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Short Science Fiction Collection 084 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 084 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 11, Mar. 16, 1881 - Various
The American Bee Journal. Vol. XVII, No. 11, Mar. 16, 1881 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Business & Economics / Crafts & Hobbies
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...
Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66 - Martyn Johnson
Editorials from The Dial magazine, Volume 66 - Martyn Johnson
- Author: Martyn Johnson
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Editorials published in Volume 66 of The Dial magazine, a fortnightly political and literary review. The source available to us features issues from January 11 to June 28, 1919. This volume illustrates the pacifist and socialist viewpoint of Martyn...
Birds, Vol. III, No 6, June 1898 - Various
Birds, Vol. III, No 6, June 1898 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry / Nature
] Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published...
The Garden of Kama - Laurence Hope
The Garden of Kama - Laurence Hope
- Author: Laurence Hope
- Genre: Erotica / Single author / Lyric
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This collection, her first, was originally published in 1901. (summary by Newgatenovelist)...
Coffee Break Collection 029 - Dogs - Various
Coffee Break Collection 029 - Dogs - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Essays & Short Works
This is the 29th Coffee Break Collection, in which Librivox readers select and read stories or poems, fiction or non-fiction pieces of fifteen minutes' duration or less, suitable for short commutes and coffee breaks. The subject for this collection...
Ingersoll on WALT WHITMAN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 5 - Robert G. Ingersoll
Ingersoll on WALT WHITMAN, from the Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume 3, Lecture 5 - Robert G. Ingersoll
- Author: Robert G. Ingersoll
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Col. Ingersoll begins his lectures on famous people as follows: "It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius. Take from our world what they have given, and all the niches would be empty, all the walls naked—meaning and...
The Rover - Joseph Conrad
The Rover - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This is Joseph Conrad's last novel. Citizen Peyrol returns to his native France against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. The arrival of young Lieutenant Real necessitates another mission of danger, patriotism and heroism from Peyrol. Summary by...
The Frozen Pirate (version 2) - William Clark Russell
The Frozen Pirate (version 2) - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Drawing on his own experience as a merchant seaman, Russell gives us the fictionalized narrative of one Paul Rodney who found an icebound vessel in the South Atlantic, while captaining a pirate ship. Russell has been hailed as the pre-eminent...
My Actor-Husband - Anonymous
My Actor-Husband - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
In presenting this autobiography to the public, the author feels it incumbent upon herself to impress upon her readers the fidelity and strict adherence to the truth, relative to the conditions which surround the player. In no instance has there...
Witch of the Demon Seas - Poul William Anderson
Witch of the Demon Seas - Poul William Anderson
- Author: Poul William Anderson
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
"Guide a black galleon to the lost, fear-hauntedCitadel of the Xanthi wizards—into the very jaws of Doom? Corun, condemned pirate of Conahur, laughed. Aye, he'd do it, and gladly.It would mean a reprieve from the headsman's axe—a few more precious...
Flowers of Freethought (First Series) - George William FOOTE
Flowers of Freethought (First Series) - George William FOOTE
- Author: George William FOOTE
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Atheism & Agnosticism
A collection of 51 short essays by George William Foote, who in May 1881 founded the magazine "The Freethinker", which is still published (online) today. In the first issue, Foote writes: The Freethinker is an anti-Christian organ, and must...
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
Sentimental Education - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
Sentimental Education (French: L'Éducation sentimentale, 1869) is a novel by Gustave Flaubert, that is considered one of the most influential novels of the 19th century. The story focuses on the romantic life of a young man at the time of the French...
Weird Tales, Volume 1 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Weird Tales, Volume 1 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Fiction
These stories form the first volume of the renowned Tales of Hoffman. They are fantasies with hints of the supernatural—quintessential Romanticism. Writers of the Romantic period typically seek to lift the spirit to awe, wonder, love, horror, or...
Shirley (version 2) - Charlotte Brontë
Shirley (version 2) - Charlotte Brontë
- Author: Charlotte Brontë
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This work, Charlotte Bronte's second, is set in the England of the early 1800's, which was beset with political and social changes, represented by the Industrial Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars. And there is much to do with those changes in...
Tracked by a Tattoo - Fergus Hume
Tracked by a Tattoo - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Mysteries abound in this crime novel by Fergus Hume. Mr. Fanks, detective of Scotland Yard, is not all he seems, for when off-duty, he assumes his real identity of Octavius Rixton, well-to-do idler. When the scent of a murder reaches him, he is...
My Larger Education - Booker T. Washington
My Larger Education - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This is a sequel to Washington's first autobiographical book, Up From Slavery, which depicted his early life. He says "This book contains answers to the questions I have frequently been asked as to how I have worked out for myself the educational...
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 39-46 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 39-46 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Sermons 39 - 46 cover the Gospel According to Saint Luke 7:31 - 8:56. - Summary by the Reader...
Dead Men Tell Tales - Harry Rimmer
Dead Men Tell Tales - Harry Rimmer
- Author: Harry Rimmer
- Genre: Science / Antiquity
"Dead men tell no tales" was a common adage before the days of forensic science. In this book, the well-known evangelist and scientist uses Egyptology and archaeology to counter the argument in the investigation of Bible lore.. - Summary by Lynne...
The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
The Fortune Hunter: A Novel of New York Society - Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Author: Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Mowatt wrote The Fortune Hunter to be submitted to a contest held by the New World newspaper. (The novel won the $100 prize.) Contest rules dictated that the title of the work, that the setting had to be New York, and that the text had to be...
BLAST No. 1 - Various
BLAST No. 1 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
BLAST, edited by Wyndham Lewis and subtitled 'Review of the Great British Vortex', was the magazine of the short-lived Vorticist movement in British art. Influenced by Cubism and Futurism, and Imagism in literature, the Vorticists embraced all...
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem - G. A. Henty
For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Action & Adventure
In all history, there is no drama of more terrible interest than that which terminated with the total destruction of Jerusalem. Had the whole Jewish nation joined in the desperate resistance made, by a section of it, to the overwhelming strength of...
Stories of the Wars of the Jews - Charlotte Maria Tucker
Stories of the Wars of the Jews - Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Author: Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Genre: Antiquity / Christianity - Commentary
Stories of the Wars of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity, to the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus is a historical narrative spanning Jewish history from 586 B.C.E to 70 A.D. There is no history more fraught with interest, or conveying more...
The Luckiest Girl in the School - Angela BRAZIL
The Luckiest Girl in the School - Angela BRAZIL
- Author: Angela BRAZIL
- Genre: School
Winona Woodward faces a sudden reversal in family fortunes when she wins a scholarship to Seaton High School. This book by Angela Brazil helped to establish the girls' school story genre, and is therefore full of young, active, independent girls and...
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Version 2) - John Buchan
The Thirty-Nine Steps (Version 2) - John Buchan
- Author: John Buchan
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
Richard Hannay thirsts for adventure. Down and out in early retirement in South London, Hannay bores of the easy life. When Franklin Scudder reveals a secret ploy to set all of Europe to arms, Hannay finds his cure. With experience, intelligence,...
Down In Water Street - Samuel Hopkins Hadley
Down In Water Street - Samuel Hopkins Hadley
- Author: Samuel Hopkins Hadley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Memoirs / Christianity - Biographies
Written by the Superintendent of the Jerry McAuley Water Street Mission, "Down in Water Street" is intended to share some of the experiences the writer had during his sixteen years of service to the Mission. Hadley's intent was to show "how some...
Above Lavender Bay - Henry Lawson
Above Lavender Bay - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Above Lavender Bay by Henry Lawson. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 10, 2021. ------ Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his...
The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa - Joseph H. Alexander
The Final Campaign: Marines in the Victory on Okinawa - Joseph H. Alexander
- Author: Joseph H. Alexander
- Genre: War & Military
The three-month-long battle of Okinawa covered a 700-mile arc from Formosa to Kyushu and involved a million combatants--Americans, Japanese, British, and native Okinawans. With a magnitude that rivaled the Normandy invasion the previous June, the...
Against Celsus Book 1 - Origen of Alexandria
Against Celsus Book 1 - Origen of Alexandria
- Author: Origen of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Against Celsus, preserved entirely in Greek, is a major apologetics work by the Church Father Origen of Alexandria, written in around 248 AD, countering the writings of Celsus, a pagan philosopher and controversialist who had written a scathing...
Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Single author
A number of poems by Rupert Brooke, collected and published in 1925. - Summary by KevinS...
Sand Doom - Murray Leinster
Sand Doom - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
The problem was as neat a circle as one could ask for; without repair parts, they couldn’t bring in the ship that carried the repair parts! - Summary by Original text...
White Bird of Love - Joyce KILMER
White Bird of Love - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of White Bird of Love by Joyce Kilmer. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 12, 2020. ------ Though a prolific poet whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his...
The Psalmes of David (Sidney Psalms) - Sir Philip Sidney
The Psalmes of David (Sidney Psalms) - Sir Philip Sidney
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- Genre: Poetry / Bibles
A poetic version of the Psalms by Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) and his sister, Mary Sidney Herbert, the Countess of Pembroke (1561-1621). "It is possible that the original Autograph manuscript of Sir Philip Sidney may still exist in the library at...
1001 Questions and Answers on General History - Benjamin Hathaway
1001 Questions and Answers on General History - Benjamin Hathaway
- Author: Benjamin Hathaway
- Genre: Antiquity
A book for students of history to test their knowledge and to direct their studies. As the title tells us, this is a book of 1001 questions, with answers, regarding world history. - Summary by KevinS...
Short Story Collection Vol. 098 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 098 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
This is the 98th edition of Librivox Short Stories. Each story is selected and read by a Librivox volunteer. The french author Guy de Maupassant and the Indian writer Rabindranath Tagore feature strongly in this selection....
Poems of To-Day: an Anthology - Various
Poems of To-Day: an Anthology - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a book of more modern poetry by various authors. - Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson...
Short Science Fiction Collection 067 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 067 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Pseudolus: or, The Cheat - Titus Maccius Plautus
Pseudolus: or, The Cheat - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
About two dozen comedies of the Roman playwright Plautus have survived the years, with many of them ending up rewritten and recast by other playwrights such as Moliere. This one, Pseudolus, was part of the source for A Funny Thing Happened on the...
Fancy - Lewis Carroll
Fancy - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Fancy by Lewis Carroll. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 30, 2022. ----- Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and is known best as the author of Alice's...
Cousin Maude - Mary Jane HOLMES
Cousin Maude - Mary Jane HOLMES
- Author: Mary Jane HOLMES
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
When Matilda's husband James dies, she marries rich Dr. Kennedy thinking he will provide a good home for her daughter Maude. However, the doctor is a miser and assumes that Matty will be his housekeeper. They have a little boy who is crippled and...
