P. Detter
Nellie Brown, or, The Jealous Wife, With Other Sketches - Thomas P. Detter
- Author: Thomas P. Detter
- Genre: Single Author Collections
READERS The design of this work is to show the unhappy results of jealousy and misplaced confidence, arid the wicked designs of corrupt parties. Man and woman were created for a noble purpose by their Creator; but how often do we see families that...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Version 7) - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Version 7) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Alice’s adventures in Wonderland is probably one of the most well known and popular children's novels in the English language. Written in 1865 by Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson, better known by his pen name ‘Lewis Carrol’. Lewis, a mathematician, poet,...
Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell - Frederick Bridge
Twelve Good Musicians: From John Bull to Henry Purcell - Frederick Bridge
- Author: Frederick Bridge
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Brief sketches of the lives and music of 12 well-known musicians. - Summary by KevinS...
Bible (WEB) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit - World English Bible
Bible (WEB) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Book of Tobit - World English Bible
- Author: World English Bible
- Genre: World English Bible
This book relates the story of Tobit, a righteous Israelite from the tribe of Naphtali. He lived in Nineveh during the time when Israel had been deported to Assyria (721 B.C). Tobit was written originally in Aramaic, perhaps in Hebrew. It was...
Heraclitus, or Man's Looking-glass and Survey of Life - Pierre Du Moulin
Heraclitus, or Man's Looking-glass and Survey of Life - Pierre Du Moulin
- Author: Pierre Du Moulin
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This book is no other than a perfect map of man and anatomy of all ages; A "nosce te ipsum", which is the highest pitch and hardest lesson of all human learning; An universal dial which (though made in France) yet serves (without any astronomical...
Birds, Vol. I, No 1, January 1897 - Various
Birds, Vol. I, No 1, January 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...
Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin' - Jeanette Hindman Elliott
Cookie 'n' Cracker Cookin' - Jeanette Hindman Elliott
- Author: Jeanette Hindman Elliott
- Genre: Cooking
This is a short recipe book published by the United Biscuit Company of America, later to become the Keebler Company. Each recipe features one or more of their products the best known of which are Club Crackers, Town House Crackers, Honey Grahams,...
When They Were Girls - Rebecca Deming Moore
When They Were Girls - Rebecca Deming Moore
- Author: Rebecca Deming Moore
- Genre: Biography
Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, Frances Burnett, Julia Howe, Hellen Keller, and Harriet Beecher Stowe are some of the influencial women in our history whose lives and accomplishments are covered in this little book. "When They Were...
Birds, Vol. III, No 4, April 1898 - Various
Birds, Vol. III, No 4, April 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...
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Version 2) - Robert Falcon Scott
The Journals of Robert Falcon Scott; Volume 1 of 'Scott's Last Expedition' (Version 2) - Robert Falcon Scott
- Author: Robert Falcon Scott
- Genre: Memoirs / Earth Sciences / Exploration
Captain Scott’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic Pole in 1911 is part triumph, part tragedy – but also a mythic adventure story which has inspired books, articles, and films over the generations. As so often in such cases the ‘truth’ of the...
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children (Version 2) - E. Louise SMYTHE
A Primary Reader: Old-time Stories, Fairy Tales and Myths Retold by Children (Version 2) - E. Louise SMYTHE
- Author: E. Louise SMYTHE
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"This book originated in a series of little reading lessons prepared for the first grade pupils in the Santa Rosa public schools. The object of the lessons was three-fold: to provide reading matter for the little ones who had only a small vocabulary...
Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman - Jessie Graham Flower
Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: School
Following a move to a new town, Marjorie Dean must make new friends during her freshman year at high school. To her dismay, she makes a few enemies along the way too. She has to learn to deal with the unkind acts of her enemies whilst making sure...
Still - William - Richmal Crompton
Still - William - Richmal Crompton
- Author: Richmal Crompton
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction / Family
More humorous adventures (1925) by the world’s most misunderstood English boy. - Summary by david wales...
Pee-Wee Harris in Luck - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee Harris in Luck - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Another episode in the life of the loveable Pee-Wee Harris, Boy Scout and Boy of Superior Appetite, who always lands on his feet, even when things don't turn out as planned....
Smoke Bellew - Jack London
Smoke Bellew - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Essays & Short Works
Smoke Bellew, or really Jack London, leaves his less than satisfying writing job in San Francisco for the opportunity to search for gold in the Klondike region while writing about his adventures there. Smoke Bellew is the collection of the resulting...
The Story of My Life, Part 1 (Version 3) - Helen KELLER
The Story of My Life, Part 1 (Version 3) - Helen KELLER
- Author: Helen KELLER
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
When Helen Keller's autobiography was first published in 1903, she was a young woman studying at Radcliffe College. In it, Helen shares memories of her childhood, describes how Miss Sullivan helped her learn how to communicate, and reflects on her...
The Perfect World - Ella Scrymsour
The Perfect World - Ella Scrymsour
- Author: Ella Scrymsour
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
Almost certainly the merging of two separate magazine novellas, where Scrymsour attempted to weave together the plots. In this fantasy/ science fiction novel, the two young gentlemen protagonists are transported from a company town dominated by...
The Best Friend - Meribah Abbott
The Best Friend - Meribah Abbott
- Author: Meribah Abbott
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Best Friend by Meribah Abbott. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 24, 2020. ------ Abbott's description of the empathic characteristics of a dog, taken from J. Earl Clauson's Collection,...
A Commonplace Day - Thomas Hardy
A Commonplace Day - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Commonplace Day by Thomas Hardy. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 27, 2022. ------ Thomas Hardy OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George...
The Hundred Best English Poems - Various
The Hundred Best English Poems - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This wonderful collection of poems showcases the incredible talent of the some of the greatest poets in the world. These creative masterpieces are truly the best of the best, the crème de la crème, one hundred of the most awe inspiring and...
The 64-Square Madhouse - Fritz Leiber
The 64-Square Madhouse - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
A machine of blinking lights and smelling of ozone is entered into a Grand Master chess tournament. One of the first of those things called computers. Would it be shamed by human genius or would it out think these human prodigies through sheer...
Stories That Words Tell Us - Elizabeth O'Neill
Stories That Words Tell Us - Elizabeth O'Neill
- Author: Elizabeth O'Neill
- Genre: Reference / Writing & Linguistics
A history of English words, written for younger readers. Parental advisory: the text was published in 1918 and includes some ethnicity terms which may cause offense to the modern reader. - Summary by Kazbek...
Nine Biological Lectures - Various
Nine Biological Lectures - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Life Sciences
Nine lectures on a variety of biological subjects delivered at The Marine Biological Laboratories of Wood's Holl in the summer session of 1895. - Summary by J.M. Smallheer Please note that the Tables in Lecture 9 are not included in the recording....
No Quarter! - Thomas Mayne REID
No Quarter! - Thomas Mayne REID
- Author: Thomas Mayne REID
- Genre: Action & Adventure
There is no page in England’s history so bright, nor of which Englishmen have such reason to be proud, as that covering the period between 1640 and 1650. This glorious decade was ushered in by the election of the “Long Parliament,” and I challenge...
Prince and Heretic - Marjorie Bowen
Prince and Heretic - Marjorie Bowen
- Author: Marjorie Bowen
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This novel is centered on the Dutch House of Orange, and begins with its prince, William. It is set in the time of the Holy Inquisition, when tensions between the Catholic and Protestant churches dominated....
A Christmas Carol - Charles Kingsley
A Christmas Carol - Charles Kingsley
- Author: Charles Kingsley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of A Christmas Carol by Charles Kingsley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 22, 2019. ------ Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university professor,...
Gallegher and other Stories - Richard Harding Davis
Gallegher and other Stories - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Short Stories
Set in 1890's USA, teen detective Gallegher is a copy boy for a local newspaper, but due to his superior sleuthing and feisty Huck Finn attitude, he ends up solving a serious crime. Walt Disney thought enough of the spunky Gallegher story to make a...
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland - Samuel Johnson
A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland - Samuel Johnson
- Author: Samuel Johnson
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Samuel Johnson’s wit and tongue-in-cheek expressions make this record of the economy, education and politicks [sic] of remote settlements an entertaining pleasure. Johnson describes the primary produce, orders of precedence, and the politics of...
David Ransom's Watch - Pansy
David Ransom's Watch - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
A tale of human choices and lost opportunities, and how one's choices affect so many other lives, for good or ill. A borrowed watch. A selfish younger brother. An engagement and flirtation. A trip to the city to replace the watch turns David...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 06 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 06 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry
A Child's Garden Of Verses is a collection of poems for children written by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems mainly concern childhood, illness, play, and solitude. - Summary by Roma Singh...
The Chimney Corner - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Chimney Corner - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Stowe wrote over 30 books. This one is a fascinating collection of her post Civil War musings on a variety of cultural topics, staged mostly as conversations between Christopher Crowfield (Stowe's masculine nome de plume), and his wife, their son...
