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A Winter of Content - Laura Lee Davidson
A Winter of Content - Laura Lee Davidson
- Author: Laura Lee Davidson
- Genre: Memoirs
A charming memoir recounting 10 months spent among the country people of Ontario at the outbreak of the Great War. Resplendent in its descriptions and heartwarming in its depictions of the 'simple' folk living along Many Islands Lake. - Summary by...
The Curtiss Aviation Book - Glenn Curtiss
The Curtiss Aviation Book - Glenn Curtiss
- Author: Glenn Curtiss
- Genre: Transportation
Glenn Hammond Curtiss, of Hammondsport, New York, won the Scientific American Trophy for the first pre-announced and officially witnessed airplane flight in North America when he flew his plane, the June Bug, 5,080 ft on July 4, 1908. In 1910, he...
Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy - The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity
Report on Securing and Growing the Digital Economy - The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity
- Author: The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity
- Genre: Technology & Engineering
President Obama formed The President's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity on April 13, 2016 to develop a plan for protecting cyberspace and America's economic reliance upon it. The commission's final report was released in December 2016....
Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende - Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon
Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende - Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon
- Author: Jean-Bernard Mary-Lafon
- Genre: Sagas
Taulat de Rugimon arrives at the court of King Arthur and stabs one of Arthur's knights. Jaufry, a young and ambitious knight, sets off in pursuit to avenge the insult to Arthur's court. After a series of bizarre adventures, Jaufry catches up with...
Delia Blanchflower - Mary Augusta Ward
Delia Blanchflower - Mary Augusta Ward
- Author: Mary Augusta Ward
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Delia Blanchflower’s father has died, leaving her a considerable inheritance. However, she has become caught up in the militant wing of the Suffragist movement and has come under the spell of Gertrude Marvell, one of the leaders of the movement....
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 3) - William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 3) - William Blake
- Author: William Blake
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction
The short, simple lines of these delicate poems resemble song lyrics, emphasizing the concrete but hinting at transcendent realities, although a few deal with abstractions directly. Many voices are heard: of children (once possibly a fetus),...
The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography - Silas Weir Mitchell
The Youth of Washington: Told in the Form of an Autobiography - Silas Weir Mitchell
- Author: Silas Weir Mitchell
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Departing from the usual third person narratives of biographies, this account is told in the first person as the reminiscences of a now retired George Washington. Reflecting on his days as a youth, he relates his family history, education, and...
Molly Brown's Senior Days - Nell Speed
Molly Brown's Senior Days - Nell Speed
- Author: Nell Speed
- Genre: Family Life / Published 1900 onward
This novel is the fourth in a series of eight books written about Miss Molly Brown of Kentucky during her education at Wellington College in the early years of the 1900's. - Summary by Lynda Marie Neilson...
Base-Ball: How to Become a Player - John Montgomery Ward
Base-Ball: How to Become a Player - John Montgomery Ward
- Author: John Montgomery Ward
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Sports & Recreation
Base-Ball: How to Become a Player is a brief history of the game of baseball, with an explanation of the rules and positions. During the audio, reference is made to the "cuts" -- pictures of players, the baseball field, and balls. You can find these...
Bransford Of Rainbow Range - Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Bransford Of Rainbow Range - Eugene Manlove Rhodes
- Author: Eugene Manlove Rhodes
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Westerns / Published 1900 onward
A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In Wonderland. What kind of young man do we have here? And a young woman who matches him without effort? And a...
Lorelei of the Red Mist - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Lorelei of the Red Mist - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Ray Starke, a small time criminal, crashes his shuttle while trying to escape pursuit after robbing a payroll worth millions of credits. When he comes to there is an alien woman telling him he's dying but she will put his consciousness in another...
Grandpa's Darlings - Pansy
Grandpa's Darlings - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction / Christianity - Other
Fiction, or fact? The narrator asserts it's fact. The narrator is an author, whom her little nieces call "Auntie Belle". There's also an "Auntie Dule" (proper name Julia), Grandpa and Grandma, Mama and Papa, and eventually an Uncle Ross (Isabella...
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 47-56 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 47-56 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Sermons 47 through 56 cover the Gospel According to Saint Luke 9:1-56. - Summary by the Reader...
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft - Sir Walter Scott
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Letters
A series of letters written by Scott on the history of witchcraft and other supernatural events in England and other locations. He documents stories and discredits them with natural causes. (Summary by Deon Gines)...
The Life of Washington, Volume 3 - John James Marshall
The Life of Washington, Volume 3 - John James Marshall
- Author: John James Marshall
- Genre: War & Military
Volume 3 of The Life continues the Revolutionary War from the incursion into Jersey in 1778 to its conclusion with the surrender of Lord Cornwallis in 1781 at Yorktown, with emphasis on the role of George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the United...
My Hundred Favorite Recipes - Mary Blake
My Hundred Favorite Recipes - Mary Blake
- Author: Mary Blake
- Genre: Cooking
This is a collection of recipes all featuring Carnation Milk from soups and salads to bread and desserts. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Our Street - William Makepeace Thackeray
Our Street - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Written as an autobiographical sketch of a Mr. M.A. Titmarsh, Our Street is a tongue-in-cheek look at English society and the characters who live in the street where he finds himself. It is the second of five "Christmas Books" written by Thackeray...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 054 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 054 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Citadel of the Green Death - Robert Emmett McDowell
Citadel of the Green Death - Robert Emmett McDowell
- Author: Robert Emmett McDowell
- Genre: Science Fiction
At the coldly gleaming Experimental Station they flung this choice in Outlaw Joel Hakkyt's teeth: "Grinding, endless slavery on Asgard, that Alpha Centauri hell—or a writhing, screaming guinea-pig's death here?" He chose Asgard, naturally. But what...
The Woman Movement - Ellen Key
The Woman Movement - Ellen Key
- Author: Ellen Key
- Genre: History / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Ellen Key's 'The Woman movement' follows the development of the feminist movement striving towards a greater emancipation of women in the public sphere and overcoming the traditional perception of gendered activities. The Swedish feminist and this...
The Charing Cross Mystery - J. S. Fletcher
The Charing Cross Mystery - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Here's another intriguing mystery by J. S. Fletcher, centering on why a former high-level police official was murdered, and on whether - and if so how - the murder was linked to two glamorous and high-profile sisters, one of whose photo was found in...
The Mountebank - William John Locke
The Mountebank - William John Locke
- Author: William John Locke
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Andrew Lackaday, an English orphan, was born and brought up in a French circus. He becomes a highly skilled mimic and juggler. He plies his trade all round the country in company with his assistant Elodie, a Marseillaise. The Great War comes and he...
An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay - Grant Allen
An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay - Grant Allen
- Author: Grant Allen
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
"My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and famous financier. Many years ago, when Charlie Vandrift was a small lawyer in Cape Town, I had the (qualified) good...
Short Story Collection Vol. 089 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 089 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Our 89th Short Story Collection is of exceptionally high quality. In addition to perennial favorites, such as Kate Chopin and Mark Twain, our Librivox readers have delved into the more esoteric, with a translation of a Polish tale, a story by...
Overruled - George Bernard Shaw
Overruled - George Bernard Shaw
- Author: George Bernard Shaw
- Genre: Romance
This is a short one act comedy by Shaw which involves two couples on a cruise who both need help figuring out their relationships. (Summary by Michele Eaton) Cast: Narrator:MichaelMaggs Mrs Lunn: wib66 Mrs Juno: qthemusic123 Gregory Lunn: Hamlet...
The Maxims of Methuselah - Frank Gelett BURGESS
The Maxims of Methuselah - Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Author: Frank Gelett BURGESS
- Genre: Humor
Being the Advice given by the Patriarch in his Nine Hundred Sixty and Ninth Year to his Great Grandson at Shem's Coming of Age, in Regard to Women. The following is, so far as I know, the only authentic rendering into the English language of the...
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 04 January 1897 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 04 January 1897 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This...
A Class-Book of Old Testament History - George Frederick Maclear
A Class-Book of Old Testament History - George Frederick Maclear
- Author: George Frederick Maclear
- Genre: Antiquity / Christianity - Other
This is classic book by scholar, educator, theologian and preacher George Frederick Maclear, headmaster of King's College School, London, and later warden of St. Augustine's Missionary College, Canterbury. Each short chapter is a nugget of events...
Where She Told Her Love - John Clare
Where She Told Her Love - John Clare
- Author: John Clare
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Where She Told Her Love by John Clare. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 31, 2021. ------ John Clare was an English poet. This Weekly poem is taken from Poems Chiefly From Manuscript by...
The Great Gatsby (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby (version 2) - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's...
Pussy Black-Face: The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends - Marshall Saunders
Pussy Black-Face: The Story of a Kitten and Her Friends - Marshall Saunders
- Author: Marshall Saunders
- Genre: Animals & Nature
"My name is Pussy Black-Face, and I am a naughty young kitten. I wish I were good like my mother. She is the best cat that I ever saw. I try to be like her, and sometimes I succeed, but most times I don't." From the start of this darling book about...
A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months - Thomas Hood
A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months - Thomas Hood
- Author: Thomas Hood
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of A Parental Ode to My Son, Aged Three Years and Five Months by Thomas Hood. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 26, 2020. ----- A father is trying to write a poem to his son, but the...
The Newcomes - William Makepeace Thackeray
The Newcomes - William Makepeace Thackeray
- Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family was written in serial form in 1854- 1855 by the author of such works as Vanity Fair, The Book Of Snobs. It tells the story of a few generations of the Newcome family: their rise to respectability,...
The Fundamentals Volume 1 - G. Campbell Morgan
The Fundamentals Volume 1 - G. Campbell Morgan
- Author: G. Campbell Morgan
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Fundamentals: A Testimony To The Truth (generally referred to simply as The Fundamentals) is a set of ninety essays published between 1910 and 1915 by the Testimony Publishing Company of Chicago. According to its foreword, the publication was...
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution - John Dryden Kuser
Haiti: Its Dawn of Progress after Years in a Night of Revolution - John Dryden Kuser
- Author: John Dryden Kuser
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Modern (20th C)
This book is part history and part travelogue, an account of a brief visit by a wealthy, white U.S. politician during a lamentable time in Haiti’s history of its invasion and occupation by the U.S. military. Dryden offers his views of elements of...
If You Touch Them They Vanish - Gouverneur Morris
If You Touch Them They Vanish - Gouverneur Morris
- Author: Gouverneur Morris
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
"No man who has not endured solitude in long doses knows how vivid, real, and necessary people and things of the imagination may become." (from the book). The touching story of a wrongly convicted youth with a creative imagination. - Summary by...
Dido, the Dancing Bear: His Many Adventures - Richard Barnum
Dido, the Dancing Bear: His Many Adventures - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
One of the Kneetime Animal Stories for children, Dido the Dancing Bear may seem unethical today, but when it was written in 1916, such spectacles were a relatively common and "harmless" entertainment, In this story, we follow Dido as he is caught,...
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume III - Justin McCarthy
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume III - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Modern (19th C)
Volume III of this history of Victorian Britain begins in 1856 with the gunboat diplomacy of the Second Opium War and then moves to the harrowing days of the Indian (Sepoy) Rebellion of 1857. In June 1858, Benjamin Disraeli secures passage of the...
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 052 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 052 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Tom Swift and His War Tank (Version 2) - Victor Appleton
Tom Swift and His War Tank (Version 2) - Victor Appleton
- Author: Victor Appleton
- Genre: Science Fiction / Action & Adventure
Tanks are a new wartime technology, and as the US enters WWI, Tom uses his skills and his family's factory to secretly design and build a bigger, better tank, able to travel at twice the speed of British models, with heavier armor plating, ability...
