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Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1 - John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1 - John Calvin
- Author: John Calvin
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native...
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
A Personal Anthology of Shakespeare - William Shakespeare
- Author: William Shakespeare
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Romance
This personal anthology is my choice of speeches from Shakespeare that I enjoy reading (that I would like to have had by heart years ago!) and that seem to me to illustrate his unsurpassed use of language. He was a man who seemed to know everything...
Pride and Prejudice: A Play - Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice: A Play - Jane Austen
- Author: Jane Austen
- Genre: Comedy / Romance
Pride and Prejudice, a comedy of manners and marriage, is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels. In this dramatic adaption by Mary Keith Medbery Macakaye some liberties are taken with the storyline and characters, but it is still a fun listen or...
The Practice of Prayer - G. Campbell Morgan
The Practice of Prayer - G. Campbell Morgan
- Author: G. Campbell Morgan
- Genre: Christianity - Commentary
God has made prayer possible to us through Jesus. We can pray prevailingly only as we respond to the truths which create the possibility. The sphere of prayer includes the coming of the Kingdom of God and the provision of all the need of the saints....
All These Things Added - James Allen
All These Things Added - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: *Non-fiction
In seeking for pleasures here and rewards hereafter men have destroyed (in their hearts) the Temple of Righteousness, and have wandered from the Kingdom of Heaven. By ceasing to seek for earthly pleasures and heavenly rewards, the Temple of...
The Friendship of Christ - Robert Hugh Benson
The Friendship of Christ - Robert Hugh Benson
- Author: Robert Hugh Benson
- Genre: *Non-fiction / Religion
Robert Hugh Benson, who was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge, was ordained an Anglican priest in 1895 by his father, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Eight years later, after weighty consideration, Robert Benson converted to...
Evanescence - Harriet Prescott Spofford
Evanescence - Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Author: Harriet Prescott Spofford
- Genre: Poetry / Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford was a notable American writer remembered for her novels, poems and detective stories. This was the weekly poem for July 24-30, 2011....
Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
Mari, Our Little Norwegian Cousin - Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Author: Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade
- Genre: General
"Long before Columbus discovered America, there were brave men in the north of Europe who dared to sail farther out upon the unknown waters of the Atlantic than any other people in the world. These daring seamen were called Vikings. Their home was...
The Path of Dreams - Leigh Gordon Giltner
The Path of Dreams - Leigh Gordon Giltner
- Author: Leigh Gordon Giltner
- Genre: Poetry
This is a volume of poetry by American poet Leigh Gordon Giltner. - Summary by Carolin...
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - May - John Kendrick Bangs
The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - May - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Poetry
There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was published with one of Bangs' poems for each day. This project covers the month of May. - Summary by Carolin...
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket - Richard Gorton Barlow
Forty Seasons of First-Class Cricket - Richard Gorton Barlow
- Author: Richard Gorton Barlow
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
R. G. "Dick" Barlow was one of the most accomplished all-round cricketers of the late 19th Century. For many years he opened the batting with A. N. Hornby for Lancashire and England, often acting as a "stonewaller" who "carried his bat through the...
Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal - Robert Sidney Bowen
Dave Dawson on Guadalcanal - Robert Sidney Bowen
- Author: Robert Sidney Bowen
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / War & Military Fiction
One of a series of youth-oriented adventure books set in contemporary WWII era, featuring fictional American flying ace, Dave Dawson. (Summary by BellonaTimes)...
A Hunting Song - Adam Lindsay Gordon
A Hunting Song - Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Author: Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Genre: Multi-version (Weekly and Fortnightly poetry)
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of A Hunting Song by Adam Lindsay Gordon. This was the Weekly Poetry project for February 24, 2019. ------ Adam Lindsay Gordon was an Australian poet, jockey, police officer, and politician. In this Weekly...
My Hunt After 'The Captain' - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
My Hunt After 'The Captain' - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
- Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Genre: War & Military / Memoirs / Modern (19th C)
Holmes describes his frantic search through Civil War torn landscapes for his wounded son, the future Supreme Court Justice. Originally published in The Atlantic Magazine, 1862. Holmes, Sr. (1809 -1894) was an American physician, poet, professor,...
Eve’s Diary - Mark Twain
Eve’s Diary - Mark Twain
- Author: Mark Twain
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Short Stories
Eve’s Diary is a humorous monologue about Eve’s experiences at the dawn of creation. She is fascinated by every aspect of the new world around her and… Adam! The following is an extract from Adam: “She is all interest, eagerness, vivacity, the world...
A Psalm Of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A Psalm Of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Single author
LibriVox volunteers bring you 22 recordings of A Psalm Of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for February 3, 2019. ------ This poem was first published in the October 1838 issue of The Knickerbocker, a New...
Woman in the Nineteenth Century - Margaret Fuller
Woman in the Nineteenth Century - Margaret Fuller
- Author: Margaret Fuller
- Genre: Literary Collections / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)
Margaret Fuller was an American feminist, writer, and intellectual associated with the Transcendentalist movement. Her book Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845) is considered the first major feminist work in the United States. Her life was short...
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks - Ellen Walworth
The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha, The Lily of the Mohawks - Ellen Walworth
- Author: Ellen Walworth
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography / Early Modern / Christianity - Biographies
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha's lifespan of only about 24 years was spent in utter humility and penitence. In spite of her natural diffidence, she summoned the strength to assert her desire to become a Christian and to consecrate herself as a virgin, and...
Five Continental Op Stories - Dashiell Hammett
Five Continental Op Stories - Dashiell Hammett
- Author: Dashiell Hammett
- Genre: Detective Fiction
Before Sam Spade chased the black bird in The Maltese Falcon and Nick and Nora Charles stirred their first martinis in The Thin Man, the Continental Op walked early twentieth century San Francisco’s mean streets for the Continental Detective Agency....
The Chautauqua Girls at Home - Pansy
The Chautauqua Girls at Home - Pansy
- Author: Pansy
- Genre: Christian Fiction
Sequel to Four Girls at Chautauqua. Ruth, Flossy, Eurie, and Ruth return home as new Christians, eager to begin working. Their new faith clashes with their old lives, which they must overcome, as well as the prejudices of friends and acquaintances....
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives - United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
Worldwide Effects of Nuclear War: Some Perspectives - United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
- Author: United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency
- Genre: Political Science / Science
This is a concise yet thorough explanation of what might happen to our world in the aftermath of a nuclear war. The myriad of potential effects will be global and wide-spread. (Summary by Allyson Hester)...
The Circular Study - Anna Katharine Green
The Circular Study - Anna Katharine Green
- Author: Anna Katharine Green
- Genre: Detective Fiction
In this well-plotted, character-driven mystery, Detective Gryce receives a cryptic message calling him to the scene of a “strange” crime. He soon finds that the adjective is correct, for in a quiet brownstone house in a respectable New York City...
Poems of Experience - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Experience - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Poetry
This is another volume of Ella Wheeler Wicox's famous series. This time, the topic is Experience. The short play The New Hawaiian Girl is included in this volume. The cast of The New Hawaiian Girl is Narrator: Availle Ralph: Kristin Gjerløw Ethel:...
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times vol 5 - François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Author: François Pierre Guillaume Guizot
- Genre: *Non-fiction / History
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot (October 4, 1787 -September 12, 1874) was a French historian, orator, and statesman. Guizot was a dominant figure in French politics prior to the Revolution of 1848, actively opposing as a liberal the reactionary...
Post Haste - R. M. Ballantyne
Post Haste - R. M. Ballantyne
- Author: R. M. Ballantyne
- Genre: Historical Fiction
In this book, Ballantyne weaves the story of Phillip Mayland and his friend, George Aspel with an interesting portrayal of the British Post Office as it existed in the 19th century. In the words of R. M. Ballantyne himself: "This tale is founded...
Stories from Pentamerone - Giambattista Basile
Stories from Pentamerone - Giambattista Basile
- Author: Giambattista Basile
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales
This is one of the oldest written collections of fairy tales. Although the names are different, listeners should recognise many of the stories as the basis of modern fairy tales. Be warned however, that these stories are a lot more violent and...
The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
The Humbugs of the World - P. T. Barnum
- Author: P. T. Barnum
- Genre: Performing Arts / Social Science (Culture & Anthropology) / Memoirs
P. T. Barnum exposes some of the chief humbugs of the world with his usual entertaining style. He looks at medicine and quacks, ghosts, witchcraft, religious humbugs, money manias, adventurers, personal reminiscences, and much more. (Summary by...
The Feast of St. Friend - Arnold Bennett
The Feast of St. Friend - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: *Non-fiction / House & Home / Self-Help
In The Feast of St. Friend, a Christmas book, Arnold Bennett shares his views on Christmas as the season of goodwill. As always, Bennett's writing includes some thought-provoking ideas liberally spiced with his wry sense of humour, and as always...
The Little Gray Lady - Francis Hopkinson Smith
The Little Gray Lady - Francis Hopkinson Smith
- Author: Francis Hopkinson Smith
- Genre: Romance / Short Stories
As every Christmas for the last 20 years, the Little Gray Lady lights a candle in her room and spends the evening alone, thinking of a great mistake she has made so long ago. This year, however, things are to play out differently.. (Summary by...
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy - Laurence Sterne
- Author: Laurence Sterne
- Genre: General Fiction / *Non-fiction / Travel & Geography
After the bizarre textual antics of "Tristram Shandy", this book would seem to require a literary health warning. Sure enough, it opens in mid-conversation upon a subject never explained; meanders after a fashion through a hundred pages, then...
The Herapath Property - J. S. Fletcher
The Herapath Property - J. S. Fletcher
- Author: J. S. Fletcher
- Genre: Crime & Mystery Fiction
Jacob Herapath, a wealthy property developer and member of Parliament, is found dead in his office, a revolver at his side and a bullet wound to the head. An allegedly forged Will deepens the mystery. An intriguing puzzle with plenty of twists and...
He Can Who Thinks He Can - Orison Swett Marden
He Can Who Thinks He Can - Orison Swett Marden
- Author: Orison Swett Marden
- Genre: Self-Help
Do you have what it takes to be the person you want to be? This is a neat self help book in plain English by the New Thought Movement author Orison Swett Marden. He has included various essays on the principles he believes will lead to success in...
The Beetle - Richard Marsh
The Beetle - Richard Marsh
- Author: Richard Marsh
- Genre: Horror & Supernatural Fiction / Detective Fiction
A story about a mysterious oriental figure who pursues a British politician to London, where he wreaks havoc with his powers of hypnosis and shape-shifting, Marsh's novel is of a piece with other sensational turn-of-the-century fictions such as...
Electra (Murray Translation) - Euripides
Electra (Murray Translation) - Euripides
- Author: Euripides
- Genre: Tragedy
Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemnon. Married platonically to a good-hearted but poverty-stricken old peasant, she longs for the return of her...
Buried Alive - Arnold Bennett
Buried Alive - Arnold Bennett
- Author: Arnold Bennett
- Genre: Published 1900 onward
The hero is Mr Priam Farll, a painter of considerable ability. He is, however, extremely shy – so shy that when his valet, Henry Leek, dies suddenly, the doctor believes the dead man to be Priam Farll and the live man the valet. The artist does not...
The House of the Wolfings - William Morris
The House of the Wolfings - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Myths / Legends & Fairy Tales / Fantastic Fiction
William Morris was a writer, illustrator and medievalist from the Romantic period and associated with other renowned authors of the time such as Dante Rossetti. His fascination with ancient Germanic and Norse people dominated his writings, the first...
Gold - Stewart Edward White
Gold - Stewart Edward White
- Author: Stewart Edward White
- Genre: Westerns
This is a well written story of the California gold rush of 1849. Four friends decide they are going to go to California and get rich in the gold fields. Follow their adventures as they travel to California across the isthmus of Panama to San...
The Mad King - Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Mad King - Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction
Shades of The Prisoner of Zenda! All our old friends are here—the young king, the usurping uncle and his evil henchman, the beautiful princess, the loyal retainer and the unwilling imposter. What more could you Hope for? This fast-paced story stays...
The Spanish Cavalier - Charlotte Maria Tucker
The Spanish Cavalier - Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Author: Charlotte Maria Tucker
- Genre: Historical / Religion
When his father dies, Lucius Lepine goes to Spain as a clerk. His fellow clerk, Don Aguilera, doesn't come to work one day. Lucius is worried, he has heard rumors of what has happened to Aguilera. What has happened? Can Lucius find out? - Summary by...
Selected Short Stories. - P. G. Wodehouse
Selected Short Stories. - P. G. Wodehouse
- Author: P. G. Wodehouse
- Genre: Humorous Fiction
A miscellaneous collection of short stories, not featuring any of Wodehouse's regular characters, most concern love and romance and, being Wodehouse, all are amusing.(Summary by Wikipedia)...
