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Soldiers' Pay - William Faulkner
Soldiers' Pay - William Faulkner
- Author: William Faulkner
- Genre: Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
Soldiers return from the War to a mixed reception in America. The first novel by one of the 20th century's most poetic writers experimenting in stream of consciousness, and adept at dialogue. - Summary by Czandra...
The Storm Of London - Fernande Blaze De Bury
The Storm Of London - Fernande Blaze De Bury
- Author: Fernande Blaze De Bury
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Our clothes tell our story. They reflect our rank, have to suit a perfect event, and much more. But what happens when they disappear? Sounds frightening, so thought the Earl of Somerville on the first day before sinking into this new reality which...
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission Report) - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission Report) - National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
- Author: National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (20th C)
The summer of 1967 again brought racial disorders to American cities, and with them shock, fear and bewilderment to the nation. The worst came during a two-week period in July, first in Newark and then in Detroit. Each set off a chain reaction in...
Jean-Christophe, Volume I - Romain ROLLAND
Jean-Christophe, Volume I - Romain ROLLAND
- Author: Romain ROLLAND
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
The central character, Jean-Christophe Krafft, is a German musician of Belgian extraction, a composer of genius whose life is depicted from cradle to grave. He undergoes great hardships and spiritual struggles, balancing his pride in his own talents...
Swordsman of Lost Terra - Poul William Anderson
Swordsman of Lost Terra - Poul William Anderson
- Author: Poul William Anderson
- Genre: Science Fiction
Proud Kery of Broina felt like a ghost himself; shade of a madman flitting hopelessly to the citadel of Earth's disinherited ... to recapture the resonant pipes of Killorn—weapon of the gods—before they blared forth the dirge of the world. A great...
Terror Out of Space - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Terror Out of Space - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
In the wake of unexpected meteor activity, a wave of inexplicable madness sweeps the already strange and ill-charted world of Venus. Racing to locate the source of the disturbance, Lundy and his team from Tri-World Police, Special Branch quickly...
Omnilingual (Version 3) - H. Beam Piper
Omnilingual (Version 3) - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction
This short story published in 1957 is unusual for its time in that its protagonist is a female scientist, and there is no romantic subplot. Helped by some of her teammates on the Mars exploration crew, and hindered by others, she struggles to...
Canada and Newfoundland - Frank G. Carpenter
Canada and Newfoundland - Frank G. Carpenter
- Author: Frank G. Carpenter
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Another entry in Carpenter's series of World Travels focusing on Canada and Newfoundland. (Summary by Betty B)...
The African Problem and the Peace Settlement - Edmund Dene Morel
The African Problem and the Peace Settlement - Edmund Dene Morel
- Author: Edmund Dene Morel
- Genre: Political Science
In this essay, the author directs our attention on the African continent and describes how the exploitation and colonization of Africa by European powers contributed to the then-ongoing World War. Without a just and measured settlement of African...
The Adventures of Diggeldy Dan - Edwin P. Norwood
The Adventures of Diggeldy Dan - Edwin P. Norwood
- Author: Edwin P. Norwood
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / General
Diggeldy Dan (rhymes with Wiggildy Wan) is a most ingenious fellow who lives in a circus called Spangleland. He looks like a clown because he perhaps is a clown but a very special clown who invites the Pretty Lady with the Blue Blue Eyes (a very...
The Times - Arthur Wing Pinero
The Times - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Plays
Percy Egerton-Bompas, M.P., and Mrs Bompas have secrets in their family. Which promise grave difficulties as they try to marry off their daughter. To say nothing of the potential political implications to a promising career.... A comedy. Which, with...
A Short History of Germany - Mary Platt Parmele
A Short History of Germany - Mary Platt Parmele
- Author: Mary Platt Parmele
- Genre: History
Mary Platt Parmele brings to life the history of Germany and its rise to prominence in Europe. From scheming nobles to treaties created under the guise of peace, the reader is transported to the years before a cohesive group of city-states that...
The Martian - George du MAURIER
The Martian - George du MAURIER
- Author: George du MAURIER
- Genre: General Fiction
The Martian, by George du Maurier, is a largely autobiographical novel published in 1898 and the author's third. It describes the life of Barty Josselin as told by his close friend Robert Maurice, starting from their school days in Paris in the...
Lines Written While Sailing In A Boat At Evening - William Wordsworth
Lines Written While Sailing In A Boat At Evening - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Lines Written While Sailing In A Boat At Evening by William Wordsworth. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 14, 2021. ------ This title is scarcely correct. It was during a solitary walk on...
''Mr Rowl'' - D. K. Broster
''Mr Rowl'' - D. K. Broster
- Author: D. K. Broster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Raoul des Sablières, a French parole prisoner in England during the Napoleonic Wars, becomes enmeshed in a complicated tangle where his honour conflicts with his parole, and is sent to prison. Juliana Forrest, for whose sake he broke his parole,...
Miss Lochinvar - Marion Ames TAGGART
Miss Lochinvar - Marion Ames TAGGART
- Author: Marion Ames TAGGART
- Genre: Family
At breakfast, Mr. Graham drops the bombshell that his niece -- Joan, Jane or Janet, he's not sure which, will be arriving from the west to live with his large family. The news is met with mixed emotions - horror from his wife, resentment from the...
No Man's Land - Sapper
No Man's Land - Sapper
- Author: Sapper
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
This book was written by a British Army officer and decorated Western Front veteran. Soldiers could not publish books using their real names, so newspaper magnate Lord Northcliffe christened McNeile, Sapper, to reflect his Royal Engineers...
The Evolution of Modern Medicine - Sir William OSLER
The Evolution of Modern Medicine - Sir William OSLER
- Author: Sir William OSLER
- Genre: History / Medical
This is the manuscript of Sir William Osler's lectures on the "Evolution of Modern Medicine," delivered at Yale University in 1913. Here, the father of modern clinical medicine provides a brief introduction to the history of medicine from its origin...
Bible (YLT) NT 27: Revelation - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) NT 27: Revelation - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
An English translation that holds as closely as was possible to the original languages and idioms. (Summary by KevinS)...
Thoughts in a Library - Anne Lynch BOTTA
Thoughts in a Library - Anne Lynch BOTTA
- Author: Anne Lynch BOTTA
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 recordings of Thoughts in a Library by Anne Lynch Botta. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 28, 2021. ------ Anne Charlotte Lynch Botta was an American poet, writer, teacher and socialite whose home was the...
Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms - Harriet Lummis SMITH
Pollyanna of the Orange Blossoms - Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Author: Harriet Lummis SMITH
- Genre: Family
Pollyanna marries sweetheart Jimmy Pendleton, and together they move to start their married life in Boston. The book follows their many adventures of marriage, setting up home in a new city, having visitors, and many other events, including Jimmy's...
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation - Johan Huizinga
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation - Johan Huizinga
- Author: Johan Huizinga
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This shorter book on Erasmus might be considered a companion to Huizinga's most famous work, The Waning of the Middle Ages. While in his magnum opus he presented a study of the forms of life and thought in France and the Netherlands in the...
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen - Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen - Elbert Hubbard
- Author: Elbert Hubbard
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Business & Economics
Elbert Hubbard describes the homes of authors, poets, social reformers and other prestigious people, reflecting on how their surroundings may have influenced them. These short essays are part biography and part pontification of Hubbard's opinion of...
The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - John Luther Langworthy
The Airplane Boys among the Clouds - John Luther Langworthy
- Author: John Luther Langworthy
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Elephant and Larry arrive at Sunrise Lake, looking for the Bird boys, Frank and Andy, who are trying out a new biplane. Many adventures await these young men in their airplane!...
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 5 (American Saints) - John Gilmary Shea
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints, Volume 5 (American Saints) - John Gilmary Shea
- Author: John Gilmary Shea
- Genre: Christianity - Biographies
Little Pictorial Lives of the Saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other approved sources : to which are added lives of the American saints : placed on the calendar for the United States by special...
The Primrose Path - Bram Stoker
The Primrose Path - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
This 1875 serialised novella appeared in The Shamrock magazine in 5 installments. It is Bram Stoker's first novel, being published 22 years before his famous 'Dracula'. It tells the story of a happy Irish family, the O'Sullivans, who leave their...
Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love - Ben Jonson
Cynthia's Revels, or The Fountain of Self-Love - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Satire
"Cynthia's Revels," the second "comical satire," was acted in 1600, and, as a play, is even more lengthy, elaborate, and impossible than "Every Man Out of His Humour." Here personal satire seems to have absorbed everything, and while much of the...
The Nature and Authority of Conscience - Rufus Jones
The Nature and Authority of Conscience - Rufus Jones
- Author: Rufus Jones
- Genre: Modern / Christianity - Commentary
Rufus Matthew Jones (January 25, 1863 – June 16, 1948) was an American religious leader, writer, magazine editor, philosopher, and college professor. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Haverford Emergency Unit (a precursor to the...
G. K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1921 - G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton's Newspaper Columns: The New Witness - 1921 - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of the newspaper columns/essays written by G.K. Chesterton for "The New Witness", under the heading "At the Sign of the World's End". This project compiles the articles from 1921 (Summary by Maria Therese)...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 17 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 17 - Seba Smith
- Author: Seba Smith
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Poetry / Short Stories
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith and Lawrence Labree. The editors aimed at a high quality standard in their selection of short stories and poetry....
3 Weird SF Stories by Fritz Leiber - Fritz Leiber
3 Weird SF Stories by Fritz Leiber - Fritz Leiber
- Author: Fritz Leiber
- Genre: Science Fiction
These are three of the strangest stories I could find by the very talented Fritz Leiber. And by strange I mean odd, weird, kinda creepy and yet wonderful. Not your normal Science Fiction here but then Leiber had an amazing imagination and these...
Zarah the Cruel - Joan CONQUEST
Zarah the Cruel - Joan CONQUEST
- Author: Joan CONQUEST
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
As told to a group of Bedouins as they sit around the fire, this tale , set in the Arabian desert, tells of a Holy Man accused of murder, and forced to flee and lead a nomadic life until he can prove his innocence. Some listeners may be offended by...
The Eight Pillars of Prosperity (Version 2) - James Allen
The Eight Pillars of Prosperity (Version 2) - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Business & Economics / Self-Help
“Prosperity, like a house, is a roof over a man’s head, affording him protection and comfort. A roof presupposes a support, and a support necessitates a foundation. The roof of prosperity, then, is supported by the following eight pillars which are...
The Markenmore Mystery - J. S. Fletcher
The Markenmore Mystery - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
After seven years of silence, Guy Markenmore returns to his family home at Markenmore Court. Knowing his father Sir Anthony to be close to death, he is anxious to reassure his younger siblings that he will not make any claim to the family money even...
Goose-Quill Papers - Louise Imogen Guiney
Goose-Quill Papers - Louise Imogen Guiney
- Author: Louise Imogen Guiney
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Louise Imogen Guiney, and American poet and essayist, here presents twenty essays with her characteristic wit and poetic flair and often a touch of satire on sometimes common topics such as the apple, the moon, mathematics and the garret, even the...
Nana - Émile Zola
Nana - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Excerpt from Introduction: "Nana" stands third in popularity among the Zola novels. It is a study of the prostitute type and it gives a memorable picture of the life of the tinsel underworld of the Paris theaters, night life, and its parasites....
One Thing Needful - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
One Thing Needful - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Can starving children be grateful for the education they receive if, when they ask for food, rich people give them a stone? This is the question in the heart of this rich psychological novel. Lady Lashmore is a typical lady of her time, ruling every...
Molly, The Drummer Boy - Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
Molly, The Drummer Boy - Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
- Author: Harriet Theresa COMSTOCK
- Genre: Historical
Molly, The Drummer Boy is the tale of a brave drummer, who, during the war of the Revolution, passed like a gleam of brightness, fun—and alas! sadness through the scenes of war and bloodshed; winning the friendship of all, the esteem and...
The Life of John Ruskin - William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
The Life of John Ruskin - William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
- Author: William Gershom COLLINGWOOD
- Genre: Memoirs
W. G. Collingwood became a student of John Ruskin in 1872 when he started his study in University College, Oxford. For many years he dedicated himself to helping Ruskin as his resident assistant. In 1883 he settled near to Ruskin in the Lake...
The Untempered Wind - Joanna E. Wood
The Untempered Wind - Joanna E. Wood
- Author: Joanna E. Wood
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Upon publication of “The Untempered Wind” in 1894, Joanna Wood quickly rose to international prominence, becoming in the next few years the most highly paid fiction-writer in Canada. In this novel, we find a detailed picture of village life. The...
