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Selected Essays - Voltairine de Cleyre
Selected Essays - Voltairine de Cleyre
- Author: Voltairine de Cleyre
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Philosophy
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) was, according to Emma Goldman, "the most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced." Today she is not widely known as a consequence of her short life. De Cleyre was especially influenced by Thomas...
The Crimson Circle - Edgar Wallace
The Crimson Circle - Edgar Wallace
- Author: Edgar Wallace
- Genre: Detective Fiction
The Crimson Circle gang spreads fear by extortion and murder. Its members range from rich, powerful bankers to petty criminals, and none of them know each other. A beautiful young woman named Thalia Drummond appears to be involved in the gang too....
History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution: Volume 2 - Rev. James MacCaffrey
History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution: Volume 2 - Rev. James MacCaffrey
- Author: Rev. James MacCaffrey
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
In this second volume of a two volume set, the focus in on the history of the Catholic Church in England, Scotland, and Ireland, during the period from before the reformation up to the 19th century. Starting with the conditions in these countries...
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
Memoirs of Napoleon, Vol. 1 - Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Author: Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
The author and Napoleon become boyhood friends when they are eight years old in Corsica. They separate when Napoleon is transferred from the Military College of Brienne to another college in Paris in 1784. Napoleon has a stern or disdainful...
Richard III (Makers of History series) - Jacob Abbott
Richard III (Makers of History series) - Jacob Abbott
- Author: Jacob Abbott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / History
Jacob Abbott chronicles the unspeakably treacherous rise of Richard III to the throne of England in the midst of the war between the Yorks and the Lancasters and his ultimate fall on the Field of Bosworth. (Introduction by Cathy Barratt)...
The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
The Three Impostors - Arthur Machen
- Author: Arthur Machen
- Genre: General Fiction
Three friends in a large old dilapidated house are laughing. They seem as giddy as an acting troupe at closing night. But their laughter is callous, cruel; you might say, evil. One of them, a young woman described as piquant rather than beautiful...
The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
The Recruiting Officer - George Farquhar
- Author: George Farquhar
- Genre: Plays
The author was himself a recruiting officer, and possibly gathered all the materials for this play on the very spot where he has placed his scene—Shrewsbury. He has dedicated the piece "to all friends round the Wrekin," and has thanked the...
The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book - Albert Bigelow Paine
The Hollow Tree and Deep Woods Book - Albert Bigelow Paine
- Author: Albert Bigelow Paine
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"In the House of Many Windows which stands in a large city and is sometimes called a "flat" by people who, because they are grown up, do not know any better, live the Little Lady and the Story Teller.The Little Lady is four years old, going on five,...
A Day of Fate - Edward P. Roe
A Day of Fate - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
A night editor at a New York paper escapes to the country to avoid a nervous breakdown. Providence lands him in the middle of a loving Quaker family in time to save them from being roasted by a lightning strike. Then what could be more natural than...
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation - Anonymous
Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 7 recordings of A Selection from Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation by Anonymous. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 20, 2011. 'Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain...
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit
Five Children and It - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
This delightful novel begins when a family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, they discover an ancient and rather grumpy sand-fairy known as the Psammead, who agrees to...
Rebel Spurs - Andre Norton
Rebel Spurs - Andre Norton
- Author: Andre Norton
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns
In 1866, only men uprooted by war had reason to ride into Tubacca, Arizona, a nondescript town as shattered and anonymous as the veterans drifting through it. So when Drew Rennie, newly discharged from Forrest’s Confederate scouts, arrived leading...
Old Wells Dug Out - Thomas De Witt Talmage
Old Wells Dug Out - Thomas De Witt Talmage
- Author: Thomas De Witt Talmage
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Thomas DeWitt Talmage was born in Bound Brook, New Jersey. He earned an undergraduates degree at the University of the city of New York, now known as New York University. After his graduation he studied law, but ultimately decided on the ministry....
Bible (ASV) NT 14: 2 Thessalonians - American Standard Version
Bible (ASV) NT 14: 2 Thessalonians - American Standard Version
- Author: American Standard Version
- Genre: Bibles
The Second Epistle to the Thessalonians, also known as the Second Letter to the Thessalonians, is a book from the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It was written by Paul. (Summary from Wikipedia)...
The Last Of The Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 - James Fenimore Cooper
The Last Of The Mohicans - A Narrative of 1757 - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
The Last of the Mohicans is an epic novel by James Fenimore Cooper, first published in January 1826. It was one of the most popular English-language novels of its time, and helped establish Cooper as one of the first world-famous American...
The World's Desire - Andrew Lang
The World's Desire - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
H. Rider Haggard (author of King Solomon's Mines the Allan Quatermain Series, and many more) and Andrew Lang (author of, among others, the rainbow coloured fairytale books) collaborate to lend their talent to one of the most fascinating and well...
The Theory of Social Revolutions - Brooks Adams
The Theory of Social Revolutions - Brooks Adams
- Author: Brooks Adams
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Brooks Adams (1848-1927), was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial...
The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk - George Christopher Davies
The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk - George Christopher Davies
- Author: George Christopher Davies
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The Broads are Britain's largest protected wetland and are home to a wealth of wildlife, especially fish and birdlife. They comprise a network of mostly navigable rivers and lakes in the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. The lakes (or broads)...
Balder Dead (version 2) - Matthew Arnold
Balder Dead (version 2) - Matthew Arnold
- Author: Matthew Arnold
- Genre: Epics / Narratives
The poem begins with the beloved god Balder, thought to be invulnerable, dead at the hands of the inoffensive blind god Hoder, in a game. Loki, whose deceit brought about this catastrophe, is promptly punished with exile, and Odin, Balder's father,...
The World's Lumber Room - Selina Gaye
The World's Lumber Room - Selina Gaye
- Author: Selina Gaye
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Nature / Science
If this book were written today, it would be called "The Story of the World's Rubbish". That may not sound a promising subject for a book, but we are taken on a journey all over the world (and beyond) to explain the many varieties of dust and refuse...
Stories of Enchantment - Jane Pentzer Myers
Stories of Enchantment - Jane Pentzer Myers
- Author: Jane Pentzer Myers
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Jane Pentzer Myers's only book was dedicated to Kate Winifred: 'Just between the 'Land o' dreams' and broad daylight is a beautiful world, where good wishes come true: where the poor and lonely are rich in castles and friends: and where sorrowful...
Evelina - Fanny Burney
Evelina - Fanny Burney
- Author: Fanny Burney
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
In this epistolary novel, we find a young woman named Evelina, who was raised in rural seclusion until her eighteenth year because of her uncertain parentage. Through a series of harrowing and humorous events that take place in London and an English...
Bleak House (version 4) - Charles Dickens
Bleak House (version 4) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Bleak house is one of Dickens finest achievements. It was written for serialisation in 1853 when Dickens was at the peak of his career. Monthly sales substantially exceeded his previous bestseller David Copperfield. Dickens' mastery of the English...
Charles Dickens - G. K. Chesterton
Charles Dickens - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism
G. K. Chesterton was a great admirer of Charles Dickens, and wrote a noted critique of Dickens' works expressing his opinion in his own inimitable style. (Summary by Karen Merline)...
Toppleton's Client - John Kendrick Bangs
Toppleton's Client - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. Knowing Jr. is a loose cannon, their...
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Vol. 6 - Louisa May Alcott
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Vol. 6 - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The last volume of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag is another collection of stories by Louisa May Alcott. From preparing for Thanksgiving (with your parents away!) to the adventures two dolls had on their way to Maine, to the strange tale told by the old seat,...
The Clue of the Silken Ladder - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The Clue of the Silken Ladder - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
In THE CLUE OF THE SILKEN LADDER, Penny investigates multiple mysteries. What is the purpose of the singular silken ladder made by the secretive and somewhat sinister old Japanese curio shop owner? How can the "Riverview Star" obtain evidence that a...
Three Dialogues - Barry Pain
Three Dialogues - Barry Pain
- Author: Barry Pain
- Genre: Undefined
Barry Pain is today best known for his ghost and horror stories, but he could also write some excellent social satire. This series of three dialogues follows a life cycle: the subject of the first little play is the birth of a girl, in the second...
The Princess Galva - David Whitelaw
The Princess Galva - David Whitelaw
- Author: David Whitelaw
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Romance
Edward Povey had been a correspondence clerk for twenty-two years when he was summarily dismissed. So how did he find himself mixed up with an orphan girl, who was really a princess, as she sought to reclaim her throne from the man who had killed...
The Lost Girl - D. H. Lawrence
The Lost Girl - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to." In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like...
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
The Interpretation of Dreams - Sigmund Freud
- Author: Sigmund Freud
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Psychology
A neat book on dream analysis by the founding father of psychoanalysis. This book is about the inner theater and the workings of the mind in the dreaming state. Covering lots of topics, the Austrian psychoanalyst's work on dreams is worth reading...
Bible (KJV) NT 19: Hebrews - King James Version
Bible (KJV) NT 19: Hebrews - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
An Epistle of the New Testament, author unknown. The primary purpose of the Letter to the Hebrews is to exhort Jews and Christians to persevere in the face of persecution. The central thought of the entire Epistle is the doctrine of the Person of...
Maurine and Other Poems - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Maurine and Other Poems - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of earlier poetry by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Title poem, Maurine, is a narrative poem about the tragedy and happiness of the life of Maurine. Besides that long narrative poem, this collection also includes a number of Ella Wheeler...
The Mohawk Valley - W. Max Reid
The Mohawk Valley - W. Max Reid
- Author: W. Max Reid
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
An in-depth view and early history of the Mohawk Valley in upper New York state, covering the time period of 1609-1780. This historical piece covers that part of the Mohawk Valley between Schenectady and Rome, NY. The narrator hopes that the...
The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer
The Black Moth - Georgette Heyer
- Author: Georgette Heyer
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Romance
The year is 1752. Devil, the Duke of Andover, and highwayman Jack, the Earl of Wyncham are at odds over a country squire's beautiful daughter. Cheating at cards, the marital problems of the younger sister of the Duke and the younger brother of the...
Confessions of a Book-Lover - E. Walter Walters
Confessions of a Book-Lover - E. Walter Walters
- Author: E. Walter Walters
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Writing & Linguistics
"I am of the company of book men who read simply for the love of it," confesses E. Walter Walters, in this gently written tome. Walters documents his habit of "book fishing--" seeking and finding quality volumes in the discount binds at his...
Literary Lapses - Stephen Leacock
Literary Lapses - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Short sketches relating the humourous side of life in 1910. "Professor Leacock has made more people laugh with the written word than any other living author. One may say he is one of the greatest jesters, the greatest humorist of the age." – A. P....
Bible (KJV) 08: Ruth - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 08: Ruth - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
This short Old Testament book tells the story of Naomi and Ruth, Naomi's daughter-in-law and great-grandmother of King David. (Summary by TriciaG)...
The Coxon Fund - Henry James
The Coxon Fund - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
This novella explores the relationship between Frank Saltram, a charismatic speaker who is also a freeloader; Ruth Anvoy, a young American who visits her widowed aunt, Lady Coxon, an American who married a Brit; and George Gravener, a British...
The Counterpane Fairy (version 2) - Katharine Pyle
The Counterpane Fairy (version 2) - Katharine Pyle
- Author: Katharine Pyle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Teddy has been ill. Now, he is feeling better and is bored; and his exhausted mother needs to rest. He is befriended by the Counterpane Fairy, who entertains him with stories of which he is the hero. (Summary by Lynne Thompson)...
