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The Man Who Found the Truth - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
The Man Who Found the Truth - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
An old man, accused of having murdered his family as a young man, spends a lifetime in prison. With brilliant psychological insight so characteristic of Leonid Andreyev's work, we follow this man telling his story about his obsession with truth and...
Mormonism and Masonry - Samuel H. Goodwin
Mormonism and Masonry - Samuel H. Goodwin
- Author: Samuel H. Goodwin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
The edition of the book published in 1921 explored extensively the reasons why Mormons were not accepted ("are" at the time of publication) into the Masonic Lodges. (Summary by Chiquito J. Crasto)...
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4) - Mark Twain
Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven (version 4) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mark Twain pokes a little good natured fun at the usual concept of heaven. The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his extremely long cosmic journey to heaven; his accidental misplacement; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the...
Bible (WNT) NT 10: Ephesians - Weymouth New Testament
Bible (WNT) NT 10: Ephesians - Weymouth New Testament
- Author: Weymouth New Testament
- Genre: Weymouth New Testament
"Get along with each other, and be a loving, faithful community! Be pure in your life and conduct your relationships with others in a holy, not profane manner! Respect your diverse spiritual gifts, and know that you are a strong Body, connected by...
Stories of Ships and the Sea - Jack London
Stories of Ships and the Sea - Jack London
- Author: Jack London
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
5 Exciting short stories by one of Americas best story tellers (Summary by William Tomcho)...
Short Story Collection Vol. 025 - Various
Short Story Collection Vol. 025 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Anthologies
LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 025: a collection of 10 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members....
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
- Author: Stephen Crane
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
This is a short novel published in 1895 and based vaguely on the battle of Chancellorsville of the American Civil War. Unlike other works on the subject, Crane's novel does not concentrate on the big picture or the glory of war but on the psychology...
An Afternoon in July - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
An Afternoon in July - Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Author: Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of An Afternoon in July by Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for July 7, 2013. Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon, born Rosanna Eleanor Mullins, was a Canadian writer and poet. She...
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy - Thomas Kyd
- Author: Thomas Kyd
- Genre: Plays / Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or...
The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
"Windhover" is another name for the common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). The name refers to the bird's ability to hover in midair while hunting prey. In the poem, the narrator admires the bird as it hovers in the air, suggesting that it controls the...
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
The Old Wives' Tale - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The Old Wives' Tale is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1908. It deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, into...
The Adventures of Reddy Fox - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Reddy Fox - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The Adventures of Reddy Fox is another in the series of children’s stories by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, Reddy and Granny Fox must outsmart Farmer Brown’s Boy who is out to get Reddy for stealing his pet chicken. Along the...
A Mating in the Wilds - Ottwell Binns
A Mating in the Wilds - Ottwell Binns
- Author: Ottwell Binns
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
An adventure tale set in the North Woods. Stane, a former convict in England, has established a lonely life as a trapper in the north woods. While visiting a trading post, he encounters Ainley whom he had known when they were both students. Stane...
Agricola - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Agricola - Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Author: Publius Cornelius Tacitus
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Antiquity
The Agricola (Latin: De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae, lit. On the life and character of Julius Agricola) is a book by the Roman historian Tacitus, written c 98, which recounts the life of his father-in-law Gnaeus Julius Agricola, an eminent Roman...
The Passionate Pilgrim - William Shakespeare
The Passionate Pilgrim - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first edition survives only in a single fragmentary copy; its date cannot be fixed with certainty since its title page is missing, though...
The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught - Charles C. Nott
The Mystery of the Pinckney Draught - Charles C. Nott
- Author: Charles C. Nott
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Political Science
Charles Pinckney, member of the South Carolina legislature, Confederation Congress, U.S. Congress, and notably the Constitutional Convention of 1787, may have been regarded by some as perhaps the true author of the U.S. Constitution, although most...
Lisbeth Longfrock or Sidsel Sidsærkin - Hans Aanrud
Lisbeth Longfrock or Sidsel Sidsærkin - Hans Aanrud
- Author: Hans Aanrud
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Family
Lisbeth Longfrock - (Sidsel Sidsærkin in its original Norwegian) was seen by the author as a book written for adults, telling the story of a young girl growing up in a farming district in a steep-sided Norwegian Valley. First written when the...
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land - Rosa Campbell Praed
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land - Rosa Campbell Praed
- Author: Rosa Campbell Praed
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Following a failed love affair in England, Lady Bridget O'Hara accepts an invitation to travel to colonial Australia as companion to Lady Rosamund Tallant, the wife of the newly-appointed governor of Leichardt's Land. In Leichardt's Town, Lady...
Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy
Two On A Tower - Thomas Hardy
- Author: Thomas Hardy
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
The plot concerns two – literally starcrossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night Swithin climbs the old tower of the...
Little Fishers and Their Nets - Pansy
Little Fishers and Their Nets - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Family Life / General Fiction / Christian Fiction
Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and her family is in poverty and hopelessness because of it. Her stepmother has given up, and her stepbrother is...
A Christmas Carol (version 04) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (version 04) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens first published by Chapman & Hall on 17 December 1843. The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the...
Across Asia on a Bicycle - Thomas Gaskell Allen
Across Asia on a Bicycle - Thomas Gaskell Allen
- Author: Thomas Gaskell Allen
- Genre: Travel & Geography
In 1890, two Americans newly graduated from college set out to travel around the world on a then-new invention, the modern bicycle. In 1893 they returned, have covered over 15,000 miles, at that time the "longest continuous land journey ever made...
Dandy Dick - Arthur Wing Pinero
Dandy Dick - Arthur Wing Pinero
- Author: Arthur Wing Pinero
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Plays
“Dandy Dick” was the third of the farces which Mr. Pinero wrote for the old Court Theatre—a series of plays which, besides giving playgoers a fresh source of laughter, and the English stage a new order of comic play, brought plentiful prosperity to...
Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental - Charles John Tibbits
Folk-lore and Legends: Oriental - Charles John Tibbits
- Author: Charles John Tibbits
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material, but to select only that which it is best worth his while to preserve. The conditions under which the people live are most favourable to the preservation of the...
History Plays for the Grammar Grades - Mary Ella Lyng
History Plays for the Grammar Grades - Mary Ella Lyng
- Author: Mary Ella Lyng
- Genre: Historical / General / Drama
A charming collection of 14 short American history plays for the very young - ranging from Christopher Columbus to George Washington to Susan B Anthony. (Summary by Maria Therese) Cast: Narrator; First Maid of Honor; Second Woman: Availle Narrator;...
Alcatraz - Max Brand
Alcatraz - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
This is a story of a wild horse who many said could not be caught or broken, and the man who set out to prove them wrong. (Summary by Richard Kilmer)...
The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Lady With the Dog and Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
- Author: Anton Chekhov
- Genre: Single Author Collections
Anton Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by...
The Red Inn - Honoré de Balzac
The Red Inn - Honoré de Balzac
- Author: Honoré de Balzac
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Single Author Collections
Staying at the red inn. Two army surgeons get caught up in a murder, intrigue and execution. - Summary by pmstrahm...
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
Orley Farm - Anthony Trollope
- Author: Anthony Trollope
- Genre: Satire / Published 1800 -1900
Orley Farm is Trollope at his best (as good as the Barsetshire series), which means some of the best characterizations in the English language. Trollope's people are real; the beleaguered Lady Mason, charged with forging a will; the aged lover Sir...
Montezuma's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard
Montezuma's Daughter - H. Rider Haggard
- Author: H. Rider Haggard
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Literary Fiction / Romance
A moving adventure story narrated by Thomas Wingfield, an Englishman, for Queen Elizabeth 1 of England about the murder of his mother, his trail of vengeance against the murderer which leads him to the Spanish Inquisition, slavery, romance and...
Poems - G. K. Chesterton
Poems - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Originally published in 1916, this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more (Summary by Maria Therese)...
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 3 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 3 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Author: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary...
The First Battle of Bull Run - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
The First Battle of Bull Run - Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
- Author: Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was one of the senior commanders of Southern forces during the Civil War. It was he who initiated the hostilities by opening fire on Ft. Sumter in Charleston harbor, in April, 1861. In July of that year,...
Music Talks With Children - Thomas Tapper
Music Talks With Children - Thomas Tapper
- Author: Thomas Tapper
- Genre: Arts
"A book of this kind, though addressed to children, must necessarily reach them through an older person. The purpose is to suggest a few of the many aspects which music may have even to the mind of a child. If these chapters, or whatever may be...
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3 - Various
Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Volume 3 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction / Suspense / Espionage / Political & Thrillers
In the six volumes of the Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories, Julian Hawthorne presents us thrilling and mysterious short stories from all corners of the world. Some of the stories appeared in this collection for the first...
First Lensman - E. E. Smith
First Lensman - E. E. Smith
- Author: E. E. Smith
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Secret Planet.No human had ever landed on the hidden planet of Arisia. A mysterious space barrier turned back both men and ships. Then the word came to Earth, "Go to Arisia!", Virgil Samms of the Galactic Patrol went--and came back with the...
The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan
The Rise of David Levinsky - Abraham Cahan
- Author: Abraham Cahan
- Genre: Fictional Biographies & Memoirs / Published 1900 onward
Coming to New York from the Russian Empire, Abraham Cahan founded the Jewish Daily Forward to help Yiddish-speaking immigrants adjust to life in New York. He also became a popular novelist, best known for his semi-autobiographical The Rise of David...
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald) - Omar Khayyám
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald) - Omar Khayyám
- Author: Omar Khayyám
- Genre: Poetry
"Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian: رباعیات عمر خیام). The Rubáiyát (Arabic: رباعیات) is a collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician and...
Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea - Bliss Carman
Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Poetry
This collection of lyric poems evokes the sea in every line, from birth (A Son of the Sea) to death (Outbound). The smells, sights and sounds of the Canada's East Coast feature prominently. (Summary by Sean Michael Hogan)...
Bible (KJV) 09: 1 Samuel - King James Version
Bible (KJV) 09: 1 Samuel - King James Version
- Author: King James Version
- Genre: Bibles / King James Version
The life of Samuel, and the life of Saul....
