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The Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
The Lady of the Shroud - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Epistolary Fiction / Gothic Fiction
As the title suggests, this work does flirt with the supernatural. Yet it is essentially a political novel—a utopian experiment in a fictitious Balkan country, the Land of the Blue Mountains. The story spans the years from 1892 to 1909. It includes...
Our Village, Volume 1 - Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village, Volume 1 - Mary Russell Mitford
- Author: Mary Russell Mitford
- Genre: Single Author Collections / Memoirs
This book is a compilation of short stories originally published in several series in The Lady's Magazine. Volume 1 covers a period of about 18 months, then later, Volume 2 chronicles the changes when Miss Mitford returns to the village some 2 years...
The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret - Susanna Centlivre
The Wonder! A Woman Keeps a Secret - Susanna Centlivre
- Author: Susanna Centlivre
- Genre: Comedy
Donna Isabella does not want to marry Don Guzman, her father's choice. Donna Violante's father wants her to become a nun. Isabella is attacked on the street and carried insensible into Violante's house. What will happen next? Confidential letters,...
Summa Theologica - 14 Tertia Pars, The Sacraments - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica - 14 Tertia Pars, The Sacraments - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Early Modern / Christianity - Other
The Summa Theologica (or the Summa Theologiae or simply the Summa, written 1265–1274) is the most famous work of Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) although it was never finished. It was intended as a manual for beginners and a compilation of all of the...
Scripture Texts with Expositions and Sentence-prayers from Calvin's Commentaries on the Minor Prophets - John Calvin
Scripture Texts with Expositions and Sentence-prayers from Calvin's Commentaries on the Minor Prophets - John Calvin
- Author: John Calvin
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
The prayers of John Calvin, however, have received little attention, as compared with the fame which crowns his theological writings. His commentaries upon Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, and the minor prophets were originally delivered in the form of...
Safeguarding children: pediatric medical countermeasure research - Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethica
Safeguarding children: pediatric medical countermeasure research - Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethica
- Author: Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethica
- Genre: Medical / Life Sciences
Safeguarding Children: Pediatric Medical Countermeasure Research is the response from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (the Bioethics Commission) to a request from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius....
The Good Soldier (Version 2) - Ford Madox Ford
The Good Soldier (Version 2) - Ford Madox Ford
- Author: Ford Madox Ford
- Genre: Literary Fiction
First published in 1915, The Good Soldier might be characterised as a melodrama of English upper class infidelities, cut into little pieces, then retold out of sequence by a narrator who occasionally appears to be half asleep. That is not wholly...
Condiments, Spices and Flavors - Mary Elizabeth Green
Condiments, Spices and Flavors - Mary Elizabeth Green
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Green
- Genre: Cooking
In this pamphlet no attempt has been made to give specific directions as to the uses of spices and condiments. It must be borne in mind that their usage results neither from the demands of fashion nor of a vitiated sense of taste, but from their own...
The Complete Confectioner - Hannah GLASSE
The Complete Confectioner - Hannah GLASSE
- Author: Hannah GLASSE
- Genre: Reference / Cooking
The original version of Hannah Glasse’s ‘The Complete Confectioner’ was first produced about 1760 but the publication referenced here is from the year 1800 (some thirty years after her death) with considerable additions and corrections made by Maria...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 04. April 1898 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 09 - 04. April 1898 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol IX, April 1898, the Klondike Number. It includes the following articles: The Northwest Passes to the Yukon, by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore Overland Routes to the Klondike, by Hamlin Garland...
Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition) - Worthington George Smith
Mushrooms and Toadstools (Third Edition) - Worthington George Smith
- Author: Worthington George Smith
- Genre: Science
This is a useful, but not comprehensive description of both edible and poisonous fungi found in Great Britain. Although the book is well illustrated, the descriptions are well done and useful. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Snarled Identities - Nicholas Carter
Snarled Identities - Nicholas Carter
- Author: Nicholas Carter
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Nick Carter is a fictional detective who first appeared in 1886 in dime store novels. Over the years, different authors, all taking the nom de plume Nicholas Carter, have penned stories featuring "America's greatest detective". It is time for Nick...
The Lost Continent - C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
The Lost Continent - C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
- Author: C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
During an expedition in the Canary Islands, an archeologist discovers a cave containing tablets with unknown writing. When translated, they tell the tale of decline and fall of Atlantis, which for centuries had been the center of the world. The...
Tarzan and the Ant Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan and the Ant Men - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Lord Greystoke, Tarzan of the Apes, is embroiled in thrilling adventures among the tiny, warlike Minunians. (Summary by Matthew Reece)...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 20 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 20 - 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....
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 03 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 03 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends, heroes, myths, and ancient lore from many different cultures. - Summary by Lynette Caulkins...
Witch of the Glens - Sally Watson
Witch of the Glens - Sally Watson
- Author: Sally Watson
- Genre: Fantasy Fiction
The time is 1644 in Inverness Scotland. Kelpie, now a teenage girl, doesn't remember being kidnapped by Gypsies. They had kidnapped her at a very young age because her "Second Sight" that was indicated by her blue ringed eyes. Kelpie desperately...
Radio Boys in the Secret Service - J. W. DUFFIELD
Radio Boys in the Secret Service - J. W. DUFFIELD
- Author: J. W. DUFFIELD
- Genre: Action & Adventure
Twin sixteen year-old brothers, Guy and Walter Burton are the “Radio Boys” headed for another adventure. Travels take Guy from their home in New England to London where he meets another radio enthusiast, Glennon. There are city adventures before...
Other People's Lives - Rosa Nouchette Carey
Other People's Lives - Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Author: Rosa Nouchette Carey
- Genre: Family Life / Historical
A series of stories by Rosa Nouchette Carey who was a popular English novelist, whose works reflected the wholesome values of her time. They often contained the grit and realism of the day. Carey often wrote about the domestic fiction of the period,...
The Merry-Go-Round - W. Somerset Maugham
The Merry-Go-Round - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Basil Kent marries Jenny Bush, because he believes that is the honourable thing to do after getting her pregnant, but he realizes that he is really in love with Hilda Murray. Grace Castillyon, an established married woman of position, has fallen...
Short Poetry Collection 209 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 209 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 64 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for October 2020. October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, this collection focuses mostly on female poets. Know your normal, check yourself regularly, see your doctor if you...
The Forgery - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
The Forgery - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Humphrey Scriven is a fine, genial, mercantile man, left widowed to raise three daughters and a son. Two of the daughters marry well although happiness is not enduring. The other defers her marriage, knowing her father disapproves of her choice. The...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (Books 1 to 3) - Anonymous
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (Books 1 to 3) - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The Apostolic Constitutions are made up of eight treatises on Early Christian discipline, worship, and doctrine, which was intended to act as a manual of guidance for the clergy, and laity. It claims to be composed by the Twelve Apostles who...
The Heavenly Footman - John Bunyan
The Heavenly Footman - John Bunyan
- Author: John Bunyan
- Genre: Christianity - Other
A description of the man that gets to heaven: with directions how to run so as to obtain - Summary by John Bunyan...
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1 - William Clark Russell
My Danish Sweetheart Volume 1 - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
Young Hugh Tregarthen has grown up in a seafaring Cornish family, but is not born to follow the family tradition. Against his mother's wishes, he is coxswain of a lifeboat -- an important job along the treacherous coastline, which makes his mother...
Alice of Old Vincennes - Maurice Thompson
Alice of Old Vincennes - Maurice Thompson
- Author: Maurice Thompson
- Genre: Historical Fiction
This entertaining book of adventure, love and war was a Bestseller in 1900 and 1901. The heroine Alice Roussillon is a brave young woman who grew up in a small town on the Wabash River in Indiana during the revolutionary war. The characters are all...
Birds, Vol. II, No 5, November 1897 - Various
Birds, Vol. II, No 5, November 1897 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: 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...
The Fanatics - Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Fanatics - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: General Fiction
This is a story about a town in Ohio during the civil war. The town is divided by ideology, but can they be united by love and respect? - Summary by Stav Nisser. Note to listeners: Because of the subject of this book, some of the ideas described and...
The Confessions of Nat Turner, The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton VA. - Thomas R. Gray
The Confessions of Nat Turner, The Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton VA. - Thomas R. Gray
- Author: Thomas R. Gray
- Genre: War & Military / History / True Crime
This is a detailed description of the massacre that took place on August 21-23, 1831 that became known as Nat Turner's Rebellion. Nat Turner himself relates the events to the author from his jail cell in November of 1831 just days before he is...
Planet of the Damned (Version 3) - Harry Harrison
Planet of the Damned (Version 3) - Harry Harrison
- Author: Harry Harrison
- Genre: Science Fiction
Two planets are about to engage in a nuclear war that will destroy one of them. Millions will perish. Brion Brandd, who lives on neither planet, has been recruited by the Cultural Relationships Foundation to stop the war from happening. He is only...
A Woman's Way - Thompson Buchanan
A Woman's Way - Thompson Buchanan
- Author: Thompson Buchanan
- Genre: Comedy
"A Woman's Way" belongs to a class of comedy curiously rare on our native stage in recent seasons, the comedy of smart people, with a flavor of character study to give it dignity." "In this comedy, it is "inevitable" that the wife and the other...
Shannach-The-Last - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
Shannach-The-Last - Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Author: Leigh Douglass BRACKETT
- Genre: Science Fiction
A true pulp science fiction from 1952 from the pen of Leigh Douglas Brackett. In the deep caves of Mars an alien race ruled and enslaved men and women with cruel and unfeeling desires. This was about the challenged by one weak man. He knew what he...
The Deluge Volume 2 - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
The Deluge Volume 2 - Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Author: Henryk SIENKIEWICZ
- Genre: Historical Fiction
The Deluge (Polish: Potop) is a historical novel by the Polish author Henryk Sienkiewicz, published in 1886. It is the second volume of a three-volume series known to Poles as "the Trilogy," having been preceded by With Fire and Sword (Ogniem i...
Short Story Collection Vol. 091 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 091 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
This is the 91st short story collection, with stories selected and read by Librivox readers. We brush with science fiction in The Marching Morons by Cyril M. Kornbluth and on the ghostly with Guy de Maupassant's An Uncomfortable Bed, in addition to...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 090 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Essays & Short Works
In his autobiographical essay "The Intellectuals and the Boston Mob," Booker T. Washington wrote: "It is not argument, nor criticism, nor hatred, but work in constructive effort, that gets hold of men and binds them together in a way to make them...
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 03. March 1899 - National Geographic Society
The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 10 - 03. March 1899 - National Geographic Society
- Author: National Geographic Society
- Genre: Travel & Geography
The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, Vol X, March 1899. It includes the following articles: The Original Territory of the United States, by Hon. David J. Hill Porto Rico, by Prof. Robert T. Hill...
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I) - Roald AMUNDSEN
The North West Passage -The Gjöa Expedition 1903-1907 (Volume I) - Roald AMUNDSEN
- Author: Roald AMUNDSEN
- Genre: Science / Travel & Geography
Roald Amundsen and six hearty seafarers tackle the North West Passage in search of the elusive wandering magnetic North Pole. (Summary by Steve Seitel)...
The American Bee Journal, Vol. VI. No. 3, Sept 1870 - Various
The American Bee Journal, Vol. VI. No. 3, Sept 1870 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Business & Economics / Life Sciences
The American Bee Journal is the “oldest bee paper in America established in 1861 devoted to scientific bee-culture and the production and sale of pure honey. Published every Wednesday, by Thomas G. Newman, Editor and Proprietor” In this issues are...
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2) - George Eliot
The Mill on the Floss (Version 2) - George Eliot
- Author: George Eliot
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s second novel, and was published in 1860, only a year after her first, Adam Bede. It centres on the lives of brother and sister Tom and Maggie Tulliver growing up on the river Floss near the town of St. Oggs (a...
The Lion's Brood - Duffield Osborne
The Lion's Brood - Duffield Osborne
- Author: Duffield Osborne
- Genre: Historical Fiction
"Centuries come and go; but the plot of the drama is unchanged, and the same characters play the same parts. Only the actors cast for them are new." For this timeless tale, we are taken back to the Roman forum. With the backdrop of the Punic Wars,...
