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The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2) - H. G. Wells
The Food of the Gods, and How It Came to Earth (version 2) - H. G. Wells
- Author: H. G. Wells
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Science Fiction
Mr. Bensington and Professor Redwood have invented a substance that causes living things to grow - and grow - and grow! As their experiments progress, the substance quickly gets out of control and the fun begins as insects and plants receive the...
The Friendly Five - Mary C. Hungerford
The Friendly Five - Mary C. Hungerford
- Author: Mary C. Hungerford
- Genre: School
"There were neither examinations nor graduation exercises at the Coventry Institute. The only ceremony peculiar to the last day of school, except the farewells, was a little sermon from Mrs. Abbott, the principal, preceded by reading the average of...
A Selection of Divine Poems - John Donne
A Selection of Divine Poems - John Donne
- Author: John Donne
- Genre: Single author / Christianity - Other
John Donne was an English Jacobean preacher, sometime lawyer, later in life a Member of Parliament and Royal Chaplain. Marrying for love against the wishes of his influential father-in-law; Donne's career was cast into shadow: forcing him to support...
The Last Entry - William Clark Russell
The Last Entry - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
This is a sea-faring novel set in 1837. A wealthy former seaman from London and his daughter, who is engaged to be married, set sail on his newly restored schooner, headed for the equator for the purpose of restoring his health. Also aboard are a...
The White Devil - John Webster
The White Devil - John Webster
- Author: John Webster
- Genre: Tragedy
John Webster's The White Devil (1612) is a Jacobean revenge tragedy, replete with adultery, murder, ghosts, and violence. The Duke of Brachiano and Vittoria Corombona decide to kill their spouses, Isabella and Camillo, in order to be together, aided...
Poems of Optimism - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Optimism - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The topic of this volume is "optimism". - Summary by Carolin...
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars - Edward Weitzel
Intimate Talks with Movie Stars - Edward Weitzel
- Author: Edward Weitzel
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Performing Arts
A collection of interviews originally published in Moving Picture World that aims to give the movie-mad public "intimate pen pictures of the stars of the screen." Weitzel interviews some of the most renowned film stars of the 1920s: Mary Pickford,...
The Sirens Three -- Queen Summer - Walter Crane
The Sirens Three -- Queen Summer - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Single author
Walter Crane (1845 - 1915) was a renowned artist and the illustrator of numerous books, among them "The Happy Prince and Other Stories" by Oscar Wilde and Edmund Spenser's "Faerie Queene" as well as many collections of Fairy Stories. He is...
Police Operation - H. Beam Piper
Police Operation - H. Beam Piper
- Author: H. Beam Piper
- Genre: Science Fiction / Short Stories
H. Beam Piper (1904–1964) was an American science fiction author. He wrote many short stories and several novels. He is best known for his extensive Terro-Human Future History series of stories and a shorter series of "Paratime" alternate history...
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
Of Human Bondage - W. Somerset Maugham
- Author: W. Somerset Maugham
- Genre: General Fiction
Of Human Bondage, published in 1915, is considered to be W. Somerset Maugham’s best work. Many believe the novel to be one of the world’s literary masterpieces. The story follows Phillip Carey from early childhood through his 30’s. Orphaned at 9,...
Three Sunsets and Other Poems - Lewis Carroll
Three Sunsets and Other Poems - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Poetry
Lewis Carroll's most enduring works are the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, but he also wrote some very interesting poetry. The poems in this particular volume are called "serious" in the preface, and though they are written in Lewis Carroll's...
Cross Currents - Eleanor H. Porter
Cross Currents - Eleanor H. Porter
- Author: Eleanor H. Porter
- Genre: General Fiction
Cross Currents: The Story of Margaret, to give it its full title, is delightful story about a little girl’s resilience and a mother’s unwavering love, from the beloved author of Pollyanna. Margaret Kendall (the Margaret of the story) has known...
Confessions (Outler translation) - Saint Augustine of Hippo
Confessions (Outler translation) - Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Author: Saint Augustine of Hippo
- Genre: Christianity - Biographies
Confessions (Latin: Confessiones) is the name of an autobiographical work, consisting of 13 books, by St. Augustine of Hippo, written between AD 397 and AD 398. Modern English translations of it are sometimes published under the title The...
Anchorite - Randall Garrett
Anchorite - Randall Garrett
- Author: Randall Garrett
- Genre: Science Fiction
Randall Garrett sticks a sharp needle into our government and society in this wonderful story. He projects the current trends towards paternalistic government into the future. Yes, we have attained a world government and everyone is equal whether...
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2 - Various
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Vol 2 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Volume 2 of a ten volume collection of amusing tales, observations and anecdotes by America's greatest wordsmiths. This work includes selections by such household favorites as Ambrose Bierce, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain and Bret Harte. -...
Wanted - 7 Fearless Engineers! - Undefined
Wanted - 7 Fearless Engineers! - Undefined
- Author: Undefined
- Genre: Science Fiction
A great civilization's fate lay in Dick Barrow's hands as he led his courageous fellow engineers into a strange and unknown land. None of them knew what lay ahead--what dangers awaited them--or what rewards. But they did not hesitate because the...
The Boy Scouts First Camp Fire - St. George Henry Rathborne
The Boy Scouts First Camp Fire - St. George Henry Rathborne
- Author: St. George Henry Rathborne
- Genre: Action & Adventure
The Silver Fox Patrol is out on their first camping trip! The boys, Thad the fill-in scout-master, Allan, Bumpus, Davy Jones, Smithy, Bob White, Giraffe and Step-Hen, are learning many new things about being scouts and about themselves. But when a...
Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos - Sargent Kayme
Anting-Anting Stories And Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos - Sargent Kayme
- Author: Sargent Kayme
- Genre: Single Author Collections
"No less wonderful and varied are the inhabitants and the phenomena of the Philippines, and a new author, showing rare knowledge of the country and its strange peoples, now gives us a collection of simple yet wonderful stories which bring them...
Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
Iphigenia in Aulis - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Classics (Greek & Latin Antiquity) / Plays
Iphigenia in Aulis is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. The Greek fleet is waiting at Aulis, Boeotia, with its ships ready to sail for Troy, but it is unable to depart due to a strange lack of wind. After consulting the seer Calchas,...
The Princess of Bagdad - Alexandre Dumas, fils
The Princess of Bagdad - Alexandre Dumas, fils
- Author: Alexandre Dumas fils
- Genre: Plays
Is it really a woman of your superiority who speaks of the proprieties of society? Are not women like you above all that? Was I to come delicately and hypocritically to offer your husband the sum he stood in need of? That is a course that would have...
A London Life - Henry James
A London Life - Henry James
- Author: Henry James
- Genre: Literary Fiction
A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-American manners and a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian London. Summary by Deborah Percy...
Acres of Diamonds - Russell Conwell
Acres of Diamonds - Russell Conwell
- Author: Russell Conwell
- Genre: Self-Help / Christianity - Commentary / Christianity - Biographies
Text of famous inspirational lecture and biography of Russell Conwell, a Baptist minister and Temple University Founder (Summary by Scott Dahlem)...
Short Poetry Collection 153 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 153 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of 29 poems read by LibriVox volunteers for February 2016....
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Genre: Literary Fiction
This 1922 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald chronicles the life of Anthony Patch, the only heir of millionaire Adam Patch, his grandfather. Anthony is young, handsome and well-educated. He marries the ravishingly beautiful Gloria, and together they plan...
Work: A Story of Experience - Louisa May Alcott
Work: A Story of Experience - Louisa May Alcott
- Author: Louisa May Alcott
- Genre: Published 1800 -1900
It is one of "several nineteenth-century novels [which] uncovers the changes in women's work in the new industrial era, as well as the dilemmas, tensions, and the meaning of that work" The story depicts the struggles of a young woman trying to...
A Woman Who Went to Alaska - May Kellogg Sullivan
A Woman Who Went to Alaska - May Kellogg Sullivan
- Author: May Kellogg Sullivan
- Genre: Travel & Geography / Memoirs
Alaska has only been a state since 1959, and the breathtaking terrain remains mostly unspoiled and natural. In modern times, many of us have had the pleasure of visiting Alaska via a luxurious cruise ship, where we enjoyed gourmet meals, amazing...
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest - Oscar Wilde
- Author: Oscar Wilde
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic comedy of manners in which two flippant young men, in order to impress their respected beloveds, pretend that their names are “Ernest,” which both young ladies believe confers magical qualities on the...
The Planet Strappers - Raymond Z. Gallun
The Planet Strappers - Raymond Z. Gallun
- Author: Raymond Z. Gallun
- Genre: Science Fiction
The Planet Strappers started out as The Bunch, a group of student-astronauts in the back room of a store in Jarviston, Minnesota. They wanted off Earth, and they begged, borrowed and built what they needed to make it. They got what they wanted--a...
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 1 - John Tulloch
Rational Theology and Christian Philosophy volume 1 - John Tulloch
- Author: John Tulloch
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Early Modern / Christianity - Other
This work addresses the birth and development of a rationalist stream in the Christianity of England in the seventeenth century. In this volume, Tulloch focuses on five latitudinarian churchmen, examining their lives and thought. - Summary by Barry...
Little Dorrit (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
Little Dorrit (Version 2) - Charles Dickens
- Author: Charles Dickens
- Genre: General Fiction
Little Dorrit, one of the three great novels of Charles Dickens’ last period, was produced in monthly installments from 1855 to 1857, and is considered one of his most profound. Dickens’ father spent three months in Marshalsea Prison for debt, which...
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac - Eugene Field
The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Do you love books? No, I mean REALLY love books? These series of sketches on the delights, adventures, and misadventures connected with bibliomania (bibliomania is characterized by the collecting of books which have no use to the collector nor any...
The Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches - William Clark Russell
The Mystery of the 'Ocean Star' - A Collection of Maritime Sketches - William Clark Russell
- Author: William Clark Russell
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Crime & Mystery Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction
This is a collection of short stories of mystery and romance, set at sea, in the times of the great sea voyages....
Short Science Fiction Collection 043 - Various
Short Science Fiction Collection 043 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Science Fiction / Anthologies
Science Fiction is speculative literature that generally explores the consequences of ideas which are roughly consistent with nature and scientific method, but are not facts of the author’s contemporary world. The stories often represent...
Notes From The Underground (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Notes From The Underground (version 2) - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Notes from Underground is an 1864 novella by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Notes is considered by many to be the first existentialist novel. It presents itself as an excerpt from the rambling memoirs of a bitter, isolated, unnamed narrator (generally referred...
Ivan the Fool - Leo Tolstoy
Ivan the Fool - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
Written after Tolstoy suffered a spiritual crisis, Ivan the Fool is a fairy tale that offers children instruction in how to live rightly, simply, and generously. The story emphasizes the destructive aspects of materialism and militarism while...
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy - Barbara Hofland
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy - Barbara Hofland
- Author: Barbara Hofland
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / General Fiction
The Young Crusoe, or The Shipwrecked Boy (1829) Novel. At the novel's opening, Charles Crusoe, thirteen years of age, asks his mother if he is related to the famous Robinson Crusoe, and is told that he is not. His future adventures, however,...
The Girl Who Had Nothing - Alice Muriel Williamson
The Girl Who Had Nothing - Alice Muriel Williamson
- Author: Alice Muriel Williamson
- Genre: General Fiction
The Girl Who Had Nothing is about a young orphan girl in desperate circumstances, who throws herself on the mercy of an elderly stranger. By her own intelligence and wit, she manages to survive, and very nicely at that! (Summary by LynnAlison)...
Among the Farmyard People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
Among the Farmyard People - Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Author: Clara Dillingham Pierson
- Genre: Animals & Nature
A wonderful children's book filled with engaging stories about various farmyard animals. Each book ending with a moral which gently encourages children towards better behaviour and attitudes. - Summary by Claire Schreuder...
Aesop's Fables, Volume 06 (Fables 126-150) - Aesop
Aesop's Fables, Volume 06 (Fables 126-150) - Aesop
- Author: Aesop
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Satire
Dating back to the 6th century BC, Aesop's Fables tell universal truths through the use of simple allegories that are easily understood. Though almost nothing is known of Aesop himself, and some scholars question whether he existed at all, these...
The Story of a Calico Clown - Laura Lee Hope
The Story of a Calico Clown - Laura Lee Hope
- Author: Laura Lee Hope
- Genre: General
The Calico Clown and the other toys in the toy shop are planning a night of fun and merriment once the people leave so that they can come alive and do as they please. But a rude boy named Archibald ruins their fun. And so the adventure of the Calico...
