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Canada, My Land - William Mackay MacKeracher
Canada, My Land - William Mackay MacKeracher
- Author: William Mackay MacKeracher
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
W. M. MacKeracher was a Canadian poet. This poem celebrating Canada's 150th year of Confederation is taken from Canada, My Land; and Other Compositions in Verse by William M. MacKeracher. - Summary by David Lawrence...
An Address to Free Colored Americans - An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
An Address to Free Colored Americans - An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
- Author: An Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
The first Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women met in New York City in May, 1837. Members at the Convention came from all walks of life and included such prominent women as Mary Parker, Lucretia Mott, the Grimke sisters, and Lydia Maria Child....
Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 3, March 1902 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 3, March 1902 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
Margaret of Anjou - Jacob Abbott
Margaret of Anjou - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Margaret of Anjou, wife of England’s Henry VI, played a key role in launching the storied War of the Roses – the 30-year civil conflict fuelled by the Lancasters and the Yorks, each vying for the British throne in the 15th century....
Historical Tales, Vol III: Spanish American - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Vol III: Spanish American - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: Children's Non-fiction / History / Early Modern
Volume III of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This third volume covers the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the countries of South America, describing history...
The Insect Folk - Margaret Warner Morley
The Insect Folk - Margaret Warner Morley
- Author: Margaret Warner Morley
- Genre: Children's Fiction / *Non-fiction / Science
Through delightful outings with her students, a teacher introduces her class to the fascinating world of insects. She encourages her students to observe and ask questions. This is a wonderful science text for young children. (Summary by Laura...
Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls - Pansy
Mag and Margaret: A Story for Girls - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Religion / Christian Fiction
Little Mag Jessup is an orphan girl who works hard as a servant in Mrs. Perkins' boarding house to earn her keep. She has no education, except what she has picked up on her own. Her future looks unchanging until she is given, on a whim, a devotional...
Barnaby Rudge (version 2) - Charles Dickens
Barnaby Rudge (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Historical Fiction
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins in 1775 with Barnaby, his Mother, and his talking Raven Grip, fleeing their home from a blackmailer, and going...
Sammie and Susie Littletail - Howard R. Garis
Sammie and Susie Littletail - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Once upon a time there lived in a small house built underneath the ground two curious little folk, with their father, their mother, their uncle and Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy. Jane Fuzzy-Wuzzy was the nurse, hired girl and cook, all in one, and the reason she...
The Bible in Its Making - Mildred Duff
The Bible in Its Making - Mildred Duff
- Author: Mildred Duff
- Genre: History / Christianity - Other
One great universal law runs through the realm of nature. Our Saviour gave it in a sentence: 'First the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.' It is with the desire to show that the same law rules in another of God's...
To...With all my soul - Thomas Moore
To...With all my soul - Thomas Moore
- Author: Thomas Moore
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of To...:"With all my soul, then, let us part" by Thomas Moore. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 16th, 2010....
Hedda Gabler (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler (version 2) - Henrik Ibsen
- Author: Henrik Ibsen
- Genre: Tragedy
Hedda Gabler has just returned from her honeymoon. She has married out of ennui, and is already heartily sick of her husband, who is a plodding, pedantic academic. Upon moving into her new Christiania home, she soon discovers that Thea Elvsted, an...
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World - William Ross Wallace
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World - William Ross Wallace
- Author: William Ross Wallace
- Genre: Poetry
For Mother’s Day 2006, we’ve recorded five versions of this tribute to Mothers and their role in shaping the future. The title is very famous out of its context, but now you can hear how it was originally intended....
A Traveller’s Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
A Traveller’s Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb - Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Author: Abdu’l-Bahá ‘Abbás
- Genre: Other religions
“This book is the history of a proscribed and persecuted sect written by one of themselves,” writes Professor Edward Granville Browne, the Cambridge Orientalist who translated this narrative. “After suffering in silence for nigh upon half a century,...
A Jewish State - Theodor Herzl
A Jewish State - Theodor Herzl
- Author: Theodor Herzl
- Genre: Political Science
Read in English, this is a pivotal document in the history of Zionism and the State of Israel. Herzl designed this work to elevate the discussion of "the Jewish Question" so it would "no longer take the form of violent abuse or sentimental...
Poetry Of 'The Double Dealer', January-December 1922 - Various
Poetry Of 'The Double Dealer', January-December 1922 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
117 poems from the January - December 1922 issues of New Orleans-based literary magazine, The Double Dealer, edited by Julius Weis Friend. Some are famous (John Gould Fletcher, Maxwell Bodenheim, Arthur Symons, Muna Lee, Martha Banning Thomas, Oscar...
Short Story Collection Vol. 018 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 018 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
Librivox’s Short Story Collection 018: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
With the Turks in Palestine - Alexander Aaronsohn
With the Turks in Palestine - Alexander Aaronsohn
- Author: Alexander Aaronsohn
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
While Belgium is bleeding and hoping, while Poland suffers and dreams of liberation, while Serbia is waiting for redemption, there is a little country the soul of which is torn to pieces—a little country that is so remote, so remote that her ardent...
The Millionaire Baby - Anna Katharine Green
The Millionaire Baby - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A reward of five thousand dollars is offered, by Phil Ocumpaugh, to whoever will give such information as will lead to the recovery, alive or dead, of his six-year-old daughter, Gwendolen, missing since the afternoon of August the 16th, from her...
Heidi (version 2 dramatic reading) - Johanna Spyri
Heidi (version 2 dramatic reading) - Johanna Spyri
- Author: Johanna Spyri
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Dramatic Readings
"Heidi" takes us on a journey to the eventful childhood of a good-hearted girl from the Swiss Alps. A warm and loving story, full of touching moments, it reaches children and adults alike. It was written in 1880 and published in two parts:1. Heidi's...
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters - Laurence Housman
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters - Laurence Housman
- Author: Laurence Housman
- Genre: Family & Relationships
It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under circumstances which the writer herself would have...
1914, and Other Poems - Rupert Brooke
1914, and Other Poems - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems "1914", written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in Greece. The poems he wrote...
The Border Legion - Zane Grey
The Border Legion - Zane Grey
- Author: Zane Grey
- Genre: General Fiction / Westerns
The story of a cold hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has taken captive near the Idaho border. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
Infelicia - Adah Isaacs Menken
Infelicia - Adah Isaacs Menken
- Author: Adah Isaacs Menken
- Genre: Single author
Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous as an actress, successfully navigated press scandals about her private life and wrote poetry. This volume...
Bible (ASV) 07: Judges - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) 07: Judges - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
"The Book of Judges (Hebrew: Sefer Shoftim) is a book of the Bible originally written in Hebrew. It appears in the Tanakh and in the Christian Old Testament. Its title refers to its contents; it contains the history of Biblical judges (not to be...
East by West, Vol. 1 - Sir Henry W. Lucy
East by West, Vol. 1 - Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Author: Sir Henry W. Lucy
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Modern (19th C)
East by West: a Journey in the Recess is an account of British journalist Henry Lucy's travels across America and on to the Far East during the parliamentary recess in 1883. Lucy was one of the most influential journalists of his day and, as "Toby...
The Faerie Queene Books 6 & 7 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Books 6 & 7 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
'The Sixth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of S, Calidore or of Cvrtesie.' Apart from Books 1-6, the only surviving section of the Faerie Queene is a short isolated fragment known as the Mutabilitie Cantos (traditionally numbered...
The Story of Books - Gertrude Burford Rawlings
The Story of Books - Gertrude Burford Rawlings
- Author: Gertrude Burford Rawlings
- Genre: History / Technology & Engineering
Rawlings follows the development of printing from the origins of writing to modern printing. Some of the earliest records are ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman recordings on papyrus and wax tablets. However, Rawlings acknowledges the sparse nature...
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: General Fiction / Poetry / Satire
The work was composed between 1790 and 1793, in the period of radical foment and political conflict immediately after the French Revolution. The title is an ironic reference to Emanuel Swedenborg's theological work Heaven and Hell published in Latin...
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading) - Myrtle Reed
A Spinner in the Sun (version 2 dramatic reading) - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Dramatic Readings / Romance
Myrtle Reed may always be depended upon to write a story in which poetry, charm, tenderness and humor are combined into a clever and entertaining book. Her characters are delightful and she always displays a quaint humor of expression and a quiet...
The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems - Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
The Kings and Queens of England with Other Poems - Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
- Author: Mary Ann H. T. Bigelow
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Mary Ann Bigelow, who turned her historical research into a poem in "the Kings and Queens of England". This volume also contains a number of her other poems, especially acrostics, many of which are dedicated to friends...
The Bear Family at Home - Curtis D. Wilbur
The Bear Family at Home - Curtis D. Wilbur
- Author: Curtis D. Wilbur
- Genre: Animals & Nature
THE BEAR FAMILY AT HOME -And How the Circus Came to Visit ThemOnce a little cub bear was caught in a big log trap, and taken on a train to a circus. He lived in the circus a long, long while, and every day a great many people came to see the bear,...
Vagabond Adventures - Ralph Keeler
Vagabond Adventures - Ralph Keeler
- Author: Ralph Keeler
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History / Humor
Ralph Keeler failed as a novelist, but this autobiography reflects a life well-lived with humor and adventure. Keeler was in the same literary circle as satirist Bret Harte, novelist Charles Warren Stoddard, editor Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and...
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End - Norman Duncan
Christmas Eve At Swamp's End - Norman Duncan
- Author: Norman Duncan
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Four selected chapters from The Measure Of A Man; A Tale of the Big Woods, by Norman Duncan. What could be more Christmasy than: Babies, especially a homeless one; a woman who loves; a man who protects; a cold night; glittering stars; poor...
Philebus - Plato
Philebus - Plato
- Author: Plato
- Genre: Ancient
Philebus (ΦΙΛΗΒΟΣ) discusses pleasure, wisdom, soul and God. (Summary by Geoffrey Edwards)...
Pastiche and Prejudice - Arthur Bingham Walkley
Pastiche and Prejudice - Arthur Bingham Walkley
- Author: Arthur Bingham Walkley
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
Arthur Bingham Walkley was an exceedingly popular critic, working as a drama critic at The Times alone for no less than 26 years, and writing for several other newspapers and privately besides that. This book of pastiches was completed after he...
The Twelve Months - George ELLIS
The Twelve Months - George ELLIS
- Author: George ELLIS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of The Twelve Months by George Ellis. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 24th, 2010....
The Bronze Hand - Anna Katharine Green
The Bronze Hand - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A political society secretly operates in Baltimore. When he tries to help his beautiful neighbor Miss Calhoun recover a stolen ring which might cause great unknown danger, Mr. Abbott is drawn into the midst of the conspiracy. (Introduction by...
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen
The Theory of the Leisure Class - Thorstein Veblen
- Author: Thorstein Veblen
- Genre: Business & Economics
Originally published by the Norwegian-American economist Thorstein Veblen while he was a professor at the University of Chicago in 1898, the Theory of the Leisure Class is considered one of the great works of economics as well as the first detailed...
The Communist Manifesto (version 2) - Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto (version 2) - Friedrich Engels
- Author: Friedrich Engels
- Genre: Political Science
The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European Powers were universally afraid of the nascent movement, and were condemning as "communist," people or...
