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The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
The Negro in Literature and Art in the United States - Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Author: Benjamin Griffith BRAWLEY
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Modern (20th C)
Noted African-American author and educator, Benjamin Brawley, presents short biographies of other African-Americans in the fields of literature and other arts including poets, artists, musicians, and orators. These range from well known figures such...
Wives and Daughters (Dramatic Reading) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Wives and Daughters (Dramatic Reading) - Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Author: Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Family Life
Molly and her father have lived alone since the death of her mother. Now Mr Gibson decides it will be in Molly's best interests for him to marry again. The new "Mama" brings to the household many changes, including a glamorous new step-sister. Mrs...
Robert Kimberly - Frank H. SPEARMAN
Robert Kimberly - Frank H. SPEARMAN
- Author: Frank H. SPEARMAN
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The novel is set among the wealthy of the Northeast in the USA of the early 1900's. A close knit group of about ten couples in high society visit each others homes for dance, drink, conversation and partying. The male members are mostly affiliated...
Helen Lester - Pansy
Helen Lester - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Religion
Twelve year old Helen is determined to be a good girl, but the harder she tries, the worse her days go. Is there any hope? And what made such a change in the life of her grown-up brother in the seven years he was away from home? Little do the...
Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith - W. S. Gilbert
Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Drama
A drama from the Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan. Pursued by the Parliamentary Army after the Battle of Worcester, some Royalist soldiers take cover in Dan'l Druce's hut on the Norfolk Coast until they can escape. An event with long shadows that...
Thyrza - George Gissing
Thyrza - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Romance
Thyrza is a working class woman. Three men are in love with her. Even though she is engaged to a man of her class, who is very kind, she falls in love with a rich Oxford student who has no idea what to do with his life. The man, in turn, falls in...
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police - A Tale of the Macleod Trail - Ralph Connor
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police - A Tale of the Macleod Trail - Ralph Connor
- Author: Ralph Connor
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Christian Fiction
Cameron, a young man from Edinburgh, is a university student who is a rising star on the football team. When the big day comes and he nearly fails his team, he doubts he'll ever be good for anything ever again. Things soon take a turn downward and...
The Northern Spy - J. Thomas Warren
The Northern Spy - J. Thomas Warren
- Author: J. Thomas Warren
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
The Northern Spy, written in the 1800s, is a lively story about a Union soldier who infiltrates a Confederate battalion in order to aid in the conquering of South Carolina. The novel was very popular, so much so that allegedly Northern Spy apples...
Don, a Runaway Dog: His Many Adventures (Version 2) - Richard Barnum
Don, a Runaway Dog: His Many Adventures (Version 2) - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Don is a dog with a yearning for adventure. After he escapes from home, he makes new friends and has a run-in with the dog-catcher, but he perseveres before finding his proper place in the world. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895) - Oscar Wilde
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2 (1890-1895) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This second collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes letters written when the Irish playwright was at the height of his success. Wilde defends several of his works from criticism and even censorship, and writes "prose poems" to his...
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 3: The Man in the Iron Mask (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
The d'Artagnan Romances, Vol 3, Part 3: The Man in the Iron Mask (version 2) - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Historical Fiction
Volume 3 of The d'Artagnan Romances is divided into three parts. In this, the final part, d’Artagnan’s fortune is near its height; having become the illustrious Captain of the Musketeers, he is now the chief defender of King Louis XIV. Fortune has...
Duty - Ellen Sturgis Hooper
Duty - Ellen Sturgis Hooper
- Author: Ellen Sturgis Hooper
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 25 recordings of Duty by Ellen Sturgis Hooper. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 4, 2020. ------ Ellen Sturgis Hooper was an American poet. A member of the Transcendental Club, she was widely regarded as...
Dracula (version 5) - Bram Stoker
Dracula (version 5) - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
Dracula as written by Bram Stoker in 1897 was not the first depiction of vampires and other such creatures, Gothic horror stories had been around since the early part of the century. The story related by Bram Stoker is told in an epistolary fashion...
A Mummer's Wife - George Moore
A Mummer's Wife - George Moore
- Author: George Moore
- Genre: Romance
Kate is a dress maker in the north of England who always did what was decided for her: serving those who come her way, marrying a man who is considered suitable, and living all her life "over the hills" she wants so desperately to cross. Until she...
Lucretia Borgia - Ferdinand Gregorovius
Lucretia Borgia - Ferdinand Gregorovius
- Author: Ferdinand Gregorovius
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day. Lucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this because she was guilty of the most hideous crimes, or is it simply because she has been unjustly condemned by the...
Born to Serve - Charles Monroe SHELDON
Born to Serve - Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Author: Charles Monroe SHELDON
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Despite a college education and a good family name, Barbara cannot get the teaching job she needs to help her mother and herself through some hard years. When she sees a need for a hired girl in her community, Barbara makes the unthinkable choice of...
The Poems of James Hebblethwaite - James Hebblethwaite
The Poems of James Hebblethwaite - James Hebblethwaite
- Author: James Hebblethwaite
- Genre: Single author
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a man of charming personality. Apparently immersed in a world of dreams, he never allowed himself to neglect...
The Man to Be - Edgar A. GUEST
The Man to Be - Edgar A. GUEST
- Author: Edgar A. GUEST
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Man to Be by Edgar A. Guest. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for June 14, 2020. ------ A tribute to Fathers contemplating the future of their children. - Summary by David Lawrence...
The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's Camp - Thornton W. Burgess
The Boy Scouts in a Trapper's Camp - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Action & Adventure
We are brought on a couple of adventures with Walter Upton and his Boy Scout friends, this time in Winter. In The Boy Scouts in a Trappers' Camp, the boys learn a whole new set of skills and have to show their greatest level of bravery yet. This is...
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 23, August, 1921 - W. H. Fawcett
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 2, No. 23, August, 1921 - W. H. Fawcett
- Author: W. H. Fawcett
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of American wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue is packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead...
The Ripest Peach - James Whitcomb Riley
The Ripest Peach - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Ripest Peach by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for July 12, 2020. ------ James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he...
Laramie Holds The Range - Frank H. SPEARMAN
Laramie Holds The Range - Frank H. SPEARMAN
- Author: Frank H. SPEARMAN
- Genre: Westerns
As with most of Frank Spearman's novels (and non-fiction), "Laramie Holds the Range" is set in the West during our early railroad days. He used the best of the illustrators of the day, such as N.C. Wyeth. Occasionally, a character would appear in...
Essays on Art - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Essays on Art - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Genre: Plays / Art / Design & Architecture / Essays & Short Works
Essays on art, letters, thoughts, aphorisms - Goethe's thoughts were dealing with artworks of every branch of arts. He addressed many aspects of the artistic process and described his impressions of works of arts - and even dilettantism - in his...
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards - Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
Women's Wild Oats: Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards - Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
- Author: Catherine Gasquoine Hartley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
A resounding and, for the times, outrageous look at restructuring British society using the first world war as trigger for changing the place of women in the workplace and their homes, right down to their relations with their children. These essays...
Thunder In The Garden - William Morris
Thunder In The Garden - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Thunder In The Garden by William Morris. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 26, 2021. ------ William Morris was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, translator and...
Life and Writings of Addison - Thomas Babington Macaulay
Life and Writings of Addison - Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism / Political Science
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) was an English essayist, poet, playwright, and Whig politician. Today he is most famous for his contributions, with Richard Steele, to the "The Spectator" magazine. In this essay, Macaulay portrays the life and work of...
Will Warburton - George Gissing
Will Warburton - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Published two years after Gissing's death, this novel tells the story of Will Warburton. Will loses his money in a failed business venture and has to come to terms with his new job as a grocer. This is a book about acceptance, love, and, of course,...
The Quest of the Golden Girl - Richard le Gallienne
The Quest of the Golden Girl - Richard le Gallienne
- Author: Richard le Gallienne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction
The main character fears that he will never get married and performs a long pilgrimage whose goal is the perfect companion, the girl God meant for him. On the way he meets many people and encounters many interesting situations till, finally...
Two Pastorals: an Heroic and a Comic - Molière
Two Pastorals: an Heroic and a Comic - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Comedy
Moliere, on the way to the Ballet of the Muses, a court festival, started to write a new Heroic Pastoral. "He chose for his subject a similar one to the history of Florizel and Perdita in Shakespeare's Winter's Tale…. The charm of his writing, the...
The Kobzar of the Ukraine - Taras Shevchenko
The Kobzar of the Ukraine - Taras Shevchenko
- Author: Taras Shevchenko
- Genre: Single author
In these poems speaks the struggling soul of a downtrodden people. To our western folk, reared in happier surroundings there is a bitter tang about some of them, somewhat like the taste of olives, to which one must grow accustomed . The Slavonic...
Ingersoll on The HOLY BIBLE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 9 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll on The HOLY BIBLE, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 9 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: Bibles
Ingersoll is known as "the greatest infidel" of the 19th century. Steeped in religion as a child by his Baptist preacher father, he eventually came to rail against the hypocricy, judgment, hatred and fear he observed in his fellow Christians, and...
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 02 November 1896 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 02 November 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. This...
The Empresses of Rome - Joseph Martin McCabe
The Empresses of Rome - Joseph Martin McCabe
- Author: Joseph Martin McCabe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
The story of Imperial Rome has been told frequently and impressively in our literature, and few chapters in the long chronicle of man’s deeds and failures have a more dramatic quality. The fresh aspect of this familiar story which I propose to...
The Perjur'd Husband, or The Adventures of Venice - Susanna Centlivre
The Perjur'd Husband, or The Adventures of Venice - Susanna Centlivre
- Author: Susanna Centlivre
- Genre: Tragedy
Centlivre's first play: a tragedy. Star-crossed lovers, one married and the other betrothed elsewhere. Secret letters gone astray, gender changing disguises, climax at masked ball. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Count Bassino, a Savoyard, married to...
Blackie, A Lost Cat - Richard Barnum
Blackie, A Lost Cat - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Blackie is a coal black cat who lives with two children and their parents. One day she is led astray by a neighboring cat and decides to go for an adventure. Not knowing what to expect, she walks away from her cushion in the sun, plentiful food and...
Great Epochs in American History, Volume III - Francis Whiting Halsey
Great Epochs in American History, Volume III - Francis Whiting Halsey
- Author: Francis Whiting Halsey
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is the third volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the building of the Panama Canal. In large part, events composing each epoch are described by men who participated in...
Coffee Break Collection 031 - Springtime - Various
Coffee Break Collection 031 - Springtime - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the 31st Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read 20 stories or poems of their choice, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject...
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories - Ralph Adams Cram
Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories - Ralph Adams Cram
- Author: Ralph Adams Cram
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of six ghostly tales by Ralph Adams Cram, ranging from the demonic to the deeply sad. Gruesome apparitions, oppressive atmosphere, and throughout it all, a profound appreciation for the haunting beauty of Europe through the eyes of an...
Maud, and Other Poems (Version 2) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maud, and Other Poems (Version 2) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Single author
Surely everyone knows “Maud”? Isn’t that the Victorian love song, where the man waits by the garden gate for his lover to appear for a secret rendezvous? Well, that may be the song, but Tennyson’s poem is longer and very much darker. It deals not...
Fragment of an Ode to Maia - John Keats
Fragment of an Ode to Maia - John Keats
- Author: John Keats
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Fragment Of An Ode To Maia by John Keats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 7, 2021. ------ This Weekly Poem is taken from The Poetical Works Of John Keats (1817) - Summary by David...
