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The Cave In the Mountain - Edward S. ELLIS
The Cave In the Mountain - Edward S. ELLIS
- Author: Edward S. ELLIS
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
Edward Sylvester Ellis was a major American author during the era of inexpensive fiction of the nineteenth century (dime novels). Because he wrote under dozens of pseudonyms, as well as under his own name, it is virtually impossible to know exactly...
Solario the Tailor - William Bowen
Solario the Tailor - William Bowen
- Author: William Bowen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Told over six nights, this children's fantasy has all the elements of a good bedtime story: princes and princesses, unicorns, sorcerers and mysteries such as a missing button. The stories are related by Solario, the aged tailor and master...
The Mystical City of God, Volume 4 - Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
The Mystical City of God, Volume 4 - Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
- Author: Venerable María de Jesús de Ágreda
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Mystical City of God is a book written in the 17th-century by the Franciscan nun, Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda. According to María de Ágreda, the book was to a considerable extent dictated to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary and regarded the...
Dramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short Stories - Henry Lawson
Dramatic Selections from Henry Lawson's Short Stories - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Short Stories
01. That Pretty Girl in the Army The Salvation Army is having a hard time of things in the rough Outback town of Bourke. That is, until Sister Hannah arrives... - Summary by Son of the Exiles Coordinated by: Son of the Exiles Sister Hannah: Devorah...
The American Bee Journal, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Jan 1894 - Various
The American Bee Journal, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Jan 1894 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Business & Economics / Nature
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...
A Little Girl in Old Boston - Amanda Minnie DOUGLAS
A Little Girl in Old Boston - Amanda Minnie DOUGLAS
- Author: Amanda Minnie DOUGLAS
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Historical
Doris, an orphan from England, arrives in Boston and adapts to life in America. As she grows up, she undergoes many adventures and experiences the 1812 war. Summary by Elsie Selwyn. Cast List: Narrator: KevinS Doris: Navin Winthrop Adams: ToddHW Mr....
The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks from 25 August 1768-12 July 1771 - Joseph Banks
The Endeavour Journal of Sir Joseph Banks from 25 August 1768-12 July 1771 - Joseph Banks
- Author: Joseph Banks
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Life Sciences / Exploration
In this Journal, Joseph Banks records almost daily observations of the journey of the ship the Endeavour on the first of James Cook’s voyages to the Pacific during the years 1768-1771. There are also more detailed accounts of the events, people,...
During the Persecution: Autobiography of Father John Gerard - Father John Gerard
During the Persecution: Autobiography of Father John Gerard - Father John Gerard
- Author: Father John Gerard
- Genre: Memoirs / Christianity - Other
Fr. John Gerard (1564 – 1637) was an English Jesuit priest who operated covertly in England during the Elizabethan era, during which the Catholic Church was subject to persecution. Gerard notably not only successfully hid from the English...
Journal Of Small Things - Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay
Journal Of Small Things - Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay
- Author: Helen Gansevoort Edwards Mackay
- Genre: Memoirs
Brief journal sketches from France during WW1. The author was was American, but went on to spend much of her life in France. - Summary by kathrinee...
Baseball Joe in the Central League - Lester Chadwick
Baseball Joe in the Central League - Lester Chadwick
- Author: Lester Chadwick
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Sports Fiction
"Baseball Joe" Matson's great ambition is to become a professional baseball pitcher. The Baseball Joe series follows his career as he seeks to attain his goal. In this fourth volume, Joe accepts a contract to play baseball professionally, and leaves...
Concerning Grace and Free Will - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Concerning Grace and Free Will - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Author: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The subject of the treatise was suggested, as is plain from the text itself, as the result of a public, or at any rate semi-public, discussion with some person unknown in which St. Bernard, strongly commending the work of grace, had seemed to lay...
Black Pawl - Ben Ames WILLIAMS
Black Pawl - Ben Ames WILLIAMS
- Author: Ben Ames WILLIAMS
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This riveting novel takes place on a whaling ship, where its captain, Black Pawl, has a troubled relationship with the first mate, his son. A minister is permitted aboard for the homeward-bound journey along with a young woman who is accompanying...
Unvarnished Tales - William MacKay
Unvarnished Tales - William MacKay
- Author: William MacKay
- Genre: Short Stories
This book is a short selection of varied fictional tales. They must have been what the author wished for them to be and certainly perfect for the time in which they were written. (Summary by April Reynolds )...
Fables of Aesop and Others - Aesop
Fables of Aesop and Others - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The origins of these fables are perhaps lost in obscurity, but they are so closely identified with the Greek writer Aesop, that we may regard them as such. Most of these tales involve interactions among animals, and to each is appended a moral. This...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 12. December 1897 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 08 - 12. December 1897 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol VIII, the December Number. It includes the following articles: A Special Announcement, by F. H. Newell, Secretary The Washington Aqueduct and Cabin John Bridge, by D. D. Gaillard Gardiner...
Christianity in the 18th and 19th Century, Volume 2 - Various
Christianity in the 18th and 19th Century, Volume 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The 32 works in this volume contain many diverse works from the period including sermons, essays, letters, commentaries, poems and reports. Many pieces are by the Anglican writers John Newton and Augustus Toplady. (Summary by InTheDesert)...
Letters from a Prairie Garden - Edna W. Underwood
Letters from a Prairie Garden - Edna W. Underwood
- Author: Edna W. Underwood
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Gardening / Letters
The "Letters from a Prairie Garden," are genuine letters and not fiction. They went through the mail. An explanatory word about their origin may not be amiss. Some years ago a famous artist came to a certain mid-western city on business connected...
A Wheel Within A Wheel - Frances E. Willard
A Wheel Within A Wheel - Frances E. Willard
- Author: Frances E. Willard
- Genre: Memoirs
Frances Willard was an influential campaigner and educator for social reforms, temperance and women's education, suffrage and empowerment, as shown in her motto "Do everything". She was a long-serving national president of the Woman's Christian...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1893 - 1896) - Grover Cleveland
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1893 - 1896) - Grover Cleveland
- Author: Grover Cleveland
- Genre: War & Military
The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress, typically delivered annually. The address not only reports on the condition of the nation but also allows...
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth - John Bagnell BURY
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth - John Bagnell BURY
- Author: John Bagnell BURY
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Early Modern
John Bagnell Bury was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University in the early twentieth century. In The Idea of Progress, he assesses the concepts of history found in the classical period and then traces the historical development of...
Billy Whiskers' Travels - Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
Billy Whiskers' Travels - Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
- Author: Frances Trego MONTGOMERY
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
Running away from home is always bound to lead to adventures, some surprising and good and some not so pleasant. Follow Billy Whiskers when he encounters fireworks, tigers and dragons! Will this little goat ever get home again? - Summary by Larry...
Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed - Titus Maccius Plautus
Stichus; or, The Parasite Rebuffed - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
"Antipho, a wealthy and jovial old gentleman of Athens, has two daughters, Pilumena and Pamphila. They are married to two brothers, Epignomus and Pamphilus, who, having run through their property in the company of idlers and Parasites, have, with...
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
St. George and St. Michael, Volume 3 - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance / Published 1800 -1900
’St. George and St. Michael’ is a little-known historical romance telling the story of a young couple who find themselves on opposing sides during the tumultuous years of the English Civil Wars. Volume 3 completes the series. Tensions are rising...
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume 03 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
Memoirs written by Napoleon's private secretary, "a work based on years of intimate friendship and professional association." - Summary by Gillian Hendrie and Wikipedia...
The Junior Classics Volume 10 Part 1: Poems Old and New - William PATTEN
The Junior Classics Volume 10 Part 1: Poems Old and New - William PATTEN
- Author: William PATTEN
- Genre: Poetry
The order of the poems has been arranged according to age from first through eight grade. The collection of poems in part 1 begins with the simplest nursery rhymes. Grade II begins with The Sleepy Song by Josephine D. Bacon, Grade III begins with...
Princess Sukey: The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends - Marshall Saunders
Princess Sukey: The Story of a Pigeon and Her Human Friends - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Dear little Princess Sukey sitting by the fire—pretty little pigeon—of what is she thinking as she dreamily eyes the blazing wood? If a pigeon could review its past life, what she has of bird mind would be running back over the series of adventures...
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 7 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans Vol. 7 - Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Author: Lucius Mestrius PLUTARCHUS
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
Parallel Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings. The surviving lives contain twenty-three pairs of biographies, each pair consisting of...
The Nature of the Judicial Process - Benjamin N. Cardozo
The Nature of the Judicial Process - Benjamin N. Cardozo
- Author: Benjamin N. Cardozo
- Genre: Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo, one of the most influential American justists of his era, served as the New York Court of Appeals Chief Justice, before joining the Supreme Court. His 1921 book The Nature of the Judicial Process, now considered a legal classic,...
The Blue Ghost Mystery - Harold L. Goodwin
The Blue Ghost Mystery - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure
When the ghost of a Civil War soldier, killed visiting his sweetheart across enemy lines, comes back to haunt the Virginian locals at an old mine, Rick Brant and his ex-marine colleague Scotty decide to investigate. - Summary by John Walker...
Atala - François-René de Chateaubriand
Atala - François-René de Chateaubriand
- Author: François-René de Chateaubriand
- Genre: Historical Fiction
What were the lower Mississippi River, Gulf Coast regions, and Appalachians of North America like in the earliest colonial days? Full of untamed forests, wild animals, nuts, berries, and Indians. Chateaubriand spent many years exploring the area,...
The Brothers Karamazov (version 3) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Brothers Karamazov (version 3) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Originally published in serial form in 1879-80, “The Brothers Karamazov” is recognized as one of the very greatest masterpieces of world literature. It is the last and finest novel of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who died before writing a planned sequel. The...
Eight Cousins (Version 3) - Louisa May Alcott
Eight Cousins (Version 3) - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1800 -1900
Eight Cousins, or The Aunt-Hill was published in 1875 by American novelist Louisa May Alcott. It is the story of Rose Campbell, a lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and must now reside with her maiden great aunts, who are the...
Charles Dickens' Children Stories - Retold by His Grandaughter - Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens' Children Stories - Retold by His Grandaughter - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General
These re-tellings of well known stories originally written by Charles Dickens are all focused on the children in them. Their humor and pathos are kept intact and make for captivating reading....
Children's Short Works, Vol. 047 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 047 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 047: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Castled Crag of Drachenfels - George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Castled Crag of Drachenfels - George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Author: George Gordon Lord Byron
- Genre: Narratives / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of The Castled Crag of Drachenfels, by George Gordon, Lord Byron. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for September 5, 2021. ------ The Castled Crag at Drachenfels is a 4-verse poem embedded in Canto 3...
History of England In Words of One Syllable - Helen W. Pierson
History of England In Words of One Syllable - Helen W. Pierson
- Author: Helen W. Pierson
- Genre: General / Middle Ages/Middle History
A simple history of England written principally with words of one syllable. Books of these kind, I understand, are helpful for both beginning and remedial reading students. - Summary by KevinS...
The Radio Planet - Ralph Milne Farley
The Radio Planet - Ralph Milne Farley
- Author: Ralph Milne Farley
- Genre: Science Fiction
Could you make a radio set? Don’t answer rashly. Don’t say that you have already built several. For note that we did not ask whether you could assemble a set from parts already manufactured by others, but rather whether you could build the entire...
Assist the Souls in Purgatory - Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
Assist the Souls in Purgatory - Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
- Author: Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A short little book on Purgatory, the Poor Souls and how we can help them with our prayers. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Four Hymns - Edmund Spenser
Four Hymns - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heavenly" counterparts much later, in response to the dissatisfaction that one of the author's patrons expressed...
The Goop Directory (version 3) - Frank Gelett BURGESS
The Goop Directory (version 3) - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Poetry
The Goop Directory of Juvenile Offenders Famous for Their Misdeeds and Serving as a Salutary Example for All Virtuous Children In this DIRECTORY you'll see Just what you never ought to be; And so, it should Direct you way To Good Behavior, every...
