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Past Days - Anne Brontë
Past Days - Anne Brontë
- Author: Anne Brontë
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 12 recordings of Past Days by Emily Brontë . This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 28th, 2010 Anne Brontë was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family. She wrote a volume...
Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe's Second Year at Overton College - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: General Fiction
The four series follow Grace Harlowe and her friends through high school, college, abroad during World War I, and on adventures around America. In The High School Girls Series, Grace attends Oakdale High School with friends Anne Pierson, Nora...
Common Sense, How to Exercise It - Yoritomo Tashi
Common Sense, How to Exercise It - Yoritomo Tashi
- Author: Yoritomo Tashi
- Genre: Philosophy
One of three seminal philosophical works by the twelfth century Japanese Shogun, Yoritomo-Tashi. (From the Preface) He knows how to clothe his teachings in fable and appealing legend, and his exotic soul, so near and yet so far, reminds one of a...
The Life of Nelson - Robert Southey
The Life of Nelson - Robert Southey
- Author: Robert Southey
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography
In 1813, the year that he was appointed Poet Laureate, Robert Southey published "The Life of Nelson". Horatio, Lord Viscount Nelson was Britain's greatest Naval hero who had been killed during the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 during which he had...
The History of London - Walter Besant
The History of London - Walter Besant
- Author: Walter Besant
- Genre: History / Travel & Geography
Walter Besant was a novelist and historian, and his topographical and historical writings, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, were probably best known through the detailed 10-volume Survey of London published after his...
The Kitten's Garden of Verses - Oliver Herford
The Kitten's Garden of Verses - Oliver Herford
- Author: Oliver Herford
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Poetry
The Kitten's Garden of Verses is a book of short poetry, modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Of course, the poems in this book are intended for kittens rather than children! (Summary by Rachel)...
History of Holland - George Edmundson
History of Holland - George Edmundson
- Author: George Edmundson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
The title, "History of Holland," given to this volume is fully justified by the predominant part which the great maritime province of Holland took in the War of Independence and throughout the whole of the subsequent history of the Dutch state and...
Brenda, Her School and Her Club - Helen Leah Reed
Brenda, Her School and Her Club - Helen Leah Reed
- Author: Helen Leah Reed
- Genre: General Fiction
"Brenda was used to getting her own way. Her parents and older sisters spoiled her, her friends followed her lead, servants obeyed her, and she was truly beautiful. That was so, until her cousin Julia (who is everything that she is not) came to live...
Summer - Edith Wharton
Summer - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The story is one of only two novels by Wharton to be set in New England. The novel details the sexual awakening of its protagonist, Charity Royall, and shares many plot similarities with Wharton's better known novel, Ethan Frome. Only moderately...
Lady Byron Vindicated - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Lady Byron Vindicated - Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
In 1869, the Atlantic published Stowe's article, The True Story Of Lady Byron's Life, a brief exposé of the famous poet Lord Byron's sordid private life which had led to a separation from his wife and drove him out of England, as told to her by Lady...
The Land of the Broads - Ernest Richard Suffling
The Land of the Broads - Ernest Richard Suffling
- Author: Ernest Richard Suffling
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The Broads area of Norfolk and Suffolk is in the East Anglian region of England. It is the location of Britain's third largest inland waterway system and largest protected wetland area. Many examples of rare flora and fauna are found only in this...
Tobogganing - Hattie Howard
Tobogganing - Hattie Howard
- Author: Hattie Howard
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"This author's verse shows a hearty, wholesome, human spirit, sometimes overflowing into downright fun, and a straightforward directness always. It is a pleasant book, sure to be welcomed by all." (EXTRACTS FROM PRESS NOTICES OF A FORMER VOLUME.)...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 015 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 015 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works / Anthologies
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 015: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Invasion - William Le Queux
The Invasion - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / War & Military Fiction
This novel, also known as The Invasion of 1910, is a 1906 novel written mainly by William Le Queux (with H. W. Wilson providing the naval chapters). It is one of the more famous examples of Invasion literature and is an example of pre-World War I...
My Airships: The Story of My Life - Alberto Santos-Dumont
My Airships: The Story of My Life - Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Author: Alberto Santos-Dumont
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The delightful tale of "le petit Santos" as he dances through the sky above the City of Light at the dawn of the aerial age. A note to the listener: Throughout this story the author makes several references to helpful figures and illustrations....
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
The Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner
- Author: Olive Schreiner
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The novel details the lives of three characters, first as children and then as adults - Waldo, Em and Lyndall - who live on a farm in the Karoo region of South Africa. The story is set in the middle- to late Nineteenth century - the First Boer War...
Short Poetry Collection 195 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 195 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 44 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for August 2019....
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Edith Œnone Somerville
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. - Edith Œnone Somerville
- Author: Edith Œnone Somerville
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
This is the first of three novels which Edith Somerville and her cousin Violet Martin wrote about the English Major Sinclair Yates who leaves the army to take up a position of Resident Magistrate in the West of Ireland in about 1895. The tales tell...
The Crofton Boys - Harriet Martineau
The Crofton Boys - Harriet Martineau
- Author: Harriet Martineau
- Genre: Children's Fiction
Children's Fictional Novel; an historic testament to family and school life in the 1800's; a mesmerizing and touching piece about a young boy's school experience, fun and spirited but which also includes the topic of bullying, relevant still....
Bible (KJV) 17: Esther (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 17: Esther (version 2 Dramatic Reading) - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / King James Version
The seventeenth book of the King James Bible, Esther recounts a tale of two queens. Queen Vashti is the loveliest woman in the land, but when she refuses to come to her husband's banquet, she is banished from the kingdom. Hadassah is called to take...
The Faerie Queene Book 4 - Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene Book 4 - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Poetry
"The Fovrth Book of the Faerie Queene contayning the Legende of Cambel and Telamond or of Friendship."The Faerie Queene was never completed, but it continues to be one of the most beautiful and important works of literature ever written. Spenser...
The Marvels of Divine Grace - Alice Lady Lovat
The Marvels of Divine Grace - Alice Lady Lovat
- Author: Alice Lady Lovat
- Genre: *Non-fiction
These are Alice Lady Lovat's meditations on the treatise "Del Aprecio y Estima de la Divina Gracia," written by the prolific Roman Catholic theologian and mystic Juan Eusebio Nieremberg, S.J. (1595-1658). Nieremberg's treatise was published in 1638...
Make Mine Homogenized (Version 2) - Rick Raphael
Make Mine Homogenized (Version 2) - Rick Raphael
- Author: Rick Raphael
- Genre: Science Fiction
Just sixty miles from ground zero in Nevada there lies Circle T Ranch run by Hetty Thompson the owner, Barney Hatfield the farmhand, and Johnny Culpepper the assistant manager. It was just another ordinary ranch until, that is, the two cows and the...
Riverdale Stories: A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic
Riverdale Stories: A Story for Little Folks - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: General
A compilation of stories of the children of Riverdale who learn life lessons of how to be kind, polite, and helpful as they grow up. Written by William Taylor Adams under the pen name "Oliver Optic."...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 019 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 019 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Orestes - Euripides
Orestes - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
In accordance with the advice of the god Apollo, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands. Despite Apollo’s earlier prophecy, Orestes finds himself tormented by Erinyes or Furies to the...
The Black Fawn - Jim Kjelgaard
The Black Fawn - Jim Kjelgaard
- Author: Jim Kjelgaard
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
Bud Sloan was an orphan who had been 'sold out' of the orphanage to work on a farm once he'd been old enough to labor. The farm where he was to work was owned by an aging farmer and his wife who had raised a large family and were now left alone. One...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 007 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 007 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
Librivox’s Children’s Short Works Collection 007: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Annals Vol 2 - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Annals Vol 2 - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Genre: Antiquity
The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius and books...
How Betsey and I Made Up - Will Carleton
How Betsey and I Made Up - Will Carleton
- Author: Will Carleton
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of How Betsey and I Made Up by Will Carleton. This was the fortnightly poetry project for May 3rd, 2009....
Mudfog and Other Sketches - Charles Dickens
Mudfog and Other Sketches - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
The Mudfog Papers was written by Victorian era novelist Charles Dickens and published from 1837–38 in the monthly literary serial Bentley's Miscellany, which he then edited. They were first published as a book as 'The Mudfog Papers and Other...
Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet - Harold L. Goodwin
Rip Foster Rides the Gray Planet - Harold L. Goodwin
- Author: Harold L. Goodwin
- Genre: Action & Adventure
"Foster, Lieutenant, R. I. P.," blared the voice horn, and five minutes later Rip Foster was off into space on an assignment more exciting than any he had ever imagined. He could hardly believe his ears. Could a green young Planeteer, just through...
Historical Tales, Vol II: American II - Charles McLean Andrews
Historical Tales, Vol II: American II - Charles McLean Andrews
- Author: Charles McLean Andrews
- Genre: General / History
Volume II of a series containing anecdotes and stories, some well-known, others less so, of particular countries. This second volume supplements the first with additional stories of the discovery, colonization, founding, and early years of the...
The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy
The Well-Beloved - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction
'The Well-Beloved' tells the story of Jocelyn Pierston and his love for three generations of women - the grandmother, her daughter and grand-daughter over a period of forty years. Pierston is seeking for perfection in his choice of lover and in...
The Secret Mark - Roy J. Snell
The Secret Mark - Roy J. Snell
- Author: Roy J. Snell
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Student Lucile Tucker works part-time at the library of the large university she attends in Chicago to help pay her tuition. One night, while closing the library for the evening, she glimpses a small child – a girl – in the stacks. Carefully...
Ballads and Poems - Dora Sigerson Shorter
Ballads and Poems - Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Author: Dora Sigerson Shorter
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by Dora Sigerson Shorter. This volume contains seven of Ms. Shorter's Ballads, a series of miscellaneous poems, and finally two narrative poems. While the topics of the poems and ballads are all unique, many of them share...
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (version 2) - Howard R. Garis
Uncle Wiggily's Fortune (version 2) - Howard R. Garis
- Author: Howard R. Garis
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Howard Garis, one of the most prolific children's writers of the 20th century, is credited with writing over 1500 Uncle Wiggily stories, originally appearing in the Saturday Evening Post. In this collection, we have 31 more charming bedtime stories...
4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott - Louisa May Alcott
4 Stories by Louisa May Alcott - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Here are four delightful short stories written by the famous author specifically for girls. As she says in the tiny preface "These stories were written for my own amusement during a period of enforced seclusion. The flowers which were my solace and...
The Abandoned Room - Wadsworth Camp
The Abandoned Room - Wadsworth Camp
- Author: Wadsworth Camp
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The mystery of a secret room, scene of many murders, is unraveled by Carlos Paredes, the Panamanian Sherlock Holmes. (Summary by manybooks.net)...
This, That, and the Other - Hilaire Belloc
This, That, and the Other - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
“When Fame comes upon a man well before death then must he most particularly beware of it, for is it then most dangerous. Neither must he, having achieved it, relax effort nor (a much greater peril) think he has done his work because some Fame now...
