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Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths And Legends Of California And The Old Southwest - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Nature & Animal Fiction
"...The preparation of a volume of the quainter, purer myths, suitable for general reading, authentic, and with illustrations of the country portrayed, but with no pretensions to being a purely scientific piece of work.... This volume is intended...
Over The Plum Pudding - John Kendrick Bangs
Over The Plum Pudding - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Great Caesarβs ghost and shades of A Christmas Carol! Stories β some ghostly, some Christmas, some humorous, some all three -- twelve of them by a master story teller and humorist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Summary by...
Rainy Week (Version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
Rainy Week (Version 2) - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Author: Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A couple invite people of different walks of life to their cottage along the beach, during the rainiest week of the year. The gathered people are unknowing actors in a carefully crafted play that is created by inviting personalities that can be...
The Girls of St. Wode's - L. T. Meade
The Girls of St. Wode's - L. T. Meade
- Author: L. T. Meade
- Genre: General Fiction
This is a story about the life of a school girl. The story centres around the girls' college of St. Wode's, Wingfield. This is the place in all England where women who wish to distinguish themselves should go to receive training. The girls come from...
The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
- Author: Ambrose Bierce
- Genre: Satire
Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?), satirist, critic, poet, short story writer and journalist. His fiction showed a clean economical style often sprinkled with subtle cynical comments on human behaviour. In the Devil's Dictionary, he let his sense of...
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3 - Henry Charles Lea
History of the Inquisition of Spain, Vol. 3 - Henry Charles Lea
- Author: Henry Charles Lea
- Genre: Middle Ages/Middle History / Christianity - Other
The 3rd volume of Lea's monumental work on the Spanish Inquisition. This volume covers torture practices; the trial process; punishments; Jews, Moriscos, and Protestants; and censorship. - Summary by Sienna...
History of Company B 307th Infantry - Julius Klausner, jr
History of Company B 307th Infantry - Julius Klausner, jr
- Author: Julius Klausner jr
- Genre: War & Military
The history of Company B, 307 Infantry's participation in The First World War. A part of the 77th Division it trained at Camp Upton, New York before leaving for France. - Summary by Bill 2147...
The Little Nugget - P. G. Wodehouse
The Little Nugget - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
Mrs Nesta Ford, in her London hotel room, reveals to her new friend Lord Mountry that she hopes to take her son Ogden on a yachting trip proposed by Mountry, despite her ex-husband having won custody of the boy. As Mountry leaves, Cynthia Drassilis...
Life of Luther - Gustav A. Just
Life of Luther - Gustav A. Just
- Author: Gustav A. Just
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
This short biography of Martin Luther, by Gustav Just, who taught at Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran School, St. Louis, is a standard resource for students, young and old. The first five chapters give a swift moving, succinct overview of church...
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation) - Unknown
The Life of Lazarillo de Tormes (Markham translation) - Unknown
- Author: Unknown
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Literary Fiction
A whimsical collection of stories about a wandering street urchin, Lazarillo de Tormes is a classic of the Spanish Golden Age, even paid homage in Cervantesβ Don Quixote. Rendered homeless by the arrest of his father and poverty of his mother, the...
The Seven Who Were Hanged - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
The Seven Who Were Hanged - Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Author: Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev
- Genre: General Fiction
"I am very glad that "The Story of the Seven Who Were Hanged" will be read in English. The misfortune of us all is that we know so little, even nothing, about one anotherβneither about the soul, nor the life, the sufferings, the habits, the...
Rudin - Ivan Turgenev
Rudin - Ivan Turgenev
- Author: Ivan Turgenev
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
Rudin is the first and perhaps least known novel by Ivan Turgenev, a famous Russian writer best known for his short stories and the novel Fathers and Sons. The story focuses on a romantic involvement between Rudin and Natalya, a serious, intelligent...
Why Marry? - Jesse Lynch Williams
Why Marry? - Jesse Lynch Williams
- Author: Jesse Lynch Williams
- Genre: Comedy
Why Marry? is a comedy, which "tells the truth about marriage". We find a family in the throes of proving the morality of marriage to a New Age Woman. Can the family defend marriage to this self-supporting girl? Will she be convinced that marriage...
Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist - Marjorie Bowen
Black Magic: a Tale of the Rise and Fall of the Antichrist - Marjorie Bowen
- Author: Marjorie Bowen
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
Witches, spells, ghosts, pacts with the Devil, occult rituals, love triangles, popes and the Anti-Christ are some of the ingredients of this chilling early horror work (set in the middle-ages) by Marjorie Bowen that some consider to be the ultimate...
Montcalm and Wolfe - Francis Parkman, Jr.
Montcalm and Wolfe - Francis Parkman, Jr.
- Author: Francis Parkman Jr.
- Genre: History
Francis Parkman (1823-1893) has been hailed as one of America's great nineteenth century historians, along with William Prescott, John Lothrop Motley, George Bancroft, and Henry Adams. He is a master of narrative history and is most known for his...
It's Your Fairy Tale, You Know - Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson
It's Your Fairy Tale, You Know - Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson
- Author: Elizabeth Rhodes Jackson
- Genre: Children's Fiction
The book is about a typical boy named Wendell, who lives in Boston and likes fairy stories and baseball MUCH more than fractions. Any more than this would be a spoiler! - Summary by Nan Dodge...
One-Act Play Collection 012 - Various
One-Act Play Collection 012 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Plays
Here are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from a 1659 farce by Moliere to a 1896 play by Fuller with early LGBT content; a Gilbert play without Sullivan's music, and many other short gems to make you laugh, cry, think, or all three....
The Vanished Country - Grantland Rice
The Vanished Country - Grantland Rice
- Author: Grantland Rice
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 readings of The Vanished Country, Grantland Rice's bittersweet reflection on life. (Summary by Ruth Golding)...
Nothing But the Truth - Frederic Stewart Isham
Nothing But the Truth - Frederic Stewart Isham
- Author: Frederic Stewart Isham
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A young man, finding himself unexpectedly impecunious, attempts to improve his fortunes by wagering that he can speak nothing but the absolute truth for three weeks. He soon learns, however, that telling only the unvarnished truth can have...
For Heaven's Sake: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
For Heaven's Sake: Little Talks to Little Folks - Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Author: Rev. Gerald T. Brennan
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction / *Non-fiction
This is the second book in the "Angel Food" series by the author. It consists of a series of short sermons for children, in the form of a charming story. The author was a Catholic parish priest in New York for many years during the mid 1900's. He...
Space Platform - Murray Leinster
Space Platform - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
SPACE PLATFORM tells the exciting story of a young man helping to build this first station. With scientific accuracy and imagination Murray Leinster, one of the world's top science-fiction writers, describes the building and launching of the...
This World Is Taboo - Murray Leinster
This World Is Taboo - Murray Leinster
- Author: Murray Leinster
- Genre: Science Fiction
Calhoun is an Interstellar Medical Serviceman, and he's needed on Dara. Trouble is: Dara is forbidden. Taboo. And breaking quarantine will make Calhoun a presumed plague-carrier and subject to being shot on sight by anyone from Weald. But hey! If he...
From Jest to Earnest - Edward P. Roe
From Jest to Earnest - Edward P. Roe
- Author: Edward P. Roe
- Genre: Romance / Published 1800 -1900 / Christian Fiction
As a practical joke at a house party, a young and beautiful socialite tries to make a fool out of a visiting young missionary to amuse her friends. She pretends to be a seeker in order to win his affections, but gets a lot more than she bargained...
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys - Forrest Reid
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys - Forrest Reid
- Author: Forrest Reid
- Genre: General Fiction
The Garden God: A Tale of Two Boys is Forrest Reidβs tender, bracingly tragic reflection on adolescence, pantheism, Platonism, and homoerotic desire. A classic of βUranianβ literature, it tells the story of Graham Iddesleigh, a fifteen year old boy...
The Machine Stops (version 2) - E. M. Forster
The Machine Stops (version 2) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
Published in 1909, this science fiction short story takes place in a future where mankind, seemingly no longer able to survive on earth's surface, exists in a vast underground civilization known as "The Machine". Each individual lives in an...
The House of a Thousand Candles - Meredith Nicholson
The House of a Thousand Candles - Meredith Nicholson
- Author: Meredith Nicholson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction
A top ten bestseller of 1906, The House of a Thousand Candles is part adventure/mystery and part romance. The book begins with young Jack Glenarm returning from various exploits in Europe and Africa for the reading of his grandfatherβs will. In it,...
Diary of a U-boat Commander - Stephen King-Hall
Diary of a U-boat Commander - Stephen King-Hall
- Author: Stephen King-Hall
- Genre: War & Military Fiction
Captain Karl von Schenk of the Kaiser's Navy is a stereotypical German nobleman - supremely self-confident, touchy about the divisions of class and any infringement on his place. He thinks he is handsome, has a suitably manly physique, an excellent...
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2) - Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop (version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Written in the years 1840 to 1841, when Dickens was twenty-eight years old, this is a βRoadβ tale in the very best tradition. Little Nell Trent and her Grandfather are the main characters, who secretly set off from their home under cover of night,...
On the Duties of the Clergy - Saint Ambrose
On the Duties of the Clergy - Saint Ambrose
- Author: Saint Ambrose
- Genre: Christianity - Other
Composed about A.D. 391., this treatise of St. Ambrose may as well be called "Concerning Christian Virtues" as it practically offers to the reader a whole bouquet of Christian virtues. St. Ambrose, esteeming very highly the dignity of the...
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker - Tobias Smollett
- Author: Tobias Smollett
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Satire
The Expedition of Humphry Clinker was the last of the picaresque novels of Tobias Smollett, and is considered by many to be his best and funniest work.Published in London on 17 June 1771, it is an epistolary novel, presented in the form of letters...
Shasta Of The Wolves - Olaf Baker
Shasta Of The Wolves - Olaf Baker
- Author: Olaf Baker
- Genre: Action & Adventure / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
She-wolf Nitka finds an abandoned Native American baby and raises him with her cubs. Shasta learns the wolf ways and meets his kin, where he learns his true history. Eventually he can walk with the wolves and his human kin, which leads to more...
Mildred Keith - Martha Finley
Mildred Keith - Martha Finley
- Author: Martha Finley
- Genre: Family / Religion / Christian Fiction
Mildred Keith has a good life in Lansdale, Ohio - family, friends and school keep her happy and busy. But when her parents announce they're all moving to Indiana, Mildred's faith is tested beyond anything she could have imagined. Through good times...
Song-Surf - Cale Young Rice
Song-Surf - Cale Young Rice
- Author: Cale Young Rice
- Genre: Poetry
This is the third volume of poetry written by Kentucky poet Cale Young Rice, published in 1900. The volume contains several poems written during his journey to Asia, in different cities in Japan, as well as religious reflections and songs. - Summary...
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
Ethan Frome - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: General Fiction / Romance
Edith Wharton's 1911 novel Ethan Frome tells the story of a tragic love triangle. Set in the highly symbolic wintry landscape of Starkfield, Massachusetts, the narrative centers on the title character's fraught relationships with his "sickly,...
Russia in 1919 - Arthur Ransome
Russia in 1919 - Arthur Ransome
- Author: Arthur Ransome
- Genre: Memoirs / Modern (20th C)
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: On August 27, 1914, in London, I made this note in a memorandum book: "Met Arthur Ransome at_____'s; discussed a book on the Russian's relation to the war in the light of psychological background--folklore." The book was not...
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Author: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History / Philosophy
In the heat of the failed 1905 revolution in Russia, Lenin here contrasts the precision of the Bolshevik political program and tactics with various inconsistent and servile factions within the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party. (Summary by...
Initials Only - Anna Katharine Green
Initials Only - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Anna Katharine Green (November 11, 1846 β April 11, 1935) was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories (no doubt...
Broadway - Sara Teasdale
Broadway - Sara Teasdale
- Author: Sara Teasdale
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Broadway by Sara Teasdale. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 23rd, 2007....
I Do Not Love Thee - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
I Do Not Love Thee - Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
- Author: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
- Genre: Poetry / Romance
Librivox volunteers bring you twenty different readings of Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Nortonβs I Do Not Love Thee, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)...
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida - Oliver Optic
Down South or Yacht Adventure in Florida - Oliver Optic
- Author: Oliver Optic
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Nautical & Marine Fiction
"Down South" is the fifth and last volume but one of the "Great Western Series." The action of the story is confined entirely to Florida; and this fact may seem to belie the title of the Series. But the young yachtsman still maintains his hold upon...
