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Confessions of a Tradesman - Frank Thomas Bullen
Confessions of a Tradesman - Frank Thomas Bullen
- Author: Frank Thomas Bullen
- Genre: Humor / Memoirs
Frank T. Bullen is best known for his books based on his adventures at sea. However, he had a life on shore as well. He first went to sea as a boy as a cabin boy. He there had many adventures as a hand on a whaling ship. He then came ashore and...
The Great White North - Helen S. Wright
The Great White North - Helen S. Wright
- Author: Helen S. Wright
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Exploration
Sketches of those who braved the 'Great White North' in exploration and adventure. - Summary by KevinS...
Essays and Reviews - Charles Hodge
Essays and Reviews - Charles Hodge
- Author: Charles Hodge
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Charles Hodge, one of America's foremost theologians, founded the Princeton Review (originally 'Biblical Repertory') in 1825. Hodge took the opportunity to respond to many controversial issues in his day, touching theology, biblical interpretation,...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 039 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 039 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 039: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
Money to Burn, An Adventure Story - Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
Money to Burn, An Adventure Story - Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
- Author: Reginald Wright KAUFFMAN
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
From the dedication: "On a train by day, or abed by night, you will read "Money to Burn" and immediately forget it--which is as it should be, for then you can profitably reread it a year hence--but I'm certain it will entertain you while you are...
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories - Arnold Bennett
Elsie And The Child; A Tale Of Riceyman Steps And Other Stories - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
Thirteen short stories (1924) by a master story teller of the early twentieth century. His writings, fiction and nonfiction, were popular with the public. After contributions to the WWI war effort, he declined the Order of the British Empire (OBE)....
Short Science Fiction Collection 069 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 069 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction / Anthologies
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the authorβs creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
Madame de Mauves - Henry James
Madame de Mauves - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Considered an early masterpiece, "Madame de Mauves" is the first of Henry James's 'international contrasts'. It recounts the story of an American girl, Euphemia Cleve, through the eyes of her fellow countryman Longmore. Euphemia marries an...
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest HEMINGWAY
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest HEMINGWAY
- Author: Ernest HEMINGWAY
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Sun Also Rises (1926) was Hemingway's first novel to be published, though there is his novella The Torrents of Spring which was published earlier in the same year. The novel describes, expressed through the voice of Jake Barnes, a short period...
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 3. The Dying God - James FRAZER
The Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 3. The Dying God - James FRAZER
- Author: James FRAZER
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Other religions
The fourth volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. With this third part of The Golden Bough we take up the question, why had the King of the Wood at Nemi regularly to perish by the hand of his...
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West - Walter A. Wyckoff
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The West - Walter A. Wyckoff
- Author: Walter A. Wyckoff
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
A young scholar, recently graduated from Princeton College, travels across the United States as a member of the working class, taking any job he could find, enduring hardships and struggling to make a living. He travelled mainly on foot, designing...
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898) - Oscar Wilde
Letters of Oscar Wilde, Volume 4 (1897-1898) - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
This fourth collection of the correspondence of Oscar Wilde includes the letters Wilde wrote while living in Berneval, in the months after his release from prison, and in Naples, where he shared a villa with his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. In...
The Last Wish - Robert Bulwer-Lytton
The Last Wish - Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- Author: Robert Bulwer-Lytton
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 27 recordings of The Last Wish by Robert Bulwer-Lytton. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 9, 2022. ----- Robert Edward Bulwer-Lytton was the son of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and was an English...
Oliver's Bride - Margaret O. Oliphant
Oliver's Bride - Margaret O. Oliphant
- Author: Margaret O. Oliphant
- Genre: Family Life / Romance
Betrothed to one woman but married to another whose heart will be broken. Summary by Michele Eaton...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 041 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 041 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 041: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Art of Prophesying - William Perkins
The Art of Prophesying - William Perkins
- Author: William Perkins
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A treatise concerning the sacred and only true manner and method of preaching. To the faithful ministers of the gospel and to all that are desirous of and do labour for the knowledge of holy learning. That common place of divinity, which concerneth...
Mostly About Nibble the Bunny - John Breck
Mostly About Nibble the Bunny - John Breck
- Author: John Breck
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Follow, βA Very Small Bunny Has a Very Big Adventureβ as Nibble Rabbit romps through the clover patch and into the woods where he founds the other woodland creatures including Doctor Muskrat, Chatter Squirrel, Hooter the Owl, and Silvertip the Fox....
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers - Elbert Hubbard
Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers - Elbert Hubbard
- Author: Elbert Hubbard
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Family & Relationships
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...
Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes - Edward CARPENTER
Love's Coming-of-Age: A Series of Papers on the Relations of the Sexes - Edward CARPENTER
- Author: Edward CARPENTER
- Genre: Family & Relationships
"The little god of Love is generally represented as a child; and rightly, perhaps, considering the erratic character of his ways among the human race. There are signs, however, of a new order in the relations of the Sexes; and the following papers...
The House on the Downs - Gladys Edson LOCKE
The House on the Downs - Gladys Edson LOCKE
- Author: Gladys Edson LOCKE
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Mark Brandon, a writer from Australia is in England to visit an old friend, Sir Quenton Rotherdene. However, while walking across the Downs on his way there, he sees a mysterious woman and then finds a murder victim with a moonflower clasped in his...
The Life of Washington, Volume 5 - John James Marshall
The Life of Washington, Volume 5 - John James Marshall
- Author: John James Marshall
- Genre: War & Military / History / Political Science
Volume five of John Marshall's biography follows Washington through his second term ending in the election of John Adams and Washington's retirement to Mount Vernon. This narrative continues the careful and intriguing analysis of the subjects of the...
The Wars of the Roses 1377-1471 - Robert Balmain Mowat
The Wars of the Roses 1377-1471 - Robert Balmain Mowat
- Author: Robert Balmain Mowat
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Political Science
The Wars of the Roses, 1377-1471, were a series of English civil wars fought for the control of the throne of England between two rival cadet branches of the House of Plantagenet, Lancaster and York. The Scottish historian, Robert Balmain Mowat...
Taking the Bastile - Alexandre Dumas
Taking the Bastile - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Published 1800 -1900
Pitou lost his mother when he was small. He was raised by a stern aunt who did not really love him. He starts knowing the world by going to service. How can this man, Pitou the Peasant (as the subtitle of the novel suggests) go on to influence the...
Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Years - François Norbert Blanchet
Historical Sketches of the Catholic Church in Oregon, During the Past Forty Years - François Norbert Blanchet
- Author: François Norbert Blanchet
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Modern (19th C) / Christianity - Other
This book is a first-hand account of the experiences of Fr. Norbert Blanchet and his fellow missionaries to Oregon in the 1830βs and 1840βs. The original duo, Fr. Blanchet and Fr. Demers, had incredible adventures traveling across Canada by canoe,...
Whispering Tongues - Homer Greene
Whispering Tongues - Homer Greene
- Author: Homer Greene
- Genre: Children's Fiction / School
Parmenter and Lee are good friends who attend Concord College. But a hazing incident tears the friendship apart, and affects the lives of both the hazers and the hazee. And the whispering tongues of classmates of falsehoods, jealousy and rumor,...
The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie
The Gospel of Wealth - Andrew Carnegie
- Author: Andrew Carnegie
- Genre: Business & Economics
What is the proper mode of administering great wealth? It is to address this question that steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie's famous essay "Wealth", or more commonly known as "The Gospel of Wealth" was written (in 1889). His answer β Philanthropy. Not...
When We Were Very Young (version 2) - A. A. MILNE
When We Were Very Young (version 2) - A. A. MILNE
- Author: A. A. MILNE
- Genre: Poetry
This best-selling book of poetry by A. A. Milne was first published in 1924. The poems describe the adventures of Christopher Robin. In it we are introduced to Mr. Edward Bear later known as Winnie-the-Pooh. The poems are timeless and capture the...
Across the Plains in 1844 - Catherine Sager Pringle
Across the Plains in 1844 - Catherine Sager Pringle
- Author: Catherine Sager Pringle
- Genre: Memoirs
The Sager family, including seven children, set out on the Oregon trail in 1844. Accidents and disease made it a dangerous trip, and both parents died along the way. The orphans made it to the Whitman Mission in Walla Walla, Washington, but their...
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography - Edwin Eastman
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches: An Autobiography - Edwin Eastman
- Author: Edwin Eastman
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Published 1800 -1900
Best described as a fictional autobiography, Clark Johnson authored the following adventure to promote the sale of his brand of Homeopathic elixir or commonly known as "Snake Oil". Using the fictitious hero's, Edwin Eastman and his wife, Mr. Johnson...
The Busie Body - Susanna Centlivre
The Busie Body - Susanna Centlivre
- Author: Susanna Centlivre
- Genre: Comedy
A rich heiress pretending to be in love with her guardian, but with several other suitors. A jealous merchant from Spain with a beautiful but cloistered daughter. A Busy Body who tries to know everybody else's business. Conniving servants. Plot...
The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery - Geraldine BONNER
The Castlecourt Diamond Mystery - Geraldine BONNER
- Author: Geraldine BONNER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The famous Castlecourt Diamonds have gone missing and the story surrounding their disappearance is strange indeed. To help sort out the mystery, you will hear eye witness statements given by the various participants in this curious case now, for the...
Whom We Shall Welcome: Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization - The President's Commission on Immigration and Natu
Whom We Shall Welcome: Report of the President's Commission on Immigration and Naturalization - The President's Commission on Immigration and Natu
- Author: The President's Commission on Immigration and Natu
- Genre: Political Science / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
In 1952, Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952, which had many provisions objectionable to many Americans. President Truman vetoed it, but it was passed in June 1952 over the President's veto. President Truman established the...
The Lances of Lynwood - Charlotte Mary Yonge
The Lances of Lynwood - Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Author: Charlotte Mary Yonge
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Historical
The Lances of Lynwood brings to life the high days of knighthood and chivalry in the 14th century during the Hundred Years War, in which the English House of Plantagenet contended with the French House of Valois. The courage and loyalty of a young...
The Obscure Night of The Soul - Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
The Obscure Night of The Soul - Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
- Author: Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Obscure Night of the Soul, better know today as The Dark Night of the Soul, is the distilled teaching of St John of the Cross, who reintroduced and revolutionized Christian Contemplation in the 16th Century. The text remains in print until this...
How to Grow the Peanut: and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption - George Washington Carver
How to Grow the Peanut: and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption - George Washington Carver
- Author: George Washington Carver
- Genre: Cooking / Gardening
George Washington Carver, in his most famous work, explains how to grow peanuts, the benefits of using them, and 105 recipes that incorporate peanuts. - Summary by Nicholi Volta...
The Adventures of Squirrel Fluffytail - Dolores McKenna
The Adventures of Squirrel Fluffytail - Dolores McKenna
- Author: Dolores McKenna
- Genre: Animals & Nature
"Once upon a time, on a beautiful island that stood at the center of a great big lake, there lived in the heart of a kindly old oak tree a dear little squirrel family. There were three in all; father, mother and fluffytail and they were just the...
Winkie, the Wily Woodchuck: Her Many Adventures - Richard Barnum
Winkie, the Wily Woodchuck: Her Many Adventures - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Winkie is a girl woodchuck that is always up for any adventure. And she and her sister Blinky have a lot of them as they scurry through the forest with their friends looking for things to eat and to have fun with. Winkie is not called the wily...
Collected Works of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding - Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
Collected Works of Elisabeth Sanxay Holding - Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
- Author: Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
- Genre: General Fiction
A collection of 4 short works by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding. - Summary by Krista Zaleski...
Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation - Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee
Seeking a Human Spaceflight Program Worthy of a Great Nation - Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee
- Author: Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee
- Genre: Technology & Engineering / Exploration
"The [Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee] shall conduct an independent review of ongoing U.S. human space flight plans and programs, as well as alternatives, to ensure the nation is pursuing the best trajectory for the future of human...
Sasha - Aleksandr KUPRIN
Sasha - Aleksandr KUPRIN
- Author: Aleksandr KUPRIN
- Genre: Short Stories / Published 1900 onward
Kuprin is well-known to Russian readers and has been described as one of the last exponents of Russian critical realism. He first made a career as an officer in the army, but he left this work to take on employment as varied as journalist, hunter,...
