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Short Ghost and Horror Collection 046 - Various
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 046 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
A collection of twenty stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-legged beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers up your spine, the stench of human flesh, the sound of a monstrous howl, and the occasional touch of wonder....
Bees, Shown to the Children - Ellison Hawks
Bees, Shown to the Children - Ellison Hawks
- Author: Ellison Hawks
- Genre: Nature
A very good introduction to the bee, including its physical and behavioral characteristics. Most appropriate for children. - Summary by KevinS...
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Author: Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Genre: Science Fiction
We is considered to be one of the first dystopian novels and the inspiration for later novels in the genre such as George Orwell's 1984 and Aldus Huxley's Brave New World. The story takes place in a future totalitarian world where conformity is good...
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (version 2) (dramatic reading) - Hugh Lofting
Doctor Dolittle's Post Office (version 2) (dramatic reading) - Hugh Lofting
- Author: Hugh Lofting
- Genre: Dramatic Readings / Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature
While working in Africa, the eminent naturalist John Dolittle sets out to create the best post office on earth, using his bird friends to carry messages and packages anywhere in the world in record time. Along the way, he also manages to foil a...
The Book of Judith - King James Version
The Book of Judith - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: King James Version
The Book of Judith is included in the Septuagint (the Greek form of the Old Testament) and has been retained in Catholic and Orthodox Christian Bibles, but was eventually excluded from the Hebrew canon and assigned by Protestants to their apocrypha....
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 111-125 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of Luke, Sermons 111-125 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Sermons 111 through 125 cover the Gospel According to Luke 16:19 through 18:34. (Summary by the reader)...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 24, April 13, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 24, April 13, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 24th issue of the serial was published on April 13th, 1880 and in its...
How To Have Bird Neighbors - S. Louise Patteson
How To Have Bird Neighbors - S. Louise Patteson
- Author: S. Louise Patteson
- Genre: Science / Nature
The author provides the listener with anecdotes from her life of her experiences with birds. She describes their habits and antics, their food favorites, their preferred nesting practices, and what can be done to encourage birds to become...
Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country - William Charles Griggs
Shan Folk Lore Stories from the Hill and Water Country - William Charles Griggs
- Author: William Charles Griggs
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The following stories have been taken from the great[v] mass of unwritten lore that is to the black-eyed, brown-skinned boys and girls of the Shan mountain country of Burma what "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Cinderella" are to our own children. The...
Despoilers of the Golden Empire - Randall Garrett
Despoilers of the Golden Empire - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
A handful of men, and an incredible adventure—a few super-men, led by a fanatic, seeking to conquer a new world! The story appears to be about an expedition through space to a planet inhabited by a civilized but technologically backward people, whom...
The Laughing Bear and Other Stories - Robert Bloomer Hare Bell
The Laughing Bear and Other Stories - Robert Bloomer Hare Bell
- Author: Robert Bloomer Hare Bell
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
A collection of unique stories for listeners with the wisdom to see a bit beyond the printed words. The stories start in Korea with The Laughing Bear (or MOUWOU The Deliverer.as he is also called in Korea) and move through the world of a not nice...
Soap Bubble Stories - Fanny Barry
Soap Bubble Stories - Fanny Barry
- Author: Fanny Barry
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Have you ever watched a soap bubble drifting up on the air, sparkling and lovely? These lovely stories for children are of many lengths and varied styles but all beautifully crafted, just like the soap bubbles we blow and enjoy watching our children...
Witnesses - Madison Cawein
Witnesses - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of Witnesses by Madison Cawein. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 4, 2020. ------ Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature,...
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador - Mina Benson Hubbard
A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador - Mina Benson Hubbard
- Author: Mina Benson Hubbard
- Genre: Memoirs / Exploration
Mina Benson Hubbard set out in 1905 on a 576 mile canoe journey across the interior of Labrador with the assistance of four guides. Her husband Leonidas Hubbard had perished in an attempt to make the same trip in 1903 while working as a writer for...
Fanny and the Servant Problem - Jerome K. Jerome
Fanny and the Servant Problem - Jerome K. Jerome
- Author: Jerome K. Jerome
- Genre: Comedy
"It is so sad when relations don't get on together." "Sadder still when they think they've got a right to trample on you, just because you happen to be an orphan and - I don't want to talk about my relations. I want to forget them. I stood them for...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 26, April 27, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 26, April 27, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction / Short Stories
Harper's Young People is an illustrated weekly publication for children that includes short stories, tales from history, natural history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 26th issue of the serial was published on April 27th, 1880 and in its...
Captain Sparkle, Pirate - Nicholas Carter
Captain Sparkle, Pirate - 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". Nick is only visited...
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 12 - Cyril of Alexandria
Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 12 - Cyril of Alexandria
- Author: Cyril of Alexandria
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
Book 12 of Commentary on St John's Gospel covers John 18:24-21:25. (Summary by the Reader)...
All in the Day's Work - Ida M. TARBELL
All in the Day's Work - Ida M. TARBELL
- Author: Ida M. TARBELL
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
In this autobiography, written when the author was 82 years old, Ida Tarbell looks back at her life and remarkable career as an investigative journalist. Ms. Tarbell is best known for her 1904 work, "The History of the Standard Oil Company," which...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 19 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 19 - 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....
Three People - Pansy
Three People - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Three boys in very different home environments start life on the same day: the pampered Pliny Hastings, the solidly brought-up Benny Phillips, and the uneducated street scamp Theodore “Tode” Mall. Their lives intertwine around the issue of "rum" and...
Our National Parks - John Muir
Our National Parks - John Muir
- Author: John Muir
- Genre: Nature / Travel & Geography
This book is a collection of sketches first published in the Atlantic Monthly magazine and gathered into book form in 1901. The focus here is on 4 parks in the west. Six of the 10 articles focus on Yosemite National Park; also described are...
Sonnet IX - Hartley COLERIDGE
Sonnet IX - Hartley COLERIDGE
- Author: Hartley COLERIDGE
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Sonnet IX by Hartley Coleridge. This was a Weekly Poetry project for September 20, 2020. ------ Hartley Coleridge, was an English poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher. He was the eldest son of the...
The Anzac Book - Various
The Anzac Book - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Anthologies / Literary Collections
A collection of prose, poetry, jokes, special orders, et cetera written by the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps combatants of the Gallipoli Campaign (1915). - Summary by KevinS...
Redskin and Cow-Boy: A Tale of the Western Plains - G. A. Henty
Redskin and Cow-Boy: A Tale of the Western Plains - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Westerns
The central interest of this story is found in the many adventures of an English lad who seeks employment as a cowboy on a cattle ranch. His experiences during a "roundup" present in picturesque form the toilsome, exciting, adventurous life of a...
Benjamin Franklin - Robin McKown
Benjamin Franklin - Robin McKown
- Author: Robin McKown
- Genre: Biography
This biography of Franklin was written for young people, but can be enjoyed by anyone. The author Robin McKown, is known for her young adult historical fiction and historical biographies. - Summary by Ciufi Galeazzi...
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
The Huguenot: A Tale of the French Protestants - George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Author: George Payne Rainsford JAMES
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
The time of French king Louis XIV was a time of religious conflict. His father, Louis XIII had tried to suppress the teachings and followers of Calvin but was thwarted by his ministers. The son took a different path. The king was Catholic, and...
The Junior Classics Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales - Various
The Junior Classics Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Action & Adventure
This collection of The Junior Classics is compiled from many wonderful authors including Alcott, Dickens, Hawthorne, and Carroll. The stories are suitable for all ages and as with the rest of the series include the teaching of morals....
Jātaka Tales - H. T. Francis
Jātaka Tales - H. T. Francis
- Author: H. T. Francis
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Jātaka tales are ancient Indian folktales that form a part of Buddhist teaching, telling stories of the Buddha’s past lives. Akin to Aesop’s fables, some strikingly similar, they urge the listener to moral behavior and often, more than that, point a...
Rome - Émile Zola
Rome - Émile Zola
- Author: Émile Zola
- Genre: Religious Fiction
The Abbe Pierre Froment, after his experiences in Lourdes, has written a book expressing a vision of a new enlightened papacy. He visits Rome to defend this book against condemnation and seeks audience with the Pope. He is introduced to aristocratic...
The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories - Dashiell Hammett
The Tenth Clew and Other Continental Op Stories - Dashiell Hammett
- Author: Dashiell Hammett
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Short Stories
Biographer Nathan Ward has called “The Tenth Clew” Dashiell Hammett’s “first real jewel of a story.” In it, Hammett’s nameless Continental Detective Agency operative survives being knocked unconscious and dumped in San Francisco Bay. This kind of...
Nami-ko - Kenjiro Tokutomi
Nami-ko - Kenjiro Tokutomi
- Author: Kenjiro Tokutomi
- Genre: Family Life / Literary Fiction
Nami-ko, a young woman of a noble Japanese family, has recently married the naval officer Takeo, the only heir of a friend of her father's. The couple is very happy together and Takeo is doing everything to create the perfect life for his wife, even...
Man of Many Minds - Edward Everett EVANS
Man of Many Minds - Edward Everett EVANS
- Author: Edward Everett EVANS
- Genre: Science Fiction
GALAXY IN DANGER! Somewhere, somehow, the first moves have been made—the pattern is beginning to emerge. Someone—or something—is on the way to supreme power over all the planets held by Man. And the Inter-stellar Corps is helpless to meet the...
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 19, March 9, 1880 - Various
Harper's Young People, Vol. 01, Issue 19, March 9, 1880 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Children's Non-fiction
Harper's Young People, an illustrated weekly publication for children, includes serialized and one-off short stories, tales from history, poetry, puzzles, and other fun. This 19th issue of the serial, published on March 9, 1880, contains stories of...
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11 - Anonymous
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11 - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Historical Fiction
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mythology and folk tales from the Indian sub-continent, Persia, and Arabia. No original manuscript has ever been...
The Natural History Volume 7 - Pliny the Elder
The Natural History Volume 7 - Pliny the Elder
- Author: Pliny the Elder
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Nature
Naturalis Historia (Latin for "Natural History") is an encyclopedia published circa AD 77-79 by Pliny the Elder. It is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman empire to the modern day and purports to cover the entire field of...
The Heir - Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
The Heir - Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
- Author: Vita SACKVILLE-WEST
- Genre: Single Author Collections
This collection’s title is taken from its first story, a novella, which is followed by four shorter tales, all expertly and sensitively drawn. Story 1, “The Heir,” concerns an inheritance as told from the point of view of the heir, an unmarried...
Children's Short Works, Vol. 036 - Various
Children's Short Works, Vol. 036 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short works
Librivox's Children's Short Works Collection 036: a collection of 15 short works for children in the public domain read by a variety of Librivox members....
The Diary of a Country Parson - James Woodforde
The Diary of a Country Parson - James Woodforde
- Author: James Woodforde
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
The Revd. James Woodforde was an English clergyman, best known for his vivid account of parish life in the 18th century. His diary, edited by John Beresford, remained unpublished until the 20th century. The diary provides a wonderfully full account...
The Blue Review, Number 2 - Various
The Blue Review, Number 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories / Literary Collections
The Blue Review was a short lived monthly journal published in London between May and July 1913. The successor to Rhythm, The Blue Review was edited by John Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield, but survived only three issues. In addition to...
