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The End Of The Day - Duncan Campbell Scott
The End Of The Day - Duncan Campbell Scott
- Author: Duncan Campbell Scott
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The End Of The Day by Duncan Campbell Scott. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 23, 2020. ------ Duncan Campbell Scott CMG FRSC was a Canadian bureaucrat, poet and prose writer. With...
The Incredulity of Father Brown (Version 2) - G. K. Chesterton
The Incredulity of Father Brown (Version 2) - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
These eight Father Brown mysteries depart from Chesterton’s two earlier Father Brown collections – The Innocence of Father Brown, and The Wisdom of Father Brown – in that most take place in America and/or centrally feature American characters....
Children's Short Works, Vol. 046 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 046 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 046: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The American Bee Journal. Vol. VI, No. 4, Oct 1870 - Various
The American Bee Journal. Vol. VI, No. 4, Oct 1870 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Life Sciences
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sale of pure honey. Published every Wednesday, by Thomas G. Newman, Editor and Proprietor” In this issues are...
The Beast-Jewel of Mars - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
The Beast-Jewel of Mars - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
Following the suspicious death of his girlfriend, Captain Burk Winters sets off down the dangerous path of a Martian vice called 'Shanga'-- the Going Back. What starts out as an effort to rescue Jill Leeland will pit the former starship captain...
Science in Short Chapters - W. Mattieu Williams
Science in Short Chapters - W. Mattieu Williams
- Author: W. Mattieu Williams
- Genre: Science
This is a collection of articles written by W. Mattieu Williams on different subjects, that in his opinion "are likely to be interesting to all readers who are sufficiently intelligent to prefer sober fact to sensational fiction, but who, at the...
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
The Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States - Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Author: Ida B. WELLS-BARNETT
- Genre: Law / Modern (19th C)
The purpose of the pages which follow shall be to give the record which has been made, not by colored men, but that which is the result of compilations made by white men, of reports sent over the civilized world by white men in the South. Out of...
The Garden Of Folly - Stephen Leacock
The Garden Of Folly - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humor
A 1924 collection of essays by the celebrated Canadian humorist, popular in the first half of the twentieth century throughout the English speaking world. - Summary by david wales...
Flop Ear, the Funny Rabbit - Richard Barnum
Flop Ear, the Funny Rabbit - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
"Once upon a time, not so very many years ago, a family of rabbits lived in the woods near the top of a mountain. There were six in the family, counting Flop Ear, the funny rabbit, and I speak of him first because this story is going to be mostly...
Flaming Youth - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
Flaming Youth - Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Author: Samuel Hopkins ADAMS
- Genre: General Fiction
This book tells the story of the Fentriss sisters and their mother. They are educated and rich. They live in a suburb. They are looking for love. Their quest for love leads them to many different places. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about it: "the...
A Girl of High Adventure - L. T. Meade
A Girl of High Adventure - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Marguerite St. Juste was Irish on her mother's side, who was born of the Desmonds of Desmondstown in the County Kerry. Marguerite's father was a French Comte, whose grandfather had been one of the victims of the guillotine. Both her parents are dead...
Verse and Worse - Harry Graham
Verse and Worse - Harry Graham
- Author: Harry Graham
- Genre: Single author
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted Proverbs, and Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. - Summary by mleigh...
Hartmann the Anarchist, or the Doom of a Great City - Edward Douglas Fawcett
Hartmann the Anarchist, or the Doom of a Great City - Edward Douglas Fawcett
- Author: Edward Douglas Fawcett
- Genre: Science Fiction
A gem of nineteenth-century science fiction from mountaineer, philosopher and occasional novelist, Edward Douglas Fawcett. Stanley, a wealthy young socialist, is firmly opposed to revolution. But he finds himself on board the Attila, a coal-fired...
Pascendi Dominici Gregis (On the Errors of the Modernists) - Pope St Pius X
Pascendi Dominici Gregis (On the Errors of the Modernists) - Pope St Pius X
- Author: Pope St Pius X
- Genre: Christianity - Other
During a relatively short pontificate (1903 - 1914) Pope Pius X devoted much of his time to dealing with issues related to the rapid spread of secularism in the early Twentieth century. Pius eschewed the liberal approach of his immediate...
When We Were Very Young - A. A. MILNE
When We Were Very Young - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Poetry
A.A. Milne wrote many poems to entertain his young son, Christopher Robin Milne, who appears to have been about three when "When We Were Very Young" was published. The book is a collection of 45 poems that celebrate a world and a point of view that...
Emily of New Moon - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Emily of New Moon - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Emily Starr never knew what it was to be lonely -- until her beloved father died. Now Emily's an orphan, and her mother's snobbish relatives are taking her to live with them at New Moon Farm. She's sure she won't be happy Emily deals with stiff,...
Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima - Joseph H. Alexander
Closing In: Marines in the Seizure of Iwo Jima - Joseph H. Alexander
- Author: Joseph H. Alexander
- Genre: War & Military
Sunday, 4 March 1945, marked the end of the second week of the U.S. invasion of Iwo Jima. By this point the assault elements of the 3d, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions were exhausted, their combat efficiency reduced to dangerously low levels. The...
A Soldier's Diary - Ralph Scott
A Soldier's Diary - Ralph Scott
- Author: Ralph Scott
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs
This 1923 memoir of a World War I soldier (Royal Engineer and hand-to-hand combatant) is a well written much respected first-hand account of the brutal fighting in the last year of the war. - Summary by David Wales...
Oak and Ivy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Oak and Ivy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Single author
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poetry in the so-called Negro dialect, although he also wrote a lot of verse in standard diction. His poetry and prose...
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire - Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
Bismarck and the Origin of the German Empire - Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
- Author: Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Modern (19th C)
Despite its brevity, this Little Blue Book #142 by the Oxford historian, Sir F.M. Powicke, provides a valuable overview of the political history of Germany from medieval to modern times, culminating in the career of Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898),...
Uncle Wiggily's Story Book - Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily's Story Book - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Dear Children: This is a quite different book from any others you may have read about me. In this volume I have some adventures with real children, like yourselves, as well as with my animal friends. These stories tell of the joyous, funny, exciting...
Oracles of Nostradamus - Charles A. Ward
Oracles of Nostradamus - Charles A. Ward
- Author: Charles A. Ward
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Charles A. Ward was considered one of the most knowledgeable in his studies of the prophecies of Nostradamus. Ward viewed the prophecies of Nostradamus as predictions that only make sense in hindsight, rather than a tool for predicting future...
The Isle of the Undead - Lloyd ESHBACH
The Isle of the Undead - Lloyd ESHBACH
- Author: Lloyd ESHBACH
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
"A gripping, thrilling, uncanny tale about the frightful fate that befell a yachting party on the dreadful island of living dead men." - Summary from Weird Tales, Volume 28, Issue 3, October 1936...
New Chronicles of Rebecca (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
New Chronicles of Rebecca (Version 2 Dramatic Reading) - Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
Journey back to the "brick house" for a further look into the life of young Rebecca Randall during her adventures and scrapes in the small town of Riverboro, Maine. A companion story to Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Cast List: Narrator: TJ Burns...
Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) - George William FOOTE
Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Atheism & Agnosticism
The Freethinker, founded in 1881 was one of the first secular humanist magazines, and also one of the oldest surviving one, moving online only in 2014. It was founded by G. W. Foote, who was its chief editor for 34 years and stated the magazine's...
Song—''When Love came first to Earth.'' - Thomas Campbell
Song—''When Love came first to Earth.'' - Thomas Campbell
- Author: Thomas Campbell
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Song—'' When Love came first to Earth.'' by Thomas Campbell. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 12, 2020. ------ Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet. He was a founder and the first President...
Pee-Wee Harris: Fixer - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee Harris: Fixer - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Pee-Wee Harris, Boy Scout of America and Boy of Superior Appetite returns for another adventure -- just normal events in the life of a boy. Parades, a visit to New York, exploring the woods and introducing a new boy to scouting life....
How To Write Short Stories, with examples - Ring Lardner
How To Write Short Stories, with examples - Ring Lardner
- Author: Ring Lardner
- Genre: Short Stories / Sports Fiction
Here are 10 humorous short stories by Ring Lardner (March 5, 1885 – September 25, 1933), an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest...
The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide (St. Matthew's Gospel Chaps I - IV) - Cornelius à Lapide
The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide (St. Matthew's Gospel Chaps I - IV) - Cornelius à Lapide
- Author: Cornelius à Lapide
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide was born in Belgium. He became a priest in 1595 and taught philosophy, and Hebrew, while also preaching and administering the Sacraments. In 1616 he was moved to Rome in the same capacity. Towards the end of his life, he...
Gretchen - W. S. Gilbert
Gretchen - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Tragedy
About as far from a rollicking Gilbert and Sullivan musical as you can get: this is Gilbert's tragic version of Goethe's Faust. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Dominic: David Purdy Anselm: Alan Mapstone Faustus: Mike Manolakes Gottfried: Kurt...
Open The Door - Catherine Carswell
Open The Door - Catherine Carswell
- Author: Catherine Carswell
- Genre: Romance
This award-winning book tells the coming of age story of Joanna Bannerman. Considered largely autobiographical, it shows Joanna with all her complexities and contradictions, some of which are faced by women almost 100 years later. Perfect for those...
Your Negro Neighbor - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
Your Negro Neighbor - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Author: Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
An historical and sociological view of race relations in America as it pertains to the African-American. - Summary by KevinS...
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Version 3) - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Version 3) - Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Author: Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Grimms' Fairy Tales, originally known as the Children's and Household Tales, is a German collection of fairy tales or folk lore by the Grimm brothers or "Brothers Grimm", Jacob and Wilhelm, first published on 20 December 1812. - Summary by Cliff...
Cyrus the Great - Jacob Abbott
Cyrus the Great - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This history is the story of Cyrus, the founder of the Persian Empire, sixth century BC. - Summary by Deon Gines...
Mary Ware in Texas - Annie Fellows Johnston
Mary Ware in Texas - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Family
A continuation of the adventures of Mary Ware, the chum of the Little Colonel and the heroine of the tenth volume in the "Little Colonel" series. Mary Ware goes to Texas where during a winter with her mother and Jack in San Antonio and the hill...
The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 2 - Various
The Rural Magazine and Literary Evening Fire-Side Vol 1 No 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Business & Economics / Short non-fiction
This is the second issue of a monthly agricultural magazine for the year 1820. From the introduction: "A leading object of the Rural Magazine will be to furnish correct views of the science of Agriculture, and the various improvements which are...
The Restoration of the Gospel - Osborne J. P. Widtsoe
The Restoration of the Gospel - Osborne J. P. Widtsoe
- Author: Osborne J. P. Widtsoe
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
An accounting of the need, purpose and events surrounding the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ though the Prophet Joseph Smith. - Summary by Wayne Cooke...
Malachi, from Horae Homileticae - Charles Simeon
Malachi, from Horae Homileticae - Charles Simeon
- Author: Charles Simeon
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Simeon's Works, as they were published 1832, fill twenty-one large octavo volumes, and the title-page reads, "Horae Homileticae or Discourses (principally in the form of Skeletons) now first digested into one continued Series and forming a...
A Book of English Martyrs - E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
A Book of English Martyrs - E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
- Author: E. M. Wilmot-Buxton
- Genre: Christianity - Biographies
This volume is a simple narrative suited to children's understanding of the thrilling times when English Catholics suffered for the Faith in the troubled days of the sixteenth century, when Tyburn tree was a concrete fact, and when ardent love...
Miles Gloriosus; The Braggart Captain - Titus Maccius Plautus
Miles Gloriosus; The Braggart Captain - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Comedy
Pleusicles loves Philocomasium, but she is kidnapped by Pyrgopolinices. Palaestrio, faithful servant to Pleusicles, witnesses this and goes to tell his master, but is captured by Pirates and ends up a servant to Pyrgopolinices as well. Palaestrio...
