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Wild Animals At Home - Ernest Thompson Seton
Wild Animals At Home - Ernest Thompson Seton
- Author: Ernest Thompson Seton
- Genre: General / Animals / Nature
Wildlife artist Ernest Thompson Seton shares anecdotes of wild animals that he encountered in Yellowstone Park. "I have aimed to show something of the little aspects of the creatures' lives, which are those that the ordinary traveller will see; I go...
A Chinese Wonder Book - Norman Hinsdale Pitman
A Chinese Wonder Book - Norman Hinsdale Pitman
- Author: Norman Hinsdale Pitman
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Short Stories
The Chinese Wonder Book is a compilation of Chinese folk tales for children full of moral values and insightful stories of China's culture and traditions. Some of the beloved stories included in this book are "The Golden Beetle or Why the Dog Hates...
Sylvie and Bruno (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll
Sylvie and Bruno (Version 3) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Sylvie and Bruno, first published in 1889, and its second volume Sylvie and Bruno Concluded published in 1893, form the last novel by Lewis Carroll published during his lifetime. Both volumes were illustrated by Harry Furniss. The novel has two main...
A Thanksgiving Dream - Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
A Thanksgiving Dream - Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
- Author: Joseph Crosby LINCOLN
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of A Thanksgiving Dream by Joseph Crosby Lincoln. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for November 17, 2019. ------ A humorous LibriVox look at Thanksgiving. Lincoln claimed that he was satisfied with...
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7 - Giorgio VASARI
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects Vol 7 - Giorgio VASARI
- Author: Giorgio VASARI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture / Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Most Excellent Italian Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, from Cimabue to Our Times (in the original Italian, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori, e architettori da Cimabue insino a' tempi nostri) is a collection of...
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology - Various
Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 240 Contributions From the Museum of History and Technology Papers 34-44 on Science and Technology - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science / Technology & Engineering / Modern (20th C)
Part of the scholarly and scientific publications of the United States National Museum series: United States National Museum Bulletin. In these series, the Museum publishes original articles and monographs dealing with the collections and work of...
The Man of the Desert - Grace Livingston Hill
The Man of the Desert - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Westerns / Published 1900 onward / Christian Fiction
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her pony. Soon she is found by John Brownleigh, a handsome missionary who lives nearby. As he cares for her, a...
Dixie Kitten - Eva March Tappan
Dixie Kitten - Eva March Tappan
- Author: Eva March Tappan
- Genre: Animals & Nature
From the time that Dixie is a mere fluff of a kitten, domiciled in the barn, through her hardships and worries as a mother-cat, up to the proud moment of her adoption as a household pet, she is a vivid as any real tabby could be. Also, Dixie is so...
Anthology of Massachusetts Poets - William Stanley Braithwaite
Anthology of Massachusetts Poets - William Stanley Braithwaite
- Author: William Stanley Braithwaite
- Genre: Anthologies / Lyric
Poet and editor of many anthologies, William Stanley Braithwaite, gathers a collection of poems from well known and lesser known poets from Massachusetts, including many from women. The poems range from lytic poems of nature to those of more...
The Influence of Monarchs - Frederick Adams Woods
The Influence of Monarchs - Frederick Adams Woods
- Author: Frederick Adams Woods
- Genre: History / Political Science
Frederick Adams Woods presents compelling evidence to support the great man theory of history and his own category scientific inquiry known as historiometry, or the study of history. In this work, the summarised history of fourteen European nations...
Barrack-Room Ballads - Rudyard Kipling
Barrack-Room Ballads - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Single author
Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time. The poems are written in the voice and language of soldiers of that time. The collection includes some of...
The Sworn Brothers, A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland - Gunnar Gunnarsson
The Sworn Brothers, A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland - Gunnar Gunnarsson
- Author: Gunnar Gunnarsson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This is the story of the close but sometimes contentious relationship of two young Icelandic kinsman who elect to undergo the solemn ceremony of initiation into blood-brotherhood which includes blood sacrifice to the pagan gods, Odin and Thor. In...
Choice Recipes and Menus using Canned Foods - American Can Company
Choice Recipes and Menus using Canned Foods - American Can Company
- Author: American Can Company
- Genre: Cooking
American Can Company has compiled here 130 recipes featuring a broad spectrum of commercially canned foods including meats, fish, vegetables, and fruits, along with suggested menus. The introductory material gives an overview of canned foods and...
Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2) - Lewis Carroll
Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Single author
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The Snark, to lesser-known gems such as Phantasmagoria, a tale of the difficulties encountered by an...
The Freedom of the Will - Jonathan EDWARDS
The Freedom of the Will - Jonathan EDWARDS
- Author: Jonathan EDWARDS
- Genre: Christianity - Other
As religion is the great business, for which we are created, and on which our happiness depends; and as religion consists in an intercourse between ourselves and our Maker; and so has its foundation in God's nature and ours, and in the relation that...
Iphigenia - Jean Racine
Iphigenia - Jean Racine
- Author: Jean Racine
- Genre: Tragedy
Racine's version of the time-honored story of Iphigenia was acted for the first time in 1674. The model upon which it is shaped is the "Iphigenia in Aulis" of his favorite Euripides, but the French poet has heightened the romantic interest and...
Trial and Triumph - Frances E. W. HARPER
Trial and Triumph - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Religious Fiction
This novel, like two other novels that Harper serialized in The Christian Recorder, sets forth the principles which make for a meaningful, moral life. In Trial and Triumph, we follow Annette Harcourt through trials and tribulations, which test her...
Thralls of the Endless Night - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Thralls of the Endless Night - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
This is a classic story from the early days of science fiction pulp magazines. Leigh Brackett, a female author who stood with the best of them during the period, always has a quirky way of examining human behavior whether on earth or a distant...
The Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 9 - Agnes Strickland
The Lives of the Queens of England, Volume 9 - Agnes Strickland
- Author: Agnes Strickland
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The Lives of the Queens of England is a multi-volumed work attributed to Agnes Strickland, though it was mostly researched and written by her sister Elisabeth. These volumes give biographies of the queens of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066....
Saved and Kept: or How to Get Saved and How to Keep Saved - G. A. McLaughlin
Saved and Kept: or How to Get Saved and How to Keep Saved - G. A. McLaughlin
- Author: G. A. McLaughlin
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This little volume is by no means intended to be a theological work. Nor does it attempt to show the details of the Christian life. The author seeks to point out the principal means by which sincere souls may be saved and keep saved. It is intended...
Short Story Collection Vol. 092 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 092 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This collection of short stories in the English Language brings another rich compendium of old favorites fro Lord Dunsany, Guy de Maupassant, Oliver Wendell Holmes and Kate Chopin. They are joined by whimsical pieces by Colette, Fenton Johnson and...
Civil Service - Walter Ben Hare
Civil Service - Walter Ben Hare
- Author: Walter Ben Hare
- Genre: Comedy
Subtitled "An American Drama in Three Acts. A Play with a Punch." "A comedy drama of American life depicting the joys and sorrows, the heartaches and struggles and temptations of a small group of government employees working in a post office in a...
The Moon Destroyers - Monroe K. Ruch
The Moon Destroyers - Monroe K. Ruch
- Author: Monroe K. Ruch
- Genre: Science Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
The tremendous speed of the dive brought them so close that they could see the skeletons of wrecked ships piled up at the base of the precipice. The moon is not only the most prominent object in our heavens, but also an integral part of the earth....
Yellowstone Expedition of 1870 - Gustavus Cheyney Doane
Yellowstone Expedition of 1870 - Gustavus Cheyney Doane
- Author: Gustavus Cheyney Doane
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Lt. Gustavus Doane was a member of the 1870 Yellowstone Expedition led by Henry Washburn. Washburn requested military support from General Hancock of the US Army who selected Doane to lead a detail of five soldiers from Fort Ellis in Montana to...
A Christmas Hamper: Full of Pictures and Tales - Various
A Christmas Hamper: Full of Pictures and Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
This book contains stories, tales, and pictures from Christmas for little folks! - Summary by Shriya (spatel2)...
Henry James At Work - Theodora Bosanquet
Henry James At Work - Theodora Bosanquet
- Author: Theodora Bosanquet
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Literary Criticism
Bosanquet (1880-1961) was secretary or amanuensis to James from 1907 to his death in 1916. She wrote this essay (1924) eight years after his death as part of the series Hogarth Essays by the Hogarth Press. It is a narrative of her experience of his...
Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays (Version 2) - Friedrich Nietzsche
Early Greek Philosophy & Other Essays (Version 2) - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Modern
“The essays contained in this volume treat of various subjects. With the exception of perhaps one we must consider all these papers as fragments. Written during the early Seventies, and intended mostly as prefaces, they are extremely interesting,...
Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Five (1907-1909) - Mark Twain
Mark Twain in the New York Times, Part Five (1907-1909) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Literary Collections
This collection of articles by and about Mark Twain and his family was compiled by Barbara Schmidt, publisher of twainquotes.com. Included in Part Five of this chronological listing (1907-1909) are some of Twain’s short stories, speeches and...
Essays in Idleness - Agnes Repplier
Essays in Idleness - Agnes Repplier
- Author: Agnes Repplier
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Humor
Agnes Repplier was a popular and highly regarded essayist of the late 19th and early 20th century, who was also well known on the lecture circuit. Her writings are witty, erudite, and engaging. The eight essays in this collection include an homage...
The Heir At Law - George Colman the Younger
The Heir At Law - George Colman the Younger
- Author: George Colman the Younger
- Genre: Comedy
Daniel Dowlas a chandler from Gosport, transmogrified into a baron, naturally enough demands, in what consists the mighty difference between drinking his tea out of a cup, or a saucer. He has the good sense to feel his insufficiency; and, aspiring...
The Secret City - Hugh Walpole
The Secret City - Hugh Walpole
- Author: Hugh Walpole
- Genre: Travel Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
Written in the first person, The Secret City is a novel in three parts of a journey through post World War I Russia and the Revolution, during a period of Civil War and economic collapse. Our hero sets sail in 1916 and is swept up into the...
The Wind - Dorothy Scarborough
The Wind - Dorothy Scarborough
- Author: Dorothy Scarborough
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Westerns
After her mother's death, Letty is forced to move in with her only relative, cousin Bev. From the start, the naive 18-year-old finds it difficult to adjust to life in the tiny homestead of Bev and his family, and her sheltered upbringing has left...
Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy - Ruth Putnam
Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy - Ruth Putnam
- Author: Ruth Putnam
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Charles the Bold was the last Duke of Burgundy of the House of Valois. Born in 1433, his dream was to be crowned king by declaring the territory of Burgundy an independent kingdom. He increased his land through purchase and conquest, leading to...
Peveril of the Peak - Sir Walter Scott
Peveril of the Peak - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Peveril is one of Scott's Waverley novels series. It is a historical novel set in 1678 in England, and tells a story of the Popish Plot. Peveril is a Cavalier, in love with a Roundhead's daughter, but is accused of involvement with the Popish Plot....
The Black Dog and Other Stories - A. E. Coppard
The Black Dog and Other Stories - A. E. Coppard
- Author: A. E. Coppard
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Coppard was renowned for his influence on the English short story and here we present a collection, first published in 1923, featuring 18 of his best known works, including Simple Simon, the Wife of Ted Wickham and The Devil in the Churchyard....
Catena Aurea: Gospel of St. Mark - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea: Gospel of St. Mark - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
The Catena Aurea (Golden Chain) presents the commentaries of the greatest theologians (e.g. St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, etc.) of the Church as if they were having a discussion on each verse of the Bible. St. Thomas Aquinas put...
Seckatary Hawkins in Cuba - Seckatary Hawkins
Seckatary Hawkins in Cuba - Seckatary Hawkins
- Author: Seckatary Hawkins
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Seckatary Hawkins, the genial fat boy, is a favorite character with everyone who enjoys the deeds of a very real boy who manages to discover that adventure and mystery are not so very far off for one who looks for them. In Seckatary Hawkins in Cuba,...
Some Do Not... - Ford Madox Ford
Some Do Not... - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Set immediately before and during the Great War, Some Do Not... is a tale of social cruelty among the English upper classes that pits real honour against shameless duplicity and subjects its principal characters to extremes of mental suffering that...
Peaks of Shala - Rose Wilder Lane
Peaks of Shala - Rose Wilder Lane
- Author: Rose Wilder Lane
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Exploration
This book was published in 1923. From the author's own Introduction: "I would not have this book considered too seriously. It is not an attempt to untangle one thread in the Balkan snarl; it is not a study of primitive peoples; it is not a...
At Dawn And Dusk - Victor DALEY
At Dawn And Dusk - Victor DALEY
- Author: Victor DALEY
- Genre: Single author
Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocket was nearly empty. The sunshine and freedom of Australia delighted him, and, in careless, vagabond fashion...
