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Royal Romances of Today - Kellogg Durland
Royal Romances of Today - Kellogg Durland
- Author: Kellogg Durland
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
"In the year 1907, the Woman’s Home Companion commissioned me to go to Russia to write the story of the early days, courtship and marriage of her whom the world knows to-day as the 'Tsaritsa,' The following year, the same periodical sent me to Italy...
The Indians in Wisconsin's History - John M. Douglass
The Indians in Wisconsin's History - John M. Douglass
- Author: John M. Douglass
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Early Modern
Pre-European arrival history of Wisconsin's Native American tribes, with discussions of their way of life, crafts, clothing, shelter, hunting, fishing and farming. Their activity and battles during French, British and U.S. rule of the territory....
Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind - William Hanna Thomson
Brain and Personality, or the Physical Relations of the Brain to the Mind - William Hanna Thomson
- Author: William Hanna Thomson
- Genre: Psychology / Life Sciences
One of the earlier works on brain science, relating what was then known or conjectured about the connection between the physical brain and the individual personality, including the ability of speech and language. As this is an early work (1910),...
Grace Harlowe with the Yankee Shock Boys at St. Quentin - Jessie Graham Flower
Grace Harlowe with the Yankee Shock Boys at St. Quentin - Jessie Graham Flower
- Author: Jessie Graham Flower
- Genre: Children's Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Grace Harlowe with the Yankee Shock Boys at St. Quentin finds Grace an active participant in that most brilliant single achievement of the war, the breaking of the Hindenburg Line. (Summary by author, from "Grace Harlowe with the American Army on...
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Genre: Literary Fiction
"Mrs. Dalloway" recounts a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in the middle of June 1923. Clarissa Dalloway is a high society London lady. On that day, she is hosting a party, meeting people, going to the park, and reflecting on her choices. Where...
Birds, Vol. III, No 5, May 1898 - Various
Birds, Vol. III, No 5, May 1898 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature & Animal Fiction / Poetry / Nature
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds with accompanying color plates. The magazine was published from...
Studies in Stagecraft - Clayton Hamilton
Studies in Stagecraft - Clayton Hamilton
- Author: Clayton Hamilton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Performing Arts
A companion piece to Hamilton's earlier work, The Theory of the Theatre. Where that volume dealt with the criticism of dramatic art in general, this volume focuses more specifically on the contemporary drama of the era in which it was written. -...
Short Story Collection Vol. 088 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 088 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
Once more, we bring you a stellar collection of short stories, selected and read by Librivox readers. Joining regular favorites, such as Kate Chopin and Charles Dickens, we bring you Alexander Pushkin, Henry Iliowizi and Thomas Bailey Aldrich, among...
Virgin Soil Volume 2 - Ivan Turgenev
Virgin Soil Volume 2 - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The second volume of Turgenev's last novel sees social change bubbling up into conflict with the established order and interacting with the fates of the characters, testing their resolve and motivations to the limit. The publication being read is...
What Happened Then Stories - Ruth O. Dyer
What Happened Then Stories - Ruth O. Dyer
- Author: Ruth O. Dyer
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Have you ever wondered what happens after the story ended? Ruth O. Dyer answers that question using some of the best loved children stories. Children and adults alike will have their curiosity satisfied by discovering just what happened after the...
The Motor Pirate - George Sidney Paternoster
The Motor Pirate - George Sidney Paternoster
- Author: George Sidney Paternoster
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Fantastic Fiction
Of course every one has heard of the Motor Pirate. No one indeed could help doing so unless he or she, as the case may be, happened to be in some part of the world where newspapers never penetrate; since for months his doings were the theme of every...
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd - D. H. Lawrence
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Family Life / Plays
Mrs. Holroyd is married to a loutish miner, who drinks, apparently patronizes prostitutes, and apparently brutalizes her. When a gentlemanly neighbor makes romantic advances to her, she wishes her husband dead. - Summary by Michele Eaton Cast List:...
Pollyanna's Jewels - Harriet Lummis SMITH
Pollyanna's Jewels - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: Family
In this fourth "Glad Book", Pollyanna returns to her public, no longer the young bride struggling with the problems of housekeeping and homemaking for her beloved Jimmie, but the proud mother of three healthy active children - her "Jewels" - who...
Into the Frozen South - James W. S. Marr
Into the Frozen South - James W. S. Marr
- Author: James W. S. Marr
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Exploration
James Marr was a Boy Scout selected to go along with Sir Ernest Shackleton aboard the Quest in 1921 for the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition to Antarctica. This book provides a description of what would be Shackleton's last exploration due to his...
The Empresses of Constantinople - Joseph Martin McCabe
The Empresses of Constantinople - Joseph Martin McCabe
- Author: Joseph Martin McCabe
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / History
In concluding an earlier volume on the mistresses of the western Roman Empire I observed that, as the gallery of fair and frail ladies closed, we stood at the door of “the long, quaint gallery of the Byzantine Empresses.” It seemed natural and...
My Flirtations - Ella Hepworth DIXON
My Flirtations - Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Author: Ella Hepworth DIXON
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Many novels, most notably Hannah Webster's The Coquette, focused on how terrible it is for a woman to flirt before her marriage. "I did not speak 20 sentences before sir Robert proposed to me", explained Lady Bidulph while teaching her daughter how...
Three Science Fiction Novellas by Leigh Brackett - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Three Science Fiction Novellas by Leigh Brackett - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
ENCHANTRESS OF VENUS: Laughing, she cast him down into the hideous depths, beneath the seas of flaming gas, to where dead blossoms swayed, whispering, over strangely jumbled ruins.... But there he found the secret of her power, and came surging...
The Benson Murder Case - A Philo Vance Story - S. S. Van Dine
The Benson Murder Case - A Philo Vance Story - S. S. Van Dine
- Author: S. S. Van Dine
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Benson Murder Case – A Philo Vance Story is the first of a series of twelve popular mysteries set in New York during the Jazz Age. S. S. Van Dine is the nom de plume of prominent art critic, and member of New York’s avant-garde, W. H. Wright. He...
Greek Athletics - Frederick Adam WRIGHT
Greek Athletics - Frederick Adam WRIGHT
- Author: Frederick Adam WRIGHT
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Sports & Recreation / Antiquity
The history of Greek athletics as it pertains to the Olympics. Describes various activities such as boxing, wrestling, etc. and accounts from witnesses, the Iliad, etc. as they pertain to famous Greeks and events. He discusses Greek views of...
Tales of Unrest (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
Tales of Unrest (version 2) - Joseph Conrad
- Author: Joseph Conrad
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Single Author Collections
A brave Malay chieftain suffers from a surprising vulnerability. After giving birth to a series of unfortunate children, a farmer's wife is determined to bear no more. A spoonful of sugar brings a neophyte ivory trader to a moment of Nietzschean...
The Shipwreck - William Falconer
The Shipwreck - William Falconer
- Author: William Falconer
- Genre: Poetry
A semi-autobiographical poem in three cantos recounts the wreck of the merchant ship Britannia. Written by William Falconer, a seaman of some experience, who survived one shipwreck himself with only two others of the 50 man crew and eventually...
The Shepherd of Hermas - Hermas
The Shepherd of Hermas - Hermas
- Author: Hermas
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Shepherd of Hermas is a Christian work likely from the late first half of the second century. It was considered inspired scripture by some of the early Church fathers such as Irenaeus and Origen, but not Tertullian. The Shepherd was very popular...
Weird Crimes - Seabury Quinn
Weird Crimes - Seabury Quinn
- Author: Seabury Quinn
- Genre: True Crime
Seabury Quinn presents in a series of articles within the pages of Weird Tales magazine various macabre and strange crimes perpetrated throughout history. - summary by Ben Tucker...
The Turn of the Screw (Version 3) - Henry James
The Turn of the Screw (Version 3) - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Gothic Fiction
A gothic, ghost story, you are a jury of one. Is the Governess correct in her assumptions that her charges, two adorable and exemplary children, Miles and Flora are victims of malevolent spirits? As the story unfolds it gets darker and more...
Sunshine - Walter Ben Hare
Sunshine - Walter Ben Hare
- Author: Walter Ben Hare
- Genre: Comedy
Ye lords and ladies who have gathered here to see our little comedy of cheer, I bid you welcome to the Sunshine play, And hope 'twill drive your troubles all away. This delightful comedy is sure to brighten your day as we join an amusing group of...
The Blind Musician - Vladimir Korolenko
The Blind Musician - Vladimir Korolenko
- Author: Vladimir Korolenko
- Genre: General Fiction
In this sketch, called by Korolenko “a psychological study,” the author has attempted to analyze the inner life of the blind. He has undertaken to lay before the reader not only the psychological processes in the mind of the blind, but their...
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation Version 2) - The Gawain Poet
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Weston Translation Version 2) - The Gawain Poet
- Author: The Gawain Poet
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Christian Fiction
This poem celebrates Christmas by exploring the mystery of Christ's mission on earth: his death, resurrection, and second coming as judge of all human souls. Sir Gawain is cast in the role of Everyman. At the feast of the New Year, an unarmed green...
The Unseen Ear - Natalie Sumner LINCOLN
The Unseen Ear - Natalie Sumner LINCOLN
- Author: Natalie Sumner LINCOLN
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Judith Richards is seated alone in her father's library at midnight, when a man enters, rifles her father's safe, and is examining his loot when a steel blade darts thru the portières, pierces him and he falls dead to the floor. Judith meanwhile has...
The Reformation Collection Volume 3 - Various
The Reformation Collection Volume 3 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This volume of the Reformation collection, begins with John Calvin's summary of the contents for the Bible from the preface to the Geneva Bible. Catherine Parr, last wife of Henry VIII, contributes her "Prayers or Meditations", intended as a...
The Forest Reverie - Edgar Allan Poe
The Forest Reverie - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Forest Reverie by Edgar Allan Poe. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 2, 2022. ----- Whilst Edgar Poe was editor of the Broadway Journal, some poems were published over the signature of...
Bacchides: or, The Twin Sisters - Titus Maccius Plautus
Bacchides: or, The Twin Sisters - Titus Maccius Plautus
- Author: Titus Maccius Plautus
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Comedy
Twin sisters, separated at birth to different lands. Later, Mnesilochus falls in love with one of them, only to see his friend Pistoclerus apparently with her. Great complications abound. Eventually all is explained and everyone joins together to...
The Nebuly Coat - John Meade FALKNER
The Nebuly Coat - John Meade FALKNER
- Author: John Meade FALKNER
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Westray, a young architect, is sent to the town of Cullerne to oversee repairs to the tower of the minster there. He lodges in the town in the house of a gentlewoman who has seen better days. A fellow lodger is Sharnall, the church organist, who is...
The Calumet Book of Oven Triumphs! - General Foods Corporation
The Calumet Book of Oven Triumphs! - General Foods Corporation
- Author: General Foods Corporation
- Genre: Cooking
Published by the General Foods Corporation, featuring Calumet Baking baking powder, these recipes cover a variety of baked goods from biscuits, cakes, cookies, pies, rolls & bread, frostings & sauces, muffins, waffles & griddle cakes....
The Normans in Europe - Arthur Henry Johnson
The Normans in Europe - Arthur Henry Johnson
- Author: Arthur Henry Johnson
- Genre: War & Military / Middle Ages/Middle History
This short history of the Normans in Europe opens with the invasions of the Vikings, who came from Scandinavian villages among rugged rocks and deep fiords. Johnson recounts how their myths of strife and woe, of the frost giants and of the crafty...
Original Stories from Real Life - Mary Wollstonecraft
Original Stories from Real Life - Mary Wollstonecraft
- Author: Mary Wollstonecraft
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Family
Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the early promoters of gender equality long before other crusaders took up the cause. She is perhaps best known for her books, “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” (1792) and “A Vindication of the Rights of Men”...
The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants - Charles Darwin
The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants - Charles Darwin
- Author: Charles Darwin
- Genre: Earth Sciences
A technical report of the experiments and observations performed on various species of twining, tendril-climbing, root-climbing, and leaf-climbing plants, with some review of past literature and an emphasis on taking measurements to allow the...
Violets And Other Tales - Alice Dunbar Nelson
Violets And Other Tales - Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single author / Single Author Collections
This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and African Americans in general. But she is sharpest when she pushes back against the notion that women must...
Ukridge - P. G. Wodehouse
Ukridge - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
“Do not count your chickens before they are hatched” is a classic saying that might well have been remembered by Ukridge. Ukridge is always on the verge of making a fortune and counting his thousands before they are made. But Dame Fortune is a...
Essays Irish and American - John Butler Yeats
Essays Irish and American - John Butler Yeats
- Author: John Butler Yeats
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Literary Criticism
From the noted artist and father of the celebrated Irish poet William Butler Yeats comes this short collection of essays on the literary life of their age. Included are two short biographical remembrances of the author. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
