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The Elements of Herpetology and Ichthyology - William Ruschenberger
The Elements of Herpetology and Ichthyology - William Ruschenberger
- Author: William Ruschenberger
- Genre: Animals / Nature
This succinct little textbook from 1844 presents an introduction to herpetology and ichthyology. The information, albeit not current, is still interesting and of use as a general overview of reptiles, amphibians, and fish. Please note that the...
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian - Alma Lutz
Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian - Alma Lutz
- Author: Alma Lutz
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
Alma Lutz's outstanding biography of Susan B. Anthony is revered for its descriptive power, attention to detail and historical significance to the women's Suffragette movement. - Summary by PhyllisV...
Jean Craig, Graduate Nurse - Kay Lyttleton
Jean Craig, Graduate Nurse - Kay Lyttleton
- Author: Kay Lyttleton
- Genre: Family / General
As Jean Craig finished her training and prepared for graduation, illness struck—first in her own family, and later in epidemics that swept the village of Elmhurst. It was with a deep feeling of satisfaction that Jean was able to give trained and...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 075 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 075 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works chosen by the readers. Is the sound of a dripping faucet music? According to Aldous Huxley, "The music of the drops is the symbol and type of the whole universe... asymptotic to sense, infinitely close to significance,...
Introducing Irony (Version 2) - Maxwell Bodenheim
Introducing Irony (Version 2) - Maxwell Bodenheim
- Author: Maxwell Bodenheim
- Genre: Single author / Literary Collections
Maxwell Bodenheim was once known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians after moving to New York after being one of the founders of the The Chicago Literary Times. But his life took a downward spiral and he became a panhandler and led a...
The Story of Sitka - Clarence Leroy Andrews
The Story of Sitka - Clarence Leroy Andrews
- Author: Clarence Leroy Andrews
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
The Author recounts life in the great northwest in Sitka, Alaska "Sitka of the Russians" a century ago with insights into Sitka's settlement, natives, churches, social life, trade etc., when it was at the center of trade a century ago. ( Summary by...
Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids - William Stukeley
Stonehenge, a Temple Restor'd to the British Druids - William Stukeley
- Author: William Stukeley
- Genre: Antiquity
Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England never fails to amaze and fascinate; and has been the subject of speculation, research and investigation for centuries. This is an early look at this enigmatic location. As the author says in the preface: "A few years...
The Blue Review, Number 3 - Various
The Blue Review, Number 3 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Literary Collections
The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review was edited by John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield, but survived only three issues. In addition to...
Muslin - George Moore
Muslin - George Moore
- Author: George Moore
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Muslin, better known as A Drama In Muslin, is a realistic novel by George Moore. It describes the lives of five Irish girls after their graduation from convent school. Alice Barton, around whom the story revolves, is unfulfilled by the role society...
Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack - United States Senate
Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack - United States Senate
- Author: United States Senate
- Genre: Modern (20th C)
A joint bipartisan report by the U.S. Senate Committees on Homeland Security and Rules and Administration, addressing security, planning, and response by the U.S. Capitol Police, the Capitol Police Board, the FBI, and Departments of Homeland...
Among the Rice Fields - Laurence Hope
Among the Rice Fields - Laurence Hope
- Author: Laurence Hope
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Among the Rice Fields by Laurence Hope.. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 16, 2020. ------ Violet Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. In 1901, she...
The Yellow Face - Fred M. WHITE
The Yellow Face - Fred M. WHITE
- Author: Fred M. WHITE
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Who is Nostalgo ? Posters with his unsettlingly grinning face are appearing on scaffolds all over London. A murdered body, horribly disfigured and bearing a striking resemblance to the man on the poster, vanishes from a police-station. Jack...
Letters on England - Voltaire
Letters on England - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: Letters
Voltaire spent his early thirties in England as an exile following the Bastille imprisonment for his satires. With passionate admiration, he then wrote this series of letters in English putting forward his views on the 18th century England, in...
Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815 - Thomas Wallace Knox
Captain John Crane, 1800 - 1815 - Thomas Wallace Knox
- Author: Thomas Wallace Knox
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
John and David grew up best of friends, outgoing and full of adventure. Living but miles from the sea west of Boston, right on the cusp of manhood at the end of America’s Revolutionary war, the ocean’s siren song beckoned to both. At the peak of...
The Cenci - Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Cenci - Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Genre: Tragedy
Written in 1819, but not first staged for over hundred years after it was written due to controversial themes of incest and parricide, it was not considered stageable. This tragedy is a true story, set in Rome, 1599, centred around the murder of the...
T. Tembarom - Frances Hodgson Burnett
T. Tembarom - Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The story of a Boy living in New York as a street waif, who sells newspapers eventually finds himself to be the heir of an ancient manor. The kids at school never understood what the "T" was for in his name, and he didn't tell them. Does that have...
Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland (Version 2) - Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily in Wonderland (Version 2) - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
Uncle Wiggily, the irrepressable flop eared rabbit, has more adventures and this time he goes underground through the strange world of Wonderland Alice. You are invited to hop along and see what odd and funny things happen. "Once upon a time, after...
The Magnet and The Churn - W. S. Gilbert
The Magnet and The Churn - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of The Magnet and The Churn by W. S. Gilbert. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 26, 2020. ------ A bit of frivolity in these trying times. This Weekly Poem is taken from Bab Ballads and Savoy...
The Dismissed - George Pope MORRIS
The Dismissed - George Pope MORRIS
- Author: George Pope MORRIS
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Dismissed by George Pope Morris . This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 15, 2020. ------ "I suppose she was right in rejecting my suit, But why did she kick me down stairs?" Halleck's...
Practical Religion - J. C. Ryle
Practical Religion - J. C. Ryle
- Author: J. C. Ryle
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The present volume contains a series of papers about "practical religion," and treats of the daily duties, dangers, experience, and privileges of all who profess and call themselves true Christians. (Summary from the preface)...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 13 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 13 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / 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....
Saint Bonaventure - Fr. Laurence Costelloe
Saint Bonaventure - Fr. Laurence Costelloe
- Author: Fr. Laurence Costelloe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Christianity - Biographies
St. Bonaventure (1221 -1274), born Giovanni di Fidanza, was an Italian medieval Franciscan, scholastic theologian and philosopher. The seventh Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor, he was also Cardinal Bishop of Albano. He was canonised on...
David Copperfield (version 3) - Charles Dickens
David Copperfield (version 3) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
David Copperfield, like all of Dickens' novels, is filled with many memorable characters (because they are hyperbolic representations of character types) from all members of society. Here we have, for example, the virtuous, but relatively poor, Mr....
The Search - Grace Livingston Hill
The Search - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Family Life / Romance / War & Military Fiction
“On the day the drafted men march away, Ruth MacDonald catches John Cameron's eye and waves to him. In the excitement of the moment they both forget the social barriers that lie between them and only remember they were schoolmates as children. From...
David and His Friends: A Series of Revival Sermons - Louis Albert Banks
David and His Friends: A Series of Revival Sermons - Louis Albert Banks
- Author: Louis Albert Banks
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This is a collection of thirty-one revival sermons, all of which were preached in the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Cleveland, Ohio, during the month of January, 1900. They were then collected and published, in order to be an inspiration and a...
Venus Has Green Eyes - Carl Selwyn
Venus Has Green Eyes - Carl Selwyn
- Author: Carl Selwyn
- Genre: Science Fiction
Flip Miller was a man about the universe, surviving one harrowing escapade after another and seeking for the lucky break that would make his fortune. Finally he had found in in a scrap of a map to a lost mine on Venus. Only he was foolish enough to...
Susan - Ernest Oldmeadow
Susan - Ernest Oldmeadow
- Author: Ernest Oldmeadow
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / General Fiction
Susan is a perfect gem of a maid until suddenly she begins to mess things ups and is so distracted that her mistress Gertrude is determined to find out what is bothering her. After much prodding Susan confesses that she has had a marriage proposal...
Georgics - Virgil
Georgics - Virgil
- Author: Virgil
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Epics
Virgil's Georgics are the second of the three major poetic works ascribed to the poet. It was published probably around 29 BC and, as the name suggests, the subject of the poem is agriculture. Divided into four books, it is also the shortest of...
The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
The Flight of the Heron - D. K. Broster
- Author: D. K. Broster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Ewen Cameron, a young and handsome Highland laird devoted to the Jacobite cause, takes the English army captain Keith Windham prisoner on the eve of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and learns that there is a prophecy that will bring them together...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 14 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 14 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / 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....
Pimpernel and Rosemary - Baroness Orczy
Pimpernel and Rosemary - Baroness Orczy
- Author: Baroness Orczy
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction
A novel in the Scarlet Pimpernel series that features Peter Blakeney, a descendant of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Peter's adventures take him to Hungary and much intrigue involving his good friend, Rosemary, Nazis, and spies ensue. - Summary by Holly...
The Living Animals of the World, Volume 1: Mammals - Various
The Living Animals of the World, Volume 1: Mammals - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Animals / Nature
The Living Animals of the Natural World, subtitled "a popular Natural History", proposed to present the most updated version of the wonders of the Animal World in a new and clearer form. It used photography instead of the traditional illustrations...
North-Pole Voyages - Zachariah Atwell Mudge
North-Pole Voyages - Zachariah Atwell Mudge
- Author: Zachariah Atwell Mudge
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography / Exploration
For more than three hundred years an intense desire has been felt by explorers to discover and reveal to the world the secrets of the immediate regions of the North Pole. Nor has this desire been confined to mere adventurers. This volume sketches...
Korea and Her Neighbors - Isabella L. BIRD
Korea and Her Neighbors - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
In this book, Isabella L. Bird, who had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society only 2 years prior, describes her travels through Korea from 1894 - 1897 in her well-known style. She went on lengthy trips through the interior of what...
Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates - Edward Keble Chatterton
Daring Deeds of Famous Pirates - Edward Keble Chatterton
- Author: Edward Keble Chatterton
- Genre: War & Military / Modern (19th C)
Edward Chatterton, a prolific British author of maritime adventures, presents fascinating stories of pirates and their exploits from earliest times through the 19th century. Chapters include the history of piracy in Tudor and Elizabethan times and...
Black'erchief Dick - Margery Allingham
Black'erchief Dick - Margery Allingham
- Author: Margery Allingham
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is noted mystery writer, Margery Allingham's first novel, written when she was just 18. It a swashbuckling novel of romance and adventure on a British island in the 17th Century - Summary by mleigh...
The Crocodile (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Crocodile (Version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Literary Fiction
Fyodor Dostoevesky's "The Crocodile," first published in 1865 in the magazine "Epoch," is the story of Ivan Matveitch, a young man who gets swallowed by a crocodile, and survives. What will life be like for him, inside the crocodile? How will his...
No More Parades - Ford Madox Ford
No More Parades - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Literary Fiction / War & Military Fiction
When No More Parades was first published in 1925, a critic in The Observer wrote of the first 100 pages that they "easily surpass in truth, brilliance and subtlety everything else that has yet been written in England about the physical circumstances...
The Green Overcoat - Hilaire Belloc
The Green Overcoat - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
This rollicking novel captures the minor moral dilemma of thin, shy, nervous, Professor Higginson, psychologist, as he comes under the eye of the enemy of his soul through an encounter with a green overcoat. The quixotic adventure that follows will...
Bible (YLT) NT 19: Epistle to the Hebrews - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) NT 19: Epistle to the Hebrews - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
An English translation that holds as closely as was possible to the original languages and idioms. (Summary by KevinS)...
