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In the Autumn Grass - Hamlin Garland
In the Autumn Grass - Hamlin Garland
- Author: Hamlin Garland
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is the fortnightly poem for November 8, 2015....
The Outspan: Tales of South Africa - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
The Outspan: Tales of South Africa - Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Author: Sir James Percy Fitzpatrick
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
Six poignant short stories reminiscent of life as a transport rider in the Transvaal veld in the days of the gold rush in South Africa at the end of the 19th century. From an early age Fitzpatrick believed that life should be enjoyed to the full and...
Sentiment, Inc. - Poul William Anderson
Sentiment, Inc. - Poul William Anderson
- Author: Poul William Anderson
- Genre: Science Fiction
The way we feel about another person, or about objects, is often bound up in associations that have no direct connection with the person or object at all. Often, what we call a "change of heart" comes about sheerly from a change in the many...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 12 (Fables 276-284) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 7: Great Women - John Lord
Beacon Lights of History, Vol 7: Great Women - John Lord
- Author: John Lord
- Genre: History
Book Seven of the series focuses on the women of history and includes George Eliot, Joan of Arc and Madame Recamier. - Summary by KHand...
A Plain English Handbook: How to create clear SEC disclosure documents - The Securities and Exchange Commission
A Plain English Handbook: How to create clear SEC disclosure documents - The Securities and Exchange Commission
- Author: The Securities and Exchange Commission
- Genre: Reference
The Plain Writing Act of 2010 (Act) is intended to make it easy for the public to understand government documents. The SEC, like other federal agencies, must write documents in plain writing, defined under the Act as writing that is "clear, concise,...
The Roots of the Mountains - William Morris
The Roots of the Mountains - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Roots of the Mountains was the second in a projected series of three historical novels set in a pre-medieval Germanic world (the third was not completed). It follows the themes of House of the Wolfings, which was published in the same year, into...
Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde
Symphony in Yellow - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 21 recordings of Symphony in Yellow by Oscar Wilde. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 18, 2012. Oscar Wilde, an Irish author who lived for much of his life in London, is most famous for his witty, satirical...
American Indian Fairy Tales - William Trowbridge Larned
American Indian Fairy Tales - William Trowbridge Larned
- Author: William Trowbridge Larned
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Short Stories
With no written language, Native Americans living in the Lake Superior region passed their cultural identity down through the generations by way of stories. Far more than mere tales to amuse children, they passed along the collective wisdom of the...
Paradise Regain'd (version 2) - John Milton
Paradise Regain'd (version 2) - John Milton
- Author: John Milton
- Genre: Poetry / *Non-fiction / Religion
Having been publicly acknowledged as God's "beloved Son," Jesus retires to the desert to meditate upon what it means to be the Messiah, about whose coming many conflicting opinions have been circulating among the Jews. Although a learned rabbi,...
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) - Julia Ward Howe
Margaret Fuller (Marchesa Ossoli) - Julia Ward Howe
- Author: Julia Ward Howe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
A biography of the early feminist writer Margaret Fuller, a groundbreaking journalist and author of Woman in the Nineteenth Century, and one of America's first prominent feminists. The author is Julia Ward Howe, best known for writing "The Battle...
Eliza Crossing the River - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Eliza Crossing the River - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Eliza Crossing the River by Harriet Beecher Stowe. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 27th, 2014. Harriet Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin...
The Youth's Coronal - Hannah Flagg Gould
The Youth's Coronal - Hannah Flagg Gould
- Author: Hannah Flagg Gould
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry for children by Hannah Flagg Gould, containing several fables and other verses with a little moral. "Accept, then, my young Friends, this new CORONAL of the little flowers of poesy which I have woven for you. When you...
All for Love; or, The World Well Lost - John Dryden
All for Love; or, The World Well Lost - John Dryden
- Author: John Dryden
- Genre: Tragedy
All for Love is widely considered to be John Dryden's finest work, dramatic or otherwise. A tragedy written in blank verse, it retells the story of Roman general Marc Antony's love affair with the alluring Egyptian queen Cleopatra and their eventual...
Don Quixote - Madison Cawein
Don Quixote - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Madison Julius Cawein was born in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating from high school, Cawein worked in a pool hall in Louisville as a cashier in Waddill's New-market, which also served as a gambling house. He worked there for six years, saving...
The Book of Dragons - E. Nesbit
The Book of Dragons - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A dragon who flies out of a magical book; one whose purr quiets a fussy baby; another who eats an entire pack of tame hunting-hippopotomuses: These eight dragon tales are filled with the imaginative wit of children's author Edith Nesbit. (Summary by...
Far Above Rubies - George MacDonald
Far Above Rubies - George MacDonald
- Author: George MacDonald
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
Proverbs 31:10-11 says, "Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil." (KJV) With this in mind, George MacDonald gives us the short story...
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / Romance
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her...
Fires of Driftwood - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
Fires of Driftwood - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
- Author: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poetry by Canadian poet and playwright Isabel Ecclestone Mackay. Though Ms. Mackay's poetry was popular and widely published during her lifetime, her poetry is today not very well-known. Her poetry is, however, of an enduring...
Grandmother Elsie - Martha Finley
Grandmother Elsie - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Family
Change has come to Elsie's family in the 8th book of this delightful series. Her daughter, Violet, marries a naval Captain with three children of his own and the children try to adjust to life with their new step-mother and her family. - Summary by...
The Song of Wandering Aengus - William Butler Yeats
The Song of Wandering Aengus - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you eighteen different readings of The Song of Wandering Aengus, by Irish poet William Butler Yeats, to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This is Yeats in his faerie folklore vein, and he paints an evocative picture of a...
The Tale of Timothy Turtle - Arthur Scott Bailey
The Tale of Timothy Turtle - Arthur Scott Bailey
- Author: Arthur Scott Bailey
- Genre: Animals & Nature
One of Bailey's "Sleepy-Time Tales," this is the story of Timothy Turtle, a grumpy old turtle trying to live his life alongside Black Creek. Timothy's adventures lead him to encounters with other Black Creek creatures, Fatty Coon, Mr. Crow, Brownie...
The Beauty and the Monster - Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
The Beauty and the Monster - Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
- Author: Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis
- Genre: Romance
A French theatrical adaptation of the famous fairy tale, The Beauty and the Monster is a drama of three characters - Beauty (Sabina), the Beast (Phanor) and Beauty's best friend, Phedima (the third wheel). - Summary by Mary Kay Cast List: Narrator:...
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines - Isabel Anderson
The Spell of the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippines - Isabel Anderson
- Author: Isabel Anderson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Travel & Geography
Isabel Anderson has written a most interesting travelogue of Hawaii and The Philippines. Actually it is more of a history lesson. Anyone with any interest whatsoever in the South Pacific will find this book very interesting indeed, to note all that...
Lancashire - Francis Archibald Bruton
Lancashire - Francis Archibald Bruton
- Author: Francis Archibald Bruton
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Travel & Geography
The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Steering clear of the industrial districts, F. A. Bruton takes the reader on an engaging tour of the county's...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 11, January 13, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 11, January 13, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General
Harper's Young People, first published in 1879, was an illustrated weekly publication containing delightful serialized stories, short stories, fiction and nonfiction, anecdotes, jokes, artwork, craft projects, and more for children. This eleventh...
Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels - St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
Mr. Punch's Dramatic Sequels - St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
- Author: St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
- Genre: General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
A collection of short and humorous one-act "sequels" to 14 major plays (many already in the Librivox catalog). Plays end too soon. They never show the whole of what I want to know. The curtain falls and I'm perplexed with doubts about what happened...
The Phantom of the Opera (version 2) - Gaston Leroux
The Phantom of the Opera (version 2) - Gaston Leroux
- Author: Gaston Leroux
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Romance
Christine Daae was brought up in the Paris Opera house. Her musician father suddenly dies, telling her he will send her an angel of music to look after her. She grows up and discovers that she is hearing a voice, telling her and teaching her to...
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
As You Like It - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
One of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, As You Like It is a pastoral comedy of mistaken identity, wit, and love. Daughter of a banished duke and forced to flee the court, Rosalind hides in the Forest of Arden disguised as a man. When her true love...
Emma (version 3) - Jane Austen
Emma (version 3) - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Jane Austen famously described Emma Woodhouse, the title character of her 1815 novel, as "a heroine whom no-one but myself will much like." Yet generations of readers have loved Emma, as much for her blunders as for her wit and vivacity. Emma,...
Afternoon Songs - Julia Caroline Dorr
Afternoon Songs - Julia Caroline Dorr
- Author: Julia Caroline Dorr
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poems by Julia Caroline Dorr, part 5 of her collected poems. - Summary by Carolin...
Utopia of Usurers - G. K. Chesterton
Utopia of Usurers - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“Now I have said again and again (and I shall continue to say again and again on all the most inappropriate occasions) that we must hit Capitalism, and hit it hard, for the plain and definite reason that it is growing stronger. Most of the excuses...
The Outcast - (William) Winwood Reade
The Outcast - (William) Winwood Reade
- Author: (William) Winwood Reade
- Genre: Literary Fiction
For many nineteenth-century Christians, the new biological and geological discoveries of that era brought on severe crises of faith. Winwood Reade’s small epistolary novel “The Outcast” tells the story of a young man who sacrifices love and family...
Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne - Michael Field
Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne - Michael Field
- Author: Michael Field
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
This Fortnightly Poem is taken from Underneath the Bough, A Book of Verses by Michael Field. - Summary by David Lawrence...
Days with the Great Composers - May Gillington Byron
Days with the Great Composers - May Gillington Byron
- Author: May Gillington Byron
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Music
An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, but interestingly. (Summary by David Wales) Note: This is a compilation of three books, each describing three...
In the Cage - Henry James
In the Cage - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: General Fiction
In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits...
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1849 - 1856) - Millard Fillmore
State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1849 - 1856) - Millard Fillmore
- Author: Millard Fillmore
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
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...
Following the Color Line - Ray Stannard Baker
Following the Color Line - Ray Stannard Baker
- Author: Ray Stannard Baker
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Subtitled "An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy", we are presented an in-depth and essentially non-opinionated open view of race relations as they existed in the U.S. in 1908, more than 40 years following the end of the Civil...
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2) - Booker T. Washington
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography (version 2) - Booker T. Washington
- Author: Booker T. Washington
- Genre: Memoirs
Up from Slavery is the 1901 autobiography of Booker T. Washington sharing his personal experience of having to work to rise up from the position of a slave child during the Civil War, to the difficulties and obstacles he overcame to get an education...
Wet Magic - E. Nesbit
Wet Magic - E. Nesbit
- Author: E. Nesbit
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A book about children who find magic in every day life .. and discover that mermen and mermaids actually have a whole underwater kingdom with Kings and Queens and of course Princesses. Of course you probably know these delightful children from their...
