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Sir Thomas More - Anthony Munday
Sir Thomas More - Anthony Munday
- Author: Anthony Munday
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Plays
Sir Thomas More is a collaborative Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday and others depicting the life and death of Thomas More. It survives only in a single manuscript, now owned by the British Library. The manuscript is notable because three pages of...
The Story of Eclipses - George F. Chambers
The Story of Eclipses - George F. Chambers
- Author: George F. Chambers
- Genre: Astronomy / Physics & Mechanics
Solar eclipses have both frightened and fascinated humankind for thousands of years. At first believed to be caused by angry gods punishing the people on Earth, we now know that a solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between the Earth and the...
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles (version 2) - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of four crime novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set largely on Dartmoor in Devon in...
Old Christmas - Washington Irving
Old Christmas - Washington Irving
- Author: Washington Irving
- Genre: House & Home
A tale of the quaint and old English traditions of celebrating Christmas. Irving travels to the English countryside and meets an old schoolmate, who invites him home to spend Christmas at the family estate.(Summary written by Gesine)...
Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper - H. Beam Piper
Five Sci-Fi Short Stories by H. Beam Piper - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
Five short stories by classic science fiction writer H. Beam Piper....
The Calico Cat - Charles Miner Thompson
The Calico Cat - Charles Miner Thompson
- Author: Charles Miner Thompson
- Genre: Children's Fiction / General Fiction
This is a cute story of a mysterious feline annoyance and the result of a man acting upon his annoyance. The cat begins a vicious spiral of events that ends with lies, the arrest of a boy, and the guilty conscience of a man. (Summary written by...
Pleasure Cycling - Henry Clyde
Pleasure Cycling - Henry Clyde
- Author: Henry Clyde
- Genre: Health & Fitness / Sports & Recreation
"In this little book, the writer, looking back to his own days of inexperience in cycling, has endeavored to furnish some useful information and advice to those who intend joining the army of wheelmen, or who, in their first season on the road, are...
Jerusalem Delivered - Torquato Tasso
Jerusalem Delivered - Torquato Tasso
- Author: Torquato Tasso
- Genre: Poetry / Epics
The First Crusade provides the backdrop for a rich tapestry of political machinations, military conflicts, martial rivalries, and love stories, some of which are complicated by differences in religion. The supernatural plays a major role in the...
Lavender and Old Lace - Myrtle Reed
Lavender and Old Lace - Myrtle Reed
- Author: Myrtle Reed
- Genre: Romance
"Jane Hathaway and her niece, Ruth Thorne, have never met. Jane invites Ruth for a visit, but leaves before Ruth comes. Ruth agrees to come to Jane for quiet and rest. When Ruth arrives, the maid gives her a letter from her aunt. In the letter, Aunt...
Myths and Legends of Alaska - Katharine Berry Judson
Myths and Legends of Alaska - Katharine Berry Judson
- Author: Katharine Berry Judson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Editor Katharine Berry Judson collates and presents a narrative history of Alaskan Myths. Originally gathered and recorded by government ethnologists, she paints an overall picture of Alaskan history as told by its many tribes. From the Eskimo to...
Way of the Lawless - Max Brand
Way of the Lawless - Max Brand
- Author: Max Brand
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Westerns
He made one mistake in the beginning. He pushed the chestnut too hard the first and second days, so that on the third day he was forced to give the gelding his head and go at a jarring trot most of the day. On the fourth and fifth days, however, he...
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume I - Horatio Nelson
The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Volume I - Horatio Nelson
- Author: Horatio Nelson
- Genre: Memoirs
Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, 1st Duke of Bronté, KB (29 September 1758 – 21 October 1805) was an English flag officer famous for his service in the Royal Navy, particularly during the Napoleonic Wars. He won several victories, including the...
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1 - Thomas Stevens
Around the World on a Bicycle, Vol. 1 - Thomas Stevens
- Author: Thomas Stevens
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
Thomas Stevens was the first person to circle the globe by bicycle, a large-wheeled Ordinary. His journey started in April 1884 in San Francisco from where he cycled to Boston to take a steamer to England. Crossing England, France, Central Europe...
Christmas Comes but Once a Year - John Leighton
Christmas Comes but Once a Year - John Leighton
- Author: John Leighton
- Genre: Family Life / Humorous Fiction
A Christmas tale of John Brown's ghastly family (suburban snobs), Captain Bonaventure de Camp and his equally awful brood (a dubious crew), and poor Soavo Spohf, organist of St. Stiff the Martyr, gifted in musical ability but not blessed in looks or...
Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 5, December 1900 - Various
Birds and Nature, Vol. VIII, No 5, December 1900 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Nature
"Birds and Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, stories and brief descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with accompanying color plates. The magazine was...
My Buried Treasure - Richard Harding Davis
My Buried Treasure - Richard Harding Davis
- Author: Richard Harding Davis
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Humorous Fiction
"This is a true story of a search for buried treasure. The only part that is not true is the name of the man with whom I searched for the treasure. Unless I keep his name out of it he will not let me write the story, and, as it was his expedition...
The Man Whom the Trees Loved - Algernon Blackwood
The Man Whom the Trees Loved - Algernon Blackwood
- Author: Algernon Blackwood
- Genre: General Fiction
The story of a man’s deep connection with nature and his wife’s fear of it. –Summary by Amy Larch Gramour...
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
Anne of Geierstein, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist (1829) is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in Central Europe, mainly in Switzerland, shortly after the Yorkist victory at the Battle of Tewkesbury (1471). It covers the period of Swiss involvement...
A Cup of Tea - James Whitcomb Riley
A Cup of Tea - James Whitcomb Riley
- Author: James Whitcomb Riley
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or...
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
The Decameron - Giovanni Boccaccio
- Author: Giovanni Boccaccio
- Genre: General Fiction / Short Stories
The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing in all...
The Madman and The Pirate - R. M. Ballantyne
The Madman and The Pirate - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years...
Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins
Man and Wife - Wilkie Collins
- Author: Wilkie Collins
- Genre: General Fiction
This 1870 novel by Wilkie Collins centers around a peculiarity of Scottish law of that time, according to which any man and woman 'who were legally entitled to marry and who asserted that they were married before witnesses, or in writing, were...
Johann Sebastian Bach - Herbert Francis Peyser
Johann Sebastian Bach - Herbert Francis Peyser
- Author: Herbert Francis Peyser
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Compared with the unimaginable richness of his inner life as the overpowering volume and splendor of his works reveal it, Bach’s day-to-day existence seems almost pedestrian.... The present volume, which advances no claim whatever to any new or...
The Steel Hammer - Louis Ulbach
The Steel Hammer - Louis Ulbach
- Author: Louis Ulbach
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Detective Fiction
A large inheritance greatly transforms the lives of three people: a good man, who would have inherited at least a part of the fortune if his uncle hadn't passed away before altering the will, his cousin, who inherits all but is prevented from...
Poems - Marietta Holley
Poems - Marietta Holley
- Author: Marietta Holley
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife. - Summary by Carolin...
Tartuffe - Molière
Tartuffe - Molière
- Author: Molière
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Satire
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright and actor who is considered to be one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature. Among Molière's best-known works is Tartuffe or The Hypocrite, written in...
Uncle Joe's Stories - Edward Knatchbull-Hugesson
Uncle Joe's Stories - Edward Knatchbull-Hugesson
- Author: Edward Knatchbull-Hugesson
- Genre: Short Stories
This is an entertaining collection of varying stories recounted as only a master storyteller could deliver them. (Summary by Allyson Hester)...
Bible (WNT) NT 07: 1 Corinthians - Weymouth New Testament
Bible (WNT) NT 07: 1 Corinthians - Weymouth New Testament
- Author: Weymouth New Testament
- Genre: Weymouth New Testament
This is the Apostle Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth, Greece, a seaport filled with a diversity of not only people but religions. This letter gives advice, teaching, and stern warnings to his fellow Christians, especially warnings...
What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know - John Dutton Wright
What the Mother of a Deaf Child Ought to Know - John Dutton Wright
- Author: John Dutton Wright
- Genre: Family & Relationships / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Wright, a pioneer in the education of the deaf, was a strong advocate for acoustic and auricular training. In this little book, he tries to advise the parents of deaf children and reassure them that there can be a successful and happy life for them....
War and Peace, Book 02: 1805 - Leo Tolstoy
War and Peace, Book 02: 1805 - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Historical Fiction
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the...
Do You Fear the Wind? - Hamlin Garland
Do You Fear the Wind? - Hamlin Garland
- Author: Hamlin Garland
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Do You Fear the Wind? by Hamlin Garland. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 3, 2013. Taken from An American Anthology, 1787–1900, Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908)....
Challenge - John William Streets
Challenge - John William Streets
- Author: John William Streets
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes: Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: "They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands of others who, like myself, are on...
The Interior Castle - Saint Teresa of Avila
The Interior Castle - Saint Teresa of Avila
- Author: Saint Teresa of Avila
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
El Castillo Interior or Las Moradas (trans.:The Interior Castle or The Mansions) was written by Saint Teresa of Ávila in 1577. After being ordered to write her autobiographical La Vida de la Santa Madre Teresa de Jesús (The Life of S. Teresa of...
The Silly Syclopedia - Noah Lott
The Silly Syclopedia - Noah Lott
- Author: Noah Lott
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A Terrible Thing in the Form of a Literary Torpedo which is Launched for HILARIOUS PURPOSES ONLY Inaccurate in Every Particular Containing Copious Etymological Derivations and Other Useless Things by Noah Lott (an ex-relative of Noah...
The Black Star - Johnston McCulley
The Black Star - Johnston McCulley
- Author: Johnston McCulley
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction / Detective Fiction
The Black Star was a master criminal who took great care to never be identifiable, always wore a mask so nobody knew what he looked like, rarely spoke to keep his voice from being recognized, and the only mark left at the scenes of the crimes which...
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3) - Johnny Gruelle
Raggedy Ann Stories (version 3) - Johnny Gruelle
- Author: Johnny Gruelle
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
As I write this, I have before me on my desk, propped up against the telephone, an old rag doll. Dear old Raggedy Ann!The same Raggedy Ann with which my mother played when a child.There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely...
The Technique of the Mystery Story - Carolyn Wells
The Technique of the Mystery Story - Carolyn Wells
- Author: Carolyn Wells
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction / Writing & Linguistics
For one, I have never been one of those who apologize for my frank and never-ending delight in mystery stories. Their mazes have led me unwearied through miles of printed pages, and if only the problem has been worth while, and its pursuit has led...
Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be - Annie Besant
Marriage, as it was, as it is and as it should be - Annie Besant
- Author: Annie Besant
- Genre: Family & Relationships
In this short pamphlet, Annie Besant - a well-known British women's rights activist - lays down British marriage laws as they were at her time. She opposes the view of married women as mere property of their husbands, with virtually no rights of...
The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens
The Cricket on the Hearth - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / House & Home
John Peerybingle, a carrier, lives with his wife Dot (who is much younger than he), their baby, their nanny Tilly Slowboy, and a mysterious lodger. A cricket constantly chirps on the hearth and acts as a guardian angel to the family, at one point...
The Ghost Girl - Henry Kitchell Webster
The Ghost Girl - Henry Kitchell Webster
- Author: Henry Kitchell Webster
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
Henry Kitchell Webster is an American author best know for his detective novels. The Ghost Girl opens with a murder mystery. A young woman's frozen, yet perfectly preserved, body is found in the river. As the family discusses this news of the day,...
