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The Complete Works of Brann, The Iconoclast, Volume 12 - William Cowper BRANN
The Complete Works of Brann, The Iconoclast, Volume 12 - William Cowper BRANN
- Author: William Cowper BRANN
- Genre: Short Stories / Biography & Autobiography / Essays & Short Works
William Cowper Brann earned the nickname βThe Iconoclastβ by fearlessly attacking established beliefs and institutions which he thought to be pompous and self-serving. He settled in the wild and wooly West Texas town of Waco in the late 1800s as a...
History of Astronomy - George Forbes
History of Astronomy - George Forbes
- Author: George Forbes
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
An attempt has been made in these pages to trace the evolution of intellectual thought in the progress of astronomical discovery, and, by recognising the different points of view of the different ages, to give due credit even to the ancients. No one...
The Wind in the Willows (Version 6) - Kenneth Grahame
The Wind in the Willows (Version 6) - Kenneth Grahame
- Author: Kenneth Grahame
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Animals & Nature / Family
The Wind in the Willows is a classic children's book--enjoyed by all ages!--by British novelist Kenneth Grahame, first published in 1908. Begun as letters to his 7-year-old son Alistair and later developed into a novel, it tells the adventures of...
Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse - David Cory
Puss in Boots, Jr., and the Good Gray Horse - David Cory
- Author: David Cory
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
David Cory is the author of more than 40 childrens books. This is one in his series of Puss in Boots, Jr. The roots of the legend of Puss in Boots seems to go back to Italian folklore. These books are written for younger readers, about second grade...
Ode To Duty - William Wordsworth
Ode To Duty - William Wordsworth
- Author: William Wordsworth
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 11 recordings of Ode To Duty by William Wordsworth. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 31, 2020 ------ βOde to Dutyβ is an appeal to the principle of morality for guidance and support. This Fortnightly Poem...
Short Poetry Collection 201 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 201 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 49 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for February 2020....
G.K. Chesterton in The Century Illustrated Magazine - G. K. Chesterton
G.K. Chesterton in The Century Illustrated Magazine - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
A collection of 5 articles/essays and 2 letters written by G.K. Chesterton in "The Century Illustrated Magazine". The pubilcation dates range from 1912-1923. (Summary by Maria Therese)...
Freckles (Version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
Freckles (Version 2) - Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Author: Gene STRATTON-PORTER
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Freckles is a young man who has been raised since infancy in a Chicago orphanage. His one dream is to find a job, a place to belong and people who accept him despite his youth and the disability of having only one hand. He finds this place in the...
The Ways of St. Anthony - Sister M. Josephine
The Ways of St. Anthony - Sister M. Josephine
- Author: Sister M. Josephine
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Saint Anthony of Padua is especially invoked and venerated all over the world as the patron saint for the recovery of lost items and is credited with many miracles involving lost people, lost things and even lost spiritual goods. The names and...
A Poet Looks At The Moon - Jo Hsu Chang</a><br />Translated by <a href="https
A Poet Looks At The Moon - Jo Hsu Chang</a><br />Translated by <a href="https
Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) And Naval Strategy (1917) - Wilkinson Dent Bird
Two Essays On Military History, Strategy, and Tactics: Mountain Warfare (1909) And Naval Strategy (1917) - Wilkinson Dent Bird
- Author: Wilkinson Dent Bird
- Genre: War & Military
One essay (1909) lays out tactics for mountain fighting, focused on British Army experience on the Indian frontier (Afghanistan), penned by a British officer who fought in that conflict, Wilkinson Dent Bird. The other essay (1917) focuses on the...
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 06 March 1897 - Various
The Black Cat Vol. 02 No. 06 March 1897 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Short Stories
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Many writers were largely unknown, but some famous authors also wrote original material for this magazine. This...
The Red Runners - Seckatary Hawkins
The Red Runners - Seckatary Hawkins
- Author: Seckatary Hawkins
- Genre: Action & Adventure
This Is one of the Hawkins series and a right good one at that! Big boys and little boys, manly and "yellow", all these figure in the adventures which are recounted and the reader is quite breathless by the time he has taken part even vicariously in...
Rousseau and Education According to Nature - Thomas Davidson
Rousseau and Education According to Nature - Thomas Davidson
- Author: Thomas Davidson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography / Education
In my Volume on Aristotle in this series, I tried to give an account of ancient, classical, and social Education; in the present volume I have endeavored to set forth the nature of modern, romantic, and unsocial Education. This education originates...
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny - Alexandre Dumas
The Marie Antoinette Romances, Vol 5: The Countess of Charny - Alexandre Dumas
- Author: Alexandre Dumas
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
This 5th volume of the Marie Antoinette Romances begins after the fall of the Bastille and the March on Versailles, which forced Louis XVI and his court to be escorted back to Paris. In Paris, political factions battle over the fate of the nation,...
Hearts of Controversy - Alice Meynell
Hearts of Controversy - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Essays & Short Works
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works...
The Problem of Truth - Herbert Wildon Carr
The Problem of Truth - Herbert Wildon Carr
- Author: Herbert Wildon Carr
- Genre: Modern
A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in unanalysed experience; in philosophy we examine the first principles and ultimate questions that concern...
A Dissertation on the Inspiration of the New Testament - Philip Doddridge
A Dissertation on the Inspiration of the New Testament - Philip Doddridge
- Author: Philip Doddridge
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Doddridge defines 'inspiration' and explains in what sense the New Testament writers are self-aware in their claim to it and the logical incoherence of their various statements if they were uninspired. (Summary by InTHeDesert)...
The Track of the "Typhoon" - William Washburn Nutting
The Track of the "Typhoon" - William Washburn Nutting
- Author: William Washburn Nutting
- Genre: Exploration
In 1920, William Nutting, editor of Motor Boat Magazine and an experienced sailor, commissioned his friend, legendary naval architect William Atkin, to design a boat for an Atlantic crossing. The nominal goal of the voyage was to compete in the...
The Pilot - James Fenimore Cooper
The Pilot - James Fenimore Cooper
- Author: James Fenimore Cooper
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Historical Fiction / War & Military Fiction
The work, which was admired by Herman Melville and Joseph Conrad for its authentic portrayal of a seafaring life and takes place during the American Revolution, launched a whole genre of maritime fiction. It features a mysterious and almost...
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 081 - Various
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 081 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: *Non-fiction
"There has always been a tendency on the part of men of brains to look with contempt on women's work in the arts." Screenwriter and novelist Anita Loos' acerbic opinion is part of "Women in Film Speak Their Minds (1925).β Ida Tarbell's "Women as...
Spoken Hymns and Readings for the Easter Vigil - William Croswell Doane
Spoken Hymns and Readings for the Easter Vigil - William Croswell Doane
- Author: William Croswell Doane
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Spoken hymns and readings for a shorter form of the Easter Vigil liturgy. (Summary by KevinS)...
Essays in Experimental Logic - John Dewey
Essays in Experimental Logic - John Dewey
- Author: John Dewey
- Genre: Philosophy
In this early collection of formative essays, acclaimed American philosopher John Dewey argues that the idealistic, realistic, and analytic schools of philosophy fail to take into account the pragmatic and experimental nature of experience - common...
The Georgics: A Poem of the Land - Virgil
The Georgics: A Poem of the Land - Virgil
- Author: Virgil
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Single author
A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such matters of labour Virgil dwells and celebrates. In a dramatic survey of practices including agriculture, viticulture, animal...
Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups - House Un-American Activities Committee
Preliminary Report on Neo-Fascist and Hate Groups - House Un-American Activities Committee
- Author: House Un-American Activities Committee
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (20th C)
A preliminary report to the U. S. Congress on a portion of the subversive activities conducted by two specific Neo-Fascist organizations that espouse racial hatred and un-Democratic positions then at work in the United States. (Early 1950s) -...
Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves (version 2) - Horatio Alger, Jr.
Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves (version 2) - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- Author: Horatio Alger Jr.
- Genre: Action & Adventure / General
A young boy named Ben runs away to make a life of his own in the big city. He learns very quickly that this will be a lot harder than his imagination prepared him for. Summary by Tori Faulder...
Short Story Collection Vol. 093 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 093 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Short Stories
The 93rd Librivox Short Story Collection is here for your enjoyment! Here our readers visit old favorites: Lord Dunsany, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ambrose Bierce writing as Dod Grile. We also bring you by authors new to Librivox: William M....
In The Footprints Of The Padres - Charles Warren STODDARD
In The Footprints Of The Padres - Charles Warren STODDARD
- Author: Charles Warren STODDARD
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Early Modern / Modern (19th C)
The American Charles Warren Stoddard (1843β1909) wrote travel books quite popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This third enlarged edition (1912) of his book more about California in general, in historia, and in memoria...
The Ancient Allan - H. Rider Haggard
The Ancient Allan - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is the thrilling tale as told by Allan Quatermain of events in his life, or should we say his lives? By the use of a mystical herb, he is transported to a time when he was an Egyptian hunter and warrior fighting to free Egypt from the bonds of...
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 23 - Seba Smith
The Rover Vol. 01 No. 23 - 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....
Short Poetry Collection 215 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 215 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 49 poems read in English by LibriVox volunteers for April 2021....
Great Epochs in American History, Volume II - Francis Whiting Halsey
Great Epochs in American History, Volume II - Francis Whiting Halsey
- Author: Francis Whiting Halsey
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
This is the second volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the building of the Panama Canal. In large part, events composing each epoch are described by men who participated in...
Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325 - Alexander Roberts
Ante-Nicene Christian Library: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A.D. 325 - Alexander Roberts
- Author: Alexander Roberts
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Christianity - Other
This LibriVox collection is first in a series of writings from the ante-Nicene Fathers' works. This first collection includes all the so-called Infancy narratives from the New Testament Apocrypha. - Summary by KevinS...
Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman - Burt L. Standish
Frank Merriwell at Yale; Or, Freshman Against Freshman - Burt L. Standish
- Author: Burt L. Standish
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Gilbert Patten, writing under the pen name of Burt L. Standish, wrote innumerable novels that were very popular in their time. His Frank Merriwell stories were later adapted for radio and these, too, were very popular. Frank is the All-American...
Rossini - W. Armine Bevan
Rossini - W. Armine Bevan
- Author: W. Armine Bevan
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
A brief summary of the life of the opera king, Rossini. - Summary by Mozartjr...
Tea and Tea Drinking - Alfred Arthur Reade
Tea and Tea Drinking - Alfred Arthur Reade
- Author: Alfred Arthur Reade
- Genre: Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Modern (19th C)
Not a complete history of tea, but a pleasant diversion concerning tea, the pleasures found in its drinking, effects, benefits, cautions, etc. Sprinkled with poetry and excerpts from historical personages and the occasional sermon. - Summary by...
Elissa - H. Rider Haggard
Elissa - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Culture & Heritage Fiction
Anthropologists have studied the ruins of a great city and temple in Zimbabwe, and it has left them in wonder. The construction and markings are Phoenician, but how was it developed so far South of the Fertile Crescent? Who built it and why? How was...
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While - Laura Lee Hope
Bunny Brown and his Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure / Family
Number 5 in the Bunny Brown series. This charming volume sees Bunny Brown, his sister Sue, their parents, Uncle Tad, and Bunker Blue (along with faithful dog Splash!) camping for the whole entire summer! There are adventures, mysteries, "marshmallow...
Weird Tales, Volume 2 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
Weird Tales, Volume 2 - E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Author: E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Romance / Fantasy Fiction
Paradoxically, it is variety that unites the tales you are about to read. They take place in widely separated countries and historical periods, and their outcomesβfortunate or tragicβcannot always be predicted with accuracy. The characters too speak...
The Metal Moon - R. F. Starzl
The Metal Moon - R. F. Starzl
- Author: R. F. Starzl
- Genre: Science Fiction
With interplanetary exploration. expeditions will range through and beyond the solar system. Colonization will not be far behind. But what will the colonies be like at the end of several hundred centuries and would they even recognize each other as...
