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Anthem (Version 5) - Ayn RAND
Anthem (Version 5) - Ayn RAND
- Author: Ayn RAND
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Science Fiction
Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Russian-American writer Ayn Rand, written in 1937 and first published in 1938 in the United Kingdom. The story takes place at an unspecified future date when mankind has entered another Dark Age....
Xerxes, Makers of History - Jacob Abbott
Xerxes, Makers of History - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
This history covers the years of Xerxes' years as ruler of the Persian empire and invasion of Greece. - Summary by Deon Gines...
Sleep Is Supposed To Be - Emily Dickinson
Sleep Is Supposed To Be - Emily Dickinson
- Author: Emily Dickinson
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of Sleep Is Supposed To Be by Emily Dickinson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 31, 2020. ------ A description of sleep according to Emily Dickinson. - Summary by David Lawrence...
A Canadian Song - Susanna Moodie
A Canadian Song - Susanna Moodie
- Author: Susanna Moodie
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 26 recordings of A Canadian Song by Susanna Moodie.. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 25, 2020. ------ Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in...
The Spirits' Book - Allan Kardec
The Spirits' Book - Allan Kardec
- Author: Allan Kardec
- Genre: Religion
The Spirits' Book, published in French in 1857, is considered the most important book in the Spiritist philosophy. It contains the bases for that philosophy and all important points in its doctrine: the belief in God, reincarnation and the survival...
Enchantress Of Venus - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Enchantress Of Venus - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
Eric John Stark, the Conan of the Spaceways, continues his adventures in this exciting story. This time he is on the shores of Venus' gaseous red seas seeking the whereabouts of a missing comrade. The villains, a cruel and power-hungry family that...
The First Part of King Henry IV (version 2) - William Shakespeare
The First Part of King Henry IV (version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Drama
After the events of Richard II , wherein the conceited King Richard II is dethroned and assassinated, Shakespeare’s Henriad continues apace with this multifaceted work that details the reign of Richard’s illegitimate successor, King Henry IV. In...
Like Christ - Andrew Murray
Like Christ - Andrew Murray
- Author: Andrew Murray
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Andrew Murray wrote this volume as a sequel to his well-known devotional book "Abide in Christ". It is sub-titled "Thoughts on the Blessed Life of Conformity to the Son of God". In his preface, Murray states two objects he had in mind in writing the...
Understood Betsy (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Understood Betsy (version 3 Dramatic Reading) - Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family
Sickly and sheltered, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann is horrified to hear she must be sent away to live with the "Putney cousins." According to Aunt Harriet, these mysterious relations are cold-hearted, stiff-necked, as well as heavy-handed when it...
The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times - George MacGregor
The History of Burke and Hare, And of the Resurrectionist Times - George MacGregor
- Author: George MacGregor
- Genre: True Crime
From the preface: ".....of all the criminal events that have occurred in Scotland, few have excited so deep, widespread, and lasting an interest as those which took place during what have been called the Resurrectionist Times, and notably, the...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 21, March 23, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 21, March 23, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction
Harper's Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 21st issue of the serial, published on March 23, 1880, transports readers...
Men Like Gods - H. G. Wells
Men Like Gods - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
In the summer of 1921, a disenchanted journalist escapes the rat race for a drive in the country. But Mr. Barnstaple's trip exceeds his expectations when he and other motorists are swept 3,000 years into the future. The inadvertent time travelers...
The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
The Fiend's Delight - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Satire / Published before 1800 / Single Author Collections
This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile. It is a collection of short stories which cover many subjects. Dependent upon the reader the stories may seem...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 059 - 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 sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder. * The Loved Dead was co-written...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 055 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 055 - 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 sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder....
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II) - Roald AMUNDSEN
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume II) - Roald AMUNDSEN
- Author: Roald AMUNDSEN
- Genre: Science / Travel & Geography / Exploration
Volume II of Roald Amundsen's The Northwest Passage. Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers in the tiny sloop Gjöa are the first to make the complete passage across the top of the North American continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. With a...
The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal relationships. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
The Bible in Shakspeare - William Burgess
The Bible in Shakspeare - William Burgess
- Author: William Burgess
- Genre: Literary Criticism
A compendium and analysis of similarities between the Bible and passages in Shakespeare's plays and other works, including Biblical references in Shakespeare and parallels between Shakespeare's characters and plots and Biblical characters and plots,...
An Epitaph On A Goldfish - Richard le Gallienne
An Epitaph On A Goldfish - Richard le Gallienne
- Author: Richard le Gallienne
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of An Epitaph On A Goldfish by Richard le Gallienne. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 11, 2020. ------ Richard Le Gallienne was an English author and poet. - Summary by Wikipedia...
The Human Chord - Algernon Blackwood
The Human Chord - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
The following sets the tone for this work of weird fiction: "Numbers of strange people advertised in the newspapers, he knew, just as numbers of strange people wrote letters to them; and Spinny—so he was called by those who loved him—was a diligent...
Catena Aurea (Gospel of St. Luke - Part 1) - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea (Gospel of St. Luke - Part 1) - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
The Catena Aurea (Golden Chain) presents the commentaries of the greatest theologians (e.g. St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, etc.) of the Church as if they were having a discussion on each verse of the Bible. St. Thomas Aquinas put...
Alias Miss Sherlock - Arthur Lewis Tubbs
Alias Miss Sherlock - Arthur Lewis Tubbs
- Author: Arthur Lewis Tubbs
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Plays / Romance
Dick Brewster is implicated in a murder and comes to his aunt's farm to hide. His Aunt Sarah stands by him in his need and they all move to the city in the effort to clear his name. She investigates on her own account and.... - Summary by The Author...
The Progressive Woman, Vol. VII, No. 75 (October 1913) - Various
The Progressive Woman, Vol. VII, No. 75 (October 1913) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Political Science
A Monthly Magazine of aspiration devoted to the economic and political interests of women, edited by Josephine Conger-Keneko. - Summary by KevinS...
Advent readings and spoken hymns - King James Version
Advent readings and spoken hymns - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Advent readings and spoken hymns for each of the Four Sundays of the Advent Season. (Summary by KevinS)...
Over Prairie Trails - Frederick Philip Grove
Over Prairie Trails - Frederick Philip Grove
- Author: Frederick Philip Grove
- Genre: Nature / Memoirs
When Frederick Philip Grove settled in a remote area of Manitoba in the early years of the 20th century, he found work teaching in a school over 30 miles from his home. He commuted by horse-and-wagon or horse-and-sleigh each weekend, and seven of...
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol 1, No. 11, August, 1920 - W. H. Fawcett
Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol 1, No. 11, August, 1920 - W. H. Fawcett
- Author: W. H. Fawcett
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue was packed with jokes, quips, and humorous bits of writing. Each year it grew in popularity, and Fawcett’s success lead to the...
Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles - Margery Watson
Ruffles and Danny, or the Responsibilty of Ruffles - Margery Watson
- Author: Margery Watson
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
A nice little story about a widower, his 18-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son, and their vacation from their home in Colorado to the shores of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. There they meet some friendly locals, and... the story continues. The reader...
Commentary on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians - John Calvin
Commentary on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Ephesians - John Calvin
- Author: John Calvin
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
In 1548, Calvin published his "Commentaries on six of St Paul's Epistles, viz., Corinthians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Timothy. In his "Commentaries," the peculiar doctrines which mark his system of theology occur, of course, in a...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 041 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 041 - 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. Revenge, fear, petrifying stress, mystery, and a small dose of humor to let your guard down... Expect shivers up your spine, the...
The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race - John Clay Coleman
The Jim Crow Car; Or, Denouncement of Injustice Meted Out to the Black Race - John Clay Coleman
- Author: John Clay Coleman
- Genre: Law / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
"My opposition to injustice, imposition, discrimination and prejudice, which have for many years existed against the colored people of the South, has led to this little book. In many parts of America the press has been furnished with “matter” for...
The Fables of Pilpay - Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
The Fables of Pilpay - Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
- Author: Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Epistolary Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These moralistic stories within stories date back to the Sanskrit text Panchatantra (200 BC – 300 AD). They were first translated into Arabic by a Persian named Ruzbeh who named it Book of Kalilah and Dimna and then by Abdullah Ibn al-Muqaffa and...
Zigzags of Treachery and other stories - Dashiell Hammett
Zigzags of Treachery and other stories - Dashiell Hammett
- Author: Dashiell Hammett
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Single Author Collections
The death of a well known San Francisco doctor brings a charge of murder for his wife, but is it murder or suicide, and is she really his wife? The Continental Op is on the case in Dashiell Hammett’s “Zigzags of Treachery,” featured here along with...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 038 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 038 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, vampires, huge rats and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder. You may also feel more jumpy tonight...
A Guide to the Lakes - Thomas West
A Guide to the Lakes - Thomas West
- Author: Thomas West
- Genre: Travel & Geography
In the late eighteenth century, English writers discovered the landscape, not only in the paintings of Claude Lorrain, Nicolas Poussin and Salvator Rosa, but also as a place to be visited and viewed as if it were a picture. No part of England was...
A Woman and the War - Frances Evelyn
A Woman and the War - Frances Evelyn
- Author: Frances Evelyn
- Genre: Philosophy
It is not without serious reflection that I have collected these thoughts in war time to offer in book form to those who may care to read and ponder them. They were written for the most part on the spur of vital moments, when some of the tendencies...
Coco Bolo: King of the Floating Island - Sidford Frederick Hamp
Coco Bolo: King of the Floating Island - Sidford Frederick Hamp
- Author: Sidford Frederick Hamp
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Family
Sisters Margaret and Frances wait for their younger brother Edward to go for a nap before embarking on the adventure of trying to stand on the heads of their shadows. Daddy sees them and encourages them to chase further adventures of childhood,...
The Rescue - Joseph Conrad
The Rescue - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"The Rescue" is the third of Conrad's novels to feature Captain Tom Lingard, an independent buccaneer operating in the Malayan archipelago. Tom Lingard was probably based on the real-life William Lingard, a runaway from an English landed family who...
Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays - Lemuel Kelley Washburn
Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays - Lemuel Kelley Washburn
- Author: Lemuel Kelley Washburn
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Atheism & Agnosticism
These are more than 100 short essays on all things atheism and freethought penned by Lemuel K. Washburn, an American freethought writer and editor for the Boston Investigator. He talks about a wide range of topics, for example about women and the...
Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913 - William Stanley Braithwaite
Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1913 - William Stanley Braithwaite
- Author: William Stanley Braithwaite
- Genre: Anthologies
William Stanley Braithwaite, a talented poet in his own right, was most notable for his anthologies of poetry including these annual collections that spanned at least twelve years from 1913 to 1924. These were composed of poems written in that year,...
Excerpts from ''A Bibliography of the Work of Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens'' - Merle Devore Johnson
Excerpts from ''A Bibliography of the Work of Mark Twain, Samuel Langhorne Clemens'' - Merle Devore Johnson
- Author: Merle Devore Johnson
- Genre: Literary Criticism
As printed, this book contains an extensive listing of Mark Twain's work. Rather than repeating that listing, this recording simply reflects the bibliographer's entertaining analysis of Twain's books, speeches, letters, anecdotes, and notes. -...
