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Thou Shalt Not Kill - G. K. Chesterton


Thou Shalt Not Kill - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Thou Shalt Not Kill by G. K. Chesterton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 25, 2018. ------ This Weekly Poem is taken from The Wild Knight and Other Poems by G. K. Chesterton - Summary by...
Wage-Labour and Capital - Karl MARX


Wage-Labour and Capital - Karl MARX
- Author: Karl MARX
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Political Science
Orignally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labour and Capital was intended to give an overview of Marx’s central threories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include...
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024 - Various


Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 024 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of short nonfiction works in the public domain. The selections included in this collection were independently chosen by the readers, and the topics encompass gardening, military history, humor, climate change, travel and religion....
Whittington and his Cat - E. L. BLANCHARD


Whittington and his Cat - E. L. BLANCHARD
- Author: E. L. BLANCHARD
- Genre: Comedy
Whittington and his Cat, or Harlequin Lord Mayor of London was the 26th Grand Comic Christmas Annual, written by E. L. Blanchard for performance at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London in 1875. Pantomimes are a favourite Christmas entertainment in...
The Sign of the Cross in the Nineteenth Century - Jean-Joseph GAUME


The Sign of the Cross in the Nineteenth Century - Jean-Joseph GAUME
- Author: Jean-Joseph GAUME
- Genre: History / Christianity - Other
A book that examines the sign of the Cross made by Christians since the primitive church up until the 19th century. It looks at stories of miracles and the writings of the father to impress upon the reader the need to make the sign of the cross...
Tales of a Wayside Inn - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Tales of a Wayside Inn - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Poetry
Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles. (Summary by Peter Yearsley)...
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 04 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee


A Popular History of Ireland, Book 04 - Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Author: Thomas D'Arcy McGee
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassing twelve books; Book 4 begins with the first Norman invasion of the island and continues to the end of the...
The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II - François-René de Chateaubriand


The Memoirs of Chateaubriand Volume II - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Memoirs
Volume II of Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Tomb, translated by Teixeira de Mattos. This volume covers the period from his return to France to fight, reluctantly, for the King, his early literary successes with many portraits of the great...
The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain


The Mysterious Stranger and Other Stories - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
Here's a Mark Twain story that's very unlike those he became famous for, but when I read it back in Catholic high school, it left a deep impression. It concerns the deeply religious residents of a small village in Austria during the late sixteenth...
A Room with a View (version 3 dramatic reading) - E. M. Forster


A Room with a View (version 3 dramatic reading) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Romance
A Room with a View is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the repressed culture of Edwardian era England. Set in Italy and England, the story is both a romance and a critique of English society at the beginning of...
The Gray Plague - Lloyd ESHBACH


The Gray Plague - Lloyd ESHBACH
- Author: Lloyd ESHBACH
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Science Fiction
End of the world sci-fi tale borrows heavily from H.G. Wells' WOTW and In The Days of the Comet -- looks like fun ! ( Summary by BellonaTimes )...
Principia Ethica - George Edward MOORE


Principia Ethica - George Edward MOORE
- Author: George Edward MOORE
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
George Edward Moore, usually known as G. E. Moore, (1873 – 1958) was a distinguished and influential English philosopher. He was, with Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and (before them) Gottlob Frege, one of the founders of the analytic...
The Moors in Spain - Stanley LANE-POOLE


The Moors in Spain - Stanley LANE-POOLE
- Author: Stanley LANE-POOLE
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
“The history of Spain offers us a melancholy contrast. Twelve hundred years ago, Tarik the Moor added the land of the Visigoths to the long catalogue of kingdoms subdued by the Moslems. For nearly eight centuries, under her Mohammedan rulers, Spain...
Autumn Fires - Robert Louis Stevenson


Autumn Fires - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 readings of Autumn Fires, from Robert Louis Stevenson's classic A Child's Garden of Verses. This was the weekly poetry project for October 18-24, 2015....
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade - Herman Melville


The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade - Herman Melville
- Author: Herman Melville
- Genre: General Fiction / Satire
The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade was the last major novel by Herman Melville, the American writer and author of Moby-Dick. Published on April 1, 1857 (presumably the exact day of the novel's setting), The Confidence-Man was Melville's tenth major...
The Country House - John Galsworthy


The Country House - John Galsworthy
- Author: John Galsworthy
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In “The Country House”, John Galsworthy explores many of the themes he would later expand upon in his better known, nine-novel, “The Forsyth Saga”. This is a novel of English society as 1900 approaches. A divorce is being threatened in the Pendyce...
Physiology of the Opera - John H. SWABY


Physiology of the Opera - John H. SWABY
- Author: John H. SWABY
- Genre: Music
Trust Scrici for a tell all, no holds barred exposé of the modern opera . . . well, modern as of . . . er . . . say, 1852. (Summary by MaryAnn)...
The Pulley - George Herbert


The Pulley - George Herbert
- Author: George Herbert
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 different recordings of The Pulley by George Herbert. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of June 15th, 2008....
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus - Lady Mary WROTH


Pamphilia to Amphilanthus - Lady Mary WROTH
- Author: Lady Mary WROTH
- Genre: Sonnets
Pamphilia to Amphilanthus is the first sonnet sequence written by an Englishwoman. Published in 1621, the poems invert the usual format of sonnet sequences by making the speaker a woman (Pamphilia, whose name means "all-loving") and the beloved a...
Emily Dickinson on Death - Emily Dickinson


Emily Dickinson on Death - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Poetry / Single author / Letters
Emily Dickinson is one of the most intriguing of American poets. Since she grew increasingly reclusive, very few of her poems were published until after her death. This collection includes two letters Dickinson wrote to her friends on the occasion...