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Greek and Roman Ghost Stories - Lacy Collison-Morley
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories - Lacy Collison-Morley
- Author: Lacy Collison-Morley
- Genre: *Non-fiction
A non-fiction work, comparing and collecting ghost stories by Classical Greek and Republican or Imperial Roman authors. (Summary by Timothy Ferguson)...
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - George Horace Lorimer
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son - George Horace Lorimer
- Author: George Horace Lorimer
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction / Humorous Fiction
Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham & Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy." George Horace...
The New Idealism - May Sinclair
The New Idealism - May Sinclair
- Author: May Sinclair
- Genre: Modern
The genius of May Sinclair lies in her brilliant bridging of the Victorian and the modern eras, in her determination never to become ossified in an outdated way of thought or of Art. Though a generation older than the famous literati of the postwar...
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - Joseph Trienens
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing - Joseph Trienens
- Author: Joseph Trienens
- Genre: Modern (20th C)
Written in 1910, this "cyclopedia" is full of information that was quite useful at the time. A hundred years later, its text is more humorous than practical -- although some advice never goes out of style. (Summary by Rachelellen)...
Cloudy Jewel - Grace Livingston Hill
Cloudy Jewel - Grace Livingston Hill
- Author: Grace Livingston Hill
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Julia Cloud, the oldest--and most responsible--child of her family, helped raise her four siblings due to their mother's long-time illness and father's death. After faithfully nursing two ill brothers (who died), she then cared for her invalid...
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Single author / Sonnets
Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic War Sonnets written during the First World War (especially The Soldier), as well as for his poetry written outside of war, especially The Old Vicarage, Grantchester and The Great...
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation - Annie Fellows Johnston
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation - Annie Fellows Johnston
- Author: Annie Fellows Johnston
- Genre: Family / School
In this delightful story ”The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation” by Annie Fellows Johnston the Little Colonel, Lloyd Sherman. together with her friends Betty, Kitty and Allison are starting the schoolyear at a new school, Warwick Hall, a...
The Seven Secrets - William Le Queux
The Seven Secrets - William Le Queux
- Author: William Le Queux
- Genre: General Fiction / Detective Fiction
A true “whodunit” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd is summoned to Courtenay Manor to examine the slain man and discovers a clue that might solve the case. But,...
The Sword of Damocles - Anna Katharine Green
The Sword of Damocles - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Anna Katharine Green is best known as one of the first women detective writers, and The Sword of Damocles, first published in 1881, does indeed include several mysteries. There is a very brief appearance by her famous detective, Mr Gryce, but at the...
The Lone Ranger Rides - Fran Striker
The Lone Ranger Rides - Fran Striker
- Author: Fran Striker
- Genre: Westerns
Fans of the old radio shows and the TV series The Lone Ranger will recognize the characters in this book - the Lone Ranger, his faithful Indian sidekick Tonto and his trusty horse, Silver. The Lone Ranger Rides, a wonderful western story in itself,...
Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry - Émile Gaboriau
Monsieur Lecoq Part 1: The Inquiry - Émile Gaboriau
- Author: Émile Gaboriau
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Monsieur Lecoq is a captivating mystery, historical and love story : Around 11 o'clock, on the evening of Shrove Sunday 18.., close to the old Barrière d'Italie, frightful cries, coming from Mother Chupin's drinking-shop, are heard by a party of...
Sanctuary (version 2) - Edith Wharton
Sanctuary (version 2) - Edith Wharton
- Author: Edith Wharton
- Genre: Literary Fiction
Edith Wharton's early novella focuses on Kate Orme, who begins the story happily in love with her fiance, only to discover that he hides a terrible secret. - Summary by Elizabeth Klett...
Romeo and Juliet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Romeo and Juliet is an early tragedy by William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose "untimely deaths" ultimately unite their feuding households. The play has been highly praised by literary critics for its language and dramatic...
The Riverpark Rebellion - Homer Greene
The Riverpark Rebellion - Homer Greene
- Author: Homer Greene
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A tale of the Riverpark Academy for cadets, in which there is growing discontent leading to a revolt against the academy's leaders. The rebellion takes the form of an unauthorized "holiday" in which a number of cadets leave the grounds for a some...
Stories from the Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser
Stories from the Faerie Queen - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Children's Fiction
A major work by Spenser, The Faerie Queen, was published between 1590 and 1596. As an allegorical work, it can be read on many levels. According to Jeanie Lang, Spenser always looked for the beautiful and the good when he wrote. Lang said, "There...
Taras Bulba and Other Tales - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
Taras Bulba and Other Tales - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Author: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Genre: Epistolary Fiction
A collection of classic Russian literature from the mind of one of the world's well know authors. The collection includes Taras Bulba, St. John's Eve, The Cloak, How The Two Ivans Quarrelled, The Mysterious Portrait, and The Calash. - Summary by...
The Young Carthaginian - G. A. Henty
The Young Carthaginian - G. A. Henty
- Author: G. A. Henty
- Genre: Historical Fiction
Typically, Henty's heroes are boys of pluck in troubled times, and this is no different. Detailed research is embellished with a vivid imagination, especially in this novel set in the Punic wars, about which knowledge is limited: "...certainly we...
The House of Orchids and Other Poems - George Sterling
The House of Orchids and Other Poems - George Sterling
- Author: George Sterling
- Genre: Poetry
This is a 1911 volume of poems by California poet George Sterling. Sterling was a particularly celebrated poet during his life time in California, though his fame remained local and hardly spread to the other shore of the United States, let alone to...
Volcanoes and Vulcanology (1885-1917) - Various
Volcanoes and Vulcanology (1885-1917) - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Earth Sciences
This is a collection of short scientific articles on the study of volcanoes and related seismic activity published in Knowledge, A Monthly Record of Science between 1884-1917 - Summary by J. M. Smallheer...
The Machine Stops (version 3) - E. M. Forster
The Machine Stops (version 3) - E. M. Forster
- Author: E. M. Forster
- Genre: Science Fiction
"The Machine Stops" is a science fiction short story by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928. After being...
The Clue of the Gold Coin - Helen Wells
The Clue of the Gold Coin - Helen Wells
- Author: Helen Wells
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Vicki Barr is a popular mystery series for girls published by Grosset & Dunlap from 1947 to 1964. This book is volume 12 of The Vicki Barr Air Stewardess Series.When a shipment of priceless gold doubloons being transported on her flight from New...
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - Maurice Leblanc
Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes - Maurice Leblanc
- Author: Maurice Leblanc
- Genre: Detective Fiction / Published 1900 onward
The story of an exciting test of wits between world-class thief Arsène Lupin and master detective Herlock Sholmes. Translated from the French. - Summary by Andy Harrington...
The Tragedy of King Lear (version 3) - William Shakespeare
The Tragedy of King Lear (version 3) - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Tragedy
Known for its heartrending emotion and shocking violence, The Tragedy of King Lear is seen as one of Shakespeare's towering masterpieces. It tells the tale of the ageing King Lear, a British monarch who disposes of his vast kingdom by giving...
The Missing Formula - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
The Missing Formula - Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Author: Mildred A. Wirt Benson
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Action & Adventure
Orphan Anne Fairaday faces a life of poverty upon the death of her father. The only thing that can prevent it is finding his latest experiment. She enlisted her new found friend, Madge Sterling, an outdoors girl who has a knack for finding missing...
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
- Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Philosophy
First published in 1886 at Nietzsche’s own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of 19th century thinkers. He attacked philosophers for what he considered to...
The First Jasmines - Rabindranath Tagore
The First Jasmines - Rabindranath Tagore
- Author: Rabindranath Tagore
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful...
Candide (version 3) - Voltaire
Candide (version 3) - Voltaire
- Author: Voltaire
- Genre: General Fiction
Ever since 1759, when Voltaire wrote "Candide" in ridicule of the notion that this is the best of all possible worlds, this world has been a gayer place for readers. Voltaire wrote it in three days, and five or six generations have found that its...
Childhood - Leo Tolstoy
Childhood - Leo Tolstoy
- Author: Leo Tolstoy
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Childhood, published in 1852, is the first novel in Leo Tolstoy’s autobiographical trilogy, which also includes Boyhood, and Youth. Published when Tolstoy was twenty-three, the book gained immediate notice among Russian writers including Ivan...
At the Earth's Core (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
At the Earth's Core (version 2) - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Fantastic Fiction / Science Fiction
David Innes is a mining heir who finances the experimental "iron mole," an excavating vehicle designed by his elderly inventor friend Abner Perry. In a test run, they discover the vehicle cannot be turned, and it burrows 500 miles into the Earth's...
Short Poetry Collection 040 - Various
Short Poetry Collection 040 - Various
- Author: Various
- Genre: Poetry
LibriVox's Short Poetry Collection 040: a collection of 20 public-domain poems....
Squinty the Comical Pig - Richard Barnum
Squinty the Comical Pig - Richard Barnum
- Author: Richard Barnum
- Genre: Children's Fiction / Action & Adventure Fiction
"This comical children's tale about the funny adventures of a funny pig written by an unknown author. The publisher has hired authors to write children's tales, and gave them "house names". The "name" of the author who wrote this tale is Richard...
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 10) - John Hay
Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 10) - John Hay
- Author: John Hay
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his personal secretaries during the American Civil War. Volume 10 chronicles Lincoln's life in early...
Early Poems - Henry Kendall
Early Poems - Henry Kendall
- Author: Henry Kendall
- Genre: Poetry
This is a collection of early poetry by Australian poet Henry Kendall. The poems contained in this volume already reflect the particular style for which Kendall became famous later on: his poetry focussing on Australian nature. - Summary by Carolin...
Dracula (version 3) - Bram Stoker
Dracula (version 3) - Bram Stoker
- Author: Bram Stoker
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Gothic Fiction
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small...
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography - John Relly Beard
Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography - John Relly Beard
- Author: John Relly Beard
- Genre: War & Military / Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern
François-Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (1743-1803) rose to fame in 1791 during the Haitian struggle for independence. In this revolt, he led thousands of slaves on the island of Hispañola to fight against the colonial European powers of France,...
Waverley, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
Waverley, Volume 1 - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Historical Fiction / Literary Fiction
Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and English soldier, Edward Waverley, who...
Life In Mexico - Frances Calderón de la Barca
Life In Mexico - Frances Calderón de la Barca
- Author: Frances Calderón de la Barca
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
FRANCES CALDERON DE LA BARCA, born in Edinburgh, 1804, the daughter of William Inglis. After her father's death she settled in America, where she married the Spanish diplomat, Don Angel Calderon de la Barca. She accompanied him on his various...
35 Sonnets - Fernando Pessoa
35 Sonnets - Fernando Pessoa
- Author: Fernando Pessoa
- Genre: Sonnets
While Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa is internationally now known mostly for his masterpiece The Book of Disquiet, he was also an outstanding poet. 35 of his sonnets are collected in this volume. - Summary by Carolin...
Captain Salt in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
Captain Salt in Oz - Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Author: Ruth Plumly Thompson
- Genre: General
A voyage on the famous Nonestic Ocean! What could be more thrilling than that? We—many of us—have taken trips on the prosaic Atlantic or even Pacific, but have we found a SEA FOREST with flying fish and swimming birds? Have we been pursued by a real...
Annie Kilburn - William Dean Howells
Annie Kilburn - William Dean Howells
- Author: William Dean Howells
- Genre: Romance
After 11 years in Rome, Annie Kilburn returns home to the US after the death of her father. But the home she knew is dramatically changed in many ways. She starts to work with sick children, and finds herself attached to them, and to the minister...
