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The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories - Rosa Mulholland
The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly and Other Stories - Rosa Mulholland
- Author: Rosa Mulholland
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
This is a collection of 10 original ghost stories by Rosa Mulholland, published in 1880. Some only one section long; others spread out over 3 or 4 sections. Enjoy! Summary by Carolin...
The Art of Music - Volume 01: The Pre-Classic Periods - The National Society of Music
The Art of Music - Volume 01: The Pre-Classic Periods - The National Society of Music
- Author: The National Society of Music
- Genre: Music
Volume 1 in the "The Art of Music" series, published by the National Society of Music. This first volume covers the "Pre-Classic periods", from early human primitive music, through to the music of the Ancient Greeks and other ancient cultures,...
The Prelude To Adventure - Hugh Walpole
The Prelude To Adventure - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1900 onward
Olva Dune is a Cambridge undergraduate who commits a murder and at that moment feels the presence of God. In a tour de force Walpole novelizes the Francis Thompson poem The Hound of Heaven, about a fearful soul pursued by an insistently loving God....
The Abysmal Brute - Jack London
The Abysmal Brute - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Sports Fiction
Young Pat Glendon is twenty-two years old, weighs two-hundred and twenty pounds, has never drunk alcohol nor tasted tobacco and knows little of city life. He’s all muscle, moves with cat-like grace and possesses great stamina and strength acquired...
Goops and How to Be Them - Frank Gelett BURGESS
Goops and How to Be Them - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Poetry
Let me introduce a Race Void of Beauty and of Grace, Extraordinary Creatures With a Paucity of Features. Though their Forms are fashioned ill, They have Manners stranger still; For in Rudeness they're Precocious, They're Atrocious, they're...
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology - Frederick Adams Woods
Mental and Moral Heredity in Royalty. A Statistical Study in History and Psychology - Frederick Adams Woods
- Author: Frederick Adams Woods
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Frederick Adams Woods examined the biographical records and family trees of the great dynasties of Europe, judging and comparing their moral standards and intellectual aptitude to their reputation as rulers. The summarised family histories are...
Short Poetry Collection 207 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 207 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 70 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2020....
Clouds of the Autumn Night - Madison Cawein
Clouds of the Autumn Night - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Clouds of the Autumn Night by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 21, 2021. ------ A tribute to the Autumnal Equinox this week, taken from Myth and Romance Being a Book of...
The Curious Quest - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Curious Quest - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A sweet, simple tale of how friendship and honesty triumph over money. The protagonist’s pun of a name—Ernest Bliss—foreshadows the plot in which this bored young millionaire transforms his indolent self and finds love. Typical of its era (1919),...
Money and Trade Considered - John Law
Money and Trade Considered - John Law
- Author: John Law
- Genre: Business & Economics
Money and Trade Considered, With a Proposal for Supplying the Nation with Money was so much more than a mere proposal for a note-issuing bank. It was a staggeringly original work of genius which not only included proposals for new systems of...
The Wounded Soldier in the Convent - François Coppée
The Wounded Soldier in the Convent - François Coppée
- Author: François Coppée
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Wounded Soldier in the Convent by François Coppée. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 23, 2022, in honour of Coppée's 180th birthday on January 26. The poem was written in Paris during...
Rufus and Rose, or The Fortunes of Rough and Ready - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Rufus and Rose, or The Fortunes of Rough and Ready - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Here are the adventures of Rufus, an older brother caring for his sister after leaving their drunk stepfather - captured by counterfeiters - will his honesty, hard work, and luck win out? Nineteenth century New York City is the perfect backdrop for...
Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog - David Cory
Billy Bunny and Uncle Bull Frog - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. These Billy Bunny stories were first syndicated in magazines as short episodes. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
The Sunken Garden and Other Poems - Walter De la Mare
The Sunken Garden and Other Poems - Walter De la Mare
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- Genre: Single author
This fantastic adventure into the realms of the imagination is a superb example of the incomparable skill of poet Walter de la Mare. In this collection the poet explores the intersection of reality and fantasy within the context of an...
A Woman Of Yesterday - Caroline Atwater Mason
A Woman Of Yesterday - Caroline Atwater Mason
- Author: Caroline Atwater Mason
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Religious Fiction
Anna is the daughter of a clergyman in a small town in Vermont. She is very happy with her lot. But when she goes to nurse a woman in the big city, she starts to discover the world. She sees new places, meets new people, and falls in love. This will...
Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat, or, The Thrilling Adventures of Uncle Jethro: Embracing the Remarkable Episodes in a Life of Toil and Danger, on Land and Sea - E. C. Cornell
Eighty Years Ashore and Afloat, or, The Thrilling Adventures of Uncle Jethro: Embracing the Remarkable Episodes in a Life of Toil and Danger, on Land and Sea - E. C. Cornell
- Author: E. C. Cornell
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Experiences of Jethro Ripley, mainly in the Atlantic coast trade, but including an account of a whaling voyage around Cape Horn. The narrative is in the first person and is a vivid account of the seafaring life in the 1800's. Published in 1873....
In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems - Frank Oliver Call
In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems - Frank Oliver Call
- Author: Frank Oliver Call
- Genre: Single author
These magnificent poems written by a lover of the natural splendor of untrodden lands are both thrilling and exhilarating. Visions and observations of the wonders of creation are gradually unlocked and elegantly illustrated in ways hitherto...
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 - Arthur Young
Travels in France During the Years 1787, 1788, 1789 - Arthur Young
- Author: Arthur Young
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs / Early Modern
Arthur Young, an English agriculturist, set out to write a travelogue on the state of agriculture in France and found himself in the midst of the French Revolution. His report on life in the capital and in the countryside in the years 1787, 1788,...
The Third Volume - Fergus Hume
The Third Volume - Fergus Hume
- Author: Fergus Hume
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
A widely publicized and unsolved murder of five and twenty years is brought to the forefront in a best-selling novel entitled “A Whim of Fate". While Spencer Tait is looking forward to reading it, his best friend Claude Larcher, learns of the tragic...
Othello (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
Othello (Version 2) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Othello is a tragedy about the downfall of the titular hero, Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice. His cunning ensign, Iago, plots to goad his jealousy and thus manipulate his relationship with his wife, Desdemona, a noble and...
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages - Justus HECKER
The Epidemics of the Middle Ages - Justus HECKER
- Author: Justus HECKER
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
Justus Friedrich Carl Hecker (1795-1850) was a German physician and medical writer, whose research focused on the history of epidemics, in a broad sense of the term that included pandemics like the Black Death as well as the group of social...
Fairy Tales from Brazil (Version 2) - Elsie Spicer EELLS
Fairy Tales from Brazil (Version 2) - Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Author: Elsie Spicer EELLS
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of short, sweet fairy tales from Brazil, including How the Tiger Got His Stripes, and Why The Bananas Belong to the Monkey. - Summary by Beth Thomas...
In Search of Treasure - Horatio Alger, Jr.
In Search of Treasure - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Guy Fenwick is a bright boy of 16 who lives with his clergyman father near New Bedford, Massachusetts. Guy receives permission from his father to examine the contents of an old chest in the attic where Guy discovers clues to the location of a pirate...
Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life - Lyman ABBOTT
Darkness and Daylight; or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life - Lyman ABBOTT
- Author: Lyman ABBOTT
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / True Crime / Christianity - Other
A Pictorial Record of Personal Experiences by Day and Night in the Great Metropolis, with hundreds of thrilling anecdotes and incidents, sketches of life and character, humorous stories, touching home scenes, and tales of tender pathos, drawn from...
The Creed of a Credulous Person - G. K. Chesterton
The Creed of a Credulous Person - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A series of five essays by G.K. Chesterton, published in "Black and White" magazine in 1903, under the heading "The Creed of a Credulous Person". (Summary by Maria Therese)...
May Garden - John DRINKWATER
May Garden - John DRINKWATER
- Author: John DRINKWATER
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of May Garden by John Drinkwater. This was the Weekly Poetry project for May 23, 2021. ------ John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. (Summary by Wikipedia)...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 045 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 045 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, sinister cats, eerie phenomena and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of...
Legends of Saints and Sinners - Douglas Hyde
Legends of Saints and Sinners - Douglas Hyde
- Author: Douglas Hyde
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
"I have called the present volume "Legends of Saints and Sinners," which to a certain extent it is; but I mean it for a book of Irish Christian folk-lore. My idea in compiling it has been to give for the first time a collection of genuine Irish...
Hansel and Gretel - Brothers Grimm
Hansel and Gretel - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a RATHER SCARY STORY. Children and adults might be a touch frightened by Natasha’s rendering of the wicked witch who wants to cook little Hansel and Gretel. But they will also be enraptured by Hansel and Gretel’s ingenuity as they triumph...
The Jewel of Bas - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
The Jewel of Bas - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
There was a boy-God, sleeping through eternity. And there were his "Stone of Life" and the androids he had created of matter and energy. And there was a world that was to die from the machinations of the androids' diabolic minds. There were Mouse...
The Golden Fish - Brothers Grimm
The Golden Fish - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
By the Brothers Grimm Download the Golden Fish A fisherman catches a golden fish. When the fish announces that he is a prince under an evil spell, the fisherman throws him back into the sea. On his return to his hovel, his wife tells him that he...
Snow White - Brothers Grimm
Snow White - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download Snow White The tale of Snow White features one of the most fabulous baddies of all time in the form of the Wicked Queen, vainly peering into her mirror and asking - Who is the fairest of us all? Her motivations of vanity and envy are so...
The Frog Prince - Brothers Grimm
The Frog Prince - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download The Frog Prince Audio (mp3) right click, save as By the Brothers Grimm. Bertie likes stories about frogs - no doubt that's because he is one himself. It seems that many of you do too, as the Maiden and the Frog is one of our most popular...
Rumpelstiltskin - Brothers Grimm
Rumpelstiltskin - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) Original pictures for Storynory by Sophie Green. (Click pictures for full size). This story by the Brothers Grimm has so many morals, it's hard to say which one is the main theme. There is...
The Six Swans - Brothers Grimm
The Six Swans - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Click to download the mp3 audio By the Brothers Grimm In this beautiful story, a princess comes to the rescue of her brothers who have been turned into six swans. A vow of silence leaves her unable to defend herself against the most terrible...
Rapunzel - Brothers Grimm
Rapunzel - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the MP3 Audio of Rapunzel (right click, save as) By the Brothers Grimm. This wonderful story has it all: the maiden in the tower, the baby taken at birth by a wicked witch, and an enchanted but forbidden garden. In addition you can relish...
The Golden Goose - Brothers Grimm
The Golden Goose - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio of the Golden Goose This amusing tale by the Brothers Grimm tells the tale of a boy whose parents called him “Dummy.” But he can’t have been all that much of a dummy, because he found a golden goose and made all the grandest...
The Elves and the Shoemaker - Brothers Grimm
The Elves and the Shoemaker - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a short and very sweet story about a Christmas gift. In fact it’s one of the very few traditional fairy tales with a Christmas theme. A poor shoemaker receives some unexpected help just when he needs it most. When it is close to Christmas he...
The White Snake - Brothers Grimm
The White Snake - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio to your computer (right click, save as) This little known, but charming story by the Brothers Grimm is about a servant who learns to understand the speech of animals. He travels the world and does favours to creatures along the...
Old Sultan - Brothers Grimm
Old Sultan - Brothers Grimm
- Author: Brothers Grimm
- Genre: Legends & Fairy Tales
Download the audio The story of a faithful old dog told by the Brothers Grimm. One day Sultan's master decides that the dog has grown too old to be useful and decides to get rid of him. Fortunately, Sultan has a friend, the wolf, who has a plan to...
