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Six Women and the Invasion - Gabrielle Yerta
Six Women and the Invasion - Gabrielle Yerta
- Author:
- Genre: Memoirs / War & Military
A true tale of the wartime resilience of six Frenchwomen whose country town was invaded by the Germans during World War I. - Summary by Jael Baldwin...
Jess - H. Rider Haggard
Jess - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction
The setting for this novel is the Boer War in South Africa in 1880. This novel is interesting and exciting on several levels: there are complicated love entanglements, evil Machiavellian treachery, political reflection having to do with the ethics...
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins - W. L. Hunter
Jesus Christ Had Negro Blood in His Veins - W. L. Hunter
- Author: W. L. Hunter
- Genre: Family & Relationships / History
This short work attempts to establish that Jesus had black ancestry dating back to Ham, the son of Noah, who had been made black-skinned as a punishment for having seen his father naked. Furthermore, Canaanites are here also identified as being...
The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament - Frederick Denison Maurice
The Prophets and Kings of the Old Testament - Frederick Denison Maurice
- Author: Frederick Denison Maurice
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This is a collection of twenty-seven sermons on the Old Testament kings, from Saul to Zedekiah, and the prophets who spoke to them, from Samuel to Ezekiel. Moving in chronological order of the biblical events, this book could be a useful aid to...
A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5) - Charles Dickens
A Tale of Two Cities (Version 5) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities is a novel that views the eighteenth century French Revolution through the lens of nineteenth century Victorian Romanticism. Dickens tells the story of a wide range of characters in London and Paris whose lives...
Turns About Town - Robert Cortes Holliday
Turns About Town - Robert Cortes Holliday
- Author: Robert Cortes Holliday
- Genre: Satire / *Non-fiction
Robert Cortes Holliday was an early 20th century essayist, editor, and librarian. Writer Christopher Morley said that he "has the genuine gift of the personal essay, mellow, fluent, and pleasantly eccentric." Most of these pleasant pieces appeared...
Over Here and Over There - Harry Zody
Over Here and Over There - Harry Zody
- Author: Harry Zody
- Genre: Single author / War & Military
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, because, being of a non-English-speaking race, and only having been in this country a comparatively short time...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 3) - Stephen Leacock
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (version 3) - Stephen Leacock
- Author: Stephen Leacock
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Widely considered a classic of Canadian humorous literature, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town tells stories set in the fictional town of Mariposa. The author Stephen Leacock most certainly based the stories on experience at his summer home in...
How Salvator Won and Other Recitations - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
How Salvator Won and Other Recitations - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Single author
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an American poet known for her popular lyrics that capture positive and uplifting themes. This volume is quite diverse, including the concluding piece that is read as a little play. Her preface to expresses the unique...
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV - Justin McCarthy
A History of Our Own Times From the Accession of Queen Victoria to the General Election of 1880, Volume IV - Justin McCarthy
- Author: Justin McCarthy
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
The fourth and concluding volume of this history of Victorian Britain opens with the brutal repression in 1865 of a rebellion by ex-slaves in Jamaica. Then in 1867, the Conservative Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, takes his celebrated "leap in...
The Trial of a New Society - Justus Ebert
The Trial of a New Society - Justus Ebert
- Author: Justus Ebert
- Genre: Business & Economics / Modern (20th C)
In 1912 textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, mostly immigrants, went on strike in response to a pay cut, speedups, and unsafe working conditions. Representatives from the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW/Wobblies) came in to help organize...
The Book of Love - Paolo Mantegazza
The Book of Love - Paolo Mantegazza
- Author: Paolo Mantegazza
- Genre: Nature / Life Sciences
Translated from Italian, it delves into the physiology of love from a scientific standpoint, in beautiful writing....
London Assurance - Dion Boucicault
London Assurance - Dion Boucicault
- Author: Dion Boucicault
- Genre: Comedy
This fast-paced Victorian farce is at heart a comedy of manners. Dion Bouciault’s witty dialogue ridicules the pretensions of society as the plot sets up the unpleasant initial situation of the aging, vain Sir Harcourt Courtly being set by a special...
Phantasmion - Sara Coleridge
Phantasmion - Sara Coleridge
- Author: Sara Coleridge
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
In 1837 came Phantasmion, a Fairy Tale, Sara Coleridge's longest original work, described by critic Mike Ashley as "the first fairytale novel written in English". Historian of literature Dennis Butts describes Phantasmion as a "remarkable pioneering...
The Emperor of the Moon - Aphra BEHN
The Emperor of the Moon - Aphra BEHN
- Author: Aphra BEHN
- Genre: Comedy
A Restoration farce by a successful woman playwright. "Doctor Baliardo, a Neapolitan philosopher, has so applied himself to the study of the Moon, and is enraptured to such an extent with the mysteries of that orb, that he has come steadfastly to...
The Magnificent Adventure - Emerson Hough
The Magnificent Adventure - Emerson Hough
- Author: Emerson Hough
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
"The Magnificent Adventure" in 1916 was set at the time of the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This fictional story is brimming with adventure and action, having to do with a gallant gentleman and is written well as Emerson...
A Psalm of Patience - Joseph Furphy
A Psalm of Patience - Joseph Furphy
- Author: Joseph Furphy
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of A Psalm of Patience by Joseph Furphy.. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 29, 2020. ------ Not exactly the Seven Ages of Man, but rather amusing, particularly that final stanza. - Summary...
Morna Lee, and Other Poems - Mary Hannay FOOTT
Morna Lee, and Other Poems - Mary Hannay FOOTT
- Author: Mary Hannay FOOTT
- Genre: Single author
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, "Where the Pelican Builds". - Summary by Wikipedia...
The Junior Classics Volume 9: Stories of To-day - William PATTEN
The Junior Classics Volume 9: Stories of To-day - William PATTEN
- Author: William PATTEN
- Genre: Action & Adventure / General
The first part of this volume consists of stories by modern writers dealing mainly with life in our own day. They are, of course, meant for the older children, and both the style and the situations call for more maturity on the part of the reader....
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates - Xenophon
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates - Xenophon
- Author: Xenophon
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity)
Xenophon's best memorial of his old guide, philosopher, and friend is this work, in which Xenophon brought together in simple and direct form the views of life that had been made clear to himself by the teaching of Socrates. Xenophon is throughout...
The Life of Philip Melanchthon - Karl Friedrich Ledderhose
The Life of Philip Melanchthon - Karl Friedrich Ledderhose
- Author: Karl Friedrich Ledderhose
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Philip Melanchthon (1497 – 1560) is best known as the theologian of the Protestant Reformation, systematizing and defending much of Martin Luther’s works and creating an educational system based on them. He was instrumental in the writing of the...
Unicorns - James HUNEKER
Unicorns - James HUNEKER
- Author: James HUNEKER
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
An engaging collection of essays about artists, composers, writers, and, of course, unicorns. - Summary by Stav Nisser...
The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture - Benvenuto CELLINI
The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture - Benvenuto CELLINI
- Author: Benvenuto CELLINI
- Genre: Art / Design & Architecture
Benvenuto Cellini, a 16th century Florentine goldsmith and sculptor, is perhaps better known for his colorful autobiography than his works of art. In his "Trattati", Cellini explains how he made his intricate pieces in gold, such as the salt cellar...
The Age of Anne - Edward Ellis Morris
The Age of Anne - Edward Ellis Morris
- Author: Edward Ellis Morris
- Genre: War & Military / Political Science / Early Modern
This short survey of the age of Queen Anne begins with the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the career of the Duke of Marlborough, leader of the allied armies against Louis XIV. Scotland joins England to form the United Kingdom. Peter...
Kari the Elephant (Version 2) - Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
Kari the Elephant (Version 2) - Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
- Author: Dhan Gopal MUKERJI
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
Kari the Elephant is a 1922 work by Dhan Gopal Mukerji. The book is the first among those written in English by an Indian author in the category of children's literature. Kari the Elephant is a bildungsroman narrative that unravels the relationship...
Letter 22 to Eustochium - Saint Jerome
Letter 22 to Eustochium - Saint Jerome
- Author: Saint Jerome
- Genre: Christianity - Other
St. Jerome's most famous letter (Libellus de virginitate servanda), written to St. Eustochium, the sixteen-year-old daughter of the Roman widow St. Paula. St. Jerome exhorts St. Eustochium to embrace virginity and teaches her the proper conduct of a...
The Conscious Lovers - Richard STEELE
The Conscious Lovers - Richard STEELE
- Author: Richard STEELE
- Genre: Plays / Satire
As early as 1720 Steele spoke in the Theatre of "a friend of mine" who was lately preparing a comedy according to the just laws of the stage, and had introduced a scene in which the first character bore unprovoked wrong, denied a duel, and still...
The Man of Genius - Cesare Lombroso
The Man of Genius - Cesare Lombroso
- Author: Cesare Lombroso
- Genre: Psychology / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Famous criminologist, anthropologist, and psychiatrist, Dr Lombroso, investigated the memetic anecdotal belief that genius is associated with degenerative symptoms, or may even be a version of insanity, and presented his findings as a fascinating...
The Sea - Virna SHEARD
The Sea - Virna SHEARD
- Author: Virna SHEARD
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Sea by Virna Sheard. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 5, 2020. ----- One hundred and two years ago, the Titanic sank in the North Atlantic claiming more than 1500 lives. This poem...
Minnie's Sacrifice - Frances E. W. HARPER
Minnie's Sacrifice - Frances E. W. HARPER
- Author: Frances E. W. HARPER
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Romance
Minnie, who lives in the South, does not know she is a mulatto. She is sent to the North after her mother's death, and there she marries Louis, who is ironically also of mixed parentage. The story revolves around their discoveries and how they deal...
The Gift of India - Sarojini NAIDU
The Gift of India - Sarojini NAIDU
- Author: Sarojini NAIDU
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Gift of India by Sarojini Naidu. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 18, 2021. ------ Sarojini Naidu, was the female activist who worked with Gandhi during India's struggle for independence...
The Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse - Philip Doddridge
The Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse - Philip Doddridge
- Author: Philip Doddridge
- Genre: Single author
The little verses now before the reader were written at the desire of my most worthy and honoured friend, the Reverend Mr. Clark of St. Albans, and are published at his request, as what he hopes may, by the divine blessing, do some good in the...
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) - Douay-Rheims Version
Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: Wisdom of Sirach (Ecclesiasticus) - Douay-Rheims Version
- Author: Douay-Rheims Version
- Genre: Douay-Rheims Version
The Book of Ecclesiasticus is preceded by a prologue which professes to be the work of the Greek translator of the original Hebrew and the genuineness of which is undoubted. In this preface to his translation, the writer describes how he was deeply...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 072 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
Twenty short nonfiction works, individually chosen by the readers. "The ground rose and fell in successive furrows, like the ruffled waters of a lake, and I became bewildered in my ideas..." John James Audubon's vivid recollection of the 1812 New...
Bowser The Hound (Version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
Bowser The Hound (Version 2) - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Animals & Nature
Bowser the hound is a great tracking dog. He doesn't fall for many tricks, but this time he did. Old Man Coyote leads him off on a wild chase and gets him lost far from home. In the effort to get Bowser back home we learn something about survival,...
Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles - Unknown
Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Christianity - Other
This short treatise was accounted by some of the Fathers as next to Holy Scripture. It was rediscovered in 1873 by a Greek Orthodox metropolitan of Nicomedia, in the codex from which, in 1875, he had published the full text of the Epistles of St....
The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome - Various
The Junior Classics Volume 3: Tales from Greece and Rome - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The purpose of The Junior Classics is to provide, in ten volumes containing about five thousand pages, a classified collection of tales, stories, and poems, both ancient and modern, suitable for boys and girls of from six to sixteen years of age....
Summer of Love - Joyce KILMER
Summer of Love - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Single author
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and shows his flowing lyricism and the dripping sentimentality of his earlier work. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Prufrock and Other Observations - T. S. Eliot
Prufrock and Other Observations - T. S. Eliot
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- Genre: Single author / Free Verse
Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917 in a print run of only 500 copies by Egoist Press in London. It features The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, possibly Eliot’s most famous work, a stream-of-consciousness monologue of a man...
Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book - Christina ROSSETTI
Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book - Christina ROSSETTI
- Author: Christina ROSSETTI
- Genre: Poetry
One hundred and twenty six beautifully written poems about babies and childhood that capture the marvelous wonders of that age. - Summary by Maggie Travers...
