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The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise - Pierre Abélard
The Love Letters of Abelard and Heloise - Pierre Abélard
- Author: Pierre Abélard
- Genre: Romance
Heloise was a strong-willed and gifted woman who was fluent in Latin, Greek and Hebrew, and came from a lower social standing than Abelard. At age 19, and living under her uncle Fulbert's roof, Heloise fell in love with Abelard, who she was studying...
Unaddressed Letters - Anonymous
Unaddressed Letters - Anonymous
- Author: Anonymous
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Memoirs
“I had a friend who loved me;” but he has gone, and the “great gulf” is between us. After his death, I received a packet of manuscript with these few words:—“What I have written may appeal to you because of our friendship, and because, when you come...
A Christmas Carol (Version 11) - Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol (Version 11) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: Literary Fiction
The classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge, an elderly miser who is visited by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. The result of their visit shows that redemption is...
The Brown Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
The Brown Fairy Book - Andrew Lang
- Author: Andrew Lang
- Genre: Animals & Nature / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Andrew Lang’s Brown Fairy Book (1904) was a beautifully produced and illustrated edition of fairy tales that has become a classic. This was one of many other collections of fairy tales, collectively known as Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books. (Summary by...
Henry Dunbar - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Henry Dunbar - Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
In this novel by Victorian sensationalist Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar returns to England after a 30-year exile to India for committing forgery. What follows is an adventure involving murder, deception, the ethical quandaries of guilt and...
A Horse's Tale (Version 2) - Mark Twain
A Horse's Tale (Version 2) - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Historical Fiction
A Horse's Tale is a novel by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), written partially in the voice of Soldier Boy, who is Buffalo Bill's favorite horse, at a fictional frontier outpost with the U.S. 7th Cavalry. With a fanciful mix of points of view, we hear...
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories - George Gissing
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories - George Gissing
- Author: George Gissing
- Genre: Published 1900 onward / Single Author Collections
George Gissing was a prolific English writer of novels and short stories. Among his best known novels is The Odd Women, which was influenced by George Eliot, whose work he greatly admired. Another of his famous works, New Grub Street, entails a...
Little Prudy - Rebecca Sophia Clarke
Little Prudy - Rebecca Sophia Clarke
- Author: Rebecca Sophia Clarke
- Genre: Children's Fiction
I am going to tell you something about a little girl who was always saying and doing funny things, and very often getting into trouble. Her name was Prudy Parlin, and she and her sister Susy, three years older, lived in Portland, in the State of...
The Sturdy Oak - Various
The Sturdy Oak - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: General Fiction
At a certain committee meeting held in the spring of 1916, it was agreed that fourteen leading American authors, known to be extremely generous as well as gifted, should be asked to write a composite novel....Third, to have the novel finished and...
The Autobiography of Mother Jones - Mary Harris Jones
The Autobiography of Mother Jones - Mary Harris Jones
- Author: Mary Harris Jones
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones) was a legendary labor organizer. She was a founding member of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, or the Wobblies), and was active in the United Mine Workers and the Socialist Party of America. (Summary...
Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays - Margaret Penrose
Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays - Margaret Penrose
- Author: Margaret Penrose
- Genre: Action & Adventure / General
Relates the details of a mystery that surrounded Tanglewood Park. There is a great snowstorm, and the young folks become snowbound, much to their dismay. Books in this series: Dorothy Dale: A Girl of Today (1908) Dorothy Dale at Glenwood School...
Erec and Enide - Chrétien de Troyes
Erec and Enide - Chrétien de Troyes
- Author: Chrétien de Troyes
- Genre: Romance / Published before 1800
A medieval romance in which Erec goes through many trials until he is sure of Enide’s loyalty and true love (Summary by M. J. Boyle)...
The Sorrows of Satan - Or, the Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire - Marie Corelli
The Sorrows of Satan - Or, the Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire - Marie Corelli
- Author: Marie Corelli
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction
In this 1895 Faustian novel by British author Marie Corelli, we follow the journey of Geoffrey Tempest. Initially a starving and penniless writer, his good fortune comes upon him in the form of a huge inheritance, and the friendship of a character...
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad - Thornton W. Burgess
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad - Thornton W. Burgess
- Author: Thornton W. Burgess
- Genre: Animals & Nature
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad is another in the long line of children's books by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this book, we follow the adventures of Old Mr. Toad as he joins the Spring Chorus at the Smiling Pool, shows off his babies,...
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Two Years Before the Mast - Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
- Author: Richard Henry Dana Jr.
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
While there are many books upon the subject of sea life, there are few that can compare with Two Years Before the Mast. It is the story of a sailor's life from the forecastle, not a captain, nor a passenger, but a regular hand. The book was a great...
Short Poetry Collection 047 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 047 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox’s Short Poetry Collection 047: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
When First I Came Here - Edward Thomas
When First I Came Here - Edward Thomas
- Author: Edward Thomas
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of When First I Came Here by Edward Thomas. This was the weekly poetry project for July 19th, 2009....
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 2 - Niccolò Machiavelli
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius, Book 2 - Niccolò Machiavelli
- Author: Niccolò Machiavelli
- Genre: Political Science / Early Modern
In "Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius", posthumous work by the author of The Prince, Machiavelli discusses the useful lessons that could be learnt from the past for the present. As the title mentions, the subject of the work is the...
The Kipling Reader - Rudyard Kipling
The Kipling Reader - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Anthologies
These are selections of Kipling's writings; some poems, some fiction, some history but all by the master storyteller himself. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi' -- William the Conqueror, Part I -- William the Conqueror, Part II -- Wee Willie Winkie -- A matter of...
You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner
You Know Me Al - Ring Lardner
- Author: Ring Lardner
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
Big, fat, dumb, lazy, vain, headstrong and cheap, Jack Keefe is a journeyman pitcher with the Chicago White Sox in the rowdy days of the Deadball Era, circa 1915, ruled by the likes of Ty Cobb and John McGraw. In You Know Me Al, we follow Jack...
Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods - Sir Philip Sidney
Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods - Sir Philip Sidney
- Author: Sir Philip Sidney
- Genre: Poetry / Ballads
LibriVox volunteers bring you recordings of Double Sestina - Ye Goatherd Gods by Phillip Sidney. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 5, 2019. ------ Poem is included in the book "Countesse of Pembroke's Arcadia" Ye Goatherd Gods" depicts...
The Mystery of Pain - James Hinton
The Mystery of Pain - James Hinton
- Author: James Hinton
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Self-Help / Christianity - Other
This book is addressed to the sorrowful, ... to whom their own or others' pain is a daily burden, upon whose hearts it weighs with an intolerable anguish. I seek to speak to these ; not as a teacher, but as a fellow. Sharing their feeling, and...
Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
Pirates of Panama - Alexandre Exquemelin
- Author: Alexandre Exquemelin
- Genre: General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction / *Non-fiction
This volume was originally written in Dutch by John Esquemeling, and first published in Amsterdam in 1678 under the title of De Americaeneche Zee Roovers. It immediately became very popular and this first hand history of the Buccaneers of America...
Rainbow Valley (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Rainbow Valley (version 2) - Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Author: Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The story moves from Anne and Gilbert to their six children, and their new neighbours, the children of the new Presbyterian minister. - Summary by Karen SavageOther books in this series by this reader: Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea Anne of...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (version 3) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: General Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is the original title of a novel written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange...
Pushing to the Front - Orison Swett Marden
Pushing to the Front - Orison Swett Marden
- Author: Orison Swett Marden
- Genre: Psychology / Self-Help / Modern
Published in 1894, this is the first book by the renowned inspirational author, Dr. Orison Swett Marden. Pushing to the Front is the product of many years of hard work, and marks a turning point in the life of Dr. Marden. He rewrote it following an...
The Mask - Florence Irwin
The Mask - Florence Irwin
- Author: Florence Irwin
- Genre: Romance
The mask is the one which we all wear, even though unconsciously, to hide our thoughts and feelings. Alison Terry wore one, though she had never realized it until she faced a crisis in her life. Alison, a girl of sympathetic mood and action whose...
Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black) - Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Trent's Last Case (The Woman in Black) - Edmund Clerihew Bentley
- Author: Edmund Clerihew Bentley
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Trent's Last Case (US title The Woman in Black) is actually the first novel in which gentleman sleuth Philip Trent appears. The novel is a whodunit whose unique place in the history of detective fiction is because it is at the same time the first...
Two Old Faiths: Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans - John Murray Mitchell
Two Old Faiths: Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans - John Murray Mitchell
- Author: John Murray Mitchell
- Genre: Religion
This book contains two essays, one by each of the listed authors. They describe the two religions of Hinduism and Islam, their history, and their contrast with Christianity. This book was part of the curriculum for the C.L.S.C. (the Chautauqua...
A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Poetry
Beloved by many generations of children, A Child's Garden of Verses is a beautiful collection of children's poetry. Sometimes thoughtful, sometimes whimsical, but always fun. (Summary by Arctura)...
Short Science Fiction Collection 053 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 053 - 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...
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge - George Berkeley
- Author: George Berkeley
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy / Psychology
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Commonly called "Treatise" when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work by the Irish Empiricist philosopher George Berkeley. This book largely seeks to refute the claims made by his...
Souls for Sale - Rupert Hughes
Souls for Sale - Rupert Hughes
- Author: Rupert Hughes
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Perhaps the most commercially successful Hollywood novel of the 1920s, Rupert Hughes' Souls for Sale is a direct response to contemporaneous charges of the film industry's moral laxities and predilections toward vice. Remember "Mem" Steddon, the...
The Old Maids' Club - Israel Zangwill
The Old Maids' Club - Israel Zangwill
- Author: Israel Zangwill
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mathematics vs. poetry: Brainy and beautiful 17-year-old Lillie, determined to never marry, begins an Old Maids' Club, while patient young Lord Silverdale advises, observes, and writes appropriate poetry. Candidates for membership must be young,...
California Coast Trails - Joseph Smeaton Chase
California Coast Trails - Joseph Smeaton Chase
- Author: Joseph Smeaton Chase
- Genre: Nature / Memoirs
In 1911, decades before California's coast Highway 1 was built, an Englishman rode 2000 miles on horseback the length of California, from Mexico to Oregon. On the way he is courteously received at isolated ranches, has many quiet adventures, and is...
The Golden Web - E. Phillips Oppenheim
The Golden Web - E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Stirling Deane has sold the Little Anna Gold Mine which he discovered in South Africa. The sale has made him a rich man and the head of the company to which he sold the mine. A former acquaintance from his days in South Africa has shown up and...
Short Poetry Collection 152 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 152 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 26 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for January 2016....
My Man Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
My Man Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Bertram Wooster is an English gentleman living in New York, who seems to get himself into all sorts of jams. It’s up to his manservant Jeeves to come up with the plan to save the day from unpleasant houseguests, stingy uncles, broken hearts, and...
Three Short Works - Gustave Flaubert
Three Short Works - Gustave Flaubert
- Author: Gustave Flaubert
- Genre: Short Stories
Here is a collection of strikingly different pieces by Flaubert: a prose poem in the voices of Death, Satan and Nero; the trials and apotheosis of a medieval saint; and the life of a selfless maid in 19th century France. Each exhibits the vigorous...
Christmas Eve, and other Poems - Charles Maurice Stebbins
Christmas Eve, and other Poems - Charles Maurice Stebbins
- Author: Charles Maurice Stebbins
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of poems by C. Maurice Stebbins. The titular poem is a Christmas poem, but it is dark and somber in tone. The following shorter pieces are very varied, making for a beautiful little collection. - Summary by Carolin...
