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At the Closed Gate of Justice - James David Corrothers
At the Closed Gate of Justice - James David Corrothers
- Author: James David Corrothers
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 6 recordings of At the Closed Gate of Justice by James David Corrothers. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 16, 2020. ------ Continuing with our February Black History Month theme, this Weekly Poem is from...
Heautontimorumenos; the Self-Tormentor - TERENCE
Heautontimorumenos; the Self-Tormentor - TERENCE
- Author: TERENCE
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
Terence's six plays are comedies written while he was a slave to a Roman senator. In this one, a severe father compels his son Clinia, in love with Antiphila, to go abroad to the wars; and repenting of what has been done, torments himself in mind. -...
The Uttermost Star, and Other Gleams of Fancy - Frank W. Boreham
The Uttermost Star, and Other Gleams of Fancy - Frank W. Boreham
- Author: Frank W. Boreham
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of editorials during his lifetime, with no sign of slowing down, even up until his death at age 88. He wrote with a...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 24 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 24 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: 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....
The Age of the Condottieri: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530 - Oscar Browning
The Age of the Condottieri: A Short History of Mediaeval Italy from 1409-1530 - Oscar Browning
- Author: Oscar Browning
- Genre: War & Military / Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
Italy from 1409 to 1530 is synonymous with the Renaissance, but this was also the age of the condottieri, Italian captains of mercenary companies and multinational armies who fought in the service of city states, monarchs, and the Pope. Some like...
Gold In The Sky - Alan Edward NOURSE
Gold In The Sky - Alan Edward NOURSE
- Author: Alan Edward NOURSE
- Genre: Science Fiction
Discover the betrayal, murder, fortunes made and lost by miners in Mars's asteroid belt. - Summary by kirk202...
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897) - Oscar Wilde
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 3 (1895-1897) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This third collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote from prison. It begins with notes of thanks to the friends who stood by him after his arrest, and ends with discussions of his plans for after his release....
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States - Robert Dale Owen
The Wrong of Slavery, the Right of Emancipation, and the Future of the African Race in the United States - Robert Dale Owen
- Author: Robert Dale Owen
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
"The Wrong of Slavery" is a work written by Robert Dale Owen based largely off of the work of the Freedmen's Inquiry Commission where he served. It traces the early beginnings of the slave trade from its English beginning to the United States Civil...
Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district - Thomas Gray
Wild and romantic: Early guides to the English lake district - Thomas Gray
- Author: Thomas Gray
- Genre: Travel & Geography
A collection of some of the most significant literary work on the English Lake District prior to Thomas West’s A guide to the Lakes (1778). The poet Thomas Gray takes the reader from Brough south to Kendal on his return from a tour in Scotland. An...
The Natural History Volume 6 - Pliny the Elder
The Natural History Volume 6 - Pliny the Elder
- Author: Pliny the Elder
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Medical / Nature
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of...
Heart of Darkness (version 4) - Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (version 4) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small group of friends about a profoundly disturbing episode in his life where he was employed by a large...
Short Poetry Collection 219 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 219 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 40 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2021....
The Omnipotent Self - Paul Bousfield
The Omnipotent Self - Paul Bousfield
- Author: Paul Bousfield
- Genre: Psychology / Self-Help
“Nature has granted to all to be happy if we but knew how to use her gifts.”—Claudius. Often we feel "down" or "low", without being clinically depressed or seeking the aid of a doctor. This is a study, in layman's terms, of the causes and effects of...
St. Clair's Defeat 1791 - Anonymous
St. Clair's Defeat 1791 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: War & Military / History
St. Clair's defeat was a battle fought between the United States and the Western Confederacy of Native Americans on November 4, 1791, during the Northwest Indian War. Out of a US force of roughly 1000 men and officers, only 24 escaped unharmed. It...
Venus and Adonis (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Narratives
Both Ovid and Spenser also treat this ancient myth, but Spenser alters the ending, converting the tale into an archetype of fulfilled love, whereas Ovid, like Shakespeare, combines humor with pathos as a buffer against sentimentality. Ovid’s Venus...
Hypatia - John TOLAND
Hypatia - John TOLAND
- Author: John TOLAND
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Hypatia is John Toland's biography of the one he calls "a most beautiful, most vertuous, most learned, and every way accomplish’d lady, who was torn to pieces by the clergy of Alexandria, to gratify the pride, emulation, and cruelty of their...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Version 8) - Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Version 8) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
In this classic novel, a young girl named Alice chases after a white rabbit down a rabbit hole. She discovers a place that rejects traditional reason, and only follows its own mad logic. Join Alice as she meets iconic characters like The Mad Hatter...
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
The Science - History of the Universe Vol. 6: Zoology & Botany - Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Author: Francis ROLT-WHEELER
- Genre: Animals / Nature / Life Sciences
Multi-volume work on science edited by Francis Rolt-Wheeler. The sixth volume is on Zoology written by Dr. WM. D. Matthew and on Botany written by Marion E. Latham. The section on Zoology examines the development, evolution and distribution of...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 044 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 044 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder. You...
Coffee Break Collection 025 - Water - Various
Coffee Break Collection 025 - Water - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the twenty-fifth Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select English language public domain works of about 15 minutes or less in duration -- perfect to listen to during commutes, workouts or coffee breaks. The topic for this...
Mrs. Dalloway (Version 2) - Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway (Version 2) - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Clarissa Dalloway is having a party. Join her and a web of connections in exploring London, their memories and their innermost thoughts and feelings. This novel explores relationships, mental health, nostalgia, regret, and the multitude of reasons...
The Way of Peace (version 3) - James Allen
The Way of Peace (version 3) - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Self-Help
‘The Way of Peace’ is the second part of James Allen’s first published work titled ‘From Poverty to Power’ alternatively titled ‘The Realization of Prosperity and Peace’ (1901). Where part one focused more on the power an individual possesses over...
After-Glow - Susan Coolidge
After-Glow - Susan Coolidge
- Author: Susan Coolidge
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of After-Glow by Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey). This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 25, 2021. ------ Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (January 29, 1835 – April 9, 1905) was an American...
The Art of Worldly Wisdom - Baltasar Gracián
The Art of Worldly Wisdom - Baltasar Gracián
- Author: Baltasar Gracián
- Genre: Early Modern
300 short maxims by Spanish Jesuit Baltasar Gracian (1601-1658). The advice is still useful and insightful for our modern world. Gracian was considered one of the most interesting philosophers by both Nietzsche und Schopenhauer, and the latter...
Wind Of The Sea - James Whitcomb Riley
Wind Of The Sea - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Wind Of The Sea by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 31, 2021. ------ James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime...
Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918 - Francis Edward Tourscher
Work Of The Sisters During The Epidemic Of Influenza October, 1918 - Francis Edward Tourscher
- Author: Francis Edward Tourscher
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Medical / Modern (20th C)
In 1918 over 2,000 Roman Catholic nuns left their convents in the Philadelphia area to nurse the sick and dying of the influenza epidemic. Twenty-three of the sisters died because of their ministrations. This is an account of their heroic work...
The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug (Version 2) - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Mrs. Ladybug (Version 2) - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
"Little Mrs. Ladybug was a worker. Nobody could deny that. To be sure, she had to stop now and then to talk to her neighbors, because Mrs. Ladybug dearly loved a bit of gossip. At the same time there wasn't anyone in Pleasant Valley that helped...
The Castaways of the Flag - Jules Verne
The Castaways of the Flag - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Readers of the present book who have not read that named above—though all should read it as well as this—will have no difficulty in joining the story of the castaways to “The Swiss Family Robinson” with the help of the brief sketch of its contents...
The Cat's Paw - Natalie Sumner LINCOLN
The Cat's Paw - Natalie Sumner LINCOLN
- Author: Natalie Sumner LINCOLN
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Susan Baird is found dead at her tea-table and all the evidence points to murder. She is supposed to have been penniless but when her will is found her niece Kitty inherits a fortune. Grave suspicion shifts from one person to another and the two...
G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1920 - G. K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - November 1919 to April 1920 - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign of the World's End". This project compiles the articles included in the issues between November 21, 1919 to April 30, 1920....
Anglo-American Memories - George Washburn Smalley
Anglo-American Memories - George Washburn Smalley
- Author: George Washburn Smalley
- Genre: Memoirs / Essays
“These Memories [1911] were written in the first instance for Americans and have appeared week by week each Sunday in the New York Tribune…. they are mainly concerned with men of exceptional mark and position in America and Europe whom I have met,...
Pee-Wee Harris Adrift - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
Pee-Wee Harris Adrift - Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Author: Percy Keese Fitzhugh
- Genre: Action & Adventure
That lovable Boy Scout, Pee-Wee Harris, is back for another adventure, this time on the water. Somehow, he always manages to find the snacks necessary for him to land on his feet. - Summary by Lynne Thompson...
The Chronicles of America Volume 14 - Washington and His Colleagues - Henry Jones Ford
The Chronicles of America Volume 14 - Washington and His Colleagues - Henry Jones Ford
- Author: Henry Jones Ford
- Genre: History / Law / Political Science
This next volume of the Chronicles of American series investigates Washington's development in the day to day world the various dimensions of the newly conceived Federal government with a president, a congress, a supreme court, a cabinet (his own...
Her Hair - James Whitcomb Riley
Her Hair - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Her Hair by James Whitcomb Riley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 10, 2021. ------ This Weekly poem was taken from Riley Love Lyrics by James Whitcomb Riley. - Summary by David Lawrence...
There and Back - George MacDonald
There and Back - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
An unscrupulous baronet is left a widower and couldn't care less what happens to his ugly newborn heir. But when an icy stepmother moves in and the child is stolen away by his loving nurse, what can unfold but a riveting account of the years of...
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office - Hugh Lofting
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office is the exciting third in the series of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. As usual, the Doctor has many adventures while helping his animal friends and the people he meets. At the start book, Doctor Dolittle gets...
The Variable Man (Version 2) - Philip K. DICK
The Variable Man (Version 2) - Philip K. DICK
- Author: Philip K. DICK
- Genre: Science Fiction
Philip K. Dick wrote some great Science Fiction and here is an example. Published in 1953, in Space Science Fiction, t his story explores an earth that is rigidly bound both by centuries of single minded focus on war, and on what happens when humans...
Alexander the Great - Jean Racine
Alexander the Great - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Drama
Racine caused furour in the French theater community with his second play, Alexander the Great, when "The sensitive poet seems to have been disgusted by the manner in which it was being acted; for, a fortnight after it had been put on the boards at...
A Change of Air - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
A Change of Air - Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Author: Katharine Fullerton Gerould
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Anyone can make a will by which his possessions are divided after his death but Cordelia Wheaton was ahead of the game for she willed away her fortune, leaving herself just enough to live comfortably on, in middle life. Mrs. Gerould takes this...
The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829 - Richard B. Morris
The Jeffersonians, 1801-1829 - Richard B. Morris
- Author: Richard B. Morris
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
In this short (58 page) work, Morris and Woodress present a selection of fascinating source materials to survey key events which occurred during the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and John Quincy Adams. As the authors state in their...
