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Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914 - August 1923) - Benito Mussolini
Mussolini as Revealed in His Political Speeches (November 1914 - August 1923) - Benito Mussolini
- Author: Benito Mussolini
- Genre: Literary Collections / Political Science
Benito Mussolini was an Italian journalist and politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party. He grew up as a violent bully, and the characteristics developed in childhood aided his upward career and later rule in Italy. He was also an...
The New Joan and Other Poems - Katherine Hale
The New Joan and Other Poems - Katherine Hale
- Author: Katherine Hale
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections with the background of World War I as a theme, but full of faith and hope. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
The Silver Princess in Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
The Silver Princess in Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Another Oz book! Yes! Lots of unlikely characters and tons of fun. In this story, young King Randy of Regalia is visited by his old friend, Kabumpo, the Elegant Elephant of Pumperdink. Together, they set out to visit their friend Jinnicky the Red...
Birds of Song and Story - Elizabeth Grinnell
Birds of Song and Story - Elizabeth Grinnell
- Author: Elizabeth Grinnell
- Genre: Animals / Nature
This mother and son team, each distinguished in their field, collaborate to give charming portraits of a dozen of our favorite song birds. Their use of poetry and flowing prose makes each of these birds come alive in and endearing and accessible...
Birds, Vol. III, No 1, January 1898 - Various
Birds, Vol. III, No 1, January 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...
Seven Keys to Baldpate (Play) - George M. Cohan
Seven Keys to Baldpate (Play) - George M. Cohan
- Author: George M. Cohan
- Genre: Comedy
Betting that he can write 10,000 words in 24 hours, a novelist locks himself into a snowbound summer resort on Baldpate Mountain with what he believes is the one and only key to Baldpate Inn. Yet his work is interrupted by a number of colorful...
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes (Version 2) - Leroy F. Jackson
The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes (Version 2) - Leroy F. Jackson
- Author: Leroy F. Jackson
- Genre: Poetry
PETER PATTER told them to me, All the little rimes, Whispered them among the bushes Half a hundred times. Peter lives upon a mountain Pretty near the sun, Knows the bears and birds and rabbits Nearly every one; Has a home among the alders, Bed of...
The Lover in Hell - Stephen Vincent BENÉT
The Lover in Hell - Stephen Vincent BENÉT
- Author: Stephen Vincent BENÉT
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 10 recordings of The Lover in Hell by Stephen Vincent Benét. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for October 17, 2021. ------ Our Fortnightly Hallowe'en offering is taken from Young Adventure: A Book of Poems by...
Coptic Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt - E. A. Wallis Budge
Coptic Homilies in the Dialect of Upper Egypt - E. A. Wallis Budge
- Author: E. A. Wallis Budge
- Genre: Christianity - Other
The present work contains the Coptic versions of ten Greek Homilies on fasting, repentance, the end of the world, the Incarnation, etc., which are attributed to John the Faster, Athanasius of Alexandria, Proclus of Cyzicus, Eusebius and Basil of...
Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology - Mary H. Foster</a> and <a href="https://librivox.o
Asgard Stories: Tales from Norse Mythology - Mary H. Foster</a> and <a href="https://librivox.o
Bible (YLT) NT 08: 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians - Young's Literal Translation
Bible (YLT) NT 08: 2nd Epistle to the Corinthians - Young's Literal Translation
- Author: Young's Literal Translation
- Genre: Young's Literal Translation
The Old and New Covenants, translated according to the letter and idioms of the original languages. - From the title page...
Short Science Fiction Collection 079 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 079 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories / Fantasy Fiction
Science fiction is a genre encompassing imaginative works that take place in this world or that of the author’s creation where anything is possible. The only rules are those set forth by the author. The speculative nature of the genre inspires...
The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge - Margaret Vandercook
The Ranch Girls at Rainbow Lodge - Margaret Vandercook
- Author: Margaret Vandercook
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The story of the four Ranch Girls is plainly just beginning. Girls so entirely unlike in temperament and ideals, as Jack, Jean, Olive and Frieda, cannot fail to lead lives that will develop in interest....
The Romancers - Edmond Rostand
The Romancers - Edmond Rostand
- Author: Edmond Rostand
- Genre: Comedy
By the author of Cyrano de Bergerac, this comic-romance formed the basis for the long-running 1960's musical "The Fantasticks". - Summary by WendyKatzHiller Persons in the Play: Sylvette: Jenn Broda Percinet: Joanna Michal Hoyt Straforel: Larry...
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant - Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
The Philosophy of Immanuel Kant - Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
- Author: Alexander Dunlop Lindsay
- Genre: Early Modern
Born in Scotland, Alexander Dunlop Lindsay was a teacher of philosophy at a number of universities in England in the early 1900s. This brief commentary on Kant's philosophy is a work that focuses solely on some of the main ideas Kant put forth in...
Stories and Pictures - I. L. Peretz
Stories and Pictures - I. L. Peretz
- Author: I. L. Peretz
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single Author Collections
A collection of short stories written originally in Yiddish and later translated into English. These stories were published under censorship in Russia from 1875 to 1900 provide an illuminating portrayal of the harsh life conditions for Russian Jews....
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others - Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others - Beatrix Potter
- Author: Beatrix Potter
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
These are some of the wonderful little stories about animals written by Beatrix Potter. The disobedient little Peter who sneaks where he should not go and gets into a scary situation is just one of her nifty tales. This is storytelling at its best:...
Catena Aurea, St. John - Vol 4, Part 1 - Saint Thomas Aquinas
Catena Aurea, St. John - Vol 4, Part 1 - Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Author: Saint Thomas Aquinas
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
The Catena Aurea (Golden Chain) presents the commentaries of the greatest theologians (e.g. St. John Chrysostom, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, etc.) of the Church as if they were having a discussion on each verse of the Bible. St. Thomas Aquinas put...
Lightfoot, the Leaping Goat - Richard Barnum
Lightfoot, the Leaping Goat - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Lightfoot is a delightful little goat who jumps from one adventure to another, some heroic some just mischief, but always a lot of fun. This is one of the Kneetime Animal Stories series written under the name of Richard Barnum. - Summary by Larry...
The Birth of Merlin: The Childe Hath Found His Father - William Shakespeare
The Birth of Merlin: The Childe Hath Found His Father - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Drama
Merlin. King Arthur. War betwixt British and Saxons. Uther Pendragon. Collapsing castle foundations, Magicians and spirits, and fighting dragons and a blazing comet. Good entertaining stuff. But is it Shakespeare? The 1662 first printed edition of...
Mucedorus - William Shakespeare
Mucedorus - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Comedy
The 1610 edition says it is by Shakespeare, and the play was in a volume of Shakespeare in the library of Charles the Second. But, well, likely not actually a Shakespeare.... Perhaps by Robert Green (1558 - 1592) This play is mentioned as being...
The Farmer's Bride (Version 2) - Charlotte MEW
The Farmer's Bride (Version 2) - Charlotte MEW
- Author: Charlotte MEW
- Genre: Single author
A powerful collection of short poems published in 1921 by the English poet Charlotte Mew (1869–1928). Lauded during her lifetime by luminaries such as Thomas Hardy, Siegfried Sassoon and Virginia Woolf, her extreme antipathy towards self-promotion...
The Hunting of the Snark (version 4) - Lewis Carroll
The Hunting of the Snark (version 4) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Poetry / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in 8 Fits) is a poem written by English writer Lewis Carroll. It is typically categorised as a nonsense poem. The plot follows a crew of ten trying to hunt the Snark, which may turn out to be a highly dangerous...
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town - William Clark Russell
The Yarn of Old Harbour Town - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction / Published 1900 onward
This novel opens in 1805, during the Napoleonic Wars between England and France. A retired sailor, Captain Acton, reminisces about his time at sea now he lives on shore and wonders about a ship seen burning at sea the previous night. But there is...
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East - Walter A. Wyckoff
The Workers - An Experiment in Reality: The East - Walter A. Wyckoff
- Author: Walter A. Wyckoff
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
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...
Merrimeg - William Bowen
Merrimeg - William Bowen
- Author: William Bowen
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is a charming fairy story by renowned author William Bowen. Merrimeg is a kind, helpful and obedient little girl. But after finishing her chores, as she goes outside to play, imps intervene and sweep her up the chimney. What is to become of...
The Last of the Hackdrivers - Damon Runyon
The Last of the Hackdrivers - Damon Runyon
- Author: Damon Runyon
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The Last of the Hackdrivers by Damon Runyon. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 15, 2020. ------ Alfred Damon Runyon was an American newspaperman and short-story writer. He was best known for...
The General Principle of Relativity: In Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect - Herbert Wildon Carr
The General Principle of Relativity: In Its Philosophical and Historical Aspect - Herbert Wildon Carr
- Author: Herbert Wildon Carr
- Genre: Modern / Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
The main purpose of this book is to show the historical relations of the new principle to the old philosophical problems and to the classical theories of space and time. - Summary by Adapted from the Preface...
Notes of An East Coast Naturalist - Arthur Henry PATTERSON
Notes of An East Coast Naturalist - Arthur Henry PATTERSON
- Author: Arthur Henry PATTERSON
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography / Life Sciences
Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist with an immeasurable knowledge and perspicacity of the Broadland region’s flora and fauna – especially the area around Great Yarmouth and Breydon Water. He was the author of many books about...
The Silver Shadow, and Other Day Dreams - Frank W. Boreham
The Silver Shadow, and Other Day Dreams - Frank W. Boreham
- Author: Frank W. Boreham
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Christianity - Other
Frank Boreham was a well known preacher who served in England, Australia, and New Zealand. He published dozens of books and thousands of editorials during his lifetime, with no sign of slowing down, even up until his death at age 88. He wrote with a...
Daylight Land - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
Daylight Land - William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Author: William Henry Harrison MURRAY
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Mr. Murray takes us on an adventure that he has recorded as payment to his family in exchange for their permission to embark upon it. In this trip, he travels by train across Canada all the way to Vancouver. He details for us the immense beauty of...
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance
Set in 1925, this is a novel of the Jazz Age; of ambition, of the careless rich, of wild parties and flappers and bootleg booze; and the efforts of a dreamer to reunite with his lost love. - Summary by Kara...
Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox - David Cory
Billy Bunny and Daddy Fox - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Animals & Nature
David Cory is the author of over 50 children's book including the Little Jack Rabbit series and the Puss-in-Boots series. These Billy Bunny stories were first syndicated in magazines as short episodes. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
The Chronicles of America Volume 12 - Washington and his Comrades in Arms - George WRONG
The Chronicles of America Volume 12 - Washington and his Comrades in Arms - George WRONG
- Author: George WRONG
- Genre: War & Military / History
This twelfth volume in the Chronicles of America (series) follows the lengthy and difficult war against England for independence as led by George Washington....
The Wreck of the Corsaire - William Clark Russell
The Wreck of the Corsaire - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Nautical & Marine Fiction
This book was published in 1897. When cabin passenger Mr. Catesby climbs into the rigging of the Ruby in search of cooler air, he is struck full in the face and chest by an errant seabird bearing a sealed tin box tied about its neck. What he finds...
The Aliens (Version 2) - Murray Leinster
The Aliens (Version 2) - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
The human race was expanding through the galaxy ... and so, they knew, were the Aliens. Who were these beings? Traces of them could be found scattered on planets everywhere, some very recent, but the aliens themselves were never encountered. They...
Cherry and Violet - Anne Manning
Cherry and Violet - Anne Manning
- Author: Anne Manning
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A Tale of the Great Plague. 1666 was a difficult year in London. With its sordid materialism and its coarse handling of things most sacred, not merely does Manning see, as an Englishwoman, the grandeur of its struggles, but she sees its best...
Uselessness - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Uselessness - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you __ recordings of Uselessness by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 29, 2020. ------ Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude,...
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 12 - Various
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 12 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Anthologies
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)...
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz (version 2) - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The wonderful but quirky Wizard of Oz has invented a plane to go strato-sphering. Zooming among the clouds and shooting stars above OZ certainly produces a host of strange adventures. This last book about OZ by Ruth Thompson includes many well known...
