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Love - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Love - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Love by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 30, 2019. ------ Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the...
The Gentle Persuasion - Alan Gray
The Gentle Persuasion - Alan Gray
- Author: Alan Gray
- Genre: Memoirs
Twelve stories from the author's life in Scotland, by Robert Cuthbert Johnstone, writing as Alan Gray. For more information on the author see his biography by the Manitoba Historical Society....
The Blue Review, Number 1 - Various
The Blue Review, Number 1 - 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...
Christmas Short Works Collection 2019 - Various
Christmas Short Works Collection 2019 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry / Short Stories / *Non-fiction
2019 collection of items with a Christmas theme containing traditional stories, Christmas traditions, Christmas cakes. We hope you will enjoy it....
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (Version 2) - Alexander Wheelock Thayer
The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I (Version 2) - Alexander Wheelock Thayer
- Author: Alexander Wheelock Thayer
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
The first scholarly biography on the life of Ludwig Von Beethoven. Volume 1 - Summary by Realisticspeakers...
Flemington (version 2) - Violet Jacob
Flemington (version 2) - Violet Jacob
- Author: Violet Jacob
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Archie Flemington, a spy in Government service during the 1745 Jacobite rising, is sent to investigate the suspected rebel James Logie. Despite the secrets and enmities between them, the two men form a lasting connection. But when the war comes to...
The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching - Irenaeus
The Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching - Irenaeus
- Author: Irenaeus
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Eusebius in his Ecclesiastical History tells us that in addition to his great work Against Heresies, St Irenaeus wrote A Discourse in Demonstration of the Apostolic Preaching. This work was entirely lost sight of: no one seems ever to have quoted a...
Trees, Shown to the Children - C. E. Smith
Trees, Shown to the Children - C. E. Smith
- Author: C. E. Smith
- Genre: Science
A charming and informative volume about the trees one might find in one's backyard and farther environs. A touch of science and a love of beauty are displayed here. - Summary by KevinS...
The American Credo - H. L. Mencken
The American Credo - H. L. Mencken
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- Genre: Political Science
The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind, published in 1920, is a commentary on US politics, specifically regarding the tribalism encouraged by politicians and religious leaders, the contradicting definitions...
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional lady - Anita Loos
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes": the illuminating diary of a professional lady - Anita Loos
- Author: Anita Loos
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Published 1900 onward
In this comic novel written by American author Anita Loos, we follow the adventures of the fictional character Lorelei Lee who is a young blonde flapper. This story takes place in the hedonistic Jazz Age and is written in the form of a diary from...
A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol 1 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of England, From the Earliest Times to the Reign of Queen Victoria, Vol 1 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Author: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History
This is volume one in this series of books and deals with history from Caractacus and his Wife before Claudius to the death of Wat Tyler. This follows the history of that time. Volumes two and three will be done once this one is complete. (Summary...
The Art of Cross-Examination - Francis Wellman
The Art of Cross-Examination - Francis Wellman
- Author: Francis Wellman
- Genre: Law
A classic text on cross-examination of witnesses, including many examples of techniques used in celebrated cases by such notable attorneys as Abraham Lincoln and future Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo. Wellman sprinkles the text liberally...
Oration by Frederick Douglass Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument, April 14, 1876 - Frederick DOUGLASS
Oration by Frederick Douglass Delivered on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument, April 14, 1876 - Frederick DOUGLASS
- Author: Frederick DOUGLASS
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / Reference / Modern (19th C)
This is the speech given by Fredrick Douglass at the unveiling of the Freedmen's Monument in Lincoln Park, Washington DC, April 14, 1876 along with the appendix which includes additional information about the order of the events and the story of the...
Flaming June - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
Flaming June - Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Author: Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
- Genre: Family Life
The immensity of the gulf between England and the United States manifests itself on several levels in this story of a young girl’s innocent exploration of personal relationships. (Summary by Judi Mason)...
The Centaurians - L. D. Biagi
The Centaurians - L. D. Biagi
- Author: L. D. Biagi
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Science Fiction
Published in 1911, 15 years before the first verified discovery of the North Pole and in the same year when F. Cook published a memoir claiming his own discovery of the Pole, this short SciFi about the discovery of the Pole and the civilisation on...
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 3 - Friedrich Nietzsche
The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Volume 3 - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: Education / Essays & Short Works / Philosophy
Volume 3 of the complete works contains several short critical introductory essays, five lectures under the heading "On the Future of our Educational Institutions," and finally an essay by the author entitled "Homer and Classical Philology." As...
The Jay Bird Who Went Tame - John Breck
The Jay Bird Who Went Tame - John Breck
- Author: John Breck
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Jay Bird Who Went Tame is a children's story about different animals from the nature relating with humans in a rural environment. (Summary by Ares)...
With Links of Steel - Nicholas Carter
With Links of Steel - 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". In this adventure,...
The Black Eagle Mystery - Geraldine BONNER
The Black Eagle Mystery - Geraldine BONNER
- Author: Geraldine BONNER
- Genre: Detective Fiction
A New York corporate lawyer falls eighteen stories from the Black Eagle Building. Suicide, cops say. That Hollings Harland was part of a black organization, cornering the market on copper, and about to be exposed to the world. He had just excused...
Kit and Kitty - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
Kit and Kitty - Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Author: Richard Doddridge Blackmore
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900
Kit Orchardson, an apprentice produce grower in Sunbury, England describes for us a time in his youth in which he fell in love with Kitty, a young lady of higher status, endeavored to secure her love and ventured to solve her mysterious...
The Fairy Lady - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
The Fairy Lady - Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Author: Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Genre: Comedy
Don Manuel and Cosmo are visiting town to stay with Don Manuel's friend Don John de Toledo for the young Prince's christening, when suddenly a a veiled lady begs for their aid and protection. "My honour and my life are forfeit if I am overtaken or...
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 - Jules Verne
From the Earth to the Moon, Version 2 - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Science Fiction
Jules Verne takes aim at some amusing stereotypes of Americans in this story of a pre-rocketry attempt to shoot a cannonball to the Moon. Those Yankees don’t do anything by halves! His means is a Columbiad cannon so enormous that it must be bored...
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 11 - Various
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 11 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Literary Fiction / Anthologies
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds...
The Hawaiian Archipelago - Isabella L. BIRD
The Hawaiian Archipelago - Isabella L. BIRD
- Author: Isabella L. BIRD
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Six months among the palm groves, coral reefs, and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands. - Summary by Isabella Bird...
Ghosts, Being The Experiences of Flaxman Low - Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
Ghosts, Being The Experiences of Flaxman Low - Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
- Author: Hesketh Vernon Hesketh-Prichard
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction
A collection of ghost stories featuring Flaxman Low, the first psychic detective of fiction. The stories were first written for Pearson's Magazine (by Hesketh Vernon Prichard and his mother, under the pseudonyms "H. Heron" and "E. Heron") and the...
Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena - Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
Recollections of Napoleon at St. Helena - Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
- Author: Elizabeth Balcombe Abell
- Genre: *Non-fiction
In this memoir written by Betsy Balcombe, who was a precocious 14 year old at the time of events, we are provided with a rare account of the character, the moods and humanity of Napoleon Bonaparte. She recalls her initial shock and fear at the...
Adrienne Lecouvreur - Ernest Legouve
Adrienne Lecouvreur - Ernest Legouve
- Author: Ernest Legouve
- Genre: Tragedy
This drama was written in 1848 for the great French tragedienne, Rachel, by Eugene Scribe and his writing partner, Ernest Legouve. Scribe is remembered for devising the compositional technique now known as the “well-made play” that dominated...
The Tale of Bunny Cotton-Tail - Laura Rountree Smith
The Tale of Bunny Cotton-Tail - Laura Rountree Smith
- Author: Laura Rountree Smith
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Little Bunny Cotton-tail is a very naughty bunny. He runs away, he won't go to school, and he keeps nibbling on Farmer Jones' cabbage! Mother Bunny will have to ask for help to get her little bunny to behave. (Summary by Patrice DeHart)...
Poems of the Great War - Various
Poems of the Great War - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
At a time when the need for courage and tenacity of the British people was at its peak, these poems published at the outset of the First World War emerged as an attempt to bolster the war effort and reinforce the determination of a people and a...
Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters - Henry Addington Bruce
Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters - Henry Addington Bruce
- Author: Henry Addington Bruce
- Genre: Psychology
The author describes popular ghost occurrences from a skeptical point of view, providing explanations based on recent scientific research (early 20th century), primarily in the field of psychology, like suggestion and hallucinations, using also his...
Tamba, The Tame Tiger; His Many Adventures - Richard Barnum
Tamba, The Tame Tiger; His Many Adventures - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Animals & Nature
Richard Barnum was the pseudonym adopted by several authors of the Studemeyer Syndicate when writing the Kneetime Animal Stories for children. In this tale, we meet Tamba, the Tame Tiger and follow his escape from the circus and search for something...
Birds, Vol. II, No 1, July 1897 - Various
Birds, Vol. II, No 1, July 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...
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains - Washington Irving
Astoria; Or, Anecdotes of an Enterprise Beyond the Rocky Mountains - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: History
"Astoria" describes the many perilous adventures, discoveries, and disasters experienced by the brave Americans who joined the 1810-1813 Astor Expedition to Oregon. The wealthy New York fur magnate John Jacob Astor masterminded an extensive...
Wilderness - Carl Sandburg
Wilderness - Carl Sandburg
- Author: Carl Sandburg
- Genre: Single author
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Wilderness by Carl Sandburg. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 11, 2021. ------ This fortnightly prose poem is guaranteed to locate the aboriginal poet in you! Come one come all. Please...
Master Zacharius - Jules Verne
Master Zacharius - Jules Verne
- Author: Jules Verne
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Fantasy Fiction
Master Zacharius is a man of science, skill, and overpowering pride. He is the first to successfully, and accurately, regulate time. Does this not make him God-like? What then, should such a man do when his time is running out and his legacy is in...
The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad - William Francis Bailey
The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad - William Francis Bailey
- Author: William Francis Bailey
- Genre: Modern (19th C) / Transportation
Story of the planning, construction, and early operating of the Trans-continental railroad. There is coverage of the early proposals that began as early as the late 1700's to follow the best route to the Pacific Ocean. 1819 saw proposals for steam...
Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
Elia; and The Last Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
- Author: Charles Lamb
- Genre: Humor / Essays
Elia and The Last Essays of Elia are two collections of essays written by Charles Lamb. The essays first began appearing in The London Magazine in 1820 and continued to 1825. They were very popular and were printed in many subsequent editions...
St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle of Titus - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle of Titus - St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Author: St. John CHRYSOSTOM
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
John Chrysostom was the Archbishop of Constantinople and perhaps one of the most famous preachers of the Eastern world. He would come to be known as Chrysostom which means means "golden-mouthed" in Greek. In this series of sermons he expounds upon...
Sweethearts (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
Sweethearts (Version 2) - W. S. Gilbert
- Author: W. S. Gilbert
- Genre: Comedy
Subtitled "An Original Dramatic Contrast", the play presents two neighbors, Harry and Jenny, parting in Act 1 and then meeting again 30 years later in Act 2 after Harry's return from India. - Summary by ToddHW Cast list: Mr Harry Spreadbrow: Rob...
News From No Man's Land - James Green
News From No Man's Land - James Green
- Author: James Green
- Genre: War & Military / History / Modern (20th C)
James Green (1864-1948) was a Methodist minister who was a chaplain to Australian troops in the Boer War and in the Australian Imperial Force in World War I. This memoir was published 1917, while the war was on-going. “In spite of necessary...
